In a few weeks it’ll be 25 years ago: June 23, 1988—the day Mathematica was launched. Late the night before we were still duplicating floppy disks and stuffing product boxes. But at noon on June 23 there I was at a … Read more
Image by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash. The United States likes to talk about problems. Well, ones we have solutions for, anyway. Others we tend to willfully ignore. This latter strategy is typically accomplished by either a.) pretending the problem isn’t … Read more
Now that my title has savagely baited your click, let’s talk about the weirdness of the game industry and the big mess we’re all in. If you don’t want to read my words, just look at the chart above. A … Read more
So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down. Sit down. Shut up. Listen. You don’t know … Read more
There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge.There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge. | there.oughta.be/ HomeAbout 16 December 2021 It took a while, but I finally managed to create my own Game Boy cartridge. With WiFi! At this … Read more
Most Widely Deployed SQL Database Engine Small. Fast. Reliable.Choose any three. Most Widely Deployed and Used Database Engine SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined. Billions and billions of copies of SQLite exist in the wild. … Read more
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Parking and privacy aren’t typically things that go hand in hand. That’s changing. Colin Shanahan discovered this during a recent visit to the Trader Joe’s grocery store in Hollywood. After parking his car in the garage — seldom an easy … Read more
October 12, 2021 Pop quiz! What will the following program return? int main() { printf(“Hello World!n”); } Easy, right? It’s gotta be 0, because since at least ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (aka “C99“), main shall implicitly return 0 if you, the forgetful … Read more
Most people are aware that the vast majority of everything that was written in ancient times has been lost. Some languages, however, have more surviving works than others. To give a somewhat extreme example, the Roman writer Pliny the Elder … Read more