#8 Daily Tech: The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
When golf tournaments promise big cash prizes for holes-in-one, they turn to niche insurers to protect against a stroke of luck.
Army of seed-firing drones will plant 100 million trees by 2024
Meet the company using drones to combat biodiversity loss.
Sci-fi virtual world EVE Online is getting Microsoft Excel support
At its annual EVE Online fanfest event, developer CCP Games announced a number of new features for the sci-fi MMO, including support for Microsoft Excel.
Unix command line conventions over time
This blog post documents my understanding of how the conventions for Unix command line syntax have evolved over time. It’s not properly sourced, and may well be quite wrong. I’ve not been using Unix until 1989, so I wasn’t there for the early years. Maybe someone has written a proper essay on this, with citations. I’m too lazy to dig them up.
How To Build an Absurdly Backwards Compatible Website
It feels like so much of the web is composed of clickbait, ads, popups, and a toxic amount of JavaScript that you need a modern computer just to get any value out of it. Remember when low-power computers were created for people who were "just browsing the internet?"
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