Studies Show Individual Climate Action Not Counterproductive
TL;DR: what Hank Green said, or what these scientists said.
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I’m planning to develop a blog here of short, one-off posts. There’s not too much content yet; see also my projects page and my other ongoing pages.
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PSA: Google Sheets’ ‘Hide Column’ Is Not a Secure Way to Hide Data
Suppose you are a high school administrator and you have a Google Sheet you want to share with the students, except there are certain columns that you don’t want them to see:
How to Run x86 Assembly on an Intel Mac
In my undergraduate Computer Systems course, we learned x86-64 assembly language in the AT&T syntax, but we never actually ran any on a real machine. Here, I show how to do that, starting by inspecting the assembly output of a C compiler. I will only be showing the bare es...
A Built-in Secondary Clipboard on MacOS
I’ll get straight to the point: you know how on a Mac you can do ⌘X, ⌘C, and ⌘V to cut, copy, and paste? You can also do ⌃K and ⌃Y (that’s the control button) to cut and paste something else without interfering with what you had stored in that primary clipboard! Go ahead, try ...
Some Recommendations for Scientific Computing Internships in Government, Climate, and Renewable Energy (Winter 2023 Edition)
As we are now in the thick of application season for next summer’s software internships, I thought I’d briefly plug some paid programs that are somewhat off the beaten track. These might appeal to people who want to focus on developing software skills while also exploring an i...