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[Link] Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
Russia has lost almost 500 tanks in its invasion of Ukraine, according to independent battlefield researchers at the open source intelligence group Oryx. According to Ukraine, the number is closer to 700.
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[Link] Coin Acceptors Are Higher-Tech Than You Think
Read: 13/4/2022 hackaday.com
Coin-operated machines have a longer history than you might think. Ancient temples used them to dispense, for example, holy water to the faithful in return for their coins. Old payphones rang a bell when you inserted a coin so the operator knew you paid.
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[Link] Negative RAT but still have Covid symptoms? Here’s what could be happening
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
You think you may have Covid, but after taking a RAT, you find that you are still negative despite exhibiting symptoms. What is going on? The good news is that you are not alone; many people have been reporting dubious test results. The bad news, well … you may actually have Covid.
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[Link] The Virtue Of Wires In The Age Of Wireless
Read: 10/4/2022 hackaday.com
We ran an article this week about RS-485, a noise resistant differential serial multidrop bus architecture. (Tell me where else you’re going to read articles like that!) I’ve had my fun with RS-485 in the past, and reading this piece reminded me of those days.
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[Link] Advice on How to Use Telegram Safely
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Russian police have started stopping people in the street and scrolling through messages stored on their phone, according to a video uploaded to social media.
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[Link] There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Non-Kinetic’ No-Fly Zone
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
On March 7, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich tweeted a thread of various Ukraine and defense updates.
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[Link] Copyright, What You Need To Know
Read: 6/2/2022 hackaday.com
Last week brought the story of a group of crypto enthusiasts who paid well over the going rate for a rare sci-fi book, then proposed encoding scans of all its pages in a blockchain before making and selling NFTs of them. To guarantee their rarity the book was then to be burned.
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[Link] What The Oracle turned out to be in the original Matrix movies
Read: 13/12/2021 www.polygon.com
Of all the characters seen throughout the original Matrix trilogy, few are as intriguing and consequential to the universe of the films than that of the Oracle.
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[Link] Why the chip shortage drags on and on… and on
Read: 30/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The semiconductor industry lives at the cutting edge of technological progress. So why can’t it churn out enough chips to keep the world moving?
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[Link] Tech In Plain Sight: Eyeglasses
Read: 16/11/2021 hackaday.com
Glasses wearers, try a little experiment. Take off your glasses and look at this page or, at least, at something you can’t see well without your glasses. Now imagine if you lived in a time where there was nothing to be done about your vision.
[Link] Scholars Cringe at the Term ‘Dark Ages.’ Dan Jones Explains Why.
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Those who write about medieval history often develop a keen awareness that the narrative is best told when it is made relatable to the modern reader.
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[Link] After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Victims are still dying from injuries after a fuel tanker burst into flames last week in Sierra Leone, a country that has no burn units.
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[Link] Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?
Read: 14/11/2021 stackoverflow.blog
Every time JavaScript goes through a major update, we seem to repeat the same cycle. At first, developers are delighted by the new features. They move back to coding directly in JavaScript, and frameworks become less popular.
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[Link] There will never be another Pokémon Go
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Creating a follow-up to Pokémon Go is an impossible task. The game was the kind of breakout success that had never been seen before — and might never happen again; it’s hard to overstate how the game was absolutely everywhere when it first launched in 2016.
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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] Deep dive into Node.js Architecture
Read: 7/11/2021 dev.to
In this article, we are going to deep dive into Node.js architecture and understand the asynchronous nature of Node.js. Let's dive into it.
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[Link] The Story Of The Copyright Symbol
Read: 7/11/2021 whatiscopyright.org
You might be familiar with this symbol ©; you might have seen it at the bottom of a song, or a document or a web page. This symbol represents that the article you are viewing, or listening to (depending on circumstance) is copyrighted.
[Link] These Companies Are Making Physical Goods Out of Thin Air
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
The Next 50 Years explores the technologies changing and improving our world. Lanzatech uses industrial facilities, bolted onto other infrastructure like steel mills and landfills, to collect these emissions and break them down into ethanol using bacteria.
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[Link] Linux Fu: Globs Vs Regexp
Read: 10/10/2021 hackaday.com
I once asked a software developer at work how many times we called fork() in our code. I’ll admit, it was a very large project, but I expected the answer to be — at most — two digits. The developer came back and read off some number from a piece of paper that was in the millions.
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[Link] ‘We’re going to hide it’: How Lilo & Stitch succeeded by staying off Disney’s radar
Read: 1/10/2021 www.polygon.com
Your favorite childhood movie might’ve been a total box-office dud. The animated movies that defined the late ‘90s and early 2000s are beloved by a generation that grew up watching them on VHS, but many of these nostalgic favorites were critical failures, box-office disappointments, or both.
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[Link] Why do the planets in the solar system orbit on the same plane?
Read: 1/10/2021 www.livescience.com
If you've ever gazed at a model of the solar system, you've likely noticed that the sun, planets, moons and asteroids sit roughly on the same plane. But why is that? To answer this question, we have to travel to the very beginning of the solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago.
[Link] Who is ISIS-K, the Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan that has the Taliban worried?
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deadly explosions have rocked the edge Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport overnight killing and injuring locals wanting to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, as well as US military personnel trying to help the evacuation effort.
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[Link] Operating as a company or a sole trader, how much choice do you have?
Read: 23/8/2021 www.smh.com.au
When a business is started there are many decisions to make. These include the type of business structure to use, whether to register for GST, and what is the best way to maximise tax deductions.
[Link] Who Needs Pin Headers?
Read: 13/8/2021 hackaday.com
[Martin] sent this query, along with the lead photo, into the tip line, and he makes a good point. Most development and evaluation boards have multiple rows of pin headers, often arriving loose in the package — soldering is left to the user.
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