This video from Veritasium is a nice explanation of the mathematician David Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel, which illustrates that a hotel with an infinite number of rooms can still accommodate new guests even wh
Quote by Richard Yates: “Our ability to measure and apportion time affor...”
Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.“Synchronise watches at oh six hundred,” says the infantry captai...
How to stop procrastinating by making any kind of work interesting | Boing Boing
[This is from my newsletter, The Magnet. Please subscribe. There’s a free edition and a paid edition – Mark] I’m a procrastinator. I have been my whole life. I can think of two reasons …
Harness Extends Drone for CI/CD Feature Parity on Multiple Clouds – The New Stack
Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) continues to remain a notoriously complex process for many, if not most, DevOps teams, despite a number of platform proponents promising the contrary. When organizations deploy on two or more cloud environment vendors, which is 81% of the time, according to Gartner Research, it adds an additional layer of complexity for…
KOps Adds Support for Calico’s eBPF Dataplane – The New Stack
Kubernetes operations (kOps) is one of the official Kubernetes (K8s) projects. The kOps project allows for the rapid deployment of production-grade K8s clusters on multiple cloud platforms. By leveraging YAML manifests, kOps delivers a familiar experience to users who have worked with kubectl. Similar to K8s clusters in popular cloud platforms, kOps helps set up…
Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, finds a study publishing May 14th in the journal Med. The researchers demonstrated that the delivery ...
From the Department of Underappreciated Facts - Marginal REVOLUTION
Career earnings growth in the U.S. more than doubled between 1960 and 2017, and the age of peak earnings increased from the late 30s to the mid-50s. I show that a substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more gradual periods of earnings growth…Experience takes […]
This article lists the most important security headers you can use to protect your website. Use it to understand web-based security features, learn how to implement them on your website, and as a reference for when you need a reminder.
Gas fields and jihad: Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado becomes a resource-rich war zone
On Monday, French energy giant Total declared force majeure on its multibillion-dollar light natural gas (LNG) project in northern Mozambique, formally withdrawing all of its employees from the region and indefinitely suspending its operations. The declaration came after heavily armed militants carried out a surprise attack on the nearby town of Palma, a commercial center […]
“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner
When we say this, we might not be as accurate in our description of the situation as we believe. Perhaps we mean, “that’s not what I was hoping for.” Or we might mean, “if y…
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security
In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that…
Incremental Static Regeneration: Building static sites a little at a time - Stack Overflow Blog
There are a lot of opinions out there about how to improve and scale sites “beyond the Jamstack” by adding in features that use a Node server in addition to the pre-built pages. One of those features is called Incremental Static Regeneration. Some people call it “hybrid web development” (or “hybrid serverless + static”) but let’s talk a bit more about what that means.
April jobs report surprise: Is this a labor shortage or a great reassessment of work in America? - The Washington Post
Hiring was much weaker than expected in April. Wall Street thinks it’s a blip, but there could be much deeper rethinking going on of what jobs are needed and what workers want to do on a daily basis.