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Disney has made the decision to stop releasing its movies and TV shows on physical media formats in Australia. This means that DVD, Blu-rays, and 4K Blu-ray discs will no longer be available for purchase from the House of Mouse in the country. Instead, Disney will focus on digital releases and its Disney+ streaming service. […]
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Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and MIT have developed a supercapacitor using only cement, water, and carbon black. This supercapacitor provides an alternative energy storage solution to batteries, which are costly and harmful to the environment. The team used cement as the base for the supercapacitor’s electrodes, creating a charge difference […]
The author expresses frustration with the trend of building websites and apps that deviate from normal web functionality. They highlight the prevalence of JavaScript-driven developments and the neglect of basic accessibility requirements. The author points out several aspects they wish were allowed in web projects, such as the ability to copy text, navigate links traditionally, […]
I regret to inform you that Bram Moolenaar, the esteemed contributor to the VIM community, has tragically passed away on August 3, 2023. Bram had been battling a rapidly progressing medical condition in recent weeks. Throughout his life, Bram devoted immense time and effort to the development of VIM, and he took great pride in […]
The author begins by stating that while theories like quantum mechanics and general relativity violate our expectations of causation and determinism, Newtonian mechanics is presumed to only violate these expectations in extreme circumstances. However, the author argues that even simple Newtonian systems can exhibit uncaused events and events for which probabilities cannot be determined. They […]
In this web content, the author explores the limitations of current AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs), in terms of their ability to think scientifically and exhibit true intelligence. The author highlights the danger of humans easily believing fallacies and compares this to the phenomenon of “cargo cult science.” The author also discusses the […]
ImPlot is a plotting library designed to work seamlessly with Dear ImGui, offering ImGui users a high-quality API. It is optimized for real-time data visualization and interactive plots, with minimal code integration required. ImPlot shares the same principles as ImGui, avoiding GUI state management and external dependencies. It supports a wide range of plot types, […]
This web content discusses the devastating impact of aerial bombings during World War II, particularly focusing on the destruction of the German city of Hamburg. The author highlights the significance of the Hamburg bombing as a precursor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The article also explores the role of strategic bombing as […]
In this web content, the author discusses the concept of reading and writing to the same register in a single-cycle processor. They explain that while software engineers often think of events as happening sequentially, hardware actually operates in a continuous manner. The fastest memory in a processor is the register file, which controls reading and […]
In the Harz mountains of northern Germany, there is a tiny bark-eating pest called the “book printer” beetle that has been causing significant damage to the local spruce forests. These beetles typically kill a few spruces each summer as they lay their eggs in the tree’s cambium layer, but in recent years, they have caused […]