On x86, the stack grows “down” towards lower addresses. However, this is only true in the northern hemisphere due to the Coriolis effect. In Australia, the stack grows up actually. That’s because they are all looking at their monitors upside down to avoid falling off the planet.

1/2 What do you want to know about privacy, security or the weird world they operate in? @damokieran and @leakissner are teaming up to write a book. We want it to be useful as possible to the broadest set of folks as possible. [1/2] #privacy #security #privacypros

When you get to the bottom of networking bugs, you realize it's all incredibly stupid, and that we have to deploy a lot of effort to make it behave in a smart way. Unfortunately, left to its own devices, networking code will choose stupid every time

Friday Facts #371 - Apple Silicon factorio.com/blog/post/fff-… #factorio #gamedev

American computer scientist Grace Hopper on expert opinions.

A similar concept in computing: a seemingly small drop in cache hit ratio from 99% to 98% results in double the origin traffic.

This was my tool. It would have used and respected rate limits if Twitter would return them like they do on most of their other endpoints. Would have also been nice if Twitter reached out instead of just fully disabling it. x.com/elonmusk/statu…

The Bunnings–Kruger effect: a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience with DIY projects tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge.

ruud de rooij Perry Lorier This is why it’s often better to think in terms of (and plot) cache *miss* ratio

TfL seeking new provider for its contactless and oyster card payments ianvisits.co.uk/articles/tfl-s…

That sound you're hearing is Eurostar bosses screaming

Life hack: give yourself 8 to 12 hours of alone time in the morning to mentally prepare for the day.

I've been thinking for years about how to answer the question "What's the value of spotting a defect earlier?" I no longer think that's even the right question. Thanks to ACM Education & Learning Center for having me and George Fairbanks on to present youtube.com/watch?v=xY4Qgc… (Refined from ACCU'22).

Very interesting what's happening in Berlin: - German road law already allows bikes to park on "car" parking spaces (although in practice no one knows it / does it) - the Berlin municipality reiterates that this is the case and... (thread) sueddeutsche.de/panorama/autof…

LinkedIn really flies under the radar as the social media platform that’s absolutely the most unhinged

The badge this year at hackaday Supercon was a work of art. It's a 4-bit processor that you can program instruction-by-instruction using the buttons on the front. The leds show you the state of the processor and the memory. I've played with it briefly, but it's a total blast

1/ Chris Langton on complex behaviour: "The most surprising lesson we have learned from simulating complex physical systems on computers is that complex behavior need not have complex roots."

If you double the size of a mammal, you don’t have to double it’s metabolism- even though you have doubled the number of cells to “feed”. Instead you only have to increase the metabolism by 75%, giving you a 25% saving. Bigger is more efficient.

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Or here, we open hundreds of thousands of homepages, find the jobs page on each site, follow the links to the apply pages, and return useful job data from each one, synced to Sheets. You don't have to teach it about each site. It'll figure it out, even when the site changes! 🧠