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The paper on which the article is based, https://watermark02.silverchair.com/stag328.pdf?token=AQECAH... mentions 3 three alternative interpretations for GRB 250702B: 1. Ultralong …

Sorry, but can someone explain to me why Flash failed? Was it because Apple killed it, or other reasons? Because not open source? Too heavy? I never really got the story, or only g…

I had my handyman build one of these in front of our house. Also, I make a hobby of biking around to circulate books between different little free libraries in my extended neighbor…

Magnus is just so tenacious. From a lost position he snatched a victory. Take a look at the five hour mark (plus or minus) for the crucial moments of the key game: https://www.yout…

Bubble sort is pretty simple in most programming languages ... what about on a Turing Machine? I used all three of Claude 4.6, GLM 5, and GPT 5.2 to get a result, so this exercise …

Does this mean that now I can watch Bugs Bunny on Netflix?

This paper is delightfully readable.

Maybe Anonymous has some ideas on how to handle this one.

Cops don't become psychopaths rather: Psychopaths become cops.

A read-it-later app. Pocket, you had one job. Just one job. And for a while that was my killer app on mobile. But, as we see, the enshitification of the web continues. "What began …

Here's an idea: Compensate any on-call work received during off hours at 10X the normal hourly rate. E.g., if my salary is $150K per year, then my hourly pay rate is about $75 per …

Here's a FEN of the famous position from the Spassky-Fischer world championship match where Fischer weirdly played Bxh2 on move 29 and Spassky went on to win the game: 5k2/pp4pp/4p…

See? This is _exactly_ why Facebook banned Linux.

Umm ... the site stopped working?

Ummm ... 2024 - 2007 = 17

So this letter ℘ is distinct from another unicode symbol (that I can't copy-paste here?), which we often use for "power set" in math; it's given by U+1D4AB.

Thanks

Just do a search for "The Lock Picking Lawyer," you'll have loads of fun seeing what he can do, sometimes with the most minimal of tools (like a thin strip of metal cut from a soda…

Hm. Does Apple dare produce something that is actually gritty, ala Bladerunner, a world in which technology is not seen by the author as being sexy the way Apple likes, rather the …

Lol! Nice one.

Double plus agree.

My off leash dog will not bite you, he is well behaved. My dog at home cannot bite you, he is too far away.

Again: Metadata. WhatsApp records a timestamp of every message you send/receive, and who the other party is. Signal only records two pieces of metadata: timestamp of when you signe…