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Spaghetti alla carbonara (or just carbonara) is a rich pasta dish that gets its flavor from generous portions of cured pork, cheese, and black pepper.

I wish I could get 8 TB of storage for $30! This is clearly fake.

Fake storage devices with high capacities at ridiculously low prices are a scourge and have probably lost countless people’s data. They’re usually a smaller-capacity device that’s been reprogrammed to trick the computer into thinking it’s bigger than it actually is. When you try to save data that’s too big for the real capacity, old data gets overwritten so your files get corrupted.

I received the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday. My arm was sore until the next day, more than after the first dose, but I didn’t experience fever, tiredness, or anything like that.

I will say that I got the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, but…

Security questions are questions about personal details (like, “What was your first car you drove?” and, “What was the first concert you attended?”) that are meant to help recover your account in case something happens like you forgot your password.

As Wired writes, security questions are insecure. Why? It boils down to two things:

I was reading about words in English with a double soft G (“suggest,” “exaggerate,” and “Reggie”) and apparently the “American” pronunciation of “suggest” is something like “sug-JEST” with a hard G sound in the middle, which is blowing my mind right now.

The FDA recently authorized the use of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States. Here are some of my thoughts on what this means for the pandemic and the future.

I logged into my MySpace account yesterday and pretty much everything was gone. It’s surreal to think that a significant aspect of several years of my life that I entrusted to this site has just disappeared.

Open data is data (like statistical and scientific data) that is free to use by anyone. During the COVID-19 pandemic, new data is coming from all directions on a daily basis.

One important aspect of open data is making sure that it can be used by computers. Computers make it much easier to collect and analyze data in order to find trends and make predictions, which is crucial in responding to a crisis.

Ten years ago today, I was helping my parents clean out the garage of our new house.