Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effectiveness will reverberate for the rest of the decade, but it’s not too early to ask why, and what we need to…

State of AI. Contribute to elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes development by creating an account on GitHub.

My six-year-old son walked up to me yesterday. “What are you reading?” At the time, I was reading part of Janis Voigtländer’s habilitation thesis. Unsure where to even start, I decided to just ans…

A large majority of computer systems have some state and are likely to depend on a storage system. My knowledge on databases accumulated…

Most career advice on the internet is from people who had some sort of meteoric success. Why read advice from someone who’s had a mediocre career? But there’s massive sampling bias. All this advice will try to draw grand, sweeping narratives and also typically…

The module fails to import with node v13.12.0. The version 2.1.0 still works fine. sorunome@sorunome-desktop repos/mx-puppet-skype $ node ./build/index.js 1 internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:616 if (e...

When Segment moved to a microservices architecture, they gained environmental isolation, but at a cost of higher operational overhead. Three years later, the costs were too high, and the team migrated back to a monolith. At QCon London, Alexandra Noonan told…

a blog post by @azwinkau

Back when cafes were open, I met an enthusiastic programmer who wanted to tell me how awesome the Clojure language is. While that is a…

After completing extensive due diligence, the ICANN Board found that withholding consent of the transfer of PIR from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Ethos Capital was reasonable, and the right thing to do.

By Zachary Thomas (zthomas.nc@gmail.com, Twitter, LinkedIn) 

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You can’t make access to your website’s content dependent on a visitor agreeing that you can process their data — aka a ‘consent cookie wall’. Not if you need to be compliant with European data protection law. That’s the unambiguous message from the European…

GitHub Codespaces gets you up and coding faster with fully configured, secure cloud development environments native to GitHub.

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WeChat communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts.

Cookies today are doing all kinds of bad things, but did you know that the original creators wanted to stop that?