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Choke Point of a Nation: The High Cost of an Aging River Lock
Mr. Robertson was lockmaster of No. 52 for five years. Because of the stress, he said, his doctor told him he needed to do something else if he wanted to live. When the job opened up, he was relieved...
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Mail-in-a-Box – one-click, easy-to-deploy email server
README.mdBy @JoshData and contributors.Mail-in-a-Box helps individuals take back control of their email by defining a one-click, easy-to-deploy SMTP+everything else server: a mail server in a...
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Essence of linear algebra [video]
Spring navigation overDKUploadLog indSøg Ugyldige parametre.LukLog ind for at føje denne video til Se senere Indlæser... Arbejder...
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The Village Sin Eater
An 18th century funeral scene in England. Wellcome Images, London/CC BY 4.0When a loved one died in parts of England, Scotland, or Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, the family would grieve, place...
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Steven Strogatz on chaos theory, game theory, and why math isn’t boring
captionChaos.sourcehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airplane_vortex_edit.jpgMath is a cool way for us to understand the world we live in. And to that endBusiness Insider recently spoke withSteven...
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Bradley Trainer: Atari’s Military Project
Atari’s Battlezone arcade game released in 1981 was an immediate classic. This first-person wire frame vector shoot-em-up, puts the player at the controls of a tank wandering the wilderness of a...
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Hackers are holding San Francisco’s light-rail system for ransom
San Francisco Municipal Railway riders got an unexpected surprise this weekend after the system’s computerized fare systems were apparently hacked. According to the San Francisco Examiner, the MUNI...
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TrueOS Pico – FreeBSD ARM/RPi Thin Clients
What is TrueOS Pico™ ?TrueOS Pico™ is a cost effective thin client solution that connects multiple ARM-based devices to a single Pico Server™.TrueOS Pico™ provides the TrueOS® desktop experience, like...
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Base-122 – A space efficient alternative to base-64
§1 Overview As a binary-to-text encoding, base-64 inflates the size of the data it represents by ~33%. This article presents base-122, a UTF-8 binary-to-text encoding which inflates the original data...
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Immer: immutable and persistent data structures for C++
README.rstimmer is a library of persistent and immutable data structures written in C++.Persistent means that when you modify the data structure, the old value is preserved.Immutable means that all...
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The legacy of Ada Lovelace (2015)
There is to me something ineffably grand, romantic and ambitious about the idea of a seven-metre diameter, 150-metre-long machine eating its way slowly under London to make the tunnel for the vast...
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Blender 2.8 project status
The main topic of my Blender Conference 2016 keynote was the Blender 2.8 project; where are are and what to expect from it in the coming year. The biggest news is that we are really going to start...
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Three Software Freedoms
27th November 2016 Here are the Four Software Freedoms, as published by the GNU project. A program must have all four freedoms to be Free Software: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any...
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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003)
09.29.2003 When John Titor first showed up on IRC chat in October of 2000, he was enjoying a neat kind of double billing - as his 38-year-old self sat downstairs in the kitchen, typing away, a...
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NHS England proposed action to cut sales of sugary drinks in hospitals
NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens is calling on patients and the public to have their say in a ten week consultation on plans to cut the sales of sugary drinks sold in hospitals. Our formal...
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AnyBar: OS X menubar status indicator
README.mdAnyBar is a small indicator for your menubar that does one simple thing: it displays a colored dot. What the dot means and when to change it is up to you.DownloadVersion 0.1.4:Or using...
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The Holy Trinity: Logic, Languages, Categories (2011)
The Christian doctrine of trinitarianism states that there is one God that is manifest in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together form the Holy Trinity. The doctrine of...
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Let's Colonize Titan
The idea of a human colony on Titan, a moon of Saturn, might sound crazy. Its temperature hovers at nearly 300° below zero Fahrenheit, and its skies rain methane and ethane that flow into hydrocarbon...
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The Unsound Playground: Java and Scala's Type Systems are Unsound
The Unsound Playground We, Nada Amin and Ross Tate, broke the Java and Scala type systems! Try it out for yourself by running the examples, which throw cast exceptions even though they contain no casts...
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Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language
Writing assembly language is something best left for the experts. To write code that runs directly on your microprocessor you need to know how memory segmentation works, what the intended use of each...
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