Curated

A "pre-historic" amputation: www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...…

A somewhat despairing article, from the Economist: www.economist.com/essay/201... (except it's from 7 years ago, and things haven't got any better ...)…

Elegant code, or inscrutable code golfing? You decide: "random walk in two lines" asindu.xyz/2022/10/0...…

Goddamnit, geeks have been righteously complaining about "feature-itis" and retreating to their hermit kingdoms for so long. Here is one such complaint all the way back in 1999 (!) www.com…

"Systems at scale", w.r.t. money laundering: www.propublica.org/article/c...…

www.youtube.com/watch * Single-celled organisms are intelligent too * "Intelligent problem-solving in morphospace" * We can bio-engineer at a low-level, but not at a high-level * Cells…

From a HN comment > Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made…

NeoVim is now just as much of an extensible editor github.com/ggandor/l... (the easy use of Fennel for config has created an Emacs-Lisp counterpart !)…

Interesting, I had initially dismissed this "crater full of ice" photo as too-good-to-be-true, but ... it is real ! www.newsweek.com/fact-chec...…

Attempting to predict the future of computing: bzogrammer.substack.com/p/the-nex...…

"Software to be thankful for" I would add a bunch of macOS desktop software to this, but otherwise a good list crawshaw.io/blog/than...…