Ranking the Pain of Stinging Insects, From ‘Caustic’ to ‘Blinding'.
Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?
Falsetickers, Truechimers et al.
Clock synchronization, keeping all of the clocks on your network set to the “correct” time, sounds straightforward: our smartphones sure don’t seem to have trouble with it. Next, keep them all accurate to within 100 microseconds, and prove that you did -- now things start to get tricky.
Why were the Ik people vilified as selfish and nasty?
Turnbull’s argument that Ik culture had become selfish as an adaptation to conditions of scarcity was taken up uncritically by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, who used the Ik as an example of a selfish human culture in his bestselling book The Selfish Gene (1976).
Does 5G finally mean curtains for TCP/IP?
TCP/IP likes order: Static addresses that can be used to tag individual packets for routing to well-known destinations. We, however, live in an online world of complete chaos. Who knows where anything is anymore? It’s sorta like my house, really.
Relevant: HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future.
Exposing the myths of household water insecurity in the global north: A critical review.
Taking a relational approach, we argue that household water insecurity is a product of institutionalized structures and power, manifests unevenly through space and time, and is reproduced in places we tend to assume are the most water‐secure in the world.
“The Computer Girls” was a piece in @Cosmopolitan magazine in 1967 about a strange new field being dominated by women. The field was called “programming.”#coding #programming #girlswhocode #womenintechnology pic.twitter.com/ImadEm1Zld
— Toby Bartlett (@tobybartlett) October 10, 2020
Relevant: Computer Grrrls (en français).
Springer Released 65+ free Books: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Web Development.
The Pragmatic Designer: Ur-Technical Debt.
Ur-technical debt is generally not detectable by static analysis. Despite that, there are plenty of tools that promise the world, and will examine your codebase and deliver a list of issues labeled “technical debt” for you to fix. Their output is a small fraction of the real debt because ur-technical debt happens when my ideas diverge from my code, and my thoughts are stubbornly hidden from static analysis tools.
Gladly, I also don’t listen to podcasts.
Is Your Favorite Podcast Tracking You?
Podcast listening is hard to track, but that doesn’t mean advertisers aren’t trying.
ZzFXM – A tiny JavaScipt music generator.
Based on the amazing ZzFX sound library, ZzFXM is a tiny music generator and toolkit designed for size-limited JavaScript productions.
