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Anti-personnel computing
(noun)
Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity.
erratique.ch/writings/ant...
(noun)
Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity.
erratique.ch/writings/ant...
May 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anti-personnel computing
(noun)
Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity.
erratique.ch/writings/ant...
(noun)
Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity.
erratique.ch/writings/ant...
"When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break."
kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
The Most Valuable Commodity in the World is Friction
AI Chatbots, Newark, and the West Village Girls
kyla.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"When systems that were designed for resilience are optimized instead for efficiency, they break."
kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-v...
QotD: "It can't be that stupid. You must be prompting it wrong."
May 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
QotD: "It can't be that stupid. You must be prompting it wrong."
"So with that, let's go. Illegitimi non carborundum."
May 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"So with that, let's go. Illegitimi non carborundum."
Google's search results have become so bad that I'm highly motivated to try alternatives.
daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
Paying for Kagi today feels a *lot* like paying for HBO back in the cable TV heyday.
daringfireball.net
April 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Google's search results have become so bad that I'm highly motivated to try alternatives.
daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
daringfireball.net/2025/04/try_...
The first rule of Sit Club is: thou shalt not run unless being chased.
The second rule of Sit club is...
rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-cl...
The second rule of Sit club is...
rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-cl...
F*ck Run Club, Join Sit Club.
Nobody actually likes running. Let's cut to the chase and cut the chase.
rawandferal.substack.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The first rule of Sit Club is: thou shalt not run unless being chased.
The second rule of Sit club is...
rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-cl...
The second rule of Sit club is...
rawandferal.substack.com/p/fck-run-cl...
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Friedrich Nietzsche
March 22, 2025 at 6:56 AM
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you..."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Very cool. Now I need to find and read Krapavin's publication(s) on this research.
www.wired.com/story/underg...
www.wired.com/story/underg...
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.
www.wired.com
March 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Very cool. Now I need to find and read Krapavin's publication(s) on this research.
www.wired.com/story/underg...
www.wired.com/story/underg...
"Some writers rely on their techniques; some, their idiosyncrasies. All the same, there is consistency in each writer’s touch... Life, inconsistent, with little technique but with unpredictable idiosyncrasy, is always a superior storyteller."
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“Techniques and Idiosyncrasies” — The New Yorker
It’s astonishing, Lilian often thought, that people feel this urge to talk about themselves with a stranger, however much or little they have lived.
apple.news
March 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
"Some writers rely on their techniques; some, their idiosyncrasies. All the same, there is consistency in each writer’s touch... Life, inconsistent, with little technique but with unpredictable idiosyncrasy, is always a superior storyteller."
apple.news/AeIn1LTzvQXK...
apple.news/AeIn1LTzvQXK...
Check out John Scalzi's rather sweet office space.
Not a metaphor. In fact an actual church building we bought. Krissy, Athena and I have work offices here, I have a library in the balcony, and the basement level has space for big parties and family gatherings, and guest quarters. Actually one of our best investments.
March 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Check out John Scalzi's rather sweet office space.
Today, I learned that Manhattan produces and uses steam as a utility service. Neat!
worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-...
worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-...
Steam networks - Works in Progress
New York's skyscrapers soar above a century-old steam network that still warms the city. While the rest of the world moved to hot water, Manhattanites still buy steam by the megapound.
worksinprogress.co
March 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today, I learned that Manhattan produces and uses steam as a utility service. Neat!
worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-...
worksinprogress.co/issue/steam-...
When you debug a distributed system or an OS kernel ... gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk into the wilderness and you look for trouble...
-- Night Watch
-- Night Watch
March 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When you debug a distributed system or an OS kernel ... gather some mean, stoic people, people who have seen things die, and you get some primitive tools, like a compass and a rucksack and a stick that’s pointed on one end, and you walk into the wilderness and you look for trouble...
-- Night Watch
-- Night Watch