Assorted Links

Always start with politics: The GOP might learn from the European right parties.

What does it mean “to own shares”? Are you a shareholder? Is anyone a shareholder, and when, and how much? You might want to read more from Matt Levine.

If you are a well-mannered escalator-escalatee, you stand on the right, and walk on the left. (Except in Australia, were the sides are swapped, to account for the southern hemisphere.) Except in a few places in London, where some subway stations now carry more people by standing left and right.

Status 451 might be a blog about something. It could be about censorship. I don’t know. Maybe?

Teams of really good programmers still fail to correctly write trivial statements. For the rest of us this more or less means we probably shouldn’t even play.

keyctl is really cool, but the devil is in the @s vs. @u. Thanks to the latter clarification, encrypted harddisks are less cumbersome again.

I learned that multiplication (alpha blending and bilinear filtering) is more difficult than I would have thought (see HN).

After reading an intro about FUSE (HN), I saw that Dokan exists, which does FUSE-y things for Windows.

Don’t forget about SSC, and never trust any publication whatsoever (except SSC of course).