Photo by Craig Marolf Few trends have been worse for the environment than the dramatic growth of the SUV market in recent decades. Between 2010 and 2020, 65 million new SUVs hit the roads in America.
Here’s a little parable for your Sunday morning. There once was a man who loved rock and roll music. Because he loved rock and roll music, he loved the guitar, which is the most prominent instrument i
Since writing about Mac external displays in 2016, not much has changed. LG, Dell, Samsung, and other display makers have either never catered for the specs many Mac designers and developers want, or
Photo: Artwork by Ayatgali Tuleubek In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the largest digital ad-f
from Gifer I’ve long admired the idealism of many members, and leaders, of the Green Party in America. Like their allies across the world, the Greens have consistently pushed for the most important su
The Mobile Performance Inequality Gap, 2021 An update on phones, networks, browsers, and the new baseline scenario for web performance. March 7, 2021 This is part three of the five-part series "The Pe
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Magazine The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, believe it or not, Robert Caro is to blame. Illus
Published 3 April 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Columbia Cruise Services Image caption, The RCGS Resolute, currently in Curaçao, sustained minor damage to its bow A Venezuelan navy coast
[Discuss this article and read other’s comments on the subject on this thread on Hacker News. ] The three fundamental building blocks of computers, CPU, I/O and RAM can come under pressure due to cont
Have you ever legalized marijuana? Over the holidays I read a neat book called , by Dan Ariely. The book is a fascinating glimpse into several bizarre and unfortunate bugs in our mental software. Thes
Apple's Technology Transitions posted on 3 Dec 2019 The computer industry can often move fast, with new technologies coming and going with dizzying speeds. Some lucky technologies are well thought out
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Nearly two decades before Boeing’s MCAS system crashed two of the plane-maker’s brand-new 737 MAX jets, Stan Sorscher knew his company’s increasingly toxic mode of operating would create a disaster of
Jennifer Blakely Aug 28, 2019 · 6 min read The #MeToo Movement has been the beginning of a sea change for women, exposing the double standard b e tween women and men in the workplace oftentimes result
2.1k Posted by 2 years ago Archived 2 Remember to REJECT ARBITRATION To the people that have been getting approved for the new Apple Card, you should reject the arbitration provision. The following is
Keith Mosher Jul 29, 2019 · 14 min read Filing stamp from a recently proposed ballot measure Foreword A few years back, I was trying to follow some political news about some ballot measures that were
I n two essays, “Illness as Metaphor” in 1978 and “AIDS and Its Metaphors” in 1988, the critic Susan Sontag observed that you can learn a lot about a society from the metaphors it uses to describe dis
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07.06. 2015 Connoisseurs of disaster know that the official map of seismic hazards in the United States paints a fat red bull’s-eye in the middle of the country, right where Missouri dovetails into Ar
The lacy-leafed tomato vine is the poster plant of hobby gardening—it thrives just as happily in a coffee can wired to the slats of a fire escape as it does in a loamy country plot, and its rewards, both vegetable and spiritual, are bounteous. Nothing says summer quite like biting into a juicy,…
May 1, 2019 A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to
The IBM System/360 was a groundbreaking family of mainframe computers announced on April 7, 1964.Designing the System/360 was an extremely risky "bet-the-company" project for IBM, costing over $5 bill
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Warning: spoilers ahead for season 1 of Star Trek: Discovery, and for the season 2 premiere episode, “Brother.” When Star Trek: Discovery returned for its second season last week, it came with an insurance plan and a risk. First, the premiere episode, “Brother,” welcomed Christopher Pike (Anson…
Let me describe what I hear as I sit in a coffee shop writing this article. It’s late morning on a Saturday, between the breakfast and lunch rushes. People talk in hushed voices at tables. The staff m
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Alexis Beingessner This is the third entry in a series on implementing collections in the Rust programming language. The full list of entries can be found here . In my previous two posts I talked a lo
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A straw is a simple thing. It’s a tube, a conveyance mechanism for liquid. The defining characteristic of the straw is the emptiness inside it. This is the stuff of tragedy, and America. Over the last
&Notepad Idioms of Dynamic Languages Will Crichton — July 1, 2018 Programmers think dynamic languages like Python are easier to use than static ones, but why? I look at uniquely dynamic programming id
Options v. cash I often talk to startups that claim that their compensation package has a higher expected value than the equivalent package at a place like Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Snapchat. One
On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-power
Take the following code: a = 1 a = a + 1 print (a) A common FP critique of imperative programming goes like this: “How can a = a + 1 ? That’s like saying 1 = 2 . Mutable assignment makes no sense.” Th
KUWAIT CITY — There are times when the sheer ignorance and ingratitude of the American public makes you sick. This week marks the 150 th anniversary of Sherman’s March from Atlanta to the Sea, which s
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. That last part—antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism— bears repeating. Let me explain. The meteoric rise of White n
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