A Review of the RGB Blaster: No Mod, No Problem

nicole.express
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It seems like I’m covering krikzz’s products a bunch now, with the Turbo EverDrive Pro and now this. But it’s not my fault he keeps making interesting things! Here, we see something particularly interesting: the RGB Blaster, an affordable device … Read more

Review: Energy and Civilization, by Vaclav Smil

thepsmiths.com
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Energy and Civilization: A History, Vaclav Smil (MIT Press, 2017). There are two kinds of mathematicians: problem-solvers and theory-builders. They’re what they sound like. A problem-solver gets obsessed with particular, concrete, fiendishly tricky problems, and wants to solve them. Along … Read more

Book review: Barriers to Bioweapons

eukaryotewritesblog.com
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I spent a memorable college summer – and much of the next quarter – trying to run a particular experiment involving infecting cultured tissue cells with bacteria and bacteriophage. The experiment itself was pretty interesting, and I thought the underpinnings … Read more

Review: The Best Minds, by Jonathan Rosen

freddiedeboer.substack.com
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There was a time when Michael Laudor was one of the most prominent mentally ill people in the United States, and by extension, the world. The youngest son of an upper-middle-class family in Westchester county, Laudor was marked as a … Read more

My review of the C standard library in practice

nullprogram.com

February 11, 2023 nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/11/ This article was discussed on Hacker News. In general, when working in C I avoid the standard library, libc, as much as possible. If possible I won’t even link it. For people not used to working … Read more