Desktop computer systems, especially those based on Linux, are way more complicated than typical personal computers in the 80s and 90s. We…

Scientific advisers to the government estimate the coronavirus epidemic is no longer growing.

Tasmania declares it now produces enough renewable electricity to meet 100 per cent of its needs, with wind turbines at Granville Harbour coming online.

A modern load testing tool, using Go and JavaScript - grafana/k6

The big-hearted exec pioneered footwear e-tailing and delivered happiness to countless people.

This article is about parsing and extracting the knowledge from a triplestore to create a graph in-memory in Go.

The long read: Jake Haendel spent months trapped in his body, silent and unmoving but fully conscious. Most people never emerge from ‘locked-in syndrome’, but as a doctor told him, everything about his case is bizarre

The first-ever paper on the Unix shell written by Ken Thompson in 1976 scanned, transcribed, and redistributed with permission - susam/tucl

Cloud giant has a lust for Rust so needs top minds and wants them to advance the language

After over 20 years of DNS and PowerDNS, I am moving on. Separate from this page, I am releasing a series of three huge posts on the history of PowerDNS.

Mahesh Bandi, a physicist with the Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit, OIST Graduate University, Onna, Okinawa, has found a way to produce N95-type respirator filters that is less expensive and ...

One of the first things you discover as a crime writer is that the range of plausible murder methods is disappointingly small. Basically, it’s stabbing, throat-cutting, strangling, shooting, drowni…

Japan had turned the tide on suicides until the pandemic reality sunk in, now it could prove a worrying harbinger of a mental health crisis festering elsewhere.

64bit multithreaded python data analytics tools for numpy arrays and datasets - rtosholdings/riptable

“It is the most supremely interesting moment in life, the only one in fact when living seems life.”

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.

This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool. datasette-ripgrep demo I’ve deployed a demo …

Today, I want to address an issue with statements involving chance. To demonstrate, let’s first consider a statement that doesn’t involve chance: