Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
23 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
“We neither think nor reason. Rather, we work on fragile materials — texts, inscriptions, traces, or paints — with other people.” Bruno Latour Programmers and software engineers often lack a wider breadth and scope of how they approach and...
23 Jan 2021 5 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
The honeycombOS was specifically designed and tailored for running on and meeting the demands of IOTA-based nodes and clients and tangle-related tools. (The tangle is IOTA's ledger which maps and records transactions as directed acyclic graphs, wh...
23 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
Blockchan: 4Chan-Like Image Board on the Ripple Ledger Using IPFS Blockchan's front page, with a set of boards pretty much almost identical to 4chan's and the option to create new ones as well. Most of us are familiar with the t...
23 Jan 2021 17 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
“Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.” - Kenneth Boulding "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Ma...
20 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
In case some/any of you haven't by now gotten familiar with the Sleaford Mods, here's one of their more well-known performances: When I come across some new, unique favorite English band of mine that I spin for weeks after, I always recall Bjork's c...
20 Jan 2021 8 minute read 10 comments rhyzom
Throughout the years I've mostly stuck with Arch Linux (a very minimalist, build-it-yourself KISS type of distro), but lately have moved over to Manjaro - an Arch-derived distro that spares you the 3 days of editing .conf files and customizing your e...
20 Jan 2021 12 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Link to the entire original blog post here (have quoted/cited about half the article here): Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was b...
20 Jan 2021 7 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Original link to article from getpocket.com: The motto “fake it till you make it” is taking a serious blow of late. As tales of con artists proliferate, the advice to feign greatness just doesn’t seem sustainable. Grifters in business, the arts, lit...
20 Jan 2021 6 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
Original link from Ars Technica: If you’re using an Android device—or in some cases an iPhone—the Telegram messenger app makes it easy for hackers to find your precise location when you enable a feature that allows users who are geographically close...
7 Jan 2021 6 minute read 1 comment rhyzom
Stumbled upon this really insightful piece by David Vorick, developer of Sia, dated May 13, 2018, but even more relevant today, I would say. Here's some takeaways: About a year ago, myself and some members of the Sia team started Obelisk, a cryptocu...
