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Science, Environment

January 2018
Beyond Naughty Processors. The world is abuzz with stuff about the Intel bugs – so much so that Meltdown and Spectre are explained by xkcd better to the masses than most technical articles. It’s as if the world woke up and saw a small bit of what can happen within computing systems and, unfortunately for Intel, gets branded with Intel. Did I … Continue reading Beyond Naughty Processors.
December 2017
Google Chrome Update Allows Mute of Autoplay Videos – and More. If you’re a human, you probably have more than one tab open in your browser right now – and that means that sometime in the past, you had to hunt through tabs to find out which tab hid the video that the over-exuberant marketers hid in one of your tabs. Fear no more. In the … Continue reading Google Chrome Update Allows Mute of Autoplay Videos – and More.
Understanding Frankensystems When I was just a software engineer in the eyes of managers, I usually got tossed into undocumented complex systems that nobody could figure out easily, largely because they were… undocumented. What overwhelmed and/or intimidated others was exciting for me – exploring something new, understanding how it worked. I’d developed a toolset for exactly that, finding … Continue reading Understanding Frankensystems
November 2017
Introspection (Writing) Reviewing the statistics between KnowProSE.com and RealityFragments.com has been a bit revealing – empirically. Between the two sites, I’ve done about 300 posts in the last year. KnowProSE.com has 27 followers and 50 likes (WordPress) with roughly 5,000 views, averaging 2.5 visitors a day with 100 posts over a year. RealityFragments.com, on the other hand, … Continue reading Introspection (Writing)
The Study Of What Others Do. I hate having my picture taken. Over the years, I have found the best defense from cameras is to hold one. This has weakened in a day and age where every phone has a camera, and everyone wants to be seen with someone – but Mark Lyndersay needed a picture of me for TechNewsTT, where … Continue reading The Study Of What Others Do.
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