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Wouldn't want to be a Roscosmos higher-up right now. I hope they manage to stay away from windows on higher floors. This was supposed to be Putin's triumph over the 'degenerate wes…

Wonderous: A showcase app for the Flutter SDK. Built by gskinner in partnership with the Flutter team, Wonderous deliberately pushes visual fidelity, effects and transitions to sho…

A little clickbaity... It's a commercial third party modification made for use as a kiosk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15pxt76/why_ha...

It's a surprisingly cute building: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Building

Clarified this. Thanks.

The reason communications with the Voyager 1/2 twin probes have lasted for like 45 years: Voyager 2 is equipped with three Multihundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generators …

So the result of me writing this was that John Gruber was added as the BDFL of Markdown. Creator, sure, BDFL, that's a stretch.

He forgot he wasn't 18 and not somewhat overweight. Jock things.

Also see - what happens when you leave a jock in charge of Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxbJw8PrIkc (Ballmer: Developers, Developers, Developers! Extra Super Sweaty E…

Moneymaking has a way of ruining things, generally speaking.

Found this one while browsing the catalog. Cool. https://github.com/nasa/astrobee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-1j3sXTqA Three NASA Astrobee free-flying robots have been opera…

Does anyone have any experiences to share about the performance differences between regular RDS/MySQL and Aurora for MySQL (I/O optimized config)? (The article is about the Postgre…

Like Ada? /½ s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life has a list of BDFLs. Bram is the first BDFL in that list who has passed away. We're in for a generational shift the comin…

Texan drop snakes - kind of makes you think of those supposedly mythological creatures in Australia.

Sounds hopeful to me - in contexts where the architects somehow only want to design buildings people don't really like, for reasons.

Corresponding AWS notice: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-... AWS customers’ data and instances are not affected by this issue, and no customer action i…

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That was 4 days ago and this is the first we hear of it? This - 9 hours ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-cfo-kirkhorn-steps-down... Tesla CFO Kirkhorn steps down, replaced…