Epic Recall, Epic Fail
The DPP bet the farm on trying to flip the legislature their way by recalling an unprecedented number of KMT legislators. Mistakes were made. Expectations were turned upside down as the Epic Recall failed. “Epic Recall, Epic Win!” (大罷免，大成功) was almost an inescapable battle cry for the last few months in Taiwan. Everywhere you went […]
Arvo Pärt at 90
In many ways Arvo Pärt and John Williams’s music couldn’t be further apart. One celebrates simplicity, purity, and draws much of its inspiration from sacred texts; the other captures strong emotions in sweeping orchestral scores. And yet the two men are today’s most performed contemporary composers. Bachtrack’s annual survey of classical music performed across the […]
Test Results for AMD Zen 5 by Agner Fog
I have now finished testing the Zen 5. Thank you to the people who have helped running test scripts for me. My test results for the AMD Zen 5 are impressive. It has a lot of features that increase different aspects of the CPU performance to new levels, never seen before. Most importantly, the instruction […]
What Went Wrong for Yahoo
Reddit calls itself the front page of the Internet. But for a good decade or even a decade and a half, Yahoo had as legitimate of a claim as any to the title of front page of the Internet. On July 25, 2016, Yahoo met an inglorious end as an independent company, selling out to […]
Where Are Vacation Homes Located in the US?
As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country. The vast majority of these homes – 127.5 million – are occupied. The remaining 14.8 million homes are vacant. Of these, around 4.8 million homes, or around 3.5% of the total, are vacant because […]
.gitignore Is Inherently Sisyphean
You just started a new project. You ran cargo init, poetry init and go mod init. Those commands created the necessary files to work, it also added the following lines to your .gitignore: target __pycache__ bin All great. You continue implementing features, and when the time comes, you publish your project to your Git hosting […]
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK
WEBASSEMBLY (WASM) In order to provide both security and portability, it was decided to move away from add-ons distributed as DLLs in favour of add-ons distributed as WebAssembly modules. In order to do so without requiring a full rewrite of existing add-ons, a new platform toolset was designed for Visual Studio with the following capabilities: […]
Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation. Additionally, a study documents just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change. Understanding this relatively recent data may provide a better understanding of how to help stave […]
Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
Ageing of many tissues accelerates around age 50, according to an analysis of tissues in people ranging from teenagers to individuals in their sixties.Credit: Karen Haibara/AFP/Getty It is a warning that middle-aged people have long offered the young: ageing is not a smooth process. Now, an exhaustive analysis of how proteins change over time in […]
Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?
Abstract:At this early stage of its passage through our Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, the recently discovered interstellar interloper, has displayed various anomalous characteristics, determined from photometric and astrometric observations. As largely a pedagogical exercise, in this paper we present additional analysis into the astrodynamics of 3I/ATLAS, and hypothesize that this object could be technological, and possibly […]