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video: https://figshare.com/articles/media/Supplement_Number_1/2894...

This is the first time I've read an AI-heavy piece and stayed engaged with it all the way through. I think the author's sharing the prompts was key to that experience.

See also: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/11/fqke-a11.html https://scabusa.org/featured-researcher-bio/2024-Poster-Winn... https://www.idsnews.com/article/2026/05/iu-roger…

Thanks, I enjoyed that.

Writing unit tests is futile exercise without a specification. The software under test is always modeling something -- business logic, a communications protocol, a control algorith…

The problem is management. Managing bilingual teams is challenging. See also: TSMC in Phoenix https://www.reddit.com/r/Semiconductors/comments/1m96m4f/my_...

I found the linked article to be difficult to follow. Vacliv Smil wrote a book called Energy and Civilization (2017) in which he argues that the ability to harness energy is what m…

Thanks for sharing. As a non-google bazel user this is quite helpful.

Start with the question: what is the problem that you want to solve? Next, find codebases that solve that problem and study how they do it. Good design is so deeply tied to the dom…

NASA branded things have been big in China since as early as 2019, peaking in 2021. https://fashion.sina.cn/s/fo/2019-04-28/detail-ihvhiqax54682... https://www.zhihu.com/question/3…

Mapping escape to caps-lock makes much more sense after looking at the ADM-3A keyboard layout. Cool write-up!

I just finished reading this one. It was fantastic. I particularly enjoyed the spicy editorial excerpts from The Electrician ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electrician ).

This is a wonderfully concise description of why software testing, especially GUI testing is cursed by dimensionality. Type checking, borrow checking, invariants, hell even MISRA r…

"if we're adding time to the clock, it means that the team thinks that there might be a possibility that they can sort it out"

Anyone know more about the payload? Here's what I've found: It's carrying the "Blue Ring Pathfinder Payload", part of the "Dark-Sky 1 Mission" > Dark-Sky 1 is jointly funded by DIU…

I've had a couple of experiences in the past month where I do respond to the enthusiastic sales engineer's check-in with a genuine product question, only to receive an immediate, l…

> By all appearances, it just seems like an absolute no brainer....I really dont get it I understand the policy around hydrogen (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law allocated $8 billion …

The article writes: > they had not asked me to explain git, they had asked me to explain GitHub This is often the case for me as well. Hey, at least git owns it by calling the shel…

> Remember than when the AIDS epidemic broke out. The doctors and labs didn’t help much. People took things in their own hands and tried stuff, and in the end, they found things th…

Hydrogen electrolyzers perhaps makes sense as a backup load: something that can be turned on when there's too much electricity production (as is increasingly the case in renewable-…

I like that the microarch names -- Yanqihu (雁栖湖), Nanhu (南湖), and Kunminghu (昆明湖) -- are lake-themed. Coffee lake? Skylake? no, Kunming lake. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…

Hi, source?