Bad idea of the day: a NOT operation on types, such that a type can be define as the failure to qualify as some other combination of types or some other boolean type expression
when gods commune, dimensional portals open in their worlds and in come ideas from the other’s mind: stalking tangles of crystal, shy ripples in space, sentient smells, just about every type of elf, the occasional human
The Tyranny of Personality Testing | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/151098/personality-brokers-book-review-invention-myers-briggs-type-indicator
Hot take: when a type of work is no longer necessary, it becomes a hobby or luxury/artisinal work, & this is good for everybody involved.
Dataspace 6: Terms as Types | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/10/dataspace-6-terms-as-types/
Band name of the day: typed holes
Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something
Bad idea of the day: Put the ‘hyper’ modifier key back on the keyboard, but you hold it while typing to create hyperlinks, press it while clicking to open a hyperlink
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted & you just see your home timeline
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted
Why Did Some Countercultural Types Vote For Trump? - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/05/10/why-did-some-countercultural-types-vote-for-trump/
“Propositions as Types” by Philip Wadler - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
The Five Types Of Nicolas Cage Movies | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-five-types-of-nicolas-cage-movies/
Simplicity
That is a screenshot of my macOS desktop. It could be simpler, but as it is it does what I need, and want. When I need to use an app, I simply hit command (⌘) space and start typing the app name to launch it. That is, I use Spotlight.
Wouldn’t it be great that iOS could be customized like that too? Preferably it would be a setting, that would allow to turn off the visibility of all, or any app on the phone. Then, to open an app, one would use the [Spotlight]( … ⌘ Read more
One day we may figure out not just genetics but wholesale biosphere design, and then it won’t be “What does it mean to be human” but “Should there be a place for humans”, “What if we used another type of chemistry”, “Why should it be our native biosphere that survives”
Discovering Types for Entity Disambiguation https://blog.openai.com/discovering-types-for-entity-disambiguation/
A list of 4510 different titles given to the exact same generic 9:59 self-affirmation pep-talk on Spotify http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=458
How Detect Content Type of a File ⌘ Read more…
@leveck@leveck.us I really want to use mastodon, but I just can’t seem to come up with a use case for me. Guess I don’t really do much Social Media type stuff
Fact Checks | Search https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/factcheck
Print a Variable’s Type (e.g. Int, String, Float) ⌘ Read more…
The ATU Fable Index: Like the Dewey Decimal System, But With More Ogres - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/aarne-thompson-uther-tale-type-index-fables-fairy-tales?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e507bdeb3f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-e507bdeb3f-63252673&ct=t(Newsletter_6_16_2017)&mc_cid=e507bdeb3f&mc_eid=fb147c2f0d
One of the rarer rainbow types is the nova bow: A dying star’s scouring light, refracted by rocks that it vaporized
Types of Writing Systems (correction in the description) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TVRjK3aHc
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)
Learn to read and type Chinese ⌘ Read more…
clear dark: dreamless type 0, highest $$↵white swirls: common & popular↵tortured faces: junk.↵rainbow glimmer: rare, strongly hallucinogenic
A tap to the donor’s temple collects what’s ideally a clear dark fluid. Else, the wrong dream type may cause severe memetic immune response.
There’s a type of flightless angel you can find in New Zealand: Not haughty and aloof but small, brown, round, jolly ladies with wing stumps
A walker learns to taste the type of vacuum with time.↵Voids that never contained anything: fresh and stale at the same time
The mechanical storyteller whirrs, clicks, spits out a slip of paper: “animal made of gravity”↵I envision a star cluster and start typing.
sentient snails that store up to ten types of ink in their houses as they age, with a highly refined tradition of slime trail calligraphy
Ideally, the affected parts will lie along the same callpath. (Depends on the type of debug information, yadda yadda, much work in practice)
A catalog of fictional and real monsters, indexed by the type of human part they eat.↵Blood - vampires, mosquitoes.↵Joy - dementors, ?↵etc
Enticement
Someone decided to entice us to fill out a survey, by sending us a “lucky” two dollars bill with it. Normally we do not fill out any type of surveys, unless proper remuneration is provided. Two dollars isn’t really worth the effort, and normally would not be accepted as a fee. Yet, since there is no way to send it back with assurances it will reach the original sender, we have a small dilemma on hands.
Thus, as the survey is only two page … ⌘ Read more
I loathe emoji
I despise Emoji and emoticons, specially graphical emoji, or people who continuously abuse them, and interject them in every single sentence they type, sometimes even more than once. I thought that I hated “LOL,” which I do, but I would rather see LOL — when justified, not the moronic “LOL” without reason you see often — than see the utter idiotic smiles, winks, etc., continuously, all the time. “ _I am an elitist asshole, but here, have an Emoji! That way you will perceive me differently. … ⌘ Read more
Finding little to talk about
The main problem with Jekyll is that is out of the way. Unlike other weblog engines, which are managed via the web, I come to the shell to type and process this. Perhaps I need to research a better workflow?
I am finding little to talk about lately, and that is keeping things here rather quiet. It is not only that I do not have much to write, but that when the desire arrives it gets lost in translation, mostly because of the way I have decided to handle this little space of mi … ⌘ Read more
“US-International with with AltGr dead key” does does wonders for my Swedish typing: http://t.co/gGZVd7fiYZ, pr/ty close to Polish Kashubian
Films to watch during Christmas
Christmas is not the same without watching certain films. The ones that are always a must for me are “ National Lampoon’s European Vacation” and “ National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”. As I type this I am getting ready to watch them both. Those are the ones to laugh to tears and have fun. The other favourite one – … ⌘ Read more
Comment on Ubuntu 13.10 Default Wallpaper Revealed by Tobias Müller
In reply to Devon Garber.
Shell people talk about me having an IPhone and an Ipad… While I have a cheap Android Smartphone and a nexus 7… People using Apple terms instead of the type of machine bothers me more… ⌘ Read more
HTML5, Input-Types, Form-Validierung und WordPress ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/140
В търсене на перфектната брада: http://www.dyers.org/blog/beards/beard-types/
Back from vacations
We are back from vacations. It was a great one, but at the end we agreed that there is no place like home, for many reasons. They are mostly minor things, to which we have grown accustom to, but that combined make the type of life we live. I might detail some of those little things later.
A few posts will be due, to narrate some relevant things from the trip: Iberia and our misplaced luggages (and their English/Spanish phones lines), Hertz and our lemon like rental car, speed limits, Aix- … ⌘ Read more
Christmas is gone, or is it?
The long whole year wait, for many, comes to an end quite fast. It seems it takes a long time until Christmas arrives, but when it does, it goes away very quickly. “It’s not fair”, Kim says. Well, I am that type of crazy individual that sings Christmas Carols, listen to Christmas music and lives the “Christmas spirit” pretty much all year round. I have my ups and downs like everyone else, but I refuse to let Christmas be a one day celebration. Give it a try! ⌘ Read more
Here without you - WoW
An amateur video composed of Word of Warcraft game scenes, which my kid loves dearly.
Here without you (Dimoroc and Redsword are on my server now!)
On vacation now, typing this from beautiful Sterling, Virginia. ⌘ Read more
Blue Security has gone down
Blue Security has announced it has ceased their anti-spam operations. From their website (which could be down as I type this):
As we cannot build the Blue Security business on the foundation we originally envisioned, we are discontinuing all of our anti-spam activities on your behalf and are exploring other, non spam-related avenues for our technological developments. As much as it saddens us, we … ⌘ Read more
Musical batons and other memes
I hate the “Musical Baton” and any other type of Memes (Friday’s craps, “This or That” imbecile lists, etc). Just do a quick search at Google and you will know what I am talking about. ⌘ Read more
I am a virus, open me!
The history repeats itself. No matter how many viruses get to their inboxes, no matter how many times you tell them not to open those attachments, when all logic and common sense are just yelling “delete!”, they will open it.
Virus and trojan makers/scripters will always succeed. Antivirus companies will always be behind (even for a few hours/minutes) and make tons of money. As long as my type of user exists there will be a future of revenues on that field and a headache for the r … ⌘ Read more
WordPress and how I did it
This might as well be my last entry completely related or dedicated to WP. I am sure I will mention it here and there in the future, but it would have to be something very important for me to talk about it exclusively in one entry.
As the few of you know, I used to run Movable Type (MT) and I was happy with it. The only thing that always bothered me was the rebuild times, which were getting bigger and bigger and the fact the every comment posted would take from 2 to 5 minute … ⌘ Read more