2021 Archive
6271.
Attempts to scientifically “rationalize” policy may be damaging democracy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
6272.
Telegram Ad Platform (promote.telegram.org)
6273.
London's Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life (npr.org)
6274.
Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016) (atlasobscura.com)
6275.
John Carmack on Hiring (twitter.com)
6276.
The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army (newyorker.com)
6277.
Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch, a robot designed to move boxes in warehouses (theverge.com)
6278.
FBI probe: nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of original shipment (reuters.com)
6279.
Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) (bbc.com)
6280.
What does a Principal Software Engineer do? (blog.devgenius.io)
6281.
WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back (niemarwinget.medium.com)
6282.
3½ years on my custom emperor mattress – a retrospective (middleendian.com)
6283.
Nim 2.0 thoughts (forum.nim-lang.org)
6284.
macOS 11’s hidden security improvements (blog.malwarebytes.com)
6285.
Larry Flynt has died (bbc.com)
6286.
Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video] (bbc.com)
6287.
How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? [video] (youtube.com)
6288.
Feasibility of a Dune Ornithopter (pages.erau.edu)
6289.
Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] (commerce.senate.gov)
6290.
Multiplying Matrices Without Multiplying (arxiv.org)
6291.
Why does it take so long to get to Mercury? (esa.int)
6292.
Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects (schleiss.io)
6293.
PSD is not my favourite file format (2009) (github.com)
6294.
Regularized Newton Method with Global $O(1/k^2)$ Convergence (arxiv.org)
6295.
Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C (github.com)
6296.
Malware in open-source web extensions (lwn.net)
6297.
Truck Art in Pakistan (2018) (mymodernmet.com)
6298.
New campaign targeting security researchers (blog.google)
6299.
Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory (quantamagazine.org)
6300.
Repeat Yourself, a Lot (tomtunguz.com)