Entries
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Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA...
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One of the most exciting challenges available to any software developer is that of writing brilliantly working code t...
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Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to fin...
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In that awkward transition phase between electromechanical accounting systems used in the 1940s and the introduction ...
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One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from up c...
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There are plenty of ways to get sound into your house: good old fashioned headphones, the Dolby surround setup we all...
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Especially in this era of the Internet, the role of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has become increasingly es...
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Although parents and teachers like to point out the deep link between cooking and chemistry, most people don’t delibe...
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We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for cland...
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After scathing accusations of skimping on due diligence, as well as other feedback to my article on trying to use an ...
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There’s not much more nostalgic for many than good ole’ Jimmy Neutron. This was true for [Kiara], who saw the gorgeou...
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There are a lot of traditional features of a bike that rarely change. The spokes, the chain, and the inability for it...
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Sometimes you purchase an old device that is very cheap for a good reason. So too with the 1995 Apple PowerBook 150 t...
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Although desalination is very commonly used these days to convert seawater into fresh water, one of the major disadva...
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey isn’t hitting theaters for another month or so, but if you’re already planning your t...
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So you happen to have a gramaphone– maybe a big old Victrola/HMV, perhaps a Columbia– regardless of brand, it’s a big...
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It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized as...
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Lots of us have– thanks to repetative stress injuries– developed mobility issues that we have to work around when usi...
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One of the delights of our tips line is that from time to time it brings us retrocomputing hardware that, despite yea...
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Whenever the topic of fusion power comes up, someone will say it’s only 10 years away from commercialization in an ex...