Author Archives: jernst

Report: “Killing The Truth — How Russia is fuelling a disinformation campaign to cover up war crimes in Syria” https://diary.thesyriacampaign.org/killing-the-truth/

Bought 100 transistors. Shipping from Hong Kong included. Total price: $1.80.

Attributes of a great software engineer. From a Microsoft study. Sounds about right. Ignore the soft skills at your peril, particularly in a leadership position. Link: https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2015GreatEngineers.pdf

On train. Linux container downloading packages. It runs on VirtualBox host running on OSX bridged via iPhone WiFi hotspot running over Sprint’s IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel. And somehow it works.

24 hour price: +16.86%. #bitcoin

It’s been a year I’ve had this keyboard. Today, I finally baptized it. Colombian, with extra cream and no sugar.

The WiFi networks in the neighborhood of this train contain this gem:

Apache uses MD5 to check for file integrity. Really? https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/download_daemon.cgi

In no other kind of software development do tiny errors cause as gigantic failures as when building an OS.

Kaiser Permanente is aggressively trying to get my picture into their records. I wonder why. Stated reasons: 1) so doctor can visualize me when they call, and 2) to compare before/after when rash or such are not convincing.