Twilight Dragon Services Randomized trial on gender in Overwatch A recurring discussion in Overwatch (as well as other online games) is whether or not women are treated differently from men. If you do a quick search, you can find hundreds of discussions about this,... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Fsyncgate: errors on fsync are unrecovarable This is an archive of the original "fsyncgate" email thread. This is posted here because I wanted to have a link that would fit on a slide for a talk on file safety with a mobile-friendly non-bloated ... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Computer latency: 1977-2017 I've had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services How good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easy A statement I commonly hear in tech-utopian circles is that some seeming inefficiency can’t actually be inefficient because the market is efficient and inefficiencies will quickly be eliminated. A con... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services How out of date are Android devices? It's common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android marketshare data to see how old devices in the wild are.... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant narrative in every online discussion... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words? About eight years ago, I was playing a game of Codenames where the game state was such that our team would almost certainly lose if we didn't correctly guess all of our remaining words on our turn. Fr... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Heres a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Lets say youre running this command to watch for some specific output in a log f... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a bu... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services New microblog with TILs I added a new section to this site a couple weeks ago called TIL (today I learned). the goal: save interesting tools facts I posted on social media One kind of thing I like to post on Mastodon/Bluesky... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services ASCII control characters in my terminal Hello! Ive been thinking about the terminal a lot and yesterday I got curious about all these control codes, like Ctrl-A , Ctrl-C , Ctrl-W , etc. Whats the deal with all of them? a table of ASCII cont... Jan 2, 2025
Twilight Dragon Services Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS Ive been having problems for the last 3 years or so where Mess With DNS periodically runs out of memory and gets OOM killed. This hasnt been a big priority for me: usually it just goes down for a few ... Jan 2, 2025