(Not a color blindness test) Error codes in computing are a curious heritage of a bygone era when paper was relevant and memory usage stripped to the bare minimum. In those days, it was normal for a programmer to stumble upon an error code, stand up, reach for a dusty manual on a shelf, look up the …
Protip – Startup pitch to apply to a startup incubator: reading from a script always results in a less impressive performance. Improvise!
ai “Humans are showing unprecedented interest in the fate of so-called lower life forms, perhaps because they are about to become one.” YNH
dystopia, a slow, but steadily increasing interest.
Most internet-savvy people develop a kind of natural resistance against spam, obtrusive advertisement, and online scams. Stopping for a second to ponder the state of things reveals a wealth of information not only on the scammers themselves, but also sheds light on the people being scammed. A few days ago I noticed at the end of …
Perfect music to enter in the “flow”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX96z7AuICs Hat tip to Vincent Barletta.
People decrying the death of MP3 sound just as absurd to me as people talking about the death of blogging. Then again, I’m a dinosaur.
Radiolab’s story on Nukes was nothing short of unsettling. A real world analysis of a quasi-Strangelove scenario.
https://soundcloud.com/eccoecho/tracks multilinguism looks like double consonants & accents in Italian are the hardest thing to master even for polyglots
In which I am totally hypnotized by the retro art from the illustrator of Monkey-Islandian memory and set on a mission to have it always close to my eyes. …