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A team of specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico recently presented the discovery of three new Aztec codices, known as the Codices of San Andrés Tetepilco. This is a significant and exciting find, shedding light on the history of the Culhuacan polity. The newly discovered codices contain valuable information about […]
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When you face an outage due to a performance issue, you can’t afford to waste time installing diagnostic tools. Here’s a list of essential “crisis tools” to install on your Linux servers by default, along with the corresponding package names. Including tools for basic stats, system logs, device info, network analysis, CPU details, and more, […]
The rare condition prosopometamorphopsia (PMO) causes facial distortions, with one patient experiencing only in-person distortions, not on screens. A new Dartmouth study published in The Lancet accurately visualizes these distortions. Lead author Antônio Mello highlights the struggle of PMO patients being misdiagnosed with psychiatric disorders like schizophrenia, leading to mistreatment. The study aims to increase […]
Industrial design student Cheng Chang created a robotic tail for astronauts in zero-gravity environments. The Augmented Limb for Zero-Gravity Movement Control automatically anchors and stabilizes the user’s position inside a space station. The limb, inspired by a snake hunting its prey, has been upgraded 12 times to ensure optimal performance. The limb consists of a […]
In early 1982, the Lisa software team aimed to measure engineer progress through lines of code. Bill Atkinson, the main implementer, disagreed with this metric, believing in writing efficient code over quantity. He optimized Quickdraw, making it six times faster and saving 2,000 lines of code. When asked to report his lines of code, he […]
FXYT is a tiny canvas colouring language with 36 simple stack-based commands. By evaluating input code for each cell of a 256×256 canvas, FXYT determines the color of each cell. Inspired by Martin Kleppe’s Tixy project, FXYT offers its own language and a larger canvas size. Users can experiment by writing their own code, with […]
In his book, ‘Feel-Good Productivity,’ Ali Abdaal explores the idea that mind-wandering and doing nothing can actually result in increased productivity. He discusses the power of the brain’s default mode network, which activates during moments of mindless recharging. Abdaal suggests actively scheduling time for ‘nothingness’ in our lives to allow for creative solutions to emerge. […]
Zhang Chunyuan came from a rural background and joined the Chinese Communist Party in search of a better life. Disillusioned by the lack of resources and poor teaching at Lanzhou University, he became a key figure in a group of exiled students in Tianshui. They created a journal called Spark, aiming to challenge the oppressive […]
Bertie is a minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in a subset of Rust called hacspec. It is purely functional, verification-friendly, and designed to be succinct and minimal. Authored by Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Bertie is not yet ready for public use but offers an example HTTPS client and server for testing purposes. Working on Bertie […]
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