The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market
Today, a young man down on his luck in a new city is more likely to land in jail or on the street than on his feet. Fifty years ago, he had another option. A place to wash up, get a hot meal, meet other young men—even start over. All he had to do was […]
Nano Banana Pro
How Nano Banana Pro helps you bring any idea or design to life Nano Banana Pro can help you visualize any idea and design anything – from prototypes, to representing data as infographics, to turning handwritten notes into diagrams. With Nano Banana Pro, now you can: Generate more accurate, context-rich visuals based on enhanced reasoning, […]
Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects [pdf]
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210 IQ Is Not Enough
Going as Former Gifted Child for Halloween and the whole costume is just gonna be people asking “What are you supposed to be?” And me saying “I was supposed to be a lot of things.” — @leahtriss 2019/10/26 Christopher Langan Chris Langan became famous when television networks interviewed him for allegedly scoring ~170 on an […]
Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users’ home directory. The XDG Base Directory specification lays out where application data files, configuration files, cached assets, […]
Judgement on Dr Matthew Garrett (@mjg59) vs. Dr Roy Schestowitz (Techrights.org)
1. This is a dispute between prominent ‘free software movement’ activists. The free software movement advances a philosophy and practice which values the freedom of users to create and share software enabling internet access, and challenges the dominance of ‘big tech’ software and systems over the online experience. That includes a preference for internet relay […]
Building a Durable Execution Engine with SQLite
At the core of every DE engine there’s some form of persistent durable execution log. You can think of this a bit like the write-ahead log of a database. It captures the intent to execute a given flow step, which makes it possible to retry that step should it fail, using the same parameter values. […]
Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
Expansion ensures business continuity without forcing major upgrades Today, Canonical announced the expansion of the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro, extending total coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years. Starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), this extension brings the full benefits of Ubuntu Pro – including continuous security patching, compliance tooling and support […]
Red Alert 2 in web browser
About Chrono Divide is a fan-made project which aims to recreate the original “Red Alert 2” from the “Command & Conquer” series using web technologies. The result is a game client that runs in your web browser, with no additional plugins or applications installed. The project initially started out as an experiment and was meant […]
40 years ago, Calvin and Hobbes’ burst onto the page
