Setting Things Straight

The dubious lesson of the Carpathia

Looking too available is a security risk! The new NIST standard.

Hyperlinks for emails?

Setting short-selling straight; or, "But who let you short that?"

A serious paper on bits as Joules per Kelvin

ChatGPT4 refines my argument about fish being bad swimming instructors

Extended shower thought: Fish would be bad swimming instructors

Refuting arguments no one cares about: Exploiting the "help" in the pandemic vs the wildfires

Leaked Google initiative: No more passwords!

How they handle multi-episode stories in a TV series

An HTTP status code to say "you messed up but I'll handle your request anyway"

My presentation on using SAT solvers for constraint and optimization problems

Solving my first (Ghidra) reverse engineering challenge

NAND to Tetris: Nothing short of awesome

Another Slashdot memory: Ah, the brick-and-mortar analogies...

Some of my geeky tech jokes -- with explanations!

More funny and insightful Slashdot posts I remember

If the minimum wage prohibitions are so easily circumvented ...

Funny Slashdot exchanges, before they're lost to time

What every programmer *really* should know about ...

The Scylla-Charybdis Heuristic: if more X is good, why not infinite X?

Bitcoin mining pools attacking each other for profit?

Our new Bitcoin eBook is up!

Tax interaction effects, and the libertarian rejection of user fees

Liberty vs efficiency: The real conflict