Into the World of Eileen Chang
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As one of the most perceptive authors of Chinese contemporary literature, Eileen Chang’s fictional writings are best known for her acute observation of all walks of life and the rich tapestry of human relationships in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1940s and 50s. Although it has already been 27 years since Chang’s death, her works are still loved by readers of different generations, … ⌘ Read more

China’s aircraft carrier No 4 will not catch up with US Navy’s nuclear-powered giants, analysts say
China’s naval nuclear reactor technology is not advanced enough to support an aircraft carrier, observers explained. ⌘ Read more

Malaysia: Were Mahathir’s remarks about ‘reclaiming’ Singapore and Indonesia’s Riau Islands aimed at Johor’s sultan?
While some Singaporeans accused Mahathir of fomenting ill will between the neighbours, observers in Malaysia said the remarks were likely a veiled jab at the sultan of Johor. ⌘ Read more

When will China’s Fujian aircraft carrier be ready for active duty?
Observers say the ship’s cutting-edge electromagnetic catapults and other systems will need months of tests. ⌘ Read more

“AI” refers to the observation that computers, over time, can do more & more things

Erlang Solutions: 5 Key Tech Priorities for Fintech Leaders in 2022
Issues caused by sub-optimal tech choices are commonplace in the industry, leading to companies failing under unexpected stress or being unable to adapt in time when their business requirements change.

While no two projects are the same, we’ve observed some common themes for using scalable futureproof technologies to build diverse fintech systems. Taking advantage of these learnings sets financial service provi … ⌘ Read more

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Alien Observers
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Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more

Plotting go test coverage over time without a coverage SaaS #testing #howto #observability href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23qualityassurance”>#qualityassurance**
The Go SDK has been including test coverage reports since Go 1.2.

How can we obtain a time graph of test coverage, without needing a SaaS service? Enter https://gitlab.com/fgmarand/gocoverstats …

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Public service announcement: The fork lockdown is suspended from now on, 2021-11-20 15:45 UTC. Thank you for observing the measure. There were no complaints brought to our attention during the period. Our patrols did not catch anybody in the act of committing forks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Your scenario would produce observed behaviour, agreed. On the other side I’m sure I’ve set very URL in lasttwt > 1630000000.0 (manually, in my editor).

But I can’t reproduce any weird behaviour right now. I’ve tried to “blackhole” twt.nfld.uk temporarily. That does not have any effect.

I’ve also tried to force twt.nfld.uk to deliver an empty twtxt. That does not have any effect either.

So I guess everything is fine with jenny.

I have wrapped jenny into some shell script to versionize ~/.cache/jenney. This way I have better data if anything unexprected is showing again.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just observed unexpected old twts coming back.

It looks like lasttwts is reset to -5364619200.0 every time no new content wasfetched for example if if-modified-since did not produce new twts?

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de
Exactly, you see correct UTF-8 encoded version (even with content-type: text/plain leaving out charset declaration).

After following utf8test twtxt myself I now see that jenny does not handle it as UTF-8 when charset is missing from HTTP header, just like @quark@ferengi.one has observed.

So should jenny treat twtxt files always as UTF-8 encoded? I’m not sure about this.

Stars Talk to Neil deGrasse Tyson – Rocket Fuel, The Observer Effect, and Classical Physics ⌘ Read more

Good developers know how things work. Great developers know why things work. - Steve Souders, High Performance Browser Networking Forewords Observing my cellphone switch towers

1 OBSERVER, 58 IDENTIFIERS, 84 SPECIES, 129 OBSERVATIONS –The World

The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.

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Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)

They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more

There is a palpable difference between the universe described by many religions and the universe described by science. The former is all built from concepts rooted in human society such as father, son, judgment, commandment, obedience, sacrifice, punishment etc. The latter is built from eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable, reference frame, superposition etc. The former feels small, ordinary, familiar and manmade. The latter feels like we’re fumbling for words to describe something that fundamentally transcends ordinary human experience. 100k Stars | Hacker News

There is now a nice monitoring service for #XMPP service operators: https://observe.jabber.network/ (Thanks jonas´)

The Observation Deck » Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/02/10/reflecting-on-the-soul-of-a-new-machine/

Interface usability in a nutshell: minimize how often the simplest way to do a thing the user wants to do is 1) hard to imagine before you see it, or 2) hard to understand once observed. Assume the user is more creative than you & less well-informed.

Today is black friday. Celebrate with armed observation of the police from a distance of fifty feet.

Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/

I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires

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Anthropic physical laws: Actually just endless chains of coincidences, but return to the norm instantly kills all sentient observers

Fonts for Complex Data | News, Notes & Observations | Hoefler & Co. https://www.typography.com/blog/fonts-for-complex-data

“I want th… https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2018/02/i-want-state-think-anarchist-dutch-historian-rutger-bregman-why-left

How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History‘s Greatest Solar Observers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sunspots-japanese-amateur-astronomer-sun-science

Unexplained artifacts in observation data from the Even Larger Telescope: The “compressed skybox” hypothesis [pdf]

https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21724115-observers-donald-trumps-presidency-who-hope-politics-will-eventually-return https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21724115-observers-donald-trumps-presidency-who-hope-politics-will-eventually-return

+++ advice to “read old books” and binge on fossil meme reserves pinpointed as cause of observed noosphere heatup +++

Observe male bulldozers in the wild during mating season, competing for female attention (the females lack shovels) https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/721951526269267968

@allgebrah mind you the observation itself is not new at all (see: gibson’s gernsback continuum) but maybe the word is?

1-2: observe their life and customs↵3-4: a challenger appears but is swiftly struck down↵#eh16 http://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/714138754382958592/photo/1

Paradox of the Active User

The “paradox of the active user” is a concept introduced by John M. Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson (then at IBM, now at Penn State) to explain a common observation in several user studies done at the IBM User Interface Institute in the early 1980s (later confirmed by many other studies, including my own): Users never read manuals … ⌘ Read more