My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his … Read more
Trauma, Isolation, and Defying the Stereotypes In South Korea, turning 50 often marks a quiet but profound turning point for men—both native and foreign. For Korean men, it frequently signals the end of a lifetime defined by relentless work, family … Read more
QuestDB is the open-source time-series database for demanding workloads—from trading floors to mission control It delivers ultra-low latency, high ingestion throughput, and a multi-tier storage engine. Native support for Parquet and SQL keeps your data portable, AI-ready—no vendor lock-in. I … Read more
Over the next several years, humanoid robots will change the nature of work. Or at least, that’s what humanoid robotics companies have been consistently promising, enabling them to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at valuations that run into the … Read more
“So, is everyone losing their minds yet?” My ex-coworker asked me over yahoo messenger. He quit after getting enraged by new work policies that specifically targeted him. I looked up from my screen, and saw that the team of developers … Read more
Fri, Sep 9 2022 19:45:42 Hello.Lately I’ve been very interested in Wayfire and implemented Wayland input methods in Nimf.I implemented wayland’s official input method unstable v1 in 2017.In 2022, I implemented the non-standard input method unstable v2 of wlroots and … Read more
The interference pattern is a supremely strange result because it implies that both of the particle’s possible paths through the barrier have a physical reality. The path integral assumes this is how particles behave even when there are no barriers … Read more
I have been researching new business models for artists working in the low end of the long tail. How can one make a living in a micro-niche? Is it even possible, particularly in this realm of no-cost copies? I proposed … Read more
✦ A Fun Collaborative Activity ✦ Read the list of statements below. 1. Covid-19 escaped from a Chinese laboratory. 2. Climate change demands a radical transformation of modern lifestyles. 3. Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to get elected. 4. The real … Read more
Once more: we are not modeling reality, but the way information about reality is processed, by people. — Bill Kent I’ve got this working theory that you can tell how enthusiastic someone is about a subject by how obscure their … Read more