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Check out the English audiobook, read by Herzog himself.

If you're in Seattle, consider supporting Unloop, https://www.un-loop.org/ , with donations of time or money. [EDIT to add detail:] They help people re-entering society establish t…

Immersion. Work in the industry at a position where you're likely to encounter inefficiencies. In healthcare, for example, you can't spit without hitting an optimization opportunit…

It's a nice concept. Your webpage says "Sqreen blocks attacks without false positives." What's behind that claim?

Kudos for interrogating your values and seeing your way to something you feel good about!

Startup Hall in the U district has a nice community, is well located & well run, has lots of optional events, and is a great place to set up shop if you're going to hire UW student…

Related in name/title only, but just seeing the word gave me a happy memory of my favorite web grimoire to date: http://grimoire.computer/ ( https://github.com/lifewinning/grimoire…

Feynman mentions the physicist Julian Webb in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" [1]. The staff at Oak Ridge were generally kept in the dark about their role in the Manhattan Proj…

Not an answer to your question, but: this is how Meraki started in the previous decade, as RoofNet at MIT [1], then as an independent company building wonderful idiot-proof mesh ne…

Was the $100K mentioned in this article the total amount Facebook gave Snopes? Because that's, like, one new-grad signing bonus.

FWIW, Wi-Fi is generally considered a poor source of harvestable RF for little doodads you might want to power passively. Among other issues, there's a lot of "quiet time" as radio…

I've been getting perfectly adequate IPv6 via their 6rd gateway (on fiber, in Seattle). I wrote some nerd notes on using one's own wifi router and setting up IPv6: http://b.tra.in/…

It's good to see attention paid to the day-to-day challenges hospital IT folks face when grappling with medical devices. These folks deserve better. As an industry of thing-makers,…

Marriott's incident page [1] links to a Q&A page [2]. Apparently the forthcoming sorry-we-lost-your-data notifications will come from "starwoodhotels@email-marriott.com". "Let's im…