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This is the second part of a three part series (I) examining the historical assumptions of Paradox Interactive’s 19th and early 20th century grand strategy game, Victoria II. Last week, we lo…
Ahmad Haghighi’s personal page.
As the use of HTTPS continues to increase across the Web, we need more support from Certificate Authorities that issue the certificates to make it all work. I'm a huge fan of Let's Encrypt and what they're doing, but if we want to encrypt the entire Web,
Ashley's Apple Saga
Dockerfiles are de facto standard for creating container images. In this article I highlight some issues with this approach and I propose building container images with Nix.
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
Contrary to popular belief, by default, react component doesn't care whether its props changed or not. It will always re-render when its parent renders.
No matter what your age, you may, without realizing it, be enjoying the very last chapter of the relationships that matter most to you. Make it count.
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Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to unleash the malware inside their employer’s network in exchange for a percentage of any ransom…
The engineering blog of Bill P. Godfrey.
I’ve done a couple of posts on LLVM itself, mostly on things you can do with LLVM or how LLVM represents particular program features.
The 386sx wasn't much of an upgrade from the 286, but was popular for a time. Let's take a look at the 286 vs 386sx, and what the SX offered.
TL;DR Instead of attaching tooltips directly to document.body, attach them to a predefined div in document.body. BAD html my tooltip ...
As an ex-pat living in Denmark, I use FaceTime audio a lot. Not only is it simple to use and reliable, but the sound quality is incredible. For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those but if you had a good headset. When
A month ago, I built a personal search engine called Monocle that let me search through a trove of personal information I’ve saved over time, from notes to journal entries to bookmarks and tweets. Shortly thereafter, I switched my default search engine in my web browser from Google to Monocle, marking the start of my…
According to new data, the most popular post on Facebook is a business that sells golfing dates with former Green Bay Packers players. What?!
I recently did a PC power supply teardown so I figured it would be interesting to go deeper and see what happens inside the power supply'...
T-Mobile is warning that a data breach has exposed the names, date of birth, Social Security number and driver’s license/ID information of more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. The acknowledgment came less than 48 hours after millions of the stolen…
A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much…
Forget about the y-intercept; slope is the only thing that matters in the long run.
Transcript of interview on how tech changes the world
