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Twitch's blog directly denies presently the theft of what they term "login credentials" which seems we can reasonably presume includes passwords. Ref https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021…

I really wanted to like OCaml, still do. I gave it a good shot a couple of years ago, wrote a few basic programs and loved it. But it to me seemed packaged like many languages in t…

Government is not on your side. Remember that, for all countries, for all times, for all peoples. Government protects itself first, at your expense, by helping those who can help i…

Competition drives prices down? Bloated, protectionist government regulations drive prices up? Wow! Stop the presses! This same story in umpteen other contexts has been written tim…

Speaking in the larger context, this stick you feel you've been given comes at a high price. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before the powers that be will fashion a stic…

Isn't it possible to be proficient or even prophetic at a thing while being not so good at another? I agree those comparisons to China border on wacky while I feel he is right on t…

Ok the linked article seems to be a short synopsis of a book, one which I did not read nor have intention to. But dear Lord the article was so full of government fluff, obvious and…

While you are certainly correct that the military has provided the genesis of various valuable technologies, it doesn't have to continue to be that way. We could choose to expend o…

Thank you, Google employees who signed this letter! Let us hope the, ummm, yea, "do no evil" company listens to you (and to its very own motto).

If I were starting out today fresh from high school, and were interested in technology as a possible career, I would consider certain certifications from the likes of Cisco, Junipe…

Might I be nosy and ask what Scheme environment(s) you used in these production deployments? Thank you.

More money for politicians. There's a novel idea. I'm sure it'll pan out spectacularly.

But how do you see your dash while driving? Do you just see through the blurry?

IBM operates an internal company-wide storage system called GSA or Global Storage Architecture, which is GPFS on the servers, with various and sundry methods of access through auto…

It was much better than Cats . I want to see it again and again.

Why did you choose SBCL among the several other common choices available? Thanks.

I found DPDK and FreeBSD's pkg package manager to be very clean and educational. Reference http://www.dpdk.org and https://github.com/freebsd/pkg