MIT Professor Christopher Voigt and his team are working to transform cereal crops so they are able to fix their own nitrogen. The research has been funded by the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS).
Over the past few weeks, I have recorded a series of conversations with people leading the way out of this mess. They range from prominent ...
a terse analysis of tesla stock prices and how one of elon’s tweets moves them
On average, UX changes have a smaller impact on quantitative metrics. This trend means that UX has substantially advanced since 2006.
Patrick Honner tweeted a few days ago: My 7 yo pointed out that our 300 piece puzzle actually contains 18 x 18 = 324 pieces and I just don’t know what to believe anymore. — Patrick Honner (@M…
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring, and Access Now, activists, journalists, and human rights organizations, are voicing our frustration at how platform policies and content moderation procedures all too often lead to the silencing and erasure of critical voices across the Middle East and North Africa.
College was a superlative time in my life. I made lifelong friends, had many opportunities, and even started a little business.
Ways of dealing with the fractured address space.
There’s something really quite subtle about how the nproc utility from GNU coreutils works. If you look at the man page, it’s even the very first sentence: Print the number of processin…
Lately, I’ve been playing around with inventing a visual writing system for lambda calculus.
Report on the complex text layouts support implementation progress, including changes to Godot's Font resources, and UI mirroring and BiDi implementation details.
A quick look at the ballistics and stability of aerial fireworks.
The US is probably going into recession - here's why I'm talking about it now, what it could look like, what Devs can do to prepare, and why it's not the End of the World.
Dava Newman, MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab.
Sofware dysfunction is more often motivated by worry than it is by a lack of technical skill
Simplex Sigillum Veri
[05 Dec 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.7 released [26 Sep 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.6 released [30 Aug 2020] DebConf20 online closes [01 Aug 2020] Updated Debian 10: 10.5 released [18 Jul 2020] Updated Debian 9: 9.13 released [09 Jul 2020] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life [16 Jun 2020] Ampere donates…
As regulators look closer at acquisitions they should be extremely wary of unintended consequences. The current system works well for everyone, most of the time.
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
This is the first part of a two part masterclass on remote work, now live here: 01:46 Meet Shogun, the e-commerce page builder 02:58 They started fully remote as a side project that became...
GNU's framework for secure p2p networking
It’s hard to see a child outside today without some kind of iDevice pumping high fidelity 192kbps stereo lossless audio into their shiny white headphones, but BACK IN MY DAY, the iPod hadn’t been invented yet. Pickings were slim. Walkmen were outdated, CD players were pricey and would skip if bumped around despite…
Packwerk is an open source static analysis tool used to enforce boundaries between groups of Ruby files we call packages.
A decade after the late 2000s recession, much of the world is now back at the top of the economic cycle, and critically near the next…
3 ways to look at the stocks with huge gains despite businesses with huge losses.
