How many watts does a sleeping laptop draw?

May 08, 2026

What are those four-letter codes for birds in North America?

Oct 13, 2025

ChatGPT doesn’t know where you left your keys

Sep 09, 2025

A selective introduction to USB cables

Sep 04, 2025

What is the retrobrite chemical reaction?

Jan 19, 2020

Drafty windows and the knapsack problem

Mar 11, 2019

Performance impact of KDE’s recently used files tracking

Oct 11, 2018

Requiem for Shutter, a Linux screenshot application

Oct 09, 2018

An undocumented argument in Python’s locale.atof function

Feb 13, 2018

Entropy of 22-digit USPS tracking numbers

Sep 05, 2017

Coralling Chrome on Debian 9 (stretch)

Aug 31, 2017

fdatasync makes update-mime-database too slow

Feb 20, 2017

Proofs are clean, but proof-writing is messy

Jul 29, 2016

OpenSCAD is not a good programming language

Jul 05, 2016

Depiction of torture in Netflix’s Daredevil: what’s wrong with this picture?

May 19, 2016

I miss favicons in the Firefox search bar

Nov 06, 2015

Curvature of the earth in cm per km

Mar 16, 2015

Heat capacity of The One Ring

Dec 01, 2014

Why didn’t Neal Stephenson’s CLANG game go open source?

Oct 02, 2014

Visual acuity, diffraction, and elven vision in The Two Towers

Aug 25, 2014

The best gnuplot script extension

Jun 26, 2014

Counting the handwritten symbols in math notation used by physicists

Dec 14, 2012