It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

[Kert Gartner]’s ASCII Aquarium turns a cheap yellow display (CYD) into a tiny simulated aquarium, complete with ASCII sea creatures each with their own behaviors. There’s all kinds of options and ...

In 2024, Y Combinator’s Paul Graham wrote that Silicon Valley leaders must directly impose their vision on employees—a style of leadership he called “founder mode.” His essay attracted 20 million ...

Ever opened a file and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? That’s usually an encoding problem; your software isn’t reading the data correctly. The good news is that Microsoft Office makes it easy to ...

Character.AI announced on Tuesday that it’s launching “Stories,” a new format that allows users to create interactive fiction that features their favorite characters. The feature comes as an ...

Last month, AI companion platform Character.AI announced it would ban users under the age of 18 from having open-ended chats with its bots. The ban begins November 24 and will still allow teens to ...

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This issue is found when I copied a URL from bilibili like this: https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ep2056270?season_id=33378&season_type=1&aid=115037830122534 ...

A team of scientists has unveiled how the hippocampus orchestrates multiple memory processes, including encoding new information, forming memories, and retrieving them. A team of scientists from the ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...