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Communications of the ACM had a fascinating post about how NASA built Artemis II’s fault tolerant computer. 3 fascinating excerpts. (1) Eight modules with several back up scenarios: “Orion utilizes two Vehicle Management Computers, each...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! The Phantom,...
This is gonna sound old man and “back in my day” but I genuinely long for the days of brevity. I remember not that long ago when you’d read a post, doc, or pull request and it would be like a few sentences or paragraphs, and that would...
A couple degrees above freezing—the first clear morning in days. The sun blazing through the still mostly leafless oaks illuminates the dust on my glasses.
Stop Killing Games... Immediately!
I haven’t heard about Bubbles before, but one of the folks I’ve added recently to my feeds introduced me, indirectly. Seems very promising for us bloggers! I signed up (basically, all you need is a Mastodon account).
Back in August 2014 I took two days (Aug 8-9) to photograph every grain elevator in southwest Manitoba. Here’s part 1 and part 2 and part 3 and part 4. After taking a lot of time to take in Elva’s two grain elevators, I carried on to...
This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Hyde Stevenson, whose blog can be found at lazybea.rs. Tired of RSS? Read this in your browser or sign up for the newsletter. People and Blogs is supported by the "One a...
This series of blog posts may end up taking longer than the actual construction of the Equitable building, but I feel like it’s not often we get to see such thorough documentation of the construction technology of a moment in time. I’m...
1 May 2026 Marsupials are unusual mammals whose young are born in an undeveloped state and complete their development inside their mother’s pouch. Australia has many marsupials including kangaroos and koalas but north of Mexico, North...
Is AI more like a train or a hot air balloon? Veronica Paternolli and Ryan Calo asked at this year’s We Robot. Nineteenth-century hot air balloons were notoriously uncontrollable. The US legal system assigned strict liability: it was...