Do you remember, some years ago, when that brand-new 8086-based laptop hit the shelves? Great for PC lovers, but not so fun for those on the fruitier side of the street. Well, the same Chinese ...

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While designing anything for operation in space has its challenges, there is at least one thing that is more of a problem for objects in Earth orbit than for deep-space probes: atomic oxygen. We ...

Although it can be hard to tell from looking at the often placid waters of the Earth’s oceans, their currents carry immense ...

The topic of downstream and upstream is an important one in the Linux ecosystem, where from one base distribution you can go ...

Although resistors are hardly among the most exciting components, they are arguably one of the most important ones, as anyone ...

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One simple screening tool for cognitive impairment is the clock-drawing test (CDT): the patient is provided with a printed ...

Dealing with text streams is a fundamental skill for the Linux power user. You can sort, merge, and search text files easily ...

The 2000s was a decade of great change in the computer industry. The world had grown accustomed to corruptible floppy disks, ...

Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might ...

In the long ago, pre-internet days when your clock project wasn’t an ESP32 getting its timing via NTP over WiFi, it was still ...