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The modern version of the Apollo moon missions, called Artemis, is wildly expensive – and might kill the crew on reentry. Why is it going ahead? CC-licensed photo by Kevin Gill on Flickr. You can …

A case for abandoning web analytics

Thomas Claburn, the Register: Google promotes its reCAPTCHA service as a security mechanism for websites, but researchers affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, argue it’s harvesting information while extracting human labor worth billions. […] …

Pour une mémoire commune numérique L’amnésie d’Internet Internet est un lieu d’échange, mais sa mémoire est volatile. Nous avons tous connu des sites qui disparaissent, des ressources qui deviennent inaccessibles. Personnellement, j’ai perdu tous mes …

Today's links Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money: Taking 60 cents out of every reduced-lunch public school dollar. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2019, 2023 Upcoming …

Like almost any question about AI, “How does AI impact software architecture?” has two sides to it: how AI changes the practice of software architecture and how AI changes the things we architect. These questions …

NEW RESOURCES DigitalNC: The Bard Arrives Online with New Shakespeare Festival Records!. “Thanks to our partner at High Point Museum, DigitalNC now includes over thirty new programs, playbills, and brochures produced by the North Carolina …

Kiedyś, niemal na samym początku istnienia tej strony, podzieliłem się linkiem do projektu Pico8, “wyobrażonej konsoli do gier”, charakteryzującej się pikselowatą grafiką połączoną z nowoczesnymi... Read more

Ever since I started writing online, one kind of post I always tried to avoid publishing on my site is the Sorry for the lack of updates post. As the excellent CM Harrington reminded me …

Despite growing up as a third culture kid used to travel, and having spent almost 20 years visiting various places around Japan, this spring brought a new experience: taking my kid on their first international …

They’re better for the environment. Blog moderation policy.

This post will be my attempt to package up my master’s thesis in a format that can be read comfortably. I’ve spent the last 15 months mostly on this topic, and if you’ve noticed that …

I’ve long maintained that if the powers-that-be understood what the Internet’s impact would be, they would have never allowed it to be created. It’s hard to accuse said shadowy figures of negligence, however, given how …

(Inspired by this conversation between Jukesie and Himal) Lots of companies encourage their staff to blog. It's free PR! It makes them look like they're on the cutting edge of technology! It helps with recruitment! …

Today, Downpour comes out! In case you don’t know, Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years. I started it after I left Niantic in October 2022, …

AI has an alignment issue, but it’s not what you think. Alignment is famously tricky with AI, and one of the things most talked about among AI critics — especially among those critics who are …

Jeep claims to be “Inspired by Nature”, Toyota SUVs are engineered for off-road driving, other brands show their monster cars scaling the heights of mountain landscapes, crossing turbulent rivers, cutting through dense forests, speeding through …

...back to Smart Home overview A while ago my power net company installed new smart power meters, specifically the Iskra MT681. It has a standardized infrared interface to get some data from it. There are …

This post on Windows Side-by-Side loading is a deeper dive into research I picked up at the tail end of 2023, in my free time between Christmas and New Year's.As we know, Dynamic-link library(DLL) Side …