17 October 2024

31 links · Thursday

Hate The Process • Ninjas and Robots

The journey is the reward. You’ve heard it a million times. Learn to love the process, not the results, and you’ll never worry again. You’ll be successful every day. Grow taller. Lose 10 pounds. I get it. Focus on the process, which you can... | Ninjas and Rob…

What self-hosting teaches

We’re well into times in which it’s clear why you’d care to own your data and host the software that you depend on. Enshittification and surveillance capitalism are not heterodox concepts, so I won’t make that the point of this post.

setBigTimeout

setTimeout breaks after 25 days. setBigTimeout doesn't.

Why conventional wisdom on health care is wrong (a primer)

Rich countries consume much higher quantities via higher intensity/tech. It's NOT high and rising: wages, profits, administration, encounters, etc. Income well explains American behavior here too.

Cognitive load is what matters

There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.

The expectation creates the result

Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence, the nature of human consciousness, and the challenging problem of alignment, both for artificial and human intelligences.

God Mode

A term for a cheat code in video games that makes a player invincible, and how it applies to startup founders.

Evaluating stock option offers

Ben Kuhn has a great post about evaluating startup stock option offers. Here’s Ben’s list of questions you should ask.

From software to reality? – Daniel Lemire's blog

Both the Physics and Chemistry Nobel prizes were awarded to computer scientists in 2024. Computer scientists are emerging as leading figures in the natural sciences. In turn, these sciences are increasingly dominated by theorists and modelers.

Making a Vegetable Competition for my Farming Game

Devlog video about "Homegrown", a casual farming game I'm creating using my own engine. Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the city-builder, and Equilinox: https://www.patreon.com/thinmatrix Play my previous game …

The Stuxnet Cyberweapon Explained by a Retired Windows Engineer

Dive into the incredible story of Stuxnet, the world's first cyberweapon, and its complex attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. From its discovery by a small Belarusian security firm to its use of multiple zero-day vulnerabilities and legitimate digital certifi…

C# and Linux - Building a better Wordpress - Episode 2

Powered by Restream https://restream.io Fritz is talking through and starting a new CMS project that anyone can contribute to! It's time for the annual Ubuntober celebration! C#, Blazor, and Ubuntu Linux development all month