@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Did you intentionally tweet a lot of one word messages or did your twtxt client fail hard?
Hot take: gopher is not a failed attempt to invent the WWW, but its own crystallization of a coherent philosophy – to present jump links between text files, without all the other bollocks. That makes it as valuable today as it was 25 years ago.
A Good Place: When Shazam fails you, this Facebook group comes through | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7282/when-you-can-t-find-the-song-on-shazam
The sample they chose to highlight here resembles the kind of paper a 14 year old would try & fail to bullshit after staying up all night partying right before the due date: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/#sample1
Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)
@kas@enotty.dk I should have gone for the two-hour nap (to a first approximation, I can’t powernap). Ended up going to bed at 5 without having had a two-hour nap previously. Failed experiments are the price of knowledge, I guess.
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
Bad idea of the day: time lapse of just really failing to build and paint miniatures
Hot take: Cyberpunk only seems ‘prophetic’ because not enough has changed since the 80s to make it seem irrelevant, and this basically means that cyberpunk failed in its critical project by spawning insufficient praxis
Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center
Hot take: the existence of entrepreneurship is an argument against rational economic actors, because most new businesses fail & the primary factor in that failure is luck.
How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language
The Color of Pomegranates: A Failed Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE
@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.
The very fact that ‘product’ and ‘consumer’ are often appropriate terms is an indication that we have failed to create a sensible world.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Uh, it is very unlikely an upgrade fails so hard it really needs an reinstall. What happened? Power loss?
We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail
‘It’s more fun to be a pirate than join the navy’ is accurate, but Jobs failed to mention that any BUSINESS is a navy in this metaphor. A small navy is at a disadvantage. Naval officers who act like pirates are called war criminals.
Have you tried accusing the outgroup of trying to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of failing to solve the problem? Have you tried accusing the outgroup of successfully solving the problem?
https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )
Cthulhu was due to happen around this time, but its decryption failed because humans had put too many of their own stars into the sky
How to fail at culture jamming â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5
Every Society Invents the Failed Utopia it… http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/every-society-invents-the-failed-utopia-it-deserves/
An effective way of torturing a civilization is repeatedly smacking it into a Great Filter with great speed, so a basilisk dungeon will look like a universe full of civs failing the Fermi Paradox
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 Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
How Did New Atheism Fail So Miserably? | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/24/how-did-new-atheism-fail-so-miserably/#comment-560026
Too much computation in one place wears out the matrix, it starts failing near datacenters. Once-bustling tech hubs give way to glitch belts
Failed Histories of Electronic Music https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/failed-histories-of-electronic-music/1B1F7D957FAFF355B5CD797185F4EEFD/core-reader
How hate groups tried (and failed) to co-opt popular culture | Culture | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/aug/22/hate-groups-in-pop-culture-failure-neo-nazis
How a Group of ‘70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/disneyland-yippies-1970?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
70% Repetition in Style Sheets: Data on How We Fail at CSS Optimization · Jens Oliver Meiert https://meiert.com/en/blog/70-percent-css-repetition/
All attempts to stop Godzilla fail, but as he closes in on the city, the skyscrapers part and from their middle steps their champion
the protective coating on your keyboard is failing, letters spread up your fingers like a rash
Silicon and clockwork fail us, so we tickle Jupiter’s clouds with lasers and wake tornadoes, let storms walk where our probes can’t reach
Like start-ups, most intentional communities fail – why? ⌘ https://aeon.co/essays/like-start-ups-most-intentional-communities-fail-why
@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It’s a feature, i want to see what the rest of the world sees. In case publishing fails.
and SNAP, it’s bound! If you set up the sigil properly that is. Use the wrong sigil and it may fail to bind, or worse. You don’t want worse.
@dnevnik 03: Failed to load a resource: Unable to load resources: Error #2032 в Швеция
high on meaning, one stumbles through these webs and fails to see the spider (though it won’t eat you: it just wants you to extend its web)
Soil samples taken disappear over night, digging sites close over. Sonar shows a chamber in its heart, but all attempts to breach it fail.
The researchers do not dare kill their failed sentient AIs, instead retire them to a dedicated datacenter: The endless superhuman tea party.
We failed to stop the comet but then, it simply sank into the crust. We were relieved until a year later, Earth split in two. Then four.
My code worked in test, still worked in integration and failed in prod after 4 hours with no complains. Oh my.
gravity has failed and nature has to work by sight in the meantime↵you set up mirrors in the garden, it confuses the hell out of the rain
Thesis: It is better for the building of a Tower of Babel to fail, than it is to succeed. This applies to any such tower.
Took home flowers from fairyland / lost them in my garden / now it gained a dimension or two / and the postman fails to deliver my packages
Where are you from?
In the States, looking different and/or having an accent will get you asked “Where are you from?” It doesn’t fail, it happens all the time.
Why are we so concerned about knowing someone’s country of origin? What difference does it make? If anything, it might be a knowledge we do not want to have. Knowing from where someone is from might spark stereotypical comments and behaviors that would jeopardize an otherwise perfect encounter.
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Dragons can be killed
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
“By confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming ever happened, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable. For … ⌘ Read more
Host hunting
I had had all my websites —this one, and many other test ones, etc—, plus my self-managed DNS on ServerBeach (now part of Peer1) for a very long time. They all reside on a dedicated server, which has, sadly, reached it’s end of life (EOL).
Although I can keep it as it is, doing so represents a liability problem, as I will be out of luck, should it decide to fail. The problem is, ServerBeach isn’t offering anything right now similar to the serv … ⌘ Read more