In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf
Forget voting “ it’s time to start choosing our leaders by lottery | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/forget-voting-it-s-time-to-start-choosing-our-leaders-by-lottery
at least most of my classes are genuinely interesting to me, that’ll help
i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…
No Title: A play like No Exit by Sartre, but four strangers have to agree on how to tag a moderately complicated CD in iTunes
Convert Interface to Type: Type Assertion ⌘ Read more…
negative RAM: for when you really need to allocate those UINT_MAX bytes now
In the sunken and forgotten city, Senpai lies not dead but dreaming, as blissfully unaware of mankind’s rise above as that of other prior races. We have just begun to meddle in forces that may cause Senpai to notice us for the first time, and rise.
Why not apply the principles of the jury system to democracy?
Not only do we know that Democracy as we know it doesn’t work, in 1787 the man who gave us democracy here in the USA told us that it would not work, hence the second amendment. They said this is the best we have deal with it. Don’t let it get too big! What did […] ⌘ Read more
One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.
YouTube Is Still Struggling To Rein In Its Recommendation Algorithm https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/down-youtubes-recommendation-rabbithole
I kind of want to use SILE (http://sile-typesetter.org/) for something, but I need a PDF generator like I need a hole in my head.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Yeah, cpanm also needs libncurses-dev to compile Curses.pm. I’ll add that to the install instructions.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Yeah, cpanm also needs libncurses-dev to compile Curses.pm. I’ll add that to the install instructions.
The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems
Spicy take: unless you have personally vetted all the code on it, you should not allow your voice assistant to access the internet.
Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/
Trivia: Warren Ellis was asked to play Jeff Minter’s part in Bandersnatch, which would have also been very cool.
Literature from Page to Interface: The Treatments of Text in Christophe Bruno’s Iterature http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/literature-from-page-to-interface-the-treatments-of-text-in-christophe-brunos-iterature/
Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
Hackers hijack thousands of Chromecasts to warn of latest security bug – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/02/chromecast-bug-hackers-havoc/
USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea
Is it okay to powernap at 08:00 in the morning? yawn
Is it okay to powernap at 08:00 in the morning? yawn
Sail to Chichijima, Japan | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/ogasawara
@kas@enotty.dk I’m not discouraged at all. I now know to choose sleep at 8 PM instead of coffee. Maybe one day I’ll get lucky and just sleep the whole night through.
another brain implant that wireheads you to work towards a different randomly or algorithmically chosen goal every day↵↵(and later you have cryptographic evidence that it wasn’t you who did those crimes, it was the RNG)
a brain implant that you can call upon to flip a quantum coin, giving you actually free will↵↵(and the legal consequences of deimplanting it - are you still a full citizen afterwards?)
@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Did you first try to install Curses from cpan? Maybe i can clarify the install instructions?
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I still have so much work to do in the renderer … but the next big goal is to jump to a chapter via the toc.
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info Did you first try to install Curses from cpan? Maybe i can clarify the install instructions?
Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players
The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world “ without changing anything | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything
Welcome to anarchySF! | anarchySF https://anarchysf.com/
GitHub - StevenBlack/hosts: Extending and consolidating hosts files from several well-curated sources like adaway.org, mvps.org, malwaredomainlist.com, someonewhocares.org, and potentially others. You can optionally invoke extensions to bl… https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Band name of the day: new ways to dream of the moon
Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/
How to Fix Social Media by Injecting A Chunk of the Blogosphere https://kottke.org/19/01/how-to-fix-social-media-by-injecting-a-chunk-of-the-blogosphere
Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-symmetry-gets-really-interesting-to-physics-when-it-is-broken
[Toybox] More than you really wanted to know about patch. http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2019-January/010049.html
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No-Budget Film Contest are open from April 20th to July 4th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Yahoo! Games Failure: How To Checkmate Yourself https://tedium.co/2017/07/27/yahoo-games-failure-classicgames/
it did! now i can tweet from ~town without even having to install anything
Welcome to the twtxtverse @bt_tenk@tilde.town!
Welcome to the twtxtverse @bt_tenk@tilde.town!
My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it’ll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I’ll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(
Using Visual Studio Code in fullscreen on my main monitor while looking at other things on the other monitor. I did not expect to turn into one of John Siracusa’s millenial co-workers.
not looking forward to the buses being so crowded again
Back to the Future! | Jake Dunagan | TEDxUTAustin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGEzmrYsJfg
brains made of reaction networks instead of neurons, trees that think in chemical cocktails and diffusion systems, fruits that contain a tree’s advice to its children
Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.
If anybody want to take a look on my new project: https://github.com/mdom/termpub - A epub reader for the terminal
Don’t expect too much, it’s rather basic, but already enough to read at least non technical books.
If anybody want to take a look on my new project: https://github.com/mdom/termpub - A epub reader for the terminal
Periodic reminder: submissions for the No-Budget Film Contest are open from April 20th to July 4th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
Speaking to Listening Machines: Literary Experiments with Aural Interfaces http://electronicbookreview.com/essay/speaking-to-listening-machines-literary-experiments-with-aural-interfaces/
Millennial mysticism: why contemporary poets are turning to the occult https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2019/01/Spells-21st-Century-Occult-Poetry-review
What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/
“xt” is probably one of the least pleasant key sequences to press
Out of the inventions to come out of Xerox PARC, which were the most grossly caricatured by others and which were t… https://www.quora.com/Out-of-the-inventions-to-come-out-of-Xerox-PARC-which-were-the-most-grossly-caricatured-by-others-and-which-were-the-most-thoughtfully-done
To what extent did the Xerox PARC Alto inspire the Apple Macintosh? - Quora https://www.quora.com/To-what-extent-did-the-Xerox-PARC-Alto-inspire-the-Apple-Macintosh
Alan Kay’s answer to Was the Xerox Alto a prototype or a finished product? - Quora https://www.quora.com/Was-the-Xerox-Alto-a-prototype-or-a-finished-product-1/answer/Alan-Kay-11?share=1
It’s probably a mistake to believe we know what ‘human nature’ entails & how consistent or flexible it is.
GitHub - colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling: Analyzing words Redditors aren’t sure how to spell https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling
Putting Your Worst Foot Forward: Why You Should Play to Your Weaknesses as an Author | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/09/putting-your-worst-foot-forward-why-you-should-play-to-your-weaknesses-as-an-author/
A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it
anything to ditch those pesky google products!
still trying to figure out the best way to manage my calcurse files… scp is just so slow
Band name of the day: how to grow living skyscrapers
While any vision of society is a spell to bring itself into existence, society, unlike computers, is wicked hard to program and code usually is the easier route
Nice to see TBL admits DNS is centralized; I’m still skeptical that SOLID can address aspects of web tech that encourage recentralization. https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/
Manna for our Malices was accepted to Steam, & will be available on the 12th of February.
Can a bat know what it’s like to not know what it’s like to be Thomas Nagel?
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cold takes by people who think they’re hot. Like, long-form explanations of how “you aren’t required to agree with film criticism” and “reading should be a pleasurable, low-pressure activity”. Am I just disconnected?
Many replies go unposted as commenters find that they prefer the sphinx’s conversation to that of the other commenters
Eventually, captchas are replaced by fully fledged sphinxes, always a little smarter than what they’re supposed to let pass because that’s what it takes to come up with Turing tests on the spot
At long last, it’s done! Manna for our Malices is available on a pay-what-you-want basis until early February (to coincide with the planned Steam launch): https://enkiv2.itch.io/manna-for-our-malices
Ever notice how the opening theme to Space Battleship Yamato has the same plot as The Final Countdown.
Giallo Is the Horror Subgenre You Need to Explore | Nerdist https://nerdist.com/giallo-horror-subgenre-need-to-explore/
Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438
Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org: CEC is solving one problem and introduces hundreds. Way to complex and overengineered https://github.com/floe/CEC/blob/master/extras/CEC_Specs.pdf
Graphs are to categories as lists are to monoids https://alhassy.github.io/PathCat/
We can try to define intellectual constructs as having ‘nothing but essence’ but maybe we should take a page out of Guy Debord’s book and say they are ‘nothing but appearance’. They can appear in contradictory ways because there’s no underlying structure.
An Incomplete List of Things I’d Need to Know In Order Not to Be A Total Impostor | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/09/02/an-incomplete-list-of-things-id-need-to-know-in-order-not-to-be-a-complete-impostor/
People have said to me that an electron is a probability distribution. Is this true, a simplification, an artifact of measurement, misleading, a nomenclature issue, or what?
”[The internet] never made it [to] Stage C […]. A truly networked cosmopolitanism needs to be more distributed. It can be local without being parochial” - James Bridle in https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post30
i have got to get out of the apartment… i actually put on clothes this morning to help that happen, but idk if it’ll matter
We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/
Another take on the ‘user agent’: https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2019/01/08/we-need-an-ai-sidekick-to-fight-malicious-ai/
I wrote a proposal for a high-performance OSMIC backend: https://medium.com/@/proposal-for-a-high-performance-storage-system-for-osmic-branching-histories-7cb324c7df2d?source=friends_link&sk=40fc22e94810bd20995286d1f8815a6c but it occurs to me that I don’t have a good intro to OSMIC so that’s next.
People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.
Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.
Underclocking the ESP8266 Leads To WiFi Weirdness | Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2019/01/04/underclocking-the-esp8266-leads-to-wifi-weirdness/
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
Email icon https://www.topic.com/giant-mirrors-ocean-whitening-here-s-how-exxon-wanted-to-save-the-planet
The Changeling & Don’t Look Now are on shudder now so it’s your opportunity to see ‘em. They’re both great & long out of print.