Essay

Lately I’ve been trying to rewrite my blog framework. Moving from astro to hexo before still wasn’t satisfying enough, so this time I’ll write a new one in react; it should be done by the end of the year

When Microsoft was little, it forgot to use verb-noun grammar while reporting its grades to its mother, which got its own mother garbage-collected

Modern society is designed to harvest humanity’s primal instincts. Scrolling short videos while waiting to die, flying a drone to kill someone — fundamentally they’re the same thing. Monkeys of the old era, lost in the neon lights of the new one.

This world is just one giant browser—banks, shopping, videos, all that random stuff, peel it back and it’s all divs. Even Microsoft made their own react native for Windows; no one knows better than them that maintaining that heap of shit called C++/Win32/MFC/WPF/UWP is an absolute disaster. Drawing web pages is just so much less trouble.

Why do we call going online surfing?
The ocean is unknown. In the internet of the past, we were explorers. Information is dead, people are alive; information relies on our active exploration, not passive reception.
Nowadays, calling so-called going online 「surfing」 is practically blasphemy.
People have become force-fed receptors. The algorithm is alive; it knows your weaknesses better than you do, it domesticates your attention through information, it doesn’t care whether something is true or false, only about retention time.
People are no longer the deep-sea hunters of the past, but have become prey — data livestock.

Disordered Spectrum

When you realize that everyone around you is fast asleep and the air is growing thinner and thinner, you face an ultimate philosophical and ethical dilemma:
Do you wake them so they can feel the agony of suffocation with you, or let them drift painlessly toward the end in their sleep?

Computer hardware may become the new investment product

Damn, why didn’t you say so earlier

This flu has nearly coughed me into Arthur Morgan.

Why is computer science fascinating?
Because this is the first time we’ve had the ability to build an entire logical universe from scratch. It lets us write down a set of universal laws with our own hands, and watch this universe run on the laws we defined ourselves.
This is our attempt to understand and reconstruct the natural universe through logic.

Here on Mars, we’re the second planet in the universe with more Linux devices than Windows devices

Lose yourself
to find yourself

This year’s funniest tongue twister: downdetector is down