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Gitless is a Git-compatible version control system that allows you to easily track and commit changes. The system uses a simple commit workflow, allowing you to track or untrack files, and commits changes by default. Gitless also allows for independent branches, which include working changes so you can switch between branches without worrying about conflicting […]
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Japanese startup Komham Inc. has developed a technology that uses microorganisms to decompose organic waste, making it accessible for people to contribute to environmental protection. The company, based in Sapporo, supplies bacteria that can convert 98% of organic waste into water and carbon dioxide in just 24 hours, eliminating the need for composting. Komham’s smartcompost […]
The ampersand symbol (&) is now primarily used in business names, but it was once the 27th letter of the alphabet. Its name actually came from a bizarre origin story from the early 1800s when school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the symbol. The students would confuse the phrase “X, Y, Z, and,” […]
This post continues the investigation into the origin of U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW, a character in the Unicode standard. The character was taken from the STIX project, which compiled character tables from many sources including ISO/IEC TR 9573-13. The origin of this technical report for SGML was traced to Anders Berglund, […]
Performance Optimizer Observation Platform, or POOP for short, is a command-line tool that compares the performance of multiple commands using Linux’s perf_event_open functionality with a colorful terminal user interface. It reports peak memory usage as well as five other hardware counters, thus giving users useful insights when doing performance testing. Although Poop is a new […]
Hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal that uses color to distinguish different types of bytes. The color scheme is taken from the Ubuntu terminal color scheme, so it may look different in your terminal. Hexyl can be installed on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Void Linux, Gentoo Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Termux, Nix, […]
Human activities such as pumping groundwater can alter the tilt of the Earth, according to scientists. Water, which was pumped from 1993 to 2010 and flowed to farms and cities and then into the sea, caused sea levels to increase by one quarter of an inch, previous research found. A new study compared changes in […]
Pricing Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures and Swaps, is a book written by J. D. A. Wiseman in 2001 and published by Wiley, which has now returned the copyright to the author. The book covers the basics of interest rate trading, including deposits, government bonds, futures, swaps, options, and foreign exchange. Wiseman […]
The bcachefs filesystem may finally be getting ready for inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel after creator Kent Overstreet talked about the process of getting it upstream. He opened his talk at the 2023 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit by declaring that the project is finally ready for merging into the Linux kernel. […]
Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers that exposed the deceitful actions of the U.S. government during the Vietnam War, has died at the age of 92. The Pentagon Papers, which detailed deceptions by successive presidents, bypassing Congress and misleading the American people, led to illegal countermeasures by the White House and […]