#Tech

This is an interesting article about US companies that have went out of business but are still thriving in Japan. But the real gem here is the explanation of why
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1/9 Sony seems prepared to do the full presentation of their PS5 console today on the #PS5Showcase event. We know how it looks, tech specifications, the new controller, some titles...
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Seen as it’s all over Twitter: How should SDLP/Labour/the Left respond to Corona1. The Left needs to decide who will pay for the crisis. It shouldn’t be on the backs
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“If people saw this, they would stay home.” Doctors invited @NickKristof inside two hard-hit New York hospitals to observe first-hand the fight against the coronavirus. https://nyti.ms/3aWLd2p  The best vantage to
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I have been working on pandemic outbreaks for 15 years.There is a misunderstanding of the difference between the response in much of the West, versus successful countries (including New Zealand
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Happy #NationalNumeracyDay everybody! And to celebrate let's look back at that mini-maths revolution of the 1970s: the pocket calculator! #WednesdayWisdom Compact electronic calculators had been around since the mid-1960s, although
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If Democrats so good at cheating, what have they been waiting for? Recently wrote a column about Dr. Robert Epstein, who gave a huge boost to the false "Democrat cheating
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Wow. This is damning.https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1321263064319217665 Btw I share this as a never trumper. But this just deepens my dissatisfaction w/ both choices in this election. getting a lot of negative reactions
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I've been a software engineer for 7 years, and the O(n) stuff has *literally never* come up in a significant way when talking about production code. Not even once.And yet
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1/ Why did I purchase a 24 x 24 pixel image yesterday for 140 ETH?!??! (a record in USD) 2/ The world is without a doubt moving more digital over
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Ok, I am about to go off on rich donors who fund media and how they kinda hide it and why you should know. For four years, I have been
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I finally watched the Social Dilemma because my students in the Social Media & Society course wanted to discuss it (we’re doing it for our last class). Short thread of
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Wu Yande: I was invited to record Tiantian. At that time, to be honest, I, a person who has been out of track with the times, really didn’t know who
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nice excuses herehttps://twitter.com/LiveOverflow/status/1265562734772584449 but it is clear that many recent challenges are not that realistic. the truth is that there are too many players who already know the solution to
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Dear Young PersonWe live in a time where Social Media is full of success stories of people in our Generation making big moves.It's worth celebrating.But at the same time, it
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Agree, and while folks have brought this up time and time again, a few CS Ethics folks (myself included) actually argue that in addition to this, ethics should be embedded
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