Random link from the archives: http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/4/ originally archived Tue Apr 2 08:29:02 EDT 2019
Foxconn is confusing the hell out of Wisconsin - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/10/18296793/foxconn-wisconsin-location-factory-innovation-centers-technology-hub-no-news
Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
How to self-publish your novel as an ebook - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18285875/self-publishing-ebook-amazon-kindle-epub-book-how-to-editing-art-sales-strategy
Recommended: McKeever’s book about the 90s https://mipmckeever.weebly.com/uploads/9/4/1/3/94130725/90sbookfinal.pdf
jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878
Dune - Muad’dib - Extra Sci Fi - #4 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6_5dKRudiY
Lua 5.1.4 Annotated Source https://stevedonovan.github.io/lua-5.1.4/
Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview
4 lessons from a post-graduate course in omelettes https://thetakeout.com/4-lessons-tips-in-how-to-make-omelettes-1832765134
All of the negative reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when it shouldn’t, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & it fits 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
All of the positive reviews of Alita are like “it follows the manga even when you don’t expect it to, which makes it not feel like a hollywood movie, & does the best job it possibly could fitting 4.5 volumes of manga into a 2 hour movie”
boxbase.org: Null references was a mistake, but what’s the take-away? http://boxbase.org/entries/2019/feb/4/null/
Patchwork Epistemologies (Part 4): Warped by Language – xenogothic https://xenogothic.com/2019/01/30/patchwork-epistemologies-part-4-warped-by-language/
Are there enough shared answers in the jeopardy questions & answers database to make a ‘Ladies, if he X, then he’s not your man, he’s Y’ bot from that corpus? Assume 4 questions per answer.
1x Forth by Charles Moore 4/13/99 http://www.ultratechnology.com/1xforth.htm
Dataspace 4: The Term-inator | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-4/
Enjoying High-Res Graphics on a Text-Only TRS-80 Model 4 from 1983 | Byte Cellar http://www.bytecellar.com/2018/10/17/enjoying-high-res-graphics-on-a-text-only-trs-80-model-4-from-1983/
“Generating Music From Emotion (and other experiments)” by Hannah Davis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiN2DZxU_4
The interesting ideas in Datasette https://simonwillison.net/2018/Oct/4/datasette-ideas/
Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4
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.
Dataspace 4: The Term-inator | Natepod http://natecull.org/wordpress/2017/07/06/dataspace-4/
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
Independence Day: Why the Fourth of July? Why Not July 2nd? https://tedium.co/2018/07/03/independence-day-why-july-4/
The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Home Computer - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-texas-instruments-994-worlds-first-16bit-computer
I tried leaving Facebook. I couldnât - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly
General Magic is a film about the â90s startup that imagined the smartphone - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17233362/general-magic-movie-review-documentary-silicon-valley-tribeca-2018
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
Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.
Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.
Reminder: submissions for the no-budget film contest begin 4/20. You have almost two months if you start now. https://medium.com/p/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
Well after 4 hours of work, I finally think I solved all my client side calculation issues. I have no desire to screw with it again
@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2
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Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/expression-web-4-tutorial-1.shtml
NixOps 1.4 released
NixOps\
1.4 has been released. This release contains contains many
nice new features. See the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
Quake for Oculus Rift
My Oculus Rift CV1 finally arrived last week, so of course I had to update my fork of the excellent Quakespasm engine for the new Oculus 1.4 API.
While I was at it, I also fixed a number of bugs, included support for the Rift’s headphones and the XBox One controller – I’d still recommend you play with mouse & keyboard, though. Controls are set up with reasonable defaults, but you can of course change everything in the options menu. There’s also … ⌘ Read more
My code worked in test, still worked in integration and failed in prod after 4 hours with no complains. Oh my.
Does anybody have an opinion about https://github.com/DracoBlue/twtxt-registry/issues/4?
NixOS 14.12 released
NixOS 14.12 “Caterpillar” has been released, the third stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.14, systemd 217, Glibc 2.20,
KDE 4.14.1, and much more. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 14.12 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 14.12, check out the [manual section\
on\
upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/ind … ⌘ Read more
NixOS 14.04 released
NixOS 14.04 “Baboon” has been released, the second stable
release branch. It brings Linux 3.12, systemd 212, GCC 4.8,
Glibc 2.19, KDE 4.12, light-weight NixOS containers, and much
more. See the release\
notes for details. You can get NixOS 14.04 ISOs and
VirtualBox appliances from the download page. For information on
how to upgrade a 13.10 system to 14.04, check out the [manual\
section on upgrading](/manual/nixos/stable/#sec … ⌘ Read more
Stdenv updates branch merged into master
The stdenv-updates branch has\
been merged into the master branch of Nixpkgs. The main
change are that brings is that Nixpkgs/NixOS are now based on
GCC 4.8 and Glibc 2.18, in addition to many smaller updates. ⌘ Read more