How not to bomb your offer negotiation (2016)
So you know the first 6 rules. You’ve maneuvered through the initial offer conversation, you’ve lined up counteroffers from other companies, and now it’s time to move into the actual negotiating. Naturally, this is the part where everything goes horribly wrong. But worry not. Stick with me, and I’m going to make you into a […]
The first amateur radio station on the moon
02/02/2024 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully landed their Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) on January 19, 2024. Just before touchdown, SLIM released two small lunar surface probes, LEV-1 and LEV-2. LEV-2 collects data while moving on the lunar surface, and LEV-1 receives the data. The JAXA Ham Radio Club (JHRC), JQ1ZVI, secured […]
A Brief History of NSA Backdoors (2013)
12-20-2013 10:12PM (ET) In response to the recent revelations about the NSA backdooring RSA libraries I’ve compiled a brief, incomplete, history of NSA backdoors. Help me make it better by emailing corrections and additions to [email protected]. Update: added Actel backdoor, Update 2: There is a hackernews thread for discussion. Update 3: Added Newly discovered postal […]
AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Effortlessly build beautiful apps for every platform. Avalonia UI is an open source UI framework for building stunning, desktop, mobile, web and embedded applications using a .NET single codebase.
In 1950, a U.S. troop plane vanished without a trace in the Yukon
On January 26, 1950, a U.S. Airforce troop plane left Anchorage for Montana with 44 people on board. It took off in frigid cold with precious few hours of daylight left. The crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 was supposed to check in every 30 minutes along the route. As the aircraft crossed into Yukon, […]
Vision Pro Teardown–Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird
The strangest thing about the Vision Pro is also the thing that makes it most uniquely Apple: it’s got a big shiny bubble glass front, which makes it stand out from the aluminum- and plastic-shrouded competition, even when it’s off. And when it’s on, it’s even stranger—instead of being fully transparent, behind the glass, an […]
Bernoulli’s Principle Applied to Firefighting – Box Alarm Training
Bernoulli’s Principle is not the first thing that comes to our minds when discussing firefighting tactics. However, it directly affects many of our operations. In fire behavior courses we learn about how fire will travel from areas of high pressure to areas of lower pressure. This is the basis of understanding how ventilation and flow paths work. […]
The DIY Diggers Who Can’t Stop Making ‘Hobby Tunnels’
Two years ago, Bryan Ritchie was shoveling dirt to put a walking path around his house in Huiroa, New Zealand, when he just felt the “urge to keep going.” An environmental restoration specialist during the week, Ritchie, 58, now spends his Sundays with his well-worn shovel, indulging in his favorite hobby: tunneling. His hole now […]
TCC RISC-V Compiler Runs in the Web Browser (Thanks to Zig Compiler)
TCC RISC-V Compiler runs in the Web Browser (thanks to Zig Compiler) 📝 4 Feb 2024 (Try the Online Demo) (Watch the Demo on YouTube) TCC is a Tiny C Compiler for 64-bit RISC-V (and other platforms)… Can we run TCC Compiler in a Web Browser? Let’s do it! We’ll compile TCC (Tiny C Compiler) […]
The King of Curcumin: a case study in consequences of large-scale research fraud
Bharat B. Aggarwal is an Indian-American biochemist who worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center from 1989 to 2015. His research focused on potential anti-cancer effects and therapeutic applications of herbs and spices. Aggarwal was particularly drawn to curcumin, a non-toxic compound found in turmeric that has long been staple in Ayurvedic systems of medicine. He […]