Snippets 2, Episode 22

Swift 5.1 has now been officially released, and despite being a minor release, it contains a substantial number of changes and improvements. This week, let’s take a look at five of those features, and what kind of situations they could be useful in.

Background: There are few studies devoted to assessing the impact of meditation-intensive retreats on the well-being, positive psychology, and personality of experienced meditators. We aimed to assess whether a 1-month Vipassana retreat: (a) would increase…

Former researchers for a “food computer” initiative at the lab say the project’s leader misled outsiders about how it was going.

Video and transcript of one of Andreas Antonopoulos' most powerful speeches, unedited, and transcribed in full. "Money as a System of Control"

Across 33 rich countries, only 5% of the population has high computer-related abilities, and only a third of people can complete medium-complexity tasks.

Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.

SAN FRANCISCO — Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online...

Distinguishing between proximate and root causes is an important part of continuously improving. Read this to learn more about this mental model.

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

Book excerpt: As a systems administrator, the young man who would expose vast, secret US surveillance saw freedom being encroached and decided he had to act.

American ERs confront a crisis of violence.

Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isn’t complete.

About 9,000 British jobs at risk after last-minute rescue talks fail to keep firm afloat