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The CIA's Cold War Plan to Use Stray Cats as Spies
In the 1960s, the CIA made a failed attempt to use bugged cats as spies. Secret...
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Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy...
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Sensible Firefox Setup
I really wanted to do that Firefox guide earlier but always other things came up as...
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Strategic Mobilization and Potential Unrest in Russia, May 2024
This report analyzes a potentially burgeoning movement within Russian digital forums focused on organizing a nationwide...
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How to feed all the power-hungry AI data centers
As recently discussed on The Carbon Copy with Brian Janous, utilities are seeing major forecasted demand...
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Lemonade Stand
Introduction This was a fun nostalgia trip. But it ended up being an attempt to collect...
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How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/kg
At Terraform Industries we believe in a future where energy is universally cheap, clean, and abundant....
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Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer
Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction....
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Gemini Has a Problem
Google’s Gemini 1.5 is impressive and I am excited by its huge context window. I continue...
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Well Temperaments (Part 5)
Okay, let’s study Kirnberger’s three well-tempered tuning systems! I introduced them last time, but now I’ve...
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Start in the Middle (2010)
I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once. — John...
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Smart Terminals: Personal Computing's True Origin? – The History of How We Play
During the creation of Episode 6 of Play History, I launched deep into the subject of...
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Speak Friend and Enter – Do people use movie passwords? (2018)
Can you think of a famous password, such as one used in a book or a...
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Apple Vision Pro: What About Comic Books?
Obviously the Vision Pro isn’t the first VR/AR/whatever device, but it’s the first one that’s got...
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General purpose MCUs built in to LEDs emulate candle flicker
Years ago I spent some time analyzing Candle-Flicker LEDs that contain an integrated circuit to mimic...
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Speeding Slows You Down (By a Lot)
I often drive between Boston and New Haven. While on the road, I find myself pondering...
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Re-implementing an old DOS game in C++ 17
Back in 2016, I started a side project to reverse engineer the game Duke Nukem II...
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White space does matter in C23
Usually in C identifiers are not directly followed by strings. But when U prefixed literals were...
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Modern Misconceptions About Medieval Warfare
A Song of Ice and Fire and other “realistic” medieval fantasy works have been trying to...