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Using data to prevent gun violence at schools.

Notes on using the Z3 constraint solver with the Clang Static Analyzer

Exploring how to fix optimistic concurrency failures and bugs in Lucene using Fray. We'll be making concurrency debugging less painful by using open-source tools.

Stratospheric IQs are like leprechauns, unicorns, or mermaids

Power testing a consumer continuous glucose monitor

This surely won't make me seem like a crank.
Further watching:

@HGModernism on addiction to scrolling and the Skinner box mechanism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOol5OTasw
@acollierastro on the AI hype cycle and how professionals understand there's…

A comprehensive list of things that grind the gears of most software engineer, especially the seniors

A Tetris implementation in PostScript. Contribute to nst/PSTris development by creating an account on GitHub.

Chinese car and battery manufacturer BYD apparently already produced its first solid-state cells last year. The source for this is not an anonymous informant,

A quick look at the physics of conductors, insulators, and electric charges.

The first of a series of envisioned blog posts on lambda calculus, and Lisp. It’s unclear exactly where to start: there is a whole heap of interesting issues, both theoretical and in terms of concrete implementations, which tangle and interconnect.
A particular…

Download updated editions of No One Lives Forever (NOLF), No One Lives Forever 2 (NOLF2), and Contract Jack for free. These editions include all of the latest official and community patches, widescreen resolution support for modern monitors, and no CD patches.…

The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify…