Sorry for the clickbait, but it is true. I was helping my partner debug an interesting bug in his fancy parquet viewer. The website crashes when a user tries to access S3. So the symptom is that OpenDAL (one of … Read more
In what may be a unique event in world history, a Something Awful forums user has posted so hard that it’s become news—returning from the void after a decade-long ban purely in order to pick up the exact same tabletop … Read more
The United States has taken legal action to seize and return over $154 million purportedly stolen from Sony Life Insurance Company Ltd, a SONY subsidiary, by an employee in a textbook business email compromise (BEC) attack. “According to the government’s … Read more
Everyone is familiar with Bastiat’s broken window fallacy: breaking a window may seem to generate economic activity through its repair, but it’s actually a loss once you take the opportunity cost into account. But what if there were positive returns … Read more
[Super Mario 64 menu theme] When we write const x = 0.1 in a JavaScript source file and execute it, JavaScript does not interpret the 0.1 as the real number 0.1, because JavaScript numbers cannot represent every single possible real … Read more