Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?
I recently went to visit a friend in Washington, DC. Upon arriving at his swanky apartment building, I couldn’t help but notice that tenants have to use a smartphone to navigate all of the building’s features. If you want to get into the building, you have to scan your phone with an app. Use the […]
Directus – real-time REST and GraphQL API of any SQL database
🐰 Introduction Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. REST & GraphQL API. Instantly layers a blazingly fast Node.js API on top of any SQL database. Manage Pure SQL. Works with new or existing SQL databases, no migration required. Choose your Database. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, OracleDB, CockroachDB, MariaDB, […]
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last […]
Making any integer with four 2s
February 22, 2025 at 14:53 Tags Math There’s a cute math puzzle that can be interesting to folks on very different levels: Given exactly four instances of the digit 2 and some target natural number, use any mathematical operations to generate the target number with these 2s, using no other digits. Some examples can be […]
Chipzilla Devours the Desktop
This is the fourth entry in a multipart series. You may be interested to read about Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the start of Intel. At the end of 1974, Intel had announced plans for a reorganization following layoffs, and that was carried out between the time of the announcement and the first months of […]
Pee If You Want to Go Deeper (2021)
While I’m usually blogging about triathlon, today I want to discuss one of my other hobbies, scuba diving. Diving in the UK usually requires diving in a dry suit (not always, but trust me, it’s a LOT more comfortable). One of the biggest concerns that many have is about how to deal with the bladder […]
The Secret That Colleges Should Stop Keeping
Listen–1.0x+ 0:008:11 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. It is a basic fact of American life, so widely known that it hardly needs to be said: College is getting ever more unaffordable. In survey after survey, Americans say that the cost of […]
Vietnamese Graphic Design
Vietnamese Graphic Design VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Currently, there are 274 objects in this collection. VIET GD is a casual index, archive, and celebration of Vietnamese graphic design. Filters Medium Advertising Books Ephemera Matchboxes Music Posters Signage Stamps Type Year Undated 1900s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s […]
BYD has already produced its first solid-state cells
According to Chinese media, Sun Huajun, CTO of BYD’s battery business, stated at a forum event on solid-state batteries that the company had already produced its first solid-state cells with 20 Ah and 60 Ah on its pilot production line in 2024. The portals CN EV Post and Car News China reported on this based […]
OpenJKDF2 – A cross-platform reimplementation of JKDF2 in C
OpenJKDF2 is a function-by-function reimplementation of DF2 in C, with 64-bit ports to Windows 7+, macOS 10.15+, and Linux. Files are organized as closely to the original game as possible, based on symbols from the Grim Fandango Remaster Android/Linux/macOS port, as well as scattered assertions from various other games. It also contains the original versions […]