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An excellent and concise explanation of why the First Amendment, and freedom of speech more broadly and more generally, matters to me: Much of the Court’s opinion is devoted to deprecating the closed...
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April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Or three hundred and...
View ArticleUsing Yubikeys with Fedora 24, for example for Github two-factor authentication
My old laptop’s wifi went on the fritz, so I got a new Lenovo P50. Fedora 23 wouldn’t work with the Skylake architecture, so I had to jump headfirst into the Fedora 24 beta. I’ve since hit one new...
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The...
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A pitfall in C++ low-level object creation and storage, and how to avoid it
While doing a couple recent reviews, I’ve read lots of code trying to solve the same general problem. Some code wants to store an object of some type (more rarely, an object from among several types),...
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Back in a bit
I’ve gotta get out of here I tend to take either relatively brief vacations (a day or two at a time) or very long ones. Brief vacations serve specific purposes, so they only mentally recharge me a...
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Guys! The Mojave Desert is hot and dry. Who knew?
Four days in, 77mi so far, at Julian overnight. Longest waterless stretch was 17.8mi, but I did end up only drinking the water I started with on the first 20mi day, so I suppose it was as if it were a...
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I’ve stopped hiking the PCT
Every year’s PCT is different. The path routinely changes, mostly as fresh trail is built to replace substandard trail (or no trail at all, if the prior trail was a road walk). But the reason for an...
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Not a gluten-free trail
Sitting cool at mile 444 right now. I was aiming to be at the Sierras by June 19 or 27, but the snow course I signed up for then got canceled, so I’m in no rush. Might slow down for particular...
View ArticlePSA: stop using mozilla::PodZero and mozilla::PodArrayZero
I’ve blogged about surprising bits of the C++ object model before, and I’m back with more. Executive summary: Don’t use mozilla::PodZero or mozilla::PodArrayZero. Modern C++ provides better...
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