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Why It's So Difficult To Change People's Minds

https://zerocontradictions.net/epistemology/difficult-to-change-minds

never set foot in an engineering workspace. Never seen a P&ID let alone read one. Never coded. Can’t read a schematic. Confuses mass and weight. Confuses voltage, curren
Belief networks, selective attention and blind spots, echo chambers, censorship, identities, and genetic differences make it difficult to change people's minds.

Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

'Downsizing' and 'Reengineering' Go to School Women in Science (2006), prefigured in 1995 by the much less carefully considered Women in Computer Science Research NSF report on no

Richard Stallman's Personal Page

http://stallman.org/

16:00, at the School of Engineering of FAU. The talk is on the moral issues of free vs nonfree software. We suggest you bring cash. Urgent action items US citizens: call on Congre

Game Theory: The Feel of Cinema, but a Game at Heart

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/circuits/articles/12game.html

personalities (part engineering, part design, part advertising). They seem to know what they're doing when you do. Your driving skill and experience is evident on the road. A

Rudy Rucker, "Notes For THE BIG AHA"

https://www.rudyrucker.com/thebigaha/notesforthebigaha/Text/notesforthebigaha.xhtml

Big Aha . No limpware engineering. One specific issue comes to mind. I would like to have uvvies—the soft super-communication devices that live on the backs of people’s necks. But

The Writings of Leslie Lamport

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html

National Academy of Engineering (1991) PODC Influential Paper Award (2000) (for paper [27] ) Honorary Doctorate, University of Rennes (2003) Honorary Doctorate, Christian Albrecht

Can We Make Bicycles Sustainable Again? | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles-sustainable-again

era. Never the less the engineering and quality of the steel and parts has stood the test of time in a major way. I doubt we go back any time soon but never say never it may happe
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

SoylentNews: SoylentNews is people

https://soylentnews.org/

veep of engineering Jon Seager laid out  the future of AI in Ubuntu .  [...] As Fernando Marcela’s exit shows, an emphasis on what could be termed FOSS-friendly AI

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt

Project was more of an engineering than a scientific enterprise, although many of the best physicists, chemists, and mathematicians spent their full war-time careers in it.) Howev

Programming in the 21st Century

https://prog21.dadgum.com/

Major Feat of Software Engineering Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers. On Being Sufficiently Smart Optimizing for Fan Noise Free Your Technical Aesthetic from th

The eet Problem Resolved (Updated)

http://techrights.org/o/2007/11/22/eet-strommael-gmx-net/

the need for reverse engineering Cybershow (UK) Shaping Up to be a Neat and Very Large Gemini Capsule If only more platforms did the same, plenty of energy would be spared, "old"
There is no choice but to block a compulsive Internet troll

Literature review on the benefits of static types

http://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

research in software engineering and computer science, there is hardly any knowledge about what the impact of static type systems on the development time or the resulting quality


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