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The Baochip is a new RISC-V microcontroller by Andrew “bunnie” Huang, comparable to the Raspberry Pi RP2350. It's a SoC (System-on-Chip) with 2 MiB SRAM, 4 MiB RRAM and with the evaluation board priced at $9.50. What makes it special is...
At 43, the retirement picture is quickly coming into focus and becoming less about accumulating an enormous pension and more about solving one specific problem: Build enough accessible capital to stop work sooner, before 58, then use...
Tokidoki, the boy/girl duo formed by Nora O’Conner and Peter Schaefer, first release came in 1996. I didn’t know that. I was always only aware of their 2000 self-titled album on Sunday Records. I guess I should do my homework and do a...
Sci-fi is great again. I enjoyed a lot the book Children Of Time.Rapid and out of control evolution is a rich field to explore. I hope the sequels are just as good.
As a gamer, specifically a console gamer, things are getting tough out there. Sure, it’s tough for PC players, too, in terms of the cost of maintaining and upgrading hardware, but we’re seeing in real-time the effects of the AI...
Jackie Coogan made Hollywood's first child star fortune and never got to spend a dime of it himself. Between 1923 and 1936 alone he earned just over three million dollars, with a few million more in property and contracts on top of that,...
A conversation with Jamir Jumoke on change, community, grace, and the work of becoming.Jamir Jumoke is a speaker, recovery coach, and community leader whose work spans reentry, harm reduction, workforce development, education, and youth...
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
As always, finishing all the notes during a trip is almost impossible, I don’t like completing the pending notes at home but even when I set it as a priority, it never happens.It was a great trip. I’d highlight Hong Kong, where I spent a...
There was a Fotomat in the parking lot of the Acme Supermarket in my hometown. It was still open when I was a kid but barely. That same supermarket started processing film as well and that took away a lot of it business. Still, it didn’t...
Nearly a decade ago I asked the question: when will the first American college or university charge more than $100,000 per year to attend? Today I’d like to revisit that question by checking on the subsequent reality. NB: I’ve been...
I can’t say that work is changing more in this decade than other decades. I can say two major forces have hit many workers in this decade and the impact of those forces have made work challenging for workers, to say the least. The first...
I never want to hear Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" again. No, I'll rephrase that: I don't need to hear Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" again. I'm done. I've heard every single variation on it, every version, a different chord arrangement,...
Good morning! Hello from Lake Michigan. I’m writing this from somewhere called South Beach (no, not that one): a dispatch from nowhere that somehow feels like everything. One of the best things about Portland was its proximity to the...
Filip Kostic is an artist based in Los Angeles.Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is a non-profit arts organization. You can help to support our work:Filip Kostic’s artist lecture, Content Collapse, performed at the Ujazdowski Castle...