Lego built full-size F1 cars for the Miami GP drivers' parade
Formula One’s driver parade for the 2025 Miami Grand Prix will surely go down as one...
USENIX ATC Announcement
USENIX celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2025. We celebrate decades of innovations, experiments, and gatherings of...
eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6
This adventures starts with a simple eBPF program to transparently redirect DNS requests on port 53...
Finding a Bug in Chromium
This week I’ve submitted a report for a bug I found in Chromium, the first time...
Starlink User Terminal Teardown
I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go to space. —— Stephen...
Hill or High Water
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been cataloguing a collection of over 300 photographic slides from...
Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship
Friendship comes with complex pros and cons -- possibly explaining why some individuals are less sociable,...
Gender characteristics of service robots can influence customer decisions
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The hospitality industry can leverage the gender characteristics of service robots to...
Passing Messages
About 15 years a go, I had this job where I was requested to set up...
Bento Gets a Makeover
Hey, 🫵 you, make sure you've ⭐ starred the repo ⭐ otherwise you won't be entered...
Prepare your apps for Google Play's 16 KB page size compatibility requirement
Posted by Dan Brown – Product Manager, Google Play Google Play empowers you to manage and...
A Brief History of Cursor's Tab-Completion
As part of building our own tab-completion for Unity, I went down the rabbit hole of...
How to start a school with your friends
FractalU is a “school” for adults, taught from living rooms in New York City. We’ve run...
Implementing State Machines in PostgreSQL (2017)
Published: July 27, 2017 Finite-state machine (FSM) is a wonderful model of computation that has many...
Nothing Radicalizes You Against Dirty Diesels Like Riding a Motorcycle
Zero recently dropped off an S for me to test, and now that put a few...
DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data
This is an article that just appeared in Asimov Press, who kindly agreed that I could...
The second birth of JMW Turner
JMW Turner baffled his contemporaries. At the beginning of his career he was a prodigy, a...
IPinfo started offering free unlimited country-level geolocation and ASN details
My IP ↗orAccurate country-level geolocation and ASN details for free. No monthly fees, no credit card...
Linux drops support for 486 and early Pentium CPUs: 20 years after Microsoft
IntelRIP, 486 processor. You've had a long run since Intel released you back in 1989. While...
The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017)
Sometimes we go looking for blog ideas, and sometimes they come along and tap us persistently...
Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models
We combine modeling paradigms to enjoy better likelihoods & flexible-length generation from autoregressive models, as well...
