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Quick question: how did you learn to code? It probably wasn’t bribing someone a year or two ahead of you in CS to finish all ...

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...

It’s well known that the difference in executable size between a compiled binary and one hand-written in optimized assembler ...

Even if you’re not normally interested in what’s happening in low Earth orbit, you probably heard that last week NASA ordered ...

In that awkward transition phase between electromechanical accounting systems used in the 1940s and the introduction of fully ...

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One of the fun aspects of astrophysics is that much of it involves phenomena which you cannot exactly study from up close, ...