Category Archives: technology

gun control, a prerequisite to genocide

Kopel, Gallant & Eisen on Uganda & Gun Control on National Review Online

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one-third as forgetful as before

Help! I bought more memory for my computer, but the BIOS seems unhappy with it. Is there a switch somewhere on the motherboard (Asus K7M) that I have to flip? Later: So I called the shop that built it. (Oddly, … Continue reading

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nine out of eight

About a year and a half ago, Russell Whitaker took me out for some shooting sport, and afterward told everybody that I had made eight out of eight fairly tough shots with his new rifle and that he looked forward … Continue reading

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backward compatibility

Since I last looked, Richard Bennett has taken down the insulting “I don’t do Netscape 4” page. Good boy. (I primarily use 4.79 because 6.2.2 is much less graceful in handling mail and bookmarks.)

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wanted: abstract plumber

Joel [Spolsky] on Software – The Law of Leaky Abstractions means that whenever somebody comes up with a wizzy new code-generation tool that is supposed to make us all ever-so-efficient, you hear a lot of people saying “learn how to … Continue reading

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the virtue of crudity

In Praise of Evolvable Systems: Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future. (Thanks to Joel Levin for the link)

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the wishful thinking of historians

Bellesiles goes down. Lighten up Clayton, you’re entitled to gloat a bit.

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