Why hard disks are/were called Winchester
some ancient history. I’d forgotten about this nomenclature
(tags: winchester history ibm disks hard-disks hardware)
Use of an opaque binary class in a public iOS API causes problems
“Apple changing the behavior of `NSData -description` in iOS 13 could break push notification registration for thousands of apps. Beyond the immediate concern for existing apps, this is an interesting case study in how to handle long-standing, widespread misuse of an API.” This is messy. Not a good API design decision from Apple
(tags: apple ios push-notifications apis api coding interoperability i14y)
The Problem With Sugar-Daddy Science – The Atlantic
The pursuit of money from wealthy donors distorts the research process—and yields flashy projects that don’t help and don’t work.
(tags: science funding millionaires donors research ai mit jeff-epstein media-lab)