Recently I came across this 10 year old post by Robert Atkins: Objective C is like Jimi Hendrix . It is about reconciling admiration for Obj...

Project overview QEMU is a virtual machine which allows running an operating system inside of another. While there already is a Haiku port, it currently does not support any acceleration system through native virtualization (through Intel VT-x and …

Yes, they throw snow. But the mechanical design of residential snowblowers is more interesting than it seems.

The Colorado River and its tributaries provide water for hydropower, irrigation and drinking water in seven U.S. states and Mexico. Much of this water comes from the snowpack that builds up over the winter ...

My personal (and very opinionated) tweaks to make a Windows 11 installation more bearable

A U.S. government report concludes that fluoride in drinking water at twice the recommended limit is linked with lower IQ in children.

Americans are, apparently, tired of having every last shred of personal data over-collected, hyper monetized, then improperly secured by a rotating crop of ethics-optional corporations and lazy exe…

The record contained piano versions of songs from artists including Barry Manilow

by Dustin Getz, August 20, 2024

The .NET team has been working on a new experiment called async2, which is a new implementation of the async/await pattern that is designed to be more efficient and more flexible than the current implementation. It started with green threads and ended with…

Londoners are surprised when a German Navy ship blasts out the music from the Star Wars trilogies.

Computer programming as an art form in and of itself

Turn on any ESPN or Fox Sports show and you’ll hear anchors discussing spreads, Vegas odds, and laying points. The rise in sports gambling is a boost for states’ tax revenues — but it’s a disaster for the often low-income young men losing their money.

Ghidra extension for exporting relocatable object files - boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension

Marc Olson, a long-time Amazonian, discusses the evolution of EBS, highlighting hard-won lessons in queueing theory, the importance of comprehensive instrumentation, and the value of incrementalism versus radical changes. It's an insightful look at how one…

As part of my ongoing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux testing, last week I provided a look at the AVX-512 benefits to Zen 5 and also the Windows vs.

TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on…

The secondary market represents a unique opportunity for Peloton to generate new, high-margin subscription revenue without any upfront cost.

Aerc is a TUI email client. It had its first release ~4 years ago. This makes it a “baby” compared to most of its “competitors” (Pine was released in 1992, Mutt in 1995). I heard about this program shortly after its first release but ignored it at the time…