TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on average your discernment is terrible, relative to what it could be. This is a … Read more
Software engineers like optimizing things. It’s easy to nerd snipe them with something that looks like a well defined optimization problem with a few variables and is actually a big complicated mess of badly defined and contradictory almost-facts. This means … Read more
Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time. — Anthony Vincenzo “Tony” Baretta Vim is an amazing text editor. I love it. Really, I wouldn’t organize a Vim advent calendar if I didn’t. But, as amazing as it … Read more
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 A few months ago it dawned on me that I didn’t really understand how computers work under the hood. I still don’t understand how modern computers work. However, after making my way through But How Do … Read more
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a number of large web hosting providers and domain registrars, … Read more
Or: Please Lucy, stop asking me to kick the football. Sorry for taking so long to write my next post. I have even more drafts, and at least one that is a long, rambling explanation for my long absence. It’s … Read more
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Use enums instead. With any blanket statements like this, there are always exceptions. Though in general, I believe the use of enums is often a better choice compared to boolean, unless you really need to squeeze your data into one … Read more
Image courtesy of UC Davis. Photographer: Don Edwards Just in time for cucumber season, some news that surprises me. Did you know that you should store cucumbers at room temperature? Credit for my enlightenment goes to UC Davis. (May I … Read more
‘What had the sentiments he entertained in regard to Disa ever amounted to? Friendly indifference and bleak respect. Not even in the first bloom of their marriage had he felt any tenderness or any excitement. Of pity, of heartache, there … Read more