Month: June 2022

The ripple effects of Russia’s audacious invasion of Ukraine will wipe out 15 years of economic gains by the end…

In their 1984 issue, the Guinness World Records book listed the SEIKO TV watch as the “smallest TV in the world.” Two years earlier, SEIKO presented the device to the world after spending millions of dollars on its development. As the name already has it, we are talking about a watch with a built-in TV.…

In the last post I said the fundamental axiom of OS behavior is that at any given time, exactly one and only one task is active on a CPU. But if there’s absolutely nothing to do, then what? It turns out that this situation is extremely common, and for most personal computers it’s actually the…

Over the past year and a half, I have been using an Ergodox EZ keyboard and loving every minute of it. It does have a downside tough. As a 60% keyboard lover, it is quite large. So, I have been on the look out for a smaller, split keyboard (I can’t go back to non-split),…

Miryoku is an ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal, and universal keyboard layout. Layout General Principles Use layers instead of reaching. Use both hands instead of contortions. Use the home positions as much as possible. Make full use of the thumbs. Avoid unnecessary complication. Details 5 columns, 3 rows, 3 thumb keys, 2 hands. Can be used on…

David Westin speaks with top names in finance about the week’s biggest issues on Wall Street.Simulcast of Bloomberg TelevisionFor decades,…

The problem Just about every key lock in the world today has the same fundamental flaw. They accept input (a key, or a lockpicking tool) from the outside world, and they test if that input is correct at the same time. This flaw opens up two kinds of vulnerabilities. Nearly every lock mechanism will leak…

The Plan 9 CD-ROM needed about 100MB for the full distribution, if that. We hatched a plan to fill up the rest with encoded music and include the software to decode it. (We wanted to get the encoder out too, but lawyers stood in the way. Keep reading.) Using connections I had with folks in…

Consciousness plays an important role in debates around the mind-body problem, the controversy over strong vs. weak artificial intelligence (AI), and bioethics. Strikingly, however, it is not prominent in current debates on ethical aspects of AI and robotics. This text explores this lack and makes two claims: We need to talk more about artificial consciousness…