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The fantastic documentary “We Are As Gods” about Stewart Brand spends a considerable amount of time on this topic as he is involved in many of these efforts. https://www.weareasgod…

Two of these authors are also two of the creators of the Catala programming language, which is "a domain-specific programming language designed for deriving correct-by-construction…

APL was originally created by Iverson as a notation used to teach mathematics and only became a programming language able to be executed by a computer around the time that (or shor…

I tend to use top level folder structure of: - Documents -- -- - Repos -- I also make extensive use of a little rust tool I whipped up which tags file paths with user defined tags,…

Looks like telegraph commercial codes are poised and ready to make a comeback! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_code_(communication... )

In previous embedded work, I've had to follow the MISRA C [0] guidelines, which I suspect are roughly similar to the JPL guidelines (but I can't get to the PDF at the moment due to…

I went to a planting a few years ago put on by this same group in Ann Arbor, MI at the Nichols Arboretum [0]. It was pretty inspiring to see a real living clone and hear David Mila…

The "DIY with basic tools" approach of Sears extended well beyond houses. Sears also sold motorcycles [0] that came with a thick manual that gave instructions on how to do everythi…

But only for certain a definitions of "problem."

I can only imagine the effect of an interrogation like that on a 14yr old. I was 24 and was completly drained by mine. I was questioned by each of the TSA, the local sheriff, and t…

This hits close to home for me too, and I am as WASP-y as it gets. Just over a year ago I was flying to the middle of US with some prototypes for an agriculural automation system i…

I teach a programming elective course to middle school students (12-14 years old); We meet three days per week for about an hour each day. Over the course of nine weeks the student…

I wonder how "out of date" your Apple product can be and they will still help you with it? I think a trip to my local Apple Store with my trusty Apple ][+ is in order.

Firefox is already non-free software. The Mozilla branding is the main reason why - those parts are licensed under non-free licenses.

You can download a zip archive of all of the issues from here: https://www.copy.com/s/tVBQpAJYGxYSTKw/Readings/Cryptolog

renownedmedia and I are two of the developers of the Copy product. I can assure you that he is not a "PR minion" - he can sling code better than most.

I run the Copy client apps exclusively on GNU/Linux boxes. There is even a handy CLI (command line interface) if GUI's aren't your thing.

Small team (~10) of developers: I rarely encounter merge conflicts due to our method of doling out tasks. We generally try to group tasks together based on similarities, and our co…