Sep 21, 2026 from Michael Lynch Refactoring English: Month 21 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...
Sep 19, 2026 from Hackaday Emulating Memory Access: How Hard Can It Be? There are so many things we approximate to make life simple. Wires, for example, have no resistance or other strange effects. Crystal oscillators output their exact frequency. But surely our …read ...
Sep 19, 2026 from LBV Magazine English Edition Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exist in two states simultaneously — spinning left and right at the same time, for ...
Sep 19, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- JAL first class cakes can be bought for a bargain, but are they as bougie as they seem? In Japan, a cake that’s “imperfect” can sometimes be perfect. Whenever we’re not eating sweets, you can find us on the Internet, searching for sweets, and the rarer they are, the better. So when ou...
Sep 19, 2026 from The Scholar's Stage The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark PERHAPS SILICON VALLEY'S BRIGHTEST have miscalculated. I suspect those leading and investing in the AI labs have underestimated—vastly underestimated—the chance that progress in machine intelligen...
Sep 19, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Some People Just Want To Be Told They’re Special Read Some People Just Want To Be Told They’re Special Customer: "Can you give me a discount on [item]?" Me: "The item is already on sale, and you have the best price." Customer: "Alright, but what ...
Sep 19, 2026 from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently...
Sep 18, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violates Second Amendment So held Elite Precision Customs L.L.C. v. BATFE, decided today by Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith, joined by Kurt Engelhardt;… The post Restriction on Handgun Sales to Out-of-State Residents Violat...
Sep 18, 2026 from Above the Law Cravath’s Latest Hire Comes With A Les Moonves-Shaped Asterisk — See Also Cravath Says Mike Aiello Shares Its 'Values.' About That: Not where I would have gone with the press release, but OK. The G In GPT Stands For Geaux: LSU's football coach used ChatGPT for legal advi...
Sep 18, 2026 from Hackaday Sony’s First Computer In 1982, desktop computers were coming into their own, and no clear leaders had emerged. But everyone knew they wanted a piece of the action. This led to, among other …read more
Sep 18, 2026 from Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com Getting Roasted At The Luau Read Getting Roasted At The Luau Guest: *Still shouting.* "What the h*** is Kalua pig!" Me: "It's the pork that's been slow roasting in the underground oven. It's a traditional part of—" Guest: "—I...
Sep 18, 2026 from Kev Quirk A day is short, a life is long A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level...
Sep 18, 2026 from Palladium Don’t Count Out the Country House The English country estate bound each generation to the land and to relationships that endured for centuries, sculpting a worthy elite. Scrapping them for bureaucracy might prove a costly mistake. ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Rollenspielszenen: Ein Hund Fällt mir was an dem Hund auf? *roll* …es ist ein Hund.
Sep 18, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 18 September 2026 Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then the AIs being researched by the AI researchers went rogue. (The Verge) Someone fin...
Sep 18, 2026 from SoraNews24 -Japan News- New Gundam Base superstores coming soon in the U.S., with one opening this month Bandai Namco’s store that’s all about anime Mobile Suits is moving into new territories. There’s a Gundam-shaped, and also Gundam-sized, hole in the hearts of anime enthusiasts in Tokyo these days,...
Sep 18, 2026 from News - AlternativeTo.net GrapheneOS claims Android 17 QPR1 APIs remain exclusive to Pixel devices GrapheneOS reports Android 17 QPR1 adds app developer APIs that remain exclusive to Pixel software rather than being released to the Android Open Source Project. It also claims that September 2026 ...
Sep 18, 2026 from Thejesh GN Weekly Notes 38/2026 It’s been a busy week, but not as busy as last week, mostly because Monday was a holiday and I got some rest. Uma was away over the weekend with her Atte to celebrate. Belated Ganesha Chaturthi, if...
Sep 18, 2026 from It's FOSS GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start GrapheneOS is calling out Google over its negligence in providing certain patches.