Why China got rich, and India didn't - David Oks
Here is a question that I think about a lot.| davidoks.blog
It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking. "It's not x, it's y." Large Language| Cybernetic Forests
Simple Sabotage Field Manual
Simple Sabotage Field Manual - A book by the Alephic team.| www.alephic.com
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.| unix.foo
Tall poppies don’t get the calls – Economist Writing Every Day
Ask anyone who grew up playing basketball as the tallest player on the court and they will, each and every one of them, tell you that players were allowed to foul them harder and more often. If you…| Economist Writing Every Day
我是杠精
从小到大，我在朋友们中都是一个知识面比较丰富的人的形象：不管你想聊啥，十分钟内我都可以佯装专业人士跟你聊而不露馅。我自己也是自认为是一个通才而不是一个专才，并为通才的身份而自豪。但是到了AI时代，你再渊博也渊博不过AI，明显专才在这个时代比通才更有用：专业到一定程度肯定是AI比不了的。所以过去一年多的时间里，我有很强的挫败感：我这样的人...| 一言堂
Prisoner’s Dilemma is a Scam
On missing rows in payoff matrices, the rationalist’s favorite fairy tale, and why your self-respect has a computable exchange rate in prison years| ❖ |> 🌢
Why Japanese companies do so many different things
The internal logic of the world’s strangest corporations| davidoks.blog
Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late | How to Center a Div
Nokia, TSB, Boeing, Microsoft — four companies, four disasters, one pattern. The engineers knew. They just didn't speak up. Here's why, and what it costs when nobody pushes back.| howtocenterdiv.com
diminished sympathy for the depressed | vishalblog jr.
vlqo5igrppj61 for the last two years i have been mentalizing quite a lot, and i now can confidently conclude that this habit has not expanded my empathy. ...| vishalblog jr.
Can America's Trains Handle the World Cup? - The Atlantic
The nation’s railway system is destined to lose.| The Atlantic
The Most Emacs Bzr Saga | Thanos Apollo
Since I had no interesting books to read today, nor interesting films to watch, I decided to scavenge for the most intriguing content one can find online. I ended up reading the Linux kernel mailing lists, but those discussions seemed to be 18+, so I settled for the comparatively civil emacs-devel. For those unfamiliar, emacs-devel is the primary development discussion list for GNU Emacs – where design decisions get made, patches get reviewed, and occasionally where people spend 200 message...| Thanos Apollo
The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Kitchen · blog.vrypan.net
Open Source in the AI era| blog.vrypan.net
I’ve banned query strings — Chris Morgan
I’ve banned query strings| chrismorgan.info
What British people really mean when they say 'sorry'
"Sorry" is one of the UK's most overused and misunderstood words – here's how to decode the politeness minefield.| www.bbc.com
100,000 Glyphosate Lawsuits: Why Roundup Does Not Kill Your Weeds Like It Used To – Economist Writing Every Day
I don’t like wasting time bending over and pulling out weeds, one by one. Much more efficient to go squirt squirt and eliminate lots of weeds at a time. But I realized in the past year that t…| Economist Writing Every Day
Why airlines are always going bankrupt - David Oks
How aviation companies (fail to) make a profit| davidoks.blog
Security Through Obscurity Is NOT Bad - Mo Beigi
Why security through obscurity still matters: not as your only defence, but as a practical layer that raises attacker cost.| mobeigi.com
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility — The Inclusive Lens
The mythical, it's text, so it's accessible There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a te...| The Inclusive Lens
How Big Is the American Dream House? - The Atlantic
Millennials are abandoning the idea of living in a giant home.| The Atlantic
Do Women Reproduce More than Men? - by Tomas Pueyo
And the connection to incels, dating apps, AI, robots, immigration, feminism, polygamy, prostitution, and more| unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com
You Don't Want to Make Things, You Want to Have Made Things | blog.spu.io
disclaimer: this post may contain mention of generative "AI"| blog.spu.io
FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying| www.agwa.name