An attempt to provide a reproducible, automatic, complete end-to-end bootstrap from a minimal number of binary seeds to a supported fully functioning operating system. - fosslinux/live-bootstrap

Introduction

COVID-19 drove a mass social experiment in working from home (WFH). We survey more than 30,000 Americans over multiple waves to investigate whether WFH will stick, and why. Our data say that 20 percent of full workdays will be supplied from home after the…

We demonstrate strong self-referential effects in county-level data concerning use of the death penalty. We first show event-dependency using a repeated-event model. Higher numbers of previous events reduce the expected time delay before the next event. Second…

Turn dynamically linked ELF binaries and libraries into self-contained closures. - tweag/clodl

Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.

Using the power of randomness to answer scientific questions.

Inside the all-hands meeting that led a third of the company to quit, and an executive to resign

Investigators, family, and friends are still trying to close the case of Paul Fugate, a naturalist at Arizona’s Chiricahua National Monument who vanished without a trace in 1980. What keeps them motivated to stick with a mystery that may be unsolvable?

Natalia Mykhaylova’s Toronto-based company WeavAir sells sensor and data-collection technology designed to improve air quality, cut maintenance and energy costs, and improve efficiency in places ranging from mass transit hubs to hotels.

Workers had questions, leadership did not have answers

The common theme in many time-travel movies is to go back in time to find out what went wrong and fix it. Developers also have that desire to go back in time and find why the code broke and fix it

Despite lockdown surge the firm’s Luxembourg unit made a €1.2bn loss and therefore paid zero corporation tax

Would you like to win one hundred million bucks from Elon Musk? Carbon capture (CC) is all the rage these days, with dozens of companies springing up to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and help stab…

Yep, it's true. I received a notice of channel termination from YouTube effective May 7, 2021, that said unless I give up my ownership rights of two of my videos that were republished (almost in their entirety) by a Youtube channel in Saudia Arabia called…

Excalidraw has had tremendous success as a tool for drawing up your ideas, but it hasn’t put teamwork on the center stage. Read on to find out what we’ve been up to for the past several months!

CNN says the White House is discussing a new plan to expand domestic, warrantless surveillance of Americans—by paying private companies to infiltrate and report on the private social media groups of those it categorizes as "suspected extremists."edition.…

The world's biggest jeweller says it will no longer use mined diamonds in a bid to become more sustainable.

This video is about the remarkable Casio AI-1000, a pocket computer from 1989 that supported the Lisp programming language.

In this video I walk through its basic usage, using the Lisp REPL, defining Lisp functions, functions that return functions and macros.…