At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.
Is there already a term for going into a piece of media with the expectation that it won’t be a waste of time / there’s something to be gained by paying attention & thinking? (Like ‘good-faith viewership’?)
I love it. I have a program that needs to processing about half a million records, which will take 3 days. The database that all those records are suppose to go to is acting up after I’ve just done 140K records.
Pet peeve: on my work computer, 80% of my lobste.rs comments double-post because of some kind of missing deduplication logic. Then, I have to periodically go through all my threads to delete the duplicates. Sometimes one copy of the post will have 2 upvotes & the other 3.
On free will: Daniel Dennett and Gregg Caruso go head to head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/on-free-will-daniel-dennett-and-gregg-caruso-go-head-to-head
If imports from China suddenly dropped substantially (say, due to tariffs), would enough manufacturing business go back to S. Korea & Japan to affect Japan’s almost-30-year economic stagnation?
Fastly supports NixOS
We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly
is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability,
which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine
Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com
and Graham Christensen for making this possible. ⌘ Read more
Tell Me It’s Going to be OK | Miya Tokumitsu https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu
When Will Security Go Back to Normal? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY
«Pokemon Go в реале»: как мы работали курьерами Яндекс.Еды ⌘ http://yandex.ru/blog/company/pokemon-go-v-reale-kak-my-rabotali-kurerami-yandeks-edy
@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?
Evil Bobs brand new gopherproxy-c is double as fast as gopherproxy-go. Amazing! (migration is in progress)
My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I’m going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.
This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)
In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
So, I’m going on a 6 hour road trip on Friday the 13th, starting after work on a day when I woke up at 5am. Wish me luck.
life hex: leash-training your dog can be a pain. Instead, make an effigy of your dog, and wrap around it twine made from his own hair, while chanting ‘I bind you to this image’. Pop the poppet in your pocket and off you go
Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.
Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.
Go is a much stranger language than I initially understood. Anyhow, this is my work thus far on an implementation of the Io language in it: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/kamui/senketsu.go
PSA: skepticism != disbelief; criticism != insult. If a ‘skeptic’ ‘criticizes’ something, that means actual intellectual effort is going into examination.
Hot take: anybody who understands markets isn’t going to be a free-market purist. A market is a piece of social machinery with particular environmental requirements under which it works, & those requirements are rare.
OLPCâs $100 laptop was going to change the world â then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
Your Pretty Face is Going to Sell : Open Space https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2018/04/your-pretty-face-is-going-to-sell/
Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-dragons-not-chess-and-go-why-ai-needs-roleplay
Why is pop culture obsessed with battles between go… https://aeon.co/essays/why-is-pop-culture-obsessed-with-battles-between-good-and-evil
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net good going on getting your SSH/Git going.
While True: Looping in Go ⌘ Read more…
This Algorithm Can Tell What You‘ve Learned Before Going to Sleep - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbka5/algorithm-sleep-eeg-learning-memories
Watching Hackers in 2017 – what happened to all the anarchy? | Dazed http://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/37873/1/watching-hackers-in-2017-where-did-the-anarchy-go
Get Yourself A Treat https://tedium.co/2017/08/15/lets-all-go-lobby-movie-snipe-advertising/
What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead… — ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/what-does-an-innocent-man-have-to-do-alford-plea-guilty
Passing Data between Go Routines with Channels ⌘ Read more…
The KLF’s Greatest Protégés Didn’t Really Know What Was Going On : The Record : NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/07/20/537708922/how-three-austrian-unknowns-misunderstood-klf-s-the-manual?curator=MusicREDEF
The Anti-Waiter Sentiment That Made Automat Restaurants Go Mainstream - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/automat-20th-century-waiterless-restaurants?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Unzip Files in Go ⌘ Read more…
Create Zip Files in Go ⌘ Read more…
How to Run Go Tests with Coverage Percentage ⌘ Read more…
Updating Go on Ubuntu/Linux ⌘ Read more…
Sleeping in Go – How to Pause Execution ⌘ Read more…
@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think we are all using an client to read our timeline, but i somtimes use http://twtxt.xyz/ to read on the go.
Man, I love to twtxt with my mail client on the go. :)
@durcheinander Oh, definitely go #static unless anybody non-technical has to use it
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I read a few sentences from your article to my wife, and she replied that we probably should go to Canada …