In my opinion, one of the most important ideas in product design is to avoid the “nightmare bicycle”. Imagine a bicycle where the product manager said: “people don’t get math so we can’t have numbered gears. We need labeled buttons for gravel mode, downhill mode, …” This is the hypothetical “nightmare bicycle” that Andrea diSessa …
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Image: Baseus Power banks are the unsung heroes of our always-connected modern lives, and if you’re going to get one, you might as well purchase a model that can charge your phone, tablet, and laptop at once with ease. The Baseus Blade laptop power bank is perfect for that, especially now that it’s on sale. …
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Image: Samsung How fast is too fast for a monitor? If you ask Samsung, then 500 refreshes every second still isn’t too fast for PC gaming. That’s the speed of the latest OLED monitor panel the company is showing off in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2025. The 27-inch 1440p display is aimed right at …
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Billionaire Giancarlo Devasini of Tether wants to maintain the stablecoin’s freedoms; his rival, Jeremy Allaire of Circle, is working hard to rein in his competitor with regulations Read More
Writing your own TCP/IP stack may seem like a daunting task. Indeed, TCP has accumulated many specifications over its lifetime of more than thirty years. The core specification, however, is seemingly compact1 – the important parts being TCP header parsing, the state machine, congestion control and retransmission timeout computation. The most common layer 2 and …
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At first glance, Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) might appear to be a mere copy of the story of Lawrence of Arabia with some science-fictional window dressing. Several critics have pointed to the similarities between Lawrence and Paul Atreides—both are foreign figures who immerse themselves in a desert culture and help lead the locals to overthrow …
Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert’s Dune (2021) Read More »
Image: MSI You knew that Nvidia’s newest graphics cards wouldn’t be cheap, even if you could find one to buy. But between scalpers and tariffs, finding one at anything resembling Nvidia’s suggested retail price is all but impossible. MSI is doing its part to make sure it stays that way with an across-the-board price increase. …
MSI bumps prices for RTX 50-series cards — goodbye, MSRP Read More »
This year’s Academy Awards presentation went off without a hitch following some jaw-dropping meltdowns in recent years, but the same couldn’t be said for Hulu’s first-ever simulcast of the festivities. Hulu’s Oscars stream on Sunday was plagued with issues from the word go, with many would-be viewers unable to log in to Hulu just as …
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