Adam Ierymenko

https://jrock.us/

https://jgc.org/

http://kaledavis.com/

https://aegir.sexy/

https://www.gwern.net/

https://jacquesmattheij.com/

https://danwin.com/

https://www.kalzumeus.com/

https://www.magic.do/

https://edweissman.com/

https://jakeseliger.com/

http://www.fogus.me/

https://www.stavros.io/

https://jasonlefkowitz.net/

https://minimaxir.com/

https://www.robinwhittleton.com/

https://ciexinc.com/

https://rongarret.info/

https://williampietri.com/

https://bpier.re/

https://joshtriplett.org/

https://ooer.com/

https://feross.org/resume/

https://www.brandons.me/

https://benjaminpbreen.com/

http://hokstad.com/

https://www.scott-a-s.com/

https://www.bermita.com/

http://tlrobinson.net/

https://ldpreload.com/

https://dotat.at/

http://xavvy.com/

https://correa.in/

https://adriann.github.io/

https://leclan.ch/

https://joeyespo.com/

https://pius.me/

https://adamierymenko.com/

https://drewdevault.com/

https://battlepenguin.com/

https://chris.improbable.org/

https://www.snellman.net/

https://ocdtrekkie.com/

https://www.cryptolotus.com/

https://www.gregkogan.com/

https://david.kitchen/

In no particular order. From: https://jessimekirk.com/blog/hn_users_links/. I went through about half of the list looking for personal websites to use as inspiration for my own.

I wrote a little blog about this many years ago that’s still online on my basically unupdated site:

https://adamierymenko.com/titan/

In this I’m at least speculating that Titan might be likely to host alien life in its steamy cryotropical environment. I’d love to see NASA sink a submersible in those methane seas and look for cryowhales.

I’d expect life there to be wholly biochemically alien, probably based on methane or ammonia as solvents, and probably very metabolically “slow” compared to most life here. We might miss even macroscopic Titan life without time lapse photography.

If life on Titan existed and were intelligent they’d be convinced there could be no life here. Earth is a hellscape with rivers, lakes, oceans, and even rain made of molten water.

I don't agree that Stellar is an "obviously inferior" technology. Stellar just makes different tradeoffs.

I particularly enjoy this quote from http://adamierymenko.com/decentralization-i-want-to-believe/:

A centralized alternative to Bitcoin would be a simple SQL database with a schema representing standard double-entry accounting and some meta-data fields. The entire transaction volume of the Bitcoin network could be handled by a Raspberry Pi in a shoebox.

Instead, we have a transaction volume of a few hundred thousand database entries a day being handled by a compute cluster comparable to those used to simulate atomic bomb blasts with physically realistic voxel models or probabilistically describe a complete relationship graph for the human proteome.

> On a philosophical note, I second vortico's question of why common Linux distros require root access to be at all usable. In particular, how did it come to not being able to install a package without sudo?

Previously:

http://adamierymenko.com/privileged-ports-are-causing-climate-change/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14712576

TLDR; "You probably just realized that without the privileged ports restriction everything meaningful on a Unix system would not have to run as root and you could at the very least do a much better job of securing system services."