In September 2020, the skies in Oregon turned crimson as dozens of wildfires scorched forests in the Cascade Mountains. In just three days, the blazes engulfed nearly 4,000 square kilometres — more than had burnt in Oregon during the previous … Read more
Thirteen-year-old Andrew Alati began biking southbound across Hempstead Turnpike on the afternoon of June 30, 2019. A thunderstorm had just rolled through, but the sun was back out and all eight lanes gleamed in the light like bright teeth. Andrew … Read more
Hiawatha Playground, 1912. If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer as well. Thanks to state laws and personal injury lawyers, the landscape of the typical … Read more
[ 2016-August-16 20:42 ] The UNIX fork() system call seems like an elegant way to process tasks in parallel. It creates a copy of the current process, allowing tasks to read the same memory, without needing fine-grained synchronization. Unfortunately, you … Read more
[This fragment is available in an audio version.] A friend of mine pinged me online, said “Hey, remember that thing we were talking about doing a couple years ago? I still have one of the domain names, gonna let it … Read more
Ben Dickson 03 November 2021 at 15:02 UTC Updated: 03 November 2021 at 18:13 UTC ‘Chrome’s NTP only has a really weak CSP that doesn’t mitigate XSS’ The Chromium team has patched a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allowed attackers … Read more
I recently came across a perplexing crash in my unit tests that led me down a path of discovery, culminating in an awareness that “I was holding it wrong” when it comes to using NSLog in Swift. Here is the … Read more
In a late-2020 interview with CNBC, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn made a perplexing statement. “Climate change,” he said, “is not going to be an existential risk unless there’s a runaway scenario.” A “runaway scenario” would occur if crossing one or … Read more
[This is a transcript of the video embedded below.] [embedded content] On May twenty-third nineteen sixty-seven, the US Air Force almost started a war. It was during the most intense part of the Cold War. On that day, the American … Read more
Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late. An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item of value. Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual … Read more