“It relativizes the absolute, it does not absolutize the relative.” The “it” Joseph Fletcher references in his 1966 Situation Ethics: The New Morality is self-giving love (agape in Greek). Fletcher ...

What is consciousness? Is it like a computer in our heads? Some cognitive scientists think so but others, like Berkeley neuroscientist Terrence Deacon, say it’s more like a programmer than a computer.

While trying out the pyrefly vscode extension I noticed that it does not display squiggly lines for type errors in the workspace I am working on. All other features (inlay hints, suggestions, etc.) ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a reviewer covering laptops and the occasional gadget. He spent over 15 years in the photography industry ...

The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2025-8088 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has been ...

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Given the latest market run, I am getting a lot of questions about chasing returns and individuals comparing themselves to the S&P 500 index. The flaw of human nature is that whatever we have is ...

Cryogenic quantum control platform developed at the University of Sydney. Presented in research in Nature, led by Professor David Reilly. Credit: University of Sydney Developing technology that allows ...

A 2% decline in FVC or DLco significantly increases the risk of death or lung transplant in IPF patients, challenging current clinical thresholds. The study suggests that smaller declines in lung ...

When trying to obtain a parent of a directory (e.g. by concatenating a directory with ../), get_current_dir() returns a relative and not an absolute path, which is in contradiction to the ...