A collection of shorter posts by LessWrong user meemi

How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were [...]

Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy - and a hidden arbitrage opportunity. | By Josef Chen

Amazon staffers slammed the company for being sorely underprepared after forcing them to return to the office five days a week — with not enough desks for everyone, packed parking lots and a startling surge in workplace thefts, according to a report. “Our…

Indentation styles are a hot topic in every language. So let's see how Lisps do indentation! Uuuuuuugh!

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

Designer and educator Angie Wang deciphers a collection of over 500 sleeves recently donated to the Archive.

A brief account of hacking the Yamaha DX9's firmware ROM to make its functionality more closely match the DX7.

Released in November 2001, the original Xbox was Microsoft’s first venture into the game console industry. With its hardware closely resembling a cheap but v...

Certain tasks, and their complexity, change how impactful an interruption is. Research also discovers a disconnect between perception and physiological data.

Is there an existing issue for this feature request? I have searched the existing issues Is your feature request related to a problem? Bambu is going to release a "security" firmware upda...

I am running kernel 6.12.10 and in the depth of my dmesg log, I found those entries:
kernel: ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
kernel: ata4.00: Model 'INTEL SSDSCKJF360A5L', rev '

Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust. Contribute to rhaiscript/rhai development by creating an account on GitHub.

In this blog post, we take a closer look at TypeScript enums: How do they work? What are their use cases? What are the alternatives if we don’t want to use them? The blog post concludes with recommendations for what to use when.

The blog post discusses dissatisfaction with GitHub Actions due to its limitations in managing complex workflows, especially in monorepo setups with certain features like pull request checks and workflow reusability. Several issues have been highlighted,…