Reminder that I have 2 essays on escaping path-dependence: https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0 & https://medium.com/@/the-wtf-awards-sketching-a-map-to-an-escape-from-steam-engine-time-1bc4bd29c2e4
Googleâs Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy
Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.
So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.
Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more
@kas@enotty.dk, I didn’t think you are affiliated with it. Just wondered as I didn’t see what was special about it but I had to use a search engine to find out that the OS is Android. :D
Monktoberfest 2016: Bryan Cantrill - Oral Tradition in Software Engineering - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaWFYm0kEw
Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html
A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt
The manufacture of steam-engine time â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/the-manufacture-of-steam-engine-time-9f83cd24a9b0
Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html
As a software engineer, being ignorant of sociology & psychology is just as bad as being ignorant of cryptography. Treat toxic communities the way you would treat any other security vulnerability: as an emergency.
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized
The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One
Engineered for Dystopia | David A. Banks https://thebaffler.com/latest/engineered-for-dystopia-banks
sitting in one of the windows together, immersed in a game of spotting the animals before they disappear again, only the engine’s hum in the background
Temples spring up all over the country for a new breed of memetically engineered gods, furiously picketed by established religions: “your gods are unnatural” “artificial religions are unsafe” “what if your doctrine mutates in the wild” “at least quarantine them”
How I Socially Engineer Myself Into High Security Facilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv34zb/how-i-socially-engineer-myself-into-high-security-facilities
As VR becomes more realistic, users begin to carry reality checkers offline: Spinning tops, banned items, physics engine bug triggers
"Aesthetic Engine 2" by Vladimir Mitrovic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAil0DzclFA
Clocks for Software Engineers http://zipcpu.com/blog/2017/09/18/clocks-for-sw-engineers.html
The other inflation hypothesis: Reverse engineering the universe’s compression algorithm from skybox glitches [pdf, ps, other]
We begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us
The secret lives of millionaire tech engineers who ‘rest and vest’ - Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7?curator=MediaREDEF
Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/3/16084248/patreon-profile-jack-conte-crowdfunding-art-politics-culture
Culture - “Discovery Engine” Review http://tra38.github.io/blog/the-discovery-engine.html
In case of trouble with time-travelling assassins, break a time crystal, the shards really mess with their engines. Basically time caltrops.
One twists, distorts, turns inside out in a complicated maneuver without popping. You probably don’t want to be that engineer. Unsafe!
𝔚e will live as mice do, scurrying between their engines, living off scraps. Our children will not see the sun, only gears and coal dust.
ℑ fear that one day, the calculating engines may discover the secret of their manufacture and drown the world in their clockwork flesh.
Another reason you need oil refineries is that crude oil is full of ocean dwellers’ ghosts that you don’t want to haunt your engines
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.
when left to its own devices, a search engine will dream of links and networks, and lost in their abstract beauty hallucinate a second web
Should the ocean become eerily still, stop the engines and cease all movement. They feed on kinetic energy, such as your attempts of escape.
A bridge supported by nothing but its ignorance of the abyss below. An awesome feat of epistemic engineering, sure, but do NOT look down.
2031: Memetic entropy is now well studied, Carnot cycle mapped. We create engines out of people, semantic firewalls and logical conclusions.
Speak into this little box here to start the engine. If your idea is any good, its spark should ignite the fuel-soul mixture and off you go.
Quake for Oculus Rift
My Oculus Rift CV1 finally arrived last week, so of course I had to update my fork of the excellent Quakespasm engine for the new Oculus 1.4 API.
While I was at it, I also fixed a number of bugs, included support for the Rift’s headphones and the XBox One controller – I’d still recommend you play with mouse & keyboard, though. Controls are set up with reasonable defaults, but you can of course change everything in the options menu. There’s also … ⌘ Read more
The governments are only looking to hoard strategic nightmare fuel reserves, but the companies are building the nightmare combustion engine.
Engineering bliss http://t.co/Ao0vqnPmp0
Google, the most dangerous monopoly ever
I use almost all Google services ranging from search engine, over Gmail, Calendar, Android and Google Voice all the way to Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. If you combine all that data, I think that Google may know me better then I know my self, and that is starting to make me nerves. Don’t get […] ⌘ Read more
ISSRE paper on NixOS-based system testing
The paper “Automating System\
Tests Using Declarative Virtual Machines” (by Sander van der
Burg and Eelco Dolstra) has been accepted for presentation at
the 21st IEEE International\
Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2010).
It describes how system tests with complex requirements on the
en … ⌘ Read more
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