The collapse of complex human societies remains poorly understood and
current theories fail to model important features of historical examples of collapse.
Relationships among resources, capital, waste, and production form the basis for an
ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance
requirements for existing capital. Societies facing such crises after having depleted
essential resources risk catabolic collapse, a self-reinforcing cycle of contraction
converting most capital to waste. This model allows key features of historical
examples of collapse to be accounted for, and suggests parallels between successional
processes in nonhuman ecosystems and collapse phenomena in human societies.
Chessable uses science-backed learning techniques to help boost your retention by up to 95%. So you can play the opening like a book... the middlegame like a magician... and the endgame like a machine.
SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags.
Webfonts were great when most computers only had a handful of good fonts pre-installed. Thanks to font creation and buying by Apple, Microsoft, Google, and other folks, most computers have good - no, great - fonts installed, and they're a great option if you want to not load a separate font.
NFT art is bad for the environment, and bad for artists, but critics and supporters of NFT art are both missing a key fact: it's also just bad art. Whether Beeple or Bugmeyer, it's time the stars of the NFT revolution experienced some real art criticism.
NFTs are emblematic of capitalism’s growing retreat from productive activity — and the wealthy’s desire to extend their dominion into the digital ether. They’re worse than useless.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
APA Style guidelines encourage writers to fully disclose essential information and allow readers to dispense with minor distractions, such as inconsistencies or omissions in punctuation, capitalization, reference citations, and presentation of statistics.
The diction Install diction package contains a tool called style, which analyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a document. It prints various readability grades, length of words, sentences and paragraphs. It can further locate sentences with certain characteristics.
This project provides CSS files and a template for using Pandoc Pandoc is a “universal document converter.” It is particularly good at generating HTML and LaTeX\LaTeXLATEX from Markdown.
to generate standalone HTML files. It supports most features Pandoc Markdown has to offer, and some extras. The default look can be tweaked via CSS variables, and it does not need JavaScript, even for side notes.
CTparental is a free and open-source parental control tool used to control computer usage or internet browsing. It comes with a simple and easy-to-use web interface powered by a Lighttpd web server. The idea of CTparental tool comes from other tools such as, iptables, dnsmasq, and inguardian privoxy.
Unlike most introductions to JavaScript, these lessons present an even mix of browser programming and server programming. We give each topic only shallow coverage; if you want to know more, there are many other free tutorials you can dive into once you’ve mastered the basics, some of which are both up-to-date and well designed.
This article presents a model for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the useof multiple, concurrent views. This use of multiple views allows to address separately the concerns of thevarious ‘stakeholders’ of the architecture: end-user, developers, systems engineers, project managers, etc.,and to handle separately the functional and non functional requirements. Each of the five views is described,together with a notation to capture it. The views are designed using an architecture-centered, scenario-driven, iterative development process.
This site contains code repositories with documentation, and lots of resources. Logging, textFinder, blockingQueue, threadPool, comm, fileSystem, errorHandling, modelling and design patterns.
The 7th edition of the National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends report. Published every four years since 1997, Global Trends assesses the key trends and uncertainties that will shape the strategic environment for the United States during the next two decades.