2023-04-04 podcast from New York Times Opinion | The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the World “We rarely think about chips, yet they’ve created the modern world,” writes the historian Chris Miller. He’s not exaggerating. Semiconductors don’t just power our phones and computers; they also enable our cars, planes and home appliances to function. They are essential to everything from developing advanced military equipment to training artificial intelligence systems. Chips are the foundation of modern economic prosperity, military strength and geopolitical power. But semiconductors are also part of one of the most concentrated supply chains of any technology today. |
2023-03-30 repo | docker/awesome-compose Awesome Docker Compose samples |
2023-03-30 podcast from BBC World Service | The bittersweet tale of cocoa Do you like cocoa? You are in good company: in South and Central America people have been enjoying the fruit of the cacao tree - the source of cocoa, chocolate and much else - for thousands of years. Ancient empires fought battles for the control of the best trees, cacao beans were used as currency, and being able to make a tasty cacao drink could even save your life. To trace the history of cacao in Latin America, Bridget Kendall is joined by archaeologist Cameron McNeil, chef and food historian Maricel Presilla and geneticist and cacao researcher Juan Carlos Motamayor. |
2023-03-29 repo | rougier/nano-emacs GNU Emacs / N Λ N O - Emacs made simple |
2023-03-23 podcast from Tim Ferriss | #662: David Deutsch and Naval Ravikant — The Fabric of Reality, The Importance of Disobedience, The Inevitability of Artificial General Intelligence, Finding Good Problems, Redefining Wealth, Foundations of True Knowledge, Harnessing Optimism, Quantum Computing, and More Brought to you by LinkedIn Jobs recruitment platform with 900M+ users, FreshBooks cloud-based small business accounting software, and Athletic Greens’s AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement. David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) is a visiting professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, a part of the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, and an honorary fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He works on fundamental issues in physics, particularly the quantum theory of computation and information and especially constructor theory, which he is proposing as a new way of formulating laws of nature. |
2023-03-15 link from John Gruber | ‘BlackBerry’ Trailer |
2023-03-05 repo | Haxxnet/Compose-Examples Various Docker Compose examples of selfhosted FOSS and proprietary projects. |
2022-08-19 podcast from WNYC Studios | 9-Volt Nirvana Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe. Back in the early 2010s, Sally Adee, then an editor at New Scientist Magazine, went to a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) conference and heard about a way to speed up learning with something called trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). |
2022-05-19 read | Art Dealers Lie. A Lot. It’s Part of the Business—and the Truth Is Nearly Impossible to Prove. But We Found Some Receipts | Artnet News |
2021-07-01 repo | TanStack/query 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for the web. TS/JS, React Query, Solid Query, Svelte Query and Vue Query. |