Nuts and Volts
Our economy is an abstract intangible system which requires infinite growth and debt issuance, this in reality requires more caloric expenditure and resource consumption. Thermodynamically this is pretty bad news. At…
This happens on some HP printers too, the web interface lets you happily enter lengthy passwords, but doesn't bother telling you it truncated the entry at 16 or 12 characters.
You remember when Micro Center had those portraits of computer greats hanging around the ceiling of their stores? I never noticed it until I looked up one day and saw Denis Ritchie, Vint Cerf, Grace Hopper, etc. The…
A cat named Jacques Ellul would probably call your addiction a technique. And it's definitely fleshed out in his book. https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci... Pretty prescient stuff!
Nuts and Volts
Our economy is an abstract intangible system which requires infinite growth and debt issuance, this in reality requires more caloric expenditure and resource consumption. Thermodynamically this is pretty bad news. At…
This happens on some HP printers too, the web interface lets you happily enter lengthy passwords, but doesn't bother telling you it truncated the entry at 16 or 12 characters.
You remember when Micro Center had those portraits of computer greats hanging around the ceiling of their stores? I never noticed it until I looked up one day and saw Denis Ritchie, Vint Cerf, Grace Hopper, etc. The…
A cat named Jacques Ellul would probably call your addiction a technique. And it's definitely fleshed out in his book. https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSoci... Pretty prescient stuff!