With the EOL (end of life) of Node 4.0 and the introduction of Node 10 coming in April, it’s time to look at that perennial Node problem: what to do about the Buffer constructors.
“Shooting reported at school” You read the words in Twitter and feel your shoulders drop, your head lower, and you don’t want to hear any more, but you want to hear everything. The scenarios run through your head. “A teacher accidentally shot themselves in the foot.” “One kid was showing another a gun he found […]
The St. Louis PD headline reads Missouri Republicans debate whether Greitens should stay or go. The debate is centered around revelations of the Greitens’ affair, and especially whether he photographed a bound, blindfolded woman and threatened blackmail. Of course, discussions about kicking out a Republican in charge are not new this year. They happen all […]
Update: Ars Technica has produced the best write up on what’s happening with Meltdown and Spectre. Earlier: Two days ago, the tech world ran into a wall. Probably the best summation of the event is the following tweet: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/948969633683558401 Yes, this is about the CPU bug. The CPU bug. The bug that demonstrates that sometimes […]
Update To add to the judicial abuse, Congressional Republicans want the FBI to investigate Christopher Steele for the Russian “dossier”. A veteran prosecutor, Peter Zeidenberg, said he had never heard of anything like the Grassley-Graham complaint and labeled it “nonsense” designed to detract from ongoing inquiries in to Russian interference in the 2016 election. “The […]