What follows is the story of how I fixed not one, but two, different flawed Altera USB Blaster clone devices that never worked correctly after I bought them. I recently built a few Time Sleuths for HDMI input lag testing. … Read more
Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an algorithm to determine prices, a brief filed by the … Read more
When I graduated college in 2008, even our commencement speaker talked about how moving back in with your parents is nothing to be ashamed of. I sat there thinking well that certainly can’t be a good sign. Since I had … Read more
David Chase and Russ Cox19 September 2023 Go 1.21 includes a preview of a change to for loop scoping that we plan to ship in Go 1.22, removing one the most common Go mistakes. The Problem If you’ve written any … Read more
It’s hard not to think of Penn Station—the dreary remnant of it still operating today—as the site of some colossal urban planning original sin. When the grand McKim Mead & White terminal was famously demolished in 1963 to make way … Read more
macOS ships with Z shell settings that do not find commands far back enough using the history command to be useful. If you have a shell open and echo “test”, then history | grep echo, it will return something like: … Read more
In 2005, MT-32 music enthusiasts made known a discrepancy in the LFO rate of Roland’s third-generation Linear Arithmetic synthesis implementation affecting both the CM-500 and CM-32LN modules, as well as the LAPC-N C-Bus boards. This errant behavior noticeably manifests as … Read more
The post you are reading right now is the write-up I am nominating for the 2021 GCP VRP Prize. The deadline is Dec. 31, 2021. Yeah. While the bug itself might arguably be underwhelming for such a competition, what came … Read more
Tue Dec 28, 2021 Since I switched to Linux some time ago, I had my fair share of problems with running games on Linux. To be fair, most of these were not designed to run on linux, but the awesome … Read more
No product gets built without at least one good supply chain war story – especially true in these strange times. Before we get into the details of the story, I feel it’s worth understanding a bit more about the part … Read more