Australia bans social media for children under 16
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a…
Why people face difficulties in attracting mates: An investigation of 17 probable predictors of involuntary singlehood
Not having an intimate partner is a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies (Klinenberg, 2012). A considerable proportion of singles…
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? Did you still remember the memory…
Microbenchmarks are experiments
Microbenchmarks are experiments Wake up babe, new microbenchmark just dropped! More languages, more insights! A few interesting takeaways: * Java…
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These…
Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers
Not losing track of money is the bare minimum for fintech companies. And yet, I used to work for a…
Continue & Persist Letter
New York MarkhamDubaiChicagoParsipanny Send someone you appreciate an official ‘Continue and Persist’ Letter Every day, thousands of Cease and…
Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I’m back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) : rust
TL,DR: Because jobs. In my 3 year run in Rust I did asynch/multithreaded code, FFI with bindgen, kernel programming without…
What were the best books you read this year?
I’m looking for inspiration for the Christmas holidays. Mine were: – Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (2000) – William Cronon,…
In the Rockets’ Red Glare, by Rachel Kushner
Illustrations by Barry Falls. Source photographs courtesy the author Listen to an audio version of this article. When we got…
The UX of LEGO Interface Panels
August 2020 Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is…
Emacs: a basic and capable configuration
I have helped several people set up a basic Emacs configuration. In the process, I have learnt about some of…