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Dumb prison show

So, could you please explain to me why this kitchen has 12 chicks back there? Or why there’s so much cooking gear that they don’t need? Christ, it looks like the kitchen of a high-end steakhouse! Hey, look, a big assed dough mixer! For all the fresh bread that they totally make in prison all the time! And look, there’s a professional deli slicer, which they need for all the bologna and cheese sandwiches on white bread! And look! A fryer! And enormous ovens and stoves with 40 burners for all the intricate sauces that get served to the happy, well-fed prisoners!

an excellent takedown of this dumb new show

Memristors, perhaps

this will enable very interesting architectures. something to keep ourselves busy with while we mourn the passing of moore’s law.

The Machine is a hyper-dense collection of computing hardware that could be used in anything from a data center to a mobile device. It has terabytes of storage and a much smaller power draw than today’s computing devices—all because of memristor-based memory and optical interconnects.

Accounting grandeur

Accounting in the modern sense was still a new idea in the 1500s, one with a weight that carried beyond the business world. A proper accounting invoked the idea of debts paid, the obligation of nightly personal reckonings, and even calling to account the wealthy and powerful through audits.

Fossilized ideas

The recurrence of ideas over the course of history is something that Jung or Pauli would have attributed to archetypes in the collective unconscious. An alternative would be the finiteness of human imagination, and susceptibility to cultural influence. While scientific theories can become increasingly technical and abstract, the brains that struggle to interpret their meaning haven’t evolved much in the past 50 ka. If our own brain is a kind of living fossil, it’s hardly surprising that so much of what we do with it is metaphorically fossilised too.

Left-Right Is Bogus

this sums up why i’m so bored by “politics”.

We should arrange political positions according to whether they propose to increase hierarchy or to dismantle it. Instead of left and right, we should be thinking about vertical versus horizontal arrangements of power and wealth.

Iphone self-owns

your jesusphone will naively try to connect to a computer and immediately sync data any time it is plugged into a USB port for charging, which of course can be exploited. the simplest solution is to get a device that doesn’t suck, or you can get some awkward “adapter”.

sudokomic

All the Pizza

Ronen V pulls off yet another crazy internet video stunt, ordering pizza from every known pizza joint in New York City, more than 400 of them, to mark the 125th anniversary of the invention of pizza.

$40b Missile Defense unreliable

Despite years of tinkering and vows to fix technical shortcomings, the system’s performance has gotten worse, not better, since testing began in 1999. Of the 8 tests held since GMD became operational in 2004, 5 have been failures.

awkward for international relations, given that this missile defense system was supposed to keep others in check, both rogue and not.

Faster doors

we need lower latency in our doors, elevator buttons, public “touch” screens.