As Charlie Stross has noted Stanislav Petrov bent the rules and prevented a nuclear exchange at the nadir of the Cold War 25 years ago today. He ended up losing his job and pension over it, and still doesn’t consider himself a hero.
Two years ago, I was eagerly awaiting DEFCON to have fun destroying [...]
WAR Defense
It’s got a nice “lobby room” soundtrack playing, a slick “killer robot arm” that simulates tracking on the reader, menus about the latest weapons and events in the game and–
oh, wait: it’s a serious website, intended to fill “the coming need of defenses against autonomous military robots”.
The most tantalizing parts are the “Tools” and [...]
Builder is a neat piece of kit but, like most sane libraries, wasn’t designed around the brain-damage that is Business-dialect XML(chock full of custom namespaces and tags devoted solely to attributes).
Builder’s docs seem to imply that a namespaced tag always needs to be in block form:
xml.bqcm :UselessMetadata {|n| n”chimney”}, “flue”)
“I still want to send my [...]
