When I visited London last month, a large marketing push was underway for the paperback edition of Chris van Tulleken’s UK bestseller, Ultra-Processed People: Why ... Read more| Cal Newport
IP address of downloads offers crumb trail to orgs who should be ready for Big Red, says licensing expert| www.theregister.com
The recent innovations in the AI space, most notably those such as GPT-4, obviously have far-reaching implications for society, ranging from the utopian eliminating of drudgery, to the dystopian damage to the livelihood of artists in a capitalist society, to existential threats to humanity itself.| ludic.mataroa.blog
For better or worse, depending on your perspective, JSON has become a dominant data format and shows no signs of being replaced any time soon. There are good reasons for that: on the face of it, it…| Neil Madden
tl;dr: After having explained how to read box plots to thousands of workshop participants, I now believe that they’re poorly conceived (box plots, not...| Nightingale
The fact that we can’t remove essential complexity with a software redesign doesn’t mean that there’s nothing we can do about it. What if the problem definition wasn’t outside of our purview? What if we could get the world to conform to the software, and not just the other way around?| olano.dev
How to sabotage software productivity, in the style of CIA| Erik Bernhardsson
I just love it when random conversations on Mastodon result in a “Huh, I didn’t know that”-moment. The other day I had one such moment about the Python programming language. I’ve been writing Python code for the last 17 years, and quite a lot of it the last 7 years since it is now more or less my full time job. While I still learn things all the time about the language, I’ve started to get more curious about its quirks and surprises.| Veronica Writes
When To Write a Simulator| sirupsen.com
Just like the only numbers programmers care about are zero, one, infinity, the only frequencies we care about are Never, Sometimes and Always.| Luke Plant's home page
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.| ProPublica
Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)| mywiki.wooledge.org
How to efficiently version control FreeCAD files using git| blog.lambda.cx
