With signs that the New York trial of notorious Mexican drug lord and alleged mass murderer Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is entering its end phase, prosecutors on Tuesday played copies of what they said were audio recordings of Guzmán the FBI obtained “after…

As it turns out, the video card wars are going to charge into 2019 quite a bit hotter than any of us were expecting. Moments ago, as part of AMD’s CES 2019 keynote, CEO Dr. Lisa Su announced that AMD will be releasing a new high-end, high-performance Radeon…

In the Golden State, dangerous drug cartels are growing pot on public lands—putting wildlife, water supplies, and outdoor enthusiasts at grave risk.

An extract from my book Just Fired. Still in progress...

To say my first foray into Rust was a frustrating struggle would be an understatement. I picked a terrible first project that left me neck deep in Rust’s trickiest areas right off the bat. I was excited to try again. A few years ago I wrote Sumoshell, a CLI…

The availability of the government of the United States of America.

Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn't enough to reduce the country's 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.

Why Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP

A New Zealand libertarian blog about Austrian economics, organic architecture, romantic realist art, Ayn Rand, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Von Mises

Amazon DocumentDB is a serverless, fully managed, MongoDB API-compatible document database service.

An increasing amount of information today is generated, exchanged, and stored
digitally. This also includes long-lived and highly sensitive information
(e.g., electronic health records,...

‘User-centric’ licensing is where the royalties from a streaming subscription only go to the artists who that subscriber listens to.

For decades, canneries around San Jose’s Diridon Station processed the fruits of the fertile “Valley of Heart’s Delight,” now known as Silicon Valley. Opened in 1935, what was then called Cahill Depot was a rail depot for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The…

The authors of an much-ballyhooed 2017 paper about the spread of fake news on social media have retracted their article after finding that they’d botched their analysis. The paper, “Limited individ…

Adrian Kummerländer's blog on software development, linux and open source