When bad news gets me down, I often get insomnia. I wake up in the middle of the night, start thinking about how we’re all doomed, and can’t easily stop. To break out of these doom loops, I do elaborate visualization exercises. They don’t really put me to sleep, they just calm me down…

Lightly depressing nerd shit.

Two surprising discoveries about obedience

Explores the implications of the famous Milgram experiments and a sibling study.

I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely loose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!If compiled with -DMAIL and OPTIONS=mail is set in your runtime configuration (the default on Linux), NetHack will periodically check a user specified mbox file (MAIL) for new mail, and upon receiving an email a mail daemon will spawn in and deliver a scroll of mail to the player.

via: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/The_DevTeam_Thinks_of_Everything via: https://feyor.sh/blog/my-other-email-client-is-a-mail-daemon/

In this reference guide, we provide basic definitions, intuitive explanations, and theoretical underpinnings of various consistency models for engineers and academics alike.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9cM8f_qSLQ

see also: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/informal-specification/

A classic client-siss hack.

original: http://www.ifc0nfig.com/dominos-pizza-and-payments/

A fun promo designed to provide people with a free pizza after an order became a nightmare for employees

How I found critical security vulnerabilities in McDonald’s systems affecting millions of employees, and had to cold-call their HQ pretending to know security staff just to report them.

Dougherty is writing books on the ethics of consent and on the rational (in)significance of the fact that we act from a temporal perspective. Among other topics, they have also researched the debate over consequentialism, ethical vagueness and female under-representation in philosophy.

Another one of my favorite contemporary philosophers.

I am a moral philosopher who studies normative power. I write about the power we have to change the moral, legal, and social world through speech acts and other expressions of our will. Consider, for instance: consent, promises, promissory release, offers, and threats. I also work on exploitation…

One of my favorite contemporary philosophers.

Can Hollywood’s stamp of artistic excellence still be trusted?

because: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53055185?collection=299165

Today we’re talking about diners, cafeterias, and Automats: the missing piece in modern eating. If you’ve cooked in a small old apartment kitchen, you might ask, how did everyone cook all their meals here. The answer: maybe they didn’t. Horn & Hardart Automats and diners historically are a big part of city eating. What else comes up in the video? IKEA, Celebrate the Century stamps, horses, and a splash of Gilmore Girls.

As someone who currently eats at their work’s cafeteria and school’s dining halls, I wish we had cafeterias I could go to with the homies.

because: https://fexpr.blogspot.com/2013/07/explicit-evaluation.html