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Armed and Dangerous
Sex, software, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures...
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This is a test to see if the database server issue that froze this blog is resolved.
Last phase of the desktop wars?
The two most intriguing developments in the recent evolution of the Microsoft Windows operating system are Windows System for Linux (WSL) and the porting of their Microsoft Edge browser to Ubuntu. For those of you not keeping up, WSL allows unmodified Linux binaries to run under Windows 10. No emulation, no shim layer, they just Continue reading Last phase of the desktop wars?
My SubscribeStar account is live
I ve finally gotten validated by SubscribeStar, which means I can get payouts through it, which means those of you who want nothing to do with Patreon can contribute through it: https://www.subscribestar.com/esr If you re not contributing, and you re a regular here, please chip in. While I ve had some research grants in the past, right now nobody Continue reading My SubscribeStar account is live
Kyle Rittenhouse and the militia obligation
There s an angle on the case of Kyle Rittenhouse that I haven t seen even hinted at in the media. Section 246 of US Code Title 10, entitled, “Militia: composition and classes” reads: “(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in Continue reading Kyle Rittenhouse and the militia obligation
Documentation as knowledge capture
Maybe you re one of the tiny minority of programmers that, like me, already enjoys writing documentation and works hard at doing it right. If so,the rest of this essay is not for you and you can skip it. Otherwise, you might want to re-read (or at least re-skim) Ground-Truth Documents before continuing. Because ground-truth documents Continue reading Documentation as knowledge capture
How not to treat a customer
First, my complaint to Simply NUC about the recent comedy of errors around my attempt to order a replacement fan for Cathy s NUC. Sorry, I was not able to beat WordPress s new editor into displaying URLs literally, and I have no idea why the last one turns into a Kindle link. - Subject: An unfortunate Continue reading How not to treat a customer
Some PSAs for NUC owners
I ve written before, in Contemplating the Cute Brick, that I m a big fan of Intel s NUC line of small-form-factor computers. Over the last week I ve been having some unpleasant learning experiences around them. I m still a fan, but I m shipping this post where the search engines can see it in support of future NUC owners Continue reading Some PSAs for NUC owners
A user story about user stories
The way I learned to use the term “user story”, back in the late 1990s at the beginnings of what is now called agile programming , was to describe a kind of roleplaying exercise in which you imagine a person and the person’s use case as a way of getting an outside perspective on the design, Continue reading A user story about user stories
Yeet not, unless ye be yoten upon
This is an answer I posted to Stack Overflow: Linguistics that was so much fun to write that I feel like sharing it with my blog audience. The question is: What is the past tense of yeet ? I have a field sighting of the form yoten to report. In January I was involved with the Continue reading Yeet not, unless ye be yoten upon