Why getting voting right is hard, Part V: DREs (spoiler: they're bad)

I've been writing a lot of Rust recently, and as anyone who has learned Rust can tell you, a huge part of the process of learning Rust is learning to work within its restrictive memory model, which forbids many operations that would be perfectly legal in either a systems programming language like C/C++ or a more dynamic language like Python or...

[Edited to change the title and subtitle -- 2024-12-28]. Two children under a trenchcoat. Image from ChatGPT. My long-time collaborator Richard Barnes[1] used to say that "in security, trust is a four letter word", and yet the dominant experience of using any software-based system—which is, you know, pretty much anything electronic—is trusting...

Image by Kate Hudson with help from Photoshop AI I recently learned that Southwest has a policy of giving passengers who don't fit in a single seat a free second seat. This isn't an issue for me personally, but I was curious how it worked and that lead me to Southwest's page on how to book a second seat: Southwest's passenger entry field Here are...

My "A" races for 2024 were Sean O'Brien 100K at the end of January and Tushars 100K at the end of July. 6 months is a long training block and so I decided to break it up with something in between. I've been leaning towards mountainous races with a lot of vert lately (SOB notwithstanding) and after doing a bunch of searching on UltraSignup I...

Generated by Midjourney. Prompt "Man waiting for EV to charge, bored expression, EV charging station, photorealistic --ar 4:3" I spent some time reading this HN thread in response to Wired's article on how many EV charging stations we need and I'm dumber than when I started (isn't that usually the way it is on the orange site?). On one side, we...