I don’t need a new home office chair. I thought I did, but I don’t
Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.”
Adobe Flash Player EOL
After ten years since Steve Jobs expressed his thoughts on Flash, effectively banning Flash from ever existing on iOS, Adobe has finally decided to announce that as of 31 December 2020 they will stop distributing, and updating, the Flash Player. Why, they say, they are doing this?
Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also … ⌘ Read more
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown
@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right?
one can find infinite novelty in those thoughts that erase themselves, but never share them or remember those hours
some classes of thoughts are unlocked by walks and showers, others yet closed to us require vacuum, cloud dives into gas giants, nova blasts searing away one’s skin
attempting to build arm-none-eabi cross compiler from source. why have I never thought of this?
@frogotbits.com Well actually I don’t have that much to right down (I think) so a bujo might be overkill. Actually I’m good with Taskwarrior for now, I find it faster to manage tasks, but having a place where I can put tasks and thoughts on paper is nice. That’s why i’m gonna go with dash-plus as @lucidiot@tilde.town showed me :)
@johanbove@johanbove.info I mean, I’d keep this one, but also create another one just to let go thoughts. But yeah, the more I think about it the sillier it gets.
@mdosch@mdosch.de I thought it was a nice practice to share interesting twtxt-ers through a follow tweet
This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.
Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that.
Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later…
alien thoughts encoded in the growth of ice crystals, every evening a brief instant of awareness, every morning oblivion
@mdosch@mdosch.de that would be great! i thought i had the audio working for a second but then i didn’t
Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.
Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more
Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.
hello I’m an intrusive thought, I have a right to live too, please do not stop thinking me
protagonist backstory: escaped from a thought experiment, and on the run ever since
One can construct a bingo sheet to group together anybody. A bingo sheet constructed to group together people who don’t act or think similarly will not reliably predict those people’s thoughts or actions.
disinfo never dies. I ran into somebody the other day who thought LSD stayed in your spinal fluid permanently & caused flashbacks – despite definitely not being alive when that BS was last seriously floated.
Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.
Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/
Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought
If you thought Quora’s anime tag was bad, wait until you see their The Beatles tag. If you think that’s bad, wait until you get on the automatic recommendation list for answering questions in ‘acronyms’.
Extending Interactivity – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/extending-interactivity/
A Flower for Your Thoughts | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/flower-your-thoughts
Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
Am I the only one who thought the Bumblebee trailer was a trailer for a gritty remake of Herbie the Love Bug?
Periodic reminder that even Tim May thought bitcoin hype was out of control: https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get-rich-quick-lambo-crypto
Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual – peterme.com https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/
If you sample your own thoughts at twice the Nyquist frequency, you can theoretically achieve full-fidelity introspection - but only for a very short time, since that frequency doubles every few samples
Beware parasitic spells: Drawn to conduits of mana like practitioners, they attach themselves to larger spells to hitch a free ride, force themselves into invocations as intrusive thoughts
Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/
Thoughtful Programming and Forth Philosophy, Essay by Michael Misamore http://www.ultratechnology.com/forththoughts.htm
Thoughtful Programming and Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/forth.htm
being somewhat low-dimensional and interpretable (unlike sets of network weights), it’s also a popular mind interchange format among AIs and post-humans, who need to be extra careful about what or who they empathize with lest the thought turn out to be a logic bomb
PC: runs around aimlessly, goes through the same set of animations all the time, can only do what the programmers thought to add↵NPC: has a dayjob but does whatever they want offscreen, has boatloads of money, owns a wicked castle
It too quiet here for a Monday morning. I swear if I didn’t know better, I would have thought someone died.
Dodo Thoughts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/
Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.
Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html
@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.
Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
Zero-copy deserialization in Julia http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2018/08/28/zero-copy-deserialization-in-julia/
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.