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For decades, we have been told that drugs are highly addictive due to a series of rat experimentations that placed one rat alone in a cage with two water bottles – one containing cocaine or heroin, and the other just water. However, Professor of Psychology in Vancouver, Bruce Alexander, believed that the rat experiments were […]
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Settling down by the sea, in a so-called “blue space,” has been linked to a 17% reduction in mortality rate. Researcher Wallace J. Nichols, who coined the term “blue mind theory,” stated that any engagement with water, even a creek, can offer a salve for our embattled brains. Nichols argues that temporary proximity to clean […]
Canonical s-expressions are a way to format s-expressions into data packets suitable for network transmissions. To get a canonical s-exp, it has to be converted into a tree of byte streams, which can then be easily transmitted in a stream. The unique aspect of writing a given s-expression is ensured by adding suffixes with the […]
The Dutch government is proposing changes to its intelligence and security services act, allowing automatic extension of warrants to hacking victims who are not the primary target. The legislation would make it possible for Dutch services to obtain permission to monitor a computer or communication, following a warrant for another hacker, without the need for […]
Mike Brixius is on a quest to finish his Commodore 64 CRPG, Digital Dungeon Master, which he started in 1984. Based on the Avalon Hill tabletop games and Telengard, the game boasted a limited line of sight and open-world inspired by Ultima IV. Brixius has kept all disks, tapes, notes, and hand-documented assembly code printouts […]
The author conducts a performance analysis of the Intel AVX-512 sort implementation, comparing it to other generic sort implementations, such as std::sort and vqsort. The analysis aims to put the popularized “10~17x” number into perspective and look at how hardware specific manual vectorization with wide AVX-512 SIMD is not the only way to write efficient […]
Seagate has given an update on its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, revealing that it will release its first commercial hard drive using this recording method in Q3 2023, with a capacity of 32 TB. The new recording technology will allow for a relatively swift upgrade to a 40 TB capacity. Seagate says high-capacity HAMR hard drives […]
The latest episode of Manhattan explores the controversial possibility that Jean Tatlock, the daughter of a notable professor, may have been murdered by intelligence agents who were working for Manhattan Project security. The idea of this could be seen as a crazy conspiracy theory by some, but investigative authors Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin have […]
In Part 1 of this two-part article, the author explores the history of Japanese convenience stores and how they differ from their American counterparts. With over 56,000 stores across 47 prefectures, Japanese convenience stores go beyond selling food, drinks, and alcohol, doubling as ATMs, book stores, and even Amazon pick up points. The author delves […]
Over 100 subreddits have gone dark in protest of the app’s coming API changes which would force many third-party apps to shut down. Thousands more are expected to follow, according to Reddark, which is tracking the protests. Demonstration is primarily focused on changes to the API, which will force third-party apps to shut down, and […]