a real-mode #FORTH that fits in a 512-byte boot sector #smallisbeautiful
Faré's "Passivism" #paper. Interestingly, he uses the term “#propertarian,” approvingly, then moves on to a rather radical proposal for what sounds like worldwide insurrection by property owners. #politics #epistemology #philosophy
Huemer’s "In Praise of Passivity" #paper, Studia Humana 1,2 (2012): 12-28. #epistemology #philosophy #politics #passivism
Abstract: “Political actors, including voters, activists, and leaders, are often ignorant of basic facts relevant to policy choices. Even experts have little understanding of the working of society and little ability to predict future outcomes. Only the most simple and uncontroversial political claims can be counted on. This is partly because political knowledge is very difficult to attain, and partly because individuals are not sufficiently motivated to attain it. As a result, the best advice for political actors is very often to simply stop trying to solve social problems, since interventions not based on precise understanding are likely to do more harm than good.”
the serial commands supported by a Seagate ST2000DL001 with CC97 firmware #disk #hacking
#censorship in #Argentina in 02011 of economic consultancies that measured #inflation. #politics
Faré criticizes ESR in the 01990s. #politics
#Abrash on how acceptable #latency in #VR was unattainable at the time. #UX
#Luu on how filesystems don’t do error handling
#Luu on keyboard #latency, finding 15ms to 60ms in the keyboard itself (from when the key starts moving to when the USB packet finishes); no advantage to “gaming” #keyboards. #UX
#Luu on end-to-end input #latency, from when the key starts moving to when a letter appears on the screen, with results from 30ms (Apple //e) to 300ms, with most modern computers around 100ms. Also, scrolling (30ms–860ms, mostly around 140ms). And he explains why this matters for #UX.
The IBM 2321 “noodle sucker” or “data cell” was #hardware that pretended to be a disk with 600ms access time but was actually 2000 strips of magtape. #history
#photos of #body-painting of me
#Bitcoin to be adopted as legal tender in #El-Salvador, alongside the dollar: “[R]oughly 70% of people do not have bank accounts or credit cards. Remittances, or the money sent home by migrants, account for more than 20% of El Salvador's gross domestic product. Incumbent services can charge 10% or more in fees for those international transfers, which can sometimes take days to arrive and that sometimes require a physical pick-up.”