Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I return to a perennial subject for me: attention and its moral dimensions. Because I do come back to

Share with your friends! XThreadsRedditEmail The OWC Express 1M2 is a bus-powered portable USB4 SSD, available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB capacities or as an empty housing for installing your NVMe SSD.

Although Steve Jobs remains a complicated figure for many who knew him best, nearly everyone agrees that the successful inventor and businessman was a legendary visionary. Jobs was on the ground floor

Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is a method that uses randomness and probability to predict outcomes. To help you understand this better, let’s break down the name and the concept: Why “Monte Carlo”? Thi

It is with great sadness that I find myself penning the hardest news post I’ve ever needed to write here at AnandTech. After over 27 years of covering the wide – and wild – word of computing hardware,

A few days into making One Million Checkboxes I thought I’d been hacked. What was that doing in my database? A few hours later I was tearing up, proud of some brilliant teens. But let’s back up. Note

20 January 2023 Rupert Wingfield-HayesTokyo correspondent Jiro Akiba/ BBC Japan's economy, the world's third-largest, has been stagnant for years In Japan, houses are like cars. As soon as you move in

After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to

Back in college, I learned about circuits in a physics class. I learned about boolean algebra in a math class; binary code in a programming class; logic gates and CPU architecture in an electronics cl

So… What Happened? Today is my birthday—for the 65th time. Five years ago, on my 60th birthday, I did a livestream where I talked about some of my plans. So… what happened? Well, what happened was gre

Photo: Phil Askey Clearly late August was traditionally considered a good time to launch a new camera, given we're able to mark the anniversary of a third historic announcement in the same week. As pa

A few months back, I reviewed the new Peak Design Coyote Colorway straps. They have now released a raft of new gear in the same color but with some improvements to the build. Let me introduce you to t

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TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on average your discernment is terrible, relative to

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Stuart Franklin An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 s

Stop for a second and think about the Internet without digital images or video. There would be no faces on Facebook. Instagram and TikTok probably wouldn’t exist. Those Zoom meetings that took the pla

If you’ve ever remotely connected to any UNIX-like server, you have likely used SSH, short for “Secure Shell”. SSH provides, as the name implies, secure shell access to remote machines and is used pre

What we would today call cash assistance for the differently abled could in a different era permissibly have been called welfare for cripples. The terms welfare and crippled sound somewhere between lo

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR The Pixel Recorder app on the Google Pixel 9 can summarize transcripts of recordings that are over half an hour in length. In contrast, the same app on the Goo

Soniya Jobanputra, a Pixel product manager, told the Financial Express that the phones' Tensor processors are not designed "for speeds and feats" or to "beat some specific benchmark that's out there.

Top highlight You're reading for free via The Medium Newsletter's Friend Link. Upgrade to access the best of Medium. 12 min read· Aug 12, 2024 Last week, I took my younger daughter, a rising senior, o

That Lingering ‘Meh’ Feeling Has a Name Persistent depressive disorder is underdiagnosed, and many who suffer from it have never heard of it. Credit...Dadu Shin By Dec. 4, 2023 Leer en español By the

In 2001, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, published an article in Scientific American. Berners-Lee, along with two other researchers, Ora Lassila and James Hendler, wanted to give the

Naomi isn’t a terribly unusual name. There’s Naomi Watts. Naomi Campbell. Naomi Judd. There’s even a Naomi Biden—the president’s granddaughter. But it’s just unusual enough for the two most prominent

The 9 Pro comes in big and bigger this time around. Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Google finally got the hardware right. The Pixel 9 Pro, its bigger Pro XL sibling, and the standard Pixel 9 look

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by GitHub Today, I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code — everyone from solo open-source hobbyists to the b

What would a book of philosophy contain if it were written by a dog? Dogs are natural philosophers, and I am convinced they can answer some important questions for us – about life, what is important i

Enlarge / The 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with the official fan and heatsink installed. Andrew Cunningham We're many months past the worst of the Raspberry Pi shortages, and the board is finally widely availab

2024-08-19 #software #web There’s a lot to be frustrated about contemporary software and the modern web. (If you are a software user and you are not frustrated, you can safely skip this article). Ther

Enlarge / If you've formatted a disk in Windows in the last 30 years, you may have come across this dialog box. Andrew Cunningham As we wait for this fall's Windows 11 24H2 update to be released to th

Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly

It should be clear to everyone that the Google documentation leak and the public documents from antitrust hearings do not really tell us exactly how the rankings work. The structure of organic search