"In England and Wales, courts consider computers, as a matter of law, to have been working correctly unless there is evidence to the contrary. Therefore, evidence produced by computers is treated as reliable unless other evidence suggests otherwise. [...] A court will treat a computer as if it is working perfectly unless someone can show why that is not the case. This presumption poses a challenge to those who dispute evidence produced by a computer system"
i had an app on my iphone which my phone's operating system randomly decided to delete off my phone. thankfully, they replaced the icon with a shortcut to re-download the app from the app store. when i tapped it, it said "sorry this app no longer exists on the app store so it's gone forever". so they deleted my app! not the developer's app, sure the developer made the app but the app was mine, it was on my phone! and they deleted it!
everything is so ephemeral now that i don't develop any kind of memory of, or attachment to, anything technology-related anymore. no brand can do any specific thing for long enough to exist in brain
consumer choice nowadays is like a kind of "two guys with sawn-off shotguns, circling each other very slowly, while one attempts to hand the other a fistful of bottle caps in exchange for a rotten onion"
@kurt@jk This. 👆 If it happens, the only remaining foci of power hate and violently repress democracy even harder. The blockbuster analogy makes no sense. There's a difference between the cultural landmark of a generation and the place where millions of ppl live and a government that holds most of the world's actually-working nukes.
"in general, we have not seen a significant uptick in rock-eating or pizza-gluing," the spokesperson said, "only a few hundred thousand cases in the past week, so the vast majority of our users remain unaffected by any relevant gastrointestinal issues."
wired: sorting every sound file on your computer by date modified and really drilling down into the 2002-2005 era, really bathing in all the 96kbps weird al limewire content, just absolutely jiving and bumpin it with star wars disco theme, absolutely living and loving life with 59 second long wma clips of the matrix soundtrack in mono
i gave up caffeine completely two months ago. it was pretty easy after i got past a couple of days of constant low-level flu-like headache. over the subsequent 71 days i've noticed the following results:
slightly less energy
slightly less ability to concentrate
slightly less desire to do things
the only reason i've stuck with it this long is that it seemed like an achievement that i didn't want to ruin, but to be honest, i should probably just start drinking coffee again at some point
everything youd put in a fragment shader was probably invented by pixar, whereas everything youd put in a vertex shader was probably invented by lockheed
me: hmm let’s have a look, which library should i use?
library A: it’s 1c1h. one c file, one header file
library B: to build this repo you need to install GluoOn, a fork of MoonOn, a build system based on the Ploob ecosystem. Edit the Ploob intermediates for your platform and include them in the XJAMELLE files. XJAMELLE is a post-Turing-complete configuration solution based on JSON, YAML and XML. To get familiar with the language, i recommend these books: note that these are affiliate links,