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In my 15+ years of web development, there are very few things I can say are unequivocally a good idea. It almost always does depend. Storing timestamps instead of booleans, however, is one of those things I can go out on a limb and say it doesn’t really depend all that much. You might as well timestamp it |> Changelog

Unless you’ve been on a silent retreat for the past year, you will have almost certainly heard the rumours – that the pandemic is an elaborate hoax, or that the virus was created as a Chinese weapon, or that dangerous elites are trying to kill off the elderly and to establish a new world order, It's only fake-believe: how to deal with a conspiracy theorist | Society |

In the Palatine museum in Rome there is a collection of ancient graffiti etched on slabs of marble and limestone that once defaced the walls of palaces and public buildings across the Roman Empire. Among these is one that historians call “Alexamenos graffito”. The Earliest Depiction of Jesus Was a Mocking Tribute to Christianity | Amu

Taps-Aff (Scots Vernacular) Literally "tops off." The removing of one's shirt in the event of warm weather, a phenomenon rarely seen in Glasgow. Now an expression describing good times being had.1 Antonym: Taps-Oan, "tops on". Current Weather: Awright (Mostly Cloudy) Temperature: 7°C (45°F) Glasgow, Taps-Aff or Taps-Oan?

Back in those days, the Vietnam war is on the forefront of the news, TCP/IP didn’t exist yet, Jimmy Hendrix died 6 months ago, telnet was the new cool kid and some of the most influential rock n roll artists were about to release masterpieces while FTP was using a network protocol called NCP. FTP is 50 years old

Rachel Levin is a San Francisco–based journalist who has written for , , , and , where she was the first San Francisco restaurant critic. She is the author of , , and . Spun-out Teslas on snowy roads. Cabins bought for cash, sight unseen. A shoveling disaster. When the Techies Took Over Tahoe | Outside Online

China released its 14th Five-Year plan for economic development last month, including its intended next steps in technology. China’s Dystopian “New IP" Plan Shows Need for Renewed US Commitment to Int

Vader: „Hoe krijg ik mijn 13- jarige en 17-jarige dochter aan het lezen? De oudste leest momenteel een boek maar daar doet ze al zeker een paar weken over. Ze leest weinig en onregelmatig. De jongste heb ik al maanden geen boek meer zien lezen. Hoe krijg ik mijn dochters aan het lezen? - NRC

Here’s the thing about us Finns: we haven’t traditionally been very good at branding. In fact, seeing the brand-led global success stories originating from Sweden (IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Skype, Absolut Vodka, ABBA, Stieg Larsson, etc.), we’ve been overcome with jealousy. The Paris Review - How Finland Rebranded Itself as a Literary Country - The

Sixty years ago, a man went into space for the very first time. For the USSR, Yuri Gagarin’s single orbit of the Earth was a huge achievement and propaganda coup. There will be celebrations across Russia to mark the anniversary. Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space - BBC News

Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC. A wireless brain-computer interface has been successfully tested on humans

I used to be a Google engineer. That often feels like the defining fact about my life. When I joined the company after college in 2015, it was at the start of a multiyear reign atop Forbes’s list of best workplaces. I bought into the Google dream completely. Opinion | After Working at Google, I’ll Never Let Myself Love a Job Again -

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics. Programmers normally want to minimize the time their code takes to execute. The Busy Beaver Game Illuminates the Fundamental Limits of Math | Quanta Ma

Lol, just kidding, we're about a third of the way. Keep scrolling though, there's more to see. Even the fortunes of very rich people are dwarfed by the incomprehensible wealth of the 0.0001%. Wealth, shown to scale

Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do terrorism and nuclear proliferation. The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands

They may have evolved by playing fast and free with genetic code. In 2008 the staff at Sea Star Aquarium in Coburg, Germany, had a mystery on their hands. Two mornings in a row, they had arrived at work to find the aquarium eerily silent: the entire electrical system had shorted out. How the octopus got its smarts - Cosmos Magazine

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