is antithetical to femininity. In 2014, the writer and bike advocate Elly Blueignited a Twitter firestormwhen she asked the question: “What does “feminine” mean? I’m serious. It keeps coming up in the context of things women can do to feel that way on a bike, + I’m confused...
What does alluvial mean? Where are alluvial fans commonly found? What is a floodplain? How are alluvial fans formed in deserts? What is a talus in geology? What is sedimentary facies? What is deposition in geology? What is an outcrop in geology? What is soil deposition? What is a sill ...
What Does Ikigai Mean? Put together, it means a motivating force; something that gives a person a sense of purpose or a reason for living. It's basically the feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment that follows pursuing your passions. While the concept has been around for centuries, it was...
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/31403 But what does "App not running" mean (besides the obvious)? Does it mean the silent push might take effect later (for example, be coalesced with silent pushes from other apps)? Or does it means that this particular silent push will be ignored?
I’m working on porting a Fortran CPU code to GPUs. Data parallelization on this particular code is challenging. The data structures are not regular, memory access can’t really be coalesced, and the “unit of work” is too …
The Moon that orbits our planet was created, so the theory goes that a large celestial object called Theia smashed into the Earth in the early Solar System. Debris from the smash coalesced and formed our planet as we know it today. The collision is reckoned to have been about 100 million...
In the world of product security and compliance, there’s no shortage of leadership, at least on the surface. But “leadership” doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing across individuals, companies or industries. Practically, what traits should a leade
With so much of our social interaction and music consumption taking place online, what role does our local environment or region still play in music-making practice? What is Local? Without getting too deep into the realms of academia, it would be useful to look at what we mean by locality...
Mixed in is the Black Hand, the early Italian crime rings not yet coalesced into the Mafia, labor unrest, the Pinkertons, and opposition to what would be called The Great War. All of this is presented in a fascinating and smooth way. “Infernal machine” was the early police term for ...
They coalesced into operating systems amounting to millions of lines of code—allowing us to more efficiently operate computers while allowing computers to more efficiently operate us. They learned how to divide into packets, traverse the network, correct any errors suffered along the way and ...