20 mechanical principles explained with LEGO
Maybe if they had this at college, I’d have enjoyed mechanics and physics more.
Magnetic-core memory from Soviet Russia
You no randomly access memory, memory randomly access you!
Pure Virtual C++: a free one-day virtual conference for the C++ community
Shout out to Sy’s awesome shirt!
Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh and NeXT system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a web browser.
Dentists debunking dental delusions
TEETH TEETH TEETH!
When life gives you hard drives, make a variable speed sander
Bzzzzzzzz.
LLMs + DNA = OMG?
What could possibly go wrong?
Dr Christina Madison answering pharmacology questions for WIRED's Tech Support
Pharmacists are more than just pill dispensers
Now you can run Windows 95 in an Electron app
Old vibes on newer tech. Can’t beat it.
Fuck Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-autism ableist bullshit
Trash opinions everywhere you look.
Calculating Empires uproots 5 centuries of modern technology and world history
A sociopolitical technological map to the past.
Zugunruhe
“Let me out!” in bird form.
The Extremely Large Telescope
TIL: the European Southern Observatory (ESO) agency is building a telescope in Chile called The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Accurate name is accurate.
The Manchester Baby: a pioneering post-war computer
Clever baby!
Restoring an engine in Afghanistan
Man hands make light work.
Google’s John Mueller likes to experiment and last month, he embedded a robots.txt file into an audio file. What’s more, it’s valid as both a robots.txt file for search engines and an audio file for… listening. And OpenAI can ignore both!
Article Performance Leaderboard: a showcase of news sites and their varying page speeds
Might as well buy a physical paper with some of these scores.
For Quanta, Solomon Adams wrote about Karl Weierstrass and his controversial influence on calculus thanks to a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ‘deplorable evil.’
Tam Tam: the cutest baby pygmy hippo in Japan
What a cutie!
Google is really shoehorning Gemini into all of its products. Almost as if they want to increase user adoption figures by plastering it everywhere. Not very organic of them.