Weird

Arika Okrent jokes that she originally wanted to call her new book “What the Hell, English?” Instead, she relegated her would-be title to the introductory section of Highly Irregular, her learned and captivating study of how the weirdness of our … Read more

Soviet physical therapists managed to prevent real disasters with heat, UV radiation and electric current. However, sometimes the procedures themselves looked… a bit crazy. Perhaps no other country in the world has been engaged in hardware physiotherapy as massively as … Read more

August 2021 When people say that in their experience all programming languages are basically equivalent, they’re making a statement not about languages but about the kind of programming they’ve done. 99.5% of programming consists of gluing together calls to library … Read more

FATAL SEA SNAKE bites are extremely rare in Australia. But circumstances were tragically against 23-year-old prawn trawler deckhand Harry Evans, from Dorset in England, when he was bitten just over two years ago while plying his trade in remote waters … Read more

Imagine stopping someone on a Manhattan street and asking for directions to Times Square. If that person launched into a monologue beginning, “It is the district of glorified dancing girls and millionaire playboys and, on a different plane, of dime-a-dance … Read more

Illustration by Kensuke Koike; Bettmann / Getty This article was published online on June 11, 2021. In the early and macabre days of coronavirus shutdowns, Edgar Allan Poe was trending. “The Masque of the Red Death,” his Gothic tale from … Read more

In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that … Read more

rust/weird-exprs.rs at master · rust-lang/rust · GitHub {{ message }} Permalink 4 contributors // run-pass #![feature(generators)] #![feature(destructuring_assignment)] #![allow(non_camel_case_types)] #![allow(dead_code)] #![allow(unreachable_code)] #![allow(unused_braces, unused_must_use, unused_parens)] #![recursion_limit = “256”] use std::cell::Cell; use std::mem::swap; // Just a grab bag of stuff that you wouldn’t … Read more