Christopher Rufo, the conservative activist who led the charge in surfacing evidence of plagiarism against now-former President of Harvard University Claudine Gay, was born in 1984; he joined X in 2015. Harvard, meanwhile, is the oldest university in the United States — older than the United States, in fact — having been founded in 1636. […]
Global technology company OnePlus has announced that it has partnered with Pixelworks, the leading provider of visual processing solutions, to include the Pixelworks X7 Independent Visual Processor along with the company’s IRX gaming experience on the upcoming OnePlus 12. The inclusion of the X7 will enable the OnePlus 12 to give full play to OnePlus’ […]
In this article I take a custom GeoJSON file that defines some 20 custom locations – the office locations for the Conclusion ecosystem – and process it in the MapShaper tool in order to eventually present the locations on real world map in a DataWrapper visualization. MapShaper can be started with the contents of a […]
Stratechery is on holiday from December 25, 2023 to January 5, 2024; the next Stratechery Update will be on Monday, January 8. In addition, the next episode of Sharp Tech will be on Monday, January 8, the next episode of Dithering will be on Tuesday, January 9. Sharp China will also return the week of […]
Ah, gaming laptops. The pleasure of transporting a smaller gaming PC in your backpack or shoulder bag. Take it out whenever you want to pass the time while waiting for your vehicle’s oil to be changed or to create a few brief gaming clips from last night’s gaming session while having lunch at your favorite […]
As of Oracle database release update 19.18 a new authentication method was made available utilizing Azure AD (Entry ID as its named by Microsoft recently) Oauth tokens. Using this method has the advantage of centralized authentication and authorization management and improving password management at the database. This article will describe how to get started with […]
Ready Player One, the book that was issued to every new Oculus employee once upon a time, describes its world in a way that was perhaps edgy in 2011 but seems rather cliché today: “You’re probably wondering what happened before you got here. An awful lot of stuff, actually. Once we evolved into humans, things […]
Released about a year ago, the Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration retro classic game compilation is getting a free Holiday Content Update. Estimated reading time: 2 minutes In case you missed it, the Anniversary Celebration blends classic video games from eight Atari hardware platforms with videos which examine the start and growth of the company. […]
You probably know how this works: you start learning AWS, get a free tier account, work with it – play with it (yes, really, AWS is toys for adults). You start digging in AWS Organizations and AWS ControlTower and use some extra accounts. Write blogs about what you find – and before you know you […]
I have, as you might expect, authored several versions of this Article, both in my head and on the page, as the most extraordinary weekend of my career has unfolded. To briefly summarize: On Friday, then-CEO Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI by the board that governs the non-profit; then-President Greg Brockman was removed from […]
