apengwin··on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]"what is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness. You don't want most of it, you want all of it" - Churchill
apengwin··on The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposedOne of the most under-appreciated lines from a TV show was from Fleabag season 2"Priests CAN have sex, you know. You won't just burst into flames. I've Googled it!"
apengwin··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating systemThe lectures are here https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2020/schedule.html
apengwin··on US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuanaIt is a good thing for democratically accountable governments to do good things that the people want!
apengwin··on The Presidential Nuclear "Football" from Eisenhower to George W. BushFlag on the play. Pass interference. Defense, number 74. Ball will be placed at the spot of the foul. Automatic first down.
apengwin··on Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowmentif all those academics were as smart as we think they are, they'd start to question why they would ever live in Boston
apengwin··on FTC bans TurboTax from advertising 'free' services, calls deceptive advertisingIncreasing the IRS budget is an unequivocal good!
apengwin··on Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without Agonizing Pain (1994) [pdf]Warmly remember taking his computational geometry in undergrad. It was the most engaging and mathematically creative class I took in college.
apengwin··on If done right, X would become half of the global financial systemdang, too bad it's gonna be done wrong
apengwin··on Airbnbust? Short-term rental prices plummet in Palm SpringsPalm Springs is awesome in the winter. It's a mecca of modern architecture!
apengwin··on WI Governor Drops Characters in Budget Bill to Change “2024-2025” to “2425”It's not about winning, it's about fun!
apengwin··on Scientists find ‘plastic rocks’ on remote islandI'm just playing games. I know it's plastic rock
apengwin··on How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?yes!!! though you're more likely to catch them at Philz, or the Verve on University ave
apengwin··on You don't need live chat on your websiteZawinski's second law states that all software with messaging/chat eventually becomes a dating app.
apengwin··on Ask HN: What do you think when companies ask for gritty people?I was once asked by a company if I was used to/willing to pulling all-nighters for projects. Heard later from the grapevine that the work hours were terrible, and wlb was nonexistent. Huge red flag imo
apengwin··on Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as 'Not My King' tag growsThe US does have wide protections for really really objectionable speech still. See snyder v phelps
apengwin··on Campus College of Letters and Science plans to limit high-demand majorsthe government and taxes presumably. I think higher education is a wonderful public investment with great returns.
apengwin··on Will young Americans want to work in semiconductor manufacturing? [video]if you pay them they will come