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After last year’s Tesla Battery Day presentation and the flurry of information that came out of it, [The Limiting Factor] spent many months researching the countless topics behind Tesla’s announced …read more Continue reading Lithium Mine To Battery Line: Tesla Battery Day And The Future Of EVs
At their core, package repositories sound like a dream: with a simple command one gains access to countless pieces of software, libraries and more to make using an operating system …read more Continue reading The Dark Side Of Package Repositories: Ownership Drama And Malware
Display Data Channel (DDC) is a very useful feature of modern digital displays, as it allows the graphics card (and thus the OS) to communicate with a display and control …read more Continue reading Controlling External Monitors On M1 Macs With Undocumented APIs
Earlier this month, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced to the world that they had achieved a record 1.3 MJ yield from a fusion experiment at their National Ignition Facility …read more Continue reading Fusion Ignition: What Does The NIF’s 1.3 MJ Yield Mean For Fusion Research?
After decades in development, the Philippines became the first country on July 21st of this year to formally approve the commercial propagation of so-called golden rice. This is a rice …read more Continue reading Golden Rice’s Appearance On Philippine Store Shelves And The Rise Of Biofortification
Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, Earth would gain its first atmosphere, yet this was an atmosphere that was completely unlike the atmosphere we know today. Today’s oxygen-rich atmosphere we’re familiar …read more Continue reading Figuring Out Earth’s Past Climate Through Paleoclimatology And Its Lessons For Today
In late June of 2021, GitHub launched a ‘technical preview’ of what they termed GitHub Copilot, described as an ‘AI pair programmer which helps you write better code’. Quite predictably, …read more Continue reading GitHub Copilot And The Unfulfilled Promises Of An Artificial Intelligence Future
Amidst the recent news about the Hubble Space Telescope’s troubles (and triumphant resurrection), it is sometimes easy to forget that although Hubble is a pretty unique telescope, it is just …read more Continue reading More Than Just Hubble: the Space Observatories Filling The Skies Today And Tomorrow
Before the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic took hold, few people were aware of the existence of mRNA vaccines. Yet after months of vaccinations from Moderna and BioNTech and clear indications of robust …read more Continue reading RNA Therapeutics And Fighting Diseases By Working With The Immune System
When writing code for a new hardware platform, the last thing you want to do is bother with the minutiae of I/O routines, string handling and other similarly tedious details …read more Continue reading The Newlib Embedded C Standard Library And How To Use It