Stories by clockworksoul

Dr. Alice Ball (1892-1916)

Passing stars changed the orbits of planets in the solar system

Readme: A Curated List of READMEs

Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss anything

The Dogs That Live Longest, by a Nose

Researchers engineer bacteria that eat plastic, make multipurpose spider silk

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again

Omitting dev dependencies in Go binaries

The ancient history of 'forgotten crops'

Dave Mills, inventor of NTP, dies at 85

Migrations: The sole scalable fix to tech debt (2018)

The Opposite of Déjà Vu Is a Thing, and It's Even More Uncanny

Analysis of Six Distributed File Systems (2013) [pdf]

Those jobs you're applying to? They might not be real

Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5%

Why should you (or anyone) become an engineering manager?

The Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected

The fascinating history behind the 'waving lucky cat'

Study uncovers link between musical preferences and our inner moral compass

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