deadprogrammer

I love how in The Power Broker, Caro says “Mean old Robert Moses accused his critics of being communists, being former communists, or hiring communists—” And you’re like wow, so he lied? But he continues “just for being communists, being former communists, or hiring communists”

My students asked me if it was true that the entire Internet was really coded by hand. All those kernels, protocols, router firmware, browsers, databases, etc. Somebody coded these and debugged them by hand?!?!? They used BBEdit?!?!??! The idea that this was even possible seems amazing to them. I can imagine some future Moon Landing like conspiracy theory that says it never happened.

ミヒャエル・ゾーヴァ （Michael Sowa、1945-） 『海賊学校』 （Piratenschule）

I posted a new free article called "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso", on the troubling implications of the beloved Italian coffee machine aboard the ISS mceglowski.substack.com/p/bitter-lesso…

Since it’s his birthday, I’ll repost this incredible take from Marx’s mom

Polish supermarkets are very strange places.

The real philosophical bombshell of LLMs is not that they point to the possibility of a conscious linguistic being running outside of us. It’s that they point to the possibility of an unconscious linguistic being running inside of us.

Heard recently about a German woman who converted and moved to Israel. She converted because she liked all the rules. Possibly the most German reason to convert.

There’s nothing technical stopping you from aliasing sudo to daddy

@Pinboard you have zero understanding of how magical incantations work

How much more safe does commercial aviation have to get before they stop making us listen to a mandatory explanation of how seat belts work?

has anyone consulted uber drivers who are on their phones all day for a cure for the male loneliness epidemic

クロワッサンを食べるオウムの優雅な朝

I’ve witnessed a lot of harm done to my patients from various expected things like cigarettes, guns etc but I never imagined how much harm I would see in my adult patients from ladders. LADDERS. so much devastation

I wish more women understood the mental load of knowing facts about wars

子供の柔軟な発想に驚かされる…

I think about the bottle and label design of this niche winery in Quebec at least three times a week

Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey, Italy.

The Simpsons has been on the air so long that an early season episode had Bart plausibly doing yard work for the sister of a WW1 soldier.

普段の威厳がまるで感じられないハクトウワシの体重測定

2000-year-old "Shaman's tool kit" recovered from a rockshelter in the Pecos Mountains of Texas and displayed in the Witte Museum in San Antonio.