The Economist sounds the clarion for #war between “the West”, meaning NATO I suppose, and #Russia. “Above all the West needs to keep its [sic] head.”
Avoiding broken software with static typing is still work, so people won’t do it. Also, static typing is a complicated set of tradeoffs. “When there’s no budget for quality, tools which catch bugs won’t and can’t help.”
a gist about what apt packages I installed under Linux Mint on the #ASUS-E403S.
Mitchell Orenstein explains the #USA elite consensus on #Russia and #Wikileaks.
Dan Luu collects the inside story of tech culture from Hacker News. #toread
A 2013 #interview with former #Wikileaks employee James Ball, who quit because of Julian’s friendship with anti-Semite Israel Shamir, who’s close to the security services of #Russia and who gave the embassy cables to Alexander Lukashenko.
#Russia’s slightly illiterate announcement about their efforts to observe #USA elections
notes on how Microsoft Windows works on the #ASUS-E403S.
another discussion thread on #IPFS and #decentralization of the WWW
How to #install-Linux despite #UEFI
air carbon arc cutting or air carbon arc gouging heats metal with an arc of a few hundred amps from a consumable carbon electrode and then blows the molten metal away noisily with a few kilowatts of pressurized air (500 to 700 kPa); it can work on metals that oxy-fuel cutting can’t, but on steel, titanium, and zirconium, it adds carbon around the cut, which can pose problems for subsequent welding.
"Rhodium liquid carbon", a truly amazing little #graphics demo in #WebGL, or really in GLSL, doing real-time volumetric #ray-tracing of a particle system with depth of field, refraction, and glow all in a couple hundred lines of code. By demoscene artist Virgill. #smallisbeautiful #rendering
#Introduction to #UEFI (really EFI) programming with the EDK or EDK II: a hello-world program.
telegraphic #introduction to #UEFI programming with the EDK II in somewhat broken English
recommendations for how to start programming #UEFI
notorious jerk Bryan Cantrill announces Systems We Love, which is like Papers We Love, which is like a journal club, except with broader participants and focusing on systems (i.e. running code) rather than papers
notorious jerk Valerie Aurora explains she won’t go to Systems We Love because its founder Bryan Cantrill is a notorious jerk, which he is, although if he’s really insulting people in the post she links to, it’s some kind of advanced next-level snark that goes right past my snark radar
syllabus for Geoffrey Challen’s #flipped-classroom “how the internet works” course. “Classroom time is reused for participation-graded group activities that reinforce that week’s material (Monday), for Q&A based on questions about the video content added and voted on by students online (Wednesday), and to allow students to complete graded weekly homework assignments (Friday recitation).” #education
Geoffrey Challen talks about how he didn’t get tenure at Buffalo. “I have no interest in fighting this decision. To me, it sends a strong signal about what kind of department this is, and it’s not a place that I want to continue to work. … I’m angry with my colleagues. I trusted that they would be able to put aside historical personal grievances and act in the best interest of the department. I was wrong.” #education
#Iraq seems to be successfully excluding the troops from #Turkey so far from the assault on Mosul.
Sympy supports evaluating Sympy expressions efficiently using native code generation with #Theano, native code generation with f2py and Cython, numpy, and generating Python code. #numerical-methods
#Iceland #geothermal #energy from magma via 200-atmosphere supercritical steam
#Venezuela is abrogating its constitution by suspending a presidential recall vote after courts in five states found fraud in the petition drive; its parliament is furious, but powerless