Consumer Reports History: How a Union Battle Birthed a Magazine https://tedium.co/2018/02/15/consumer-reports-history-origin/
Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want… https://longreads.com/2018/02/15/blockchain-just-isnt-as-radical-as-you-want-it-to-be/
Writing parsers like it is 2017 | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/15/writing-parsers-like-it-is-2017/
Struc2vec: learning node representa… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/15/struc2vec-learning-node-representations-from-structural-identity/
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
Improving Ourselves to Death | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/improving-ourselves-to-death
LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: [GIT PULL] usercopy whitelisting for v4.15-rc1 https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/21/356
Julian Assange’s Hatred of Hillary Clinton Was No Secret. His Advice to Donald Trump Was. https://theintercept.com/2017/11/15/wikileaks-julian-assange-donald-trump-jr-hillary-clinton/
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/15/list-of-passages-i-highlighted-in-my-copy-of-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’ | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality
How Trump walked into Putin’s web | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke
The persistent crime that connects mass shooters and terror suspects: Domestic violence - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/15/the-persistent-crime-that-connects-mass-shooters-and-terror-suspects-domestic-violence/
Get Yourself A Treat https://tedium.co/2017/08/15/lets-all-go-lobby-movie-snipe-advertising/
How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/15/luxembourg-tax-haven-privatise-space?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Since a bunch of catgirls escaped in a lab accident 15 years ago, catpeople have bred like crazy, helped along by many a lonely citizen
Generating Long-Term Structure in Songs and Stories https://magenta.tensorflow.org/2016/07/15/lookback-rnn-attention-rnn
The Etymology of ‘Sabbath’ - Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages UCL Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/calendars-ancient-medieval-project/2015/07/15/the-etymology-of-sabbath/
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D
mdom 15 … webi 67
Useless, but neat! http://ahogrammer.com/2016/11/15/deep-learning-enables-you-to-hide-screen-when-your-boss-is-approaching/
Home alone
Just like I did on 18 July, 2014, this one is mostly for keeping a record of a first time activity or occasion. This time it was Kent’s first home alone day. He is almost 15 years old, and for the first time he spent eight hours home alone, while Kim and I were at work.
Happy “graduation” step, Kent! ⌘ Read more
NixOS 15.09 released
NixOS 15.09 “Dingo” has been released, the fourth stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 15.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 15.09, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
AP classes
Yesterday (15 October) Kent told me he doesn’t want to take AP (Advanced Placement) classes next year. He also told me he might not want to be a neurological surgeon after all, and that he really doesn’t know what he will want to be, professionally. We talked more, but the rest of it has no place in here.
Amongst the many feelings I am experiencing, regret is one of them. If only my parents were alive. I can’t express with words how very sorry I am for the many bad times I made them go through. ⌘ Read more
About the removal of garbage apps
Tim Cook answered a few questions for BuzzFeed, while they talked about things iPhone, iPad Pro, and many other Apple–related things. This part got close to me, as I am sure it might be to anyone who likes iPhones. Why can’t we remove certain apps?
Why are there apps on the iOS that I can’t delete even though I never use them? Why does Apple insist that I keep Tips and Stocks”on my iPhone when I’d like nothing more than to delete them? For Cook the … ⌘ Read more
The Unthinkable
Yesterday I did the unthinkable. Something I have never done — nor will I do again — before. I went very early (03:15) to stand at the Millenia all, to be one of the first (or so I thought) to buy the iPhone 4.
I don’t want to write long about something I am more than half way ashamed of. Suffice it to say that I got an iPhone 4 after standing in line for … ⌘ Read more
Nix 0.15 released
Nix\
0.15 has been released. This is a bug fix release. See the
release\
notes for details. For installation information, see the manual. ⌘ Read more
China earthquake help
Cities completely wipe out, thousands dead, thousands missing, thousands without anything left. China needs our help, and every little thing would help. Ten dollars might not be much for you, but when many donate we can make a difference. ⌘ Read more
Einstein on religion
Einstein: Letter to Eric Gutkind
“… The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can for me change this. These subtilized interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the origina … ⌘ Read more
Only in Russia
Drunk Russian sleeps off knifing – A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six inch (15 cm) knife in his back - until his wife woke him up.
Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.
He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged.
Amazing, isn’t it? ⌘ Read more
Post Katrina crime increase
Ever since after Katrina we have seeing crime increase to levels never saw before in Orlando. Crime has been so high, that it has placed our city on the top most 25 dangerous cities in the States. Orlando, City Beautiful, rated higher than Miami on crime. Every single day more than 4-5 people die victim of a violent crime. Others get injured. It seems other cities/sta … ⌘ Read more
Wired News: Apple’s iPhone is Calling
Wired News: Apple’s iPhone is Calling
The most likely scenario, as Jupiter analyst Ian Fogg has pointed out, is that the iPhone will be a stand-alone device that will accept a standard SIM card. You’ll pop the SIM card out of your current cell phone and plug it into the iPhone. It’ll be just like buying an unlocked handset from Asia, except you’ll buy it at an Apple store instead o … ⌘ Read more
Craigslist founder will not sell
The founder of craigslist, the free social-networking and classifieds Web site, said on Thursday he is not interested in selling out, just hours after MySpace.com was valued at $15 billion.
“Who needs the money? We don’t really care,” Craig Newmark said in an interview at the Picnic ‘06 Cross Media Week conference in Amsterdam.
“If you’re living comfortably, what’s the point of having more?” Newmark said.
[…]
… ⌘ Read more
Why e-mails are so easily missunderstood
Very interesting read and, in my case, it has proven to be as close to truth as it can be. Go read the whole thing, it is worth it.
Though e-mail is a powerful and convenient medium, researchers have identified three major problems. First and foremost, e-mail lacks cues like facial expression and tone of voice. That makes it diffic … ⌘ Read more
Terri’s autopsy: What does it means?
The results of Terri Schiavo’s autopsy were released today. BBC News reported:
Examiner John Throgmartin said there was no evidence of trauma or strangulation prior to Schiavo’s collapse. The autopsy also could not prove that she was suffering from an eating disorder at the time – her diminished potassium levels at the time could have been affected by emer … ⌘ Read more
Three in less than a month
There hasn’t been that much movement around here –on the weblog, I mean–, since hurricanes have kept us busy during the second half of August and the first of September. First Charley, then Frances and now Ivan. The stress level of people around is pretty high, so is their worry. There is a saying, you know, “three and you are out!”. Everyone I know, whose house or properties have been undamaged, is … ⌘ Read more
Veteran of Charley
Mother Nature, just as humans, changes her mind. That is the case of hurricane Charley. All forecasts read that Tampa, FL would be the one beaten by him but Mother Nature, with it’s natural (no pun intended) ambivalence made a twist and brought it directly near Fort Myers, and then to us in Orlando, FL.
Needless is to say we had winds. We had winds all right. Actually, we got everything: homes, commercial buildings, trees… all destroyed. And we got no power, no cable (and Internet) and … ⌘ Read more
Short and sweet
Just a quick post, short and sweet, while my wife and kid still sleep and I patiently wait for the ServerBeach people to fix the mess on my server (the other server). Can you believe that I lost connection last night, went to sleep and this morning I found that my IP goes to a Windows 2003 server? Boy, talk about some big time screw up!
I have 15 (fifteen, that is) invitations for Gmail that I am giving out for free. If anyone wants one, go ahead and [email … ⌘ Read more
Update: Permalinks
I’ve decided to honor all previously made links to entries around here, so I have tweaked WP accordingly. I did so not only because of the links, but because of the trackbacks as well. Enjoy! ⌘ Read more
Old permalinks broken
If you had links to specific entries here you are finding out they broke. Let me start by apologizing, I did not know some people had links pointing to here.
You see, I could’ve created permalinks on WordPress that matched the old ones, but I was tired on having such large URI’s. That’s the reason I have changed them when I switched. The one’s in use now will last for a very long time, I have choosen them to be around for a whi … ⌘ Read more
Got a Mac, once again
My first knowledge about Mac’s came sorrounded by a mist of legend, legend that has lived until today: Mac’s are wonderful, powerful, friendly machines, that boot with a graphic interface and which mouse has only one big button. Ok, that was what I thought 15 years ago or so, but you get the idea.
Eight months ago I bought a dual 1.42 Ghz PowerMac G4, with 2GB RAM, 128 VRAM, 120GB HD, SuperDrive, Bluetooth… beautiful machine. Then wife lost her job and some of my most valuable po … ⌘ Read more
Money for your hobby?
I have seeing an increasing amount of weblogs that are, either running Google AdSense to make money or asking for donations. Does that works? I mean, does Google AdSense can be enough for someone to actually make a living out if it? And, on a related token, would the amount of “donations” add up enough to pay the rent? I am curious.
On politics. I am a republican although I am not sure if I will vote like so on the next Presidenti … ⌘ Read more
Redesign on the horizon
Pretty soon I will be redesigning. I am not sure what I will do yet, but the main site will change. Additionally, I will be adding an extra blog using MT (Movable Type).
On the main site I am not sure whether to go simplistic or zeldmanian, but changes are due, since I am also changing the way I have been writing lately. The domain Collantes.US will become the echo of my thoughts on technology, science, religion, politics and everything else in between. Stay tuned, if you want. Or … ⌘ Read more
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