The Case for Kicking the Stone
Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection…
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The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline
Sometimes wide moats and billions of dollars to blow lead not to glory but to hubris, which beckons Nemesis. While…
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Angela Merkel chides own party over far-right help – DW – 01/30/2025
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticized her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) for using the support of the far-right Alternative for…
Codes Health (YC S24) Is Hiring
We’re hiring our first engineer at Codes Health we’re tackling one of the most frustrating and overlooked pain points in…
A Young Man Used AI to Build A Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep
AI madness is upon many of us, and it can take different forms. In August 2024, for example, I stumbled…
Tesla slides in German EV ranking as new registrations plummet 41 percent
U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among…
The US government’s open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed : climate
Data.gov dropping datasets fast I just checked, it has a steady and big increase in datasets until Jan 21, 2025,…
A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
TL;DR The year 2024 was a resurgant year for decompilation. Academic publications from that year made up nearly 30% of…
Hard Mode Rust Oct 6, 2022
This post is a case study of writing a Rust application using only minimal, artificially constrained API (eg, no dynamic…
PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you
In the early 1980s, a typical printed circuit board inside an 8-bit home computer looked roughly like this: A detail…