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> Advancing the precedent set by Alfred, generations of Krupps would continue to develop the region through various private and public works, for almost a century into the 1920s. >…

Imagine writing several paragraphs defining “utopia” and not mentioning Thomas More.

If you enjoyed this and haven’t been, you need to plan a trip to Paris to spend a day at Musée des Arts et Métiers.

This essay extends one anecdote involving 16+ year old teenagers to the unsupported conclusion that kids should have phones and those who wish to restrict that are all wealthy 1% r…

Then there’s not just the issue of whether the engine supports a particular syntactical feature but the issue of matching semantics. Perl/PCRE’s semantics are far different from PO…

I’ve got a 15 year old workstation that I’m breathing new life into, but fortunately starting from a higher baseline. 24GB of RAM is going to 96GB, and it turns out it should be ab…

Citation? I’m sure he’s fine but $100M?

There should be a "hickory" option where the axe just bounces back at you or gets stuck in the round.

Am I missing something? Is TFA only 2-3 paragraphs of a generic metaphor, with no actual data/research from aviation (or other fields) to back up the core thesis?

It’s from the Melian Dialogue ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Melos ) and it’s perhaps the most succinct embodiment of the realist school of international relations/politi…

"The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must." — Thucydides

Jacques Pepin's knuckles don't compress.

Statutory antitrust regulation would be fantastic. Instead of litigation, the regulators, corporations, and shareholders know when a business must split or divest. The firm files a…

Point of order: Anthropic is the most important AI company now.

Publishers (and authors) have long had a beef with Amazon. It was Barnes and Noble that put the bookstores out of business, and then Amazon put them out of business and no one real…

I don't have an opinion on Instructure (except as a parent generally hating the overall app-ization of education; fortunately our district switched away from Canvas a couple years …

Backups are definitely helpful in ransomwares, but before systems can be restored and brought back online, victim organizations still need to assess the scope of the breach, find t…

I hate using languages that only have signed integers. Using integers that can’t be negative fits many problems nicely and avoids the edge case of having to check for negative.

'"That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.'

The vast majority of government employees would not have access to MNPI.

I would argue that nondeterministic finite automata are both more significant and more practical.

Dave Cutler and Raymond Chen might like a word.

This might be the major dilemma in the tech industry today, where the natural tendencies of literalism and optimism among technologists has turned into a form of defensive credulit…

The absolute best thing about coding agents is not having to waste time on build systems. I had Claude code port my autotools scripts to meson (which uses ninja) and it’s been a hu…

It's a fantastic museum and featured a bit in Stewart Brand's Maintenance of Everything ( https://books.worksinprogress.co/book/maintenance-of-everyth... ).