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The real takeaway is that researchers may have found a potential test for string theory. Its presumed lack of falsifiability has been one of its drawbacks and has been the source o…

You may be surprised to learn that your face is your least identifying trait online. You network of friends/followers/likes identifies you far more readily—even if you use a random…

Surprised to see the author suggest that the C64 keyboard did not include the graphics glyphs on the keys. Both the VIC-20 and the C64 both had them, albeit printed on the front ve…

Given than Mono-the first open source C# implementation-was used to build banshee going back 15+ years, C# on *nix deserves more credit than is given here.

There’s been a lot of promising work done on IEC by a startup called EMC2. Their reactor/fusor design is called Polywell. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

For a mature, non-Google open source _and_ open hardware option: https://solokeys.com/ Software: https://github.com/solokeys/solo Hardware: https://github.com/solokeys/solo-hw

The Community Edition is open source, though the Enterprise Edition has some proprietary extensions. It’s admittedly not at all obvious from the repo name, but the following is the…

My first touchscreen Garmin unit, circa 2007, definitely suffered from reliability issues in FL summer heat. Just keeping it on the dash in direct sunlight while driving was enough…

Xamarin and Microsoft alum Bryan Costanich got some friends together to rescue Netduino and “reboot” it. They wanted to maintain that same sense of delight for .NET devs, but also …

Love this! I just wish the Bill of Rights had been a pull request that was merged once the 11 ratifying states approved it.

JyNI* was created to bridge Jython to Numpy. I don’t have any personal experience with it, but one need not wait for a GraalVM solution. * https://www.jyni.org/

If you haven’t checked it out already, you should take a look at Jython . As the name suggests, it’s a Java implementation of Python. https://www.jython.org/

This sort of self-dealing has been going on since the 1940’s, and was just the kind of problem that President Eisenhower alerted us to in his prophetic speech* warning the country …

I think the essay would have been better served getting to what appears to be the point much more directly: - The VW scandal was so shocking because executives and engineers exploi…

I’m more than a little surprised nobody has chimed in advocating Openfire, which is Apache 2.0, standards based (XMPP et. al.), extensible, and also has some pretty nice browser cl…

When I read this I thought it was sarcastically “proving the point” of the root comment. MSNBC’s programming in the US evenings is largely opinion/political talk, and isn’t present…

The problem with that map is that the annual average obscures the wide seasonal variation, which was the main thrust of my comment. The high winds come during the dry season, then …

If you live on the East Coast then you take the wind for granted. On the Pacific Coast, the winds blow fast and furious, especially as you go up in altitude. Its very hard to contr…

Microsoft skeptics fail to realize that most of the mid- and upper-level executives increasingly spent their entire career using, creating, and contributing to F/OSS software. Many…

You can explain Apple’s problems with a much simpler albeit banal reason: its sheer size. It has grown massive. They took over the old Sun campus in Sunnyvale while the UFO was und…

Ironically, it’s the daily activities such as flying glorious ocean fish on aircraft which dump huge amounts of CO2 and water vapor into the stratosphere, or trucking them in refri…

Authoritarianism is antithetical to rule of law. It “forces people to act against their own self-interest because The Authority says so.” This is why the US has long described itse…

Cite your sources. The whole concept of a legal system is predicated on that very idea.

That's a fair concern, and one they now will now have to adequately address in order to keep users content. But unless you are AWS or Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft isn't competi…

It works great on macOS. ;) Support for a tertiary platform (in terms of addressable market share) like Linux desktops comes much later in this kind of product’s maturation. Teams …