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Peter Watts covered the possibility of "zombie" intelligences pretty well in his novel Blindsight . One thing I took from it is that such an intelligence could not possibly behave …

Postgres (>11) also implements the SQL/JSON path language that lets you extract table data from JSON.

Using the type system to implement a Natural Numbers Object[1] is pretty clever. Doing math with it is not exactly efficient, but it does prove it works. [1] https://en.wikipedia.o…

The kernel uses the sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure to determine whether to evict cache vs. process memory.

Sam Vimes's $10 boots have become the 800 dollar cars in that article. But cars are optional if you live somewhere with working mass transportation.

RISC-V International's plan to give away 1,000 boards to developers seems like a good idea. I like some of the products I've seen but the cheap ones are just toys and the decent on…

The US government's official numbers for 2019 [1] only show 131k jobs for "information security analysts" and they project 171k by 2029. The total for computer, network and databas…

Nobody likes Monty Python references? I guess I shoulda known, my Simpsons one got downvoted too. Well, lessons learned, I guess.

I think it'd be more appropriate if the post bore a great red label: 'WARNING: EMACS!!!'

Yes, same here. "Close Tabs to the Right" gets used a lot. If there's anything I want to keep I either pin it or drag it all the way to the left first.

I negotiated a deal at a former employer where I worked 4 x 9.5 hour days with Wednesdays off. I took a 5% pay cut and lost a proportional amount of vacation time. I kept my benefi…

> unrestricted immigration I'm in the USA and this polemical strawman is standard fare on Murdoch's Fox News. It's just a lazy way of dismissing the issue without real discussion.

You should be very glad you did not move to the UK. The Home Office has a backlog of 320,000 unprocessed applications for residency status, according to a recent Guardian article. …

This week's Brexit & Beyond [1] mentioned this and I forgot to follow up on the link, so thank you. Performative cruelty for the masses while the Government talks up the great and …

Wow, it didn't work at all on my desktop. It thinks I have 23 apps from its list installed, on both Firefox and Chrome. Pretty funny seeing that on a Linux box running CentOS 7. Ev…

The Sun RPC code had a loop where it allocated one page at a time and filled an array with the returned pointers. The article says there was a 500% performance improvement after re…

Do you hate your feelings and try to run away from them?

My inherent cynicism leads me to believe the real reason they shut down the pipeline was because the attackers took down the accounting system.

Is this title trying to riff on "No, it is the children who are wrong"?

Figure 2 in that article, illustrating a constant-width figure with three sides (a Reuleaux triangle), reminded me of a science fiction story from long ago. I finally found the tit…

That Washington Post story is dated May 3, 2016 and now I'm wondering if that justifies flagging the post.

The 1980 film The Lathe of Heaven is wonderfully done, especially when you consider it was made as a PBS project for $250,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lathe_of_Heaven_(fi…