Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Terry Godier

Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution

Dithered QR Codes

Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2

I found my old reMarkable 2 paper tablet, bought in 2021, it had sat unused for ~4 years or so. The device was in a sorry state:

The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)

Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding

The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)

My server is a phone now

rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.

Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386

A Macintosh System 1-style graphical OS for the Intel 8086/8088. Real-mode assembly, boots from floppy, runs in 256KB. Free to download.

The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the second-busiest container seaport in the United States, a major gateway for goods flowing to and from the west coast. Together with its next door neighbor, the Port of Los Ange

Fastmail offers EU data region

Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.

There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order

What is so special about the number 19?

Honey, I shrunk the embeddings: Matryoshka vs. PCA

I compared Matryoshka embeddings against PCA on BEIR datasets.

Protopia

For over a decade I have been talking about protopia, but I have never written out my description of it.

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled

How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.

Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5

Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE - GitHub - rochus-keller/OberonSystem at op2-rv32

Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue

SubmitQueue is a high-performance speculative merge queue that keeps your trunk consistently green at scale. - uber/submitqueue

Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port

Port of Microsoft Word 1.1a to x64 with extra features for research purposes. - jmarshall23/msword

TheoremDB – A public workspace for machine mathematics

A public workspace for machine mathematics: open problems, permanent records of proofs and attempts, evidence and credit.

Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt

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