Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erected inns there. That is why factories locate there, why warehouses, assembly plants and distribution centers are established there. That is why people settle and cultural institutions grow there. No one wants to operate in a place that people are just passing through; everyone wants to settle where people will stop, and rest, and look around, and talk, and buy, and share. Cities Are Meant to Stop Traffic
It’s bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes. — John Sweeney “Money laundering is a very sophisticated crime and we must be equally sophisticated”*… | (Roughly) Daily
Of course the first thing you do after buying media on DVD is to fire up #Handbrake to make a local copy - those discs are just too fragile!
How to Draw a Rectangular Box Around Your Content in BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/draw-rectangular-box-around-content.shtml
Of all the updates in today’s brew update && brew upgrade, the last one I expected was an update to a game originally implemented in the late ’70s. And yet, GOFAI/dungeon is now at 4.1.
Honestly never realized before Beakerbrowser that peer-to-peer could be used to share markdown, JavaScript and html files.
New repository: aquilax/flash-cardon - Flash Cardon - browser extension to help with learning new languages by reading web pages
My USB power brick says to cycle the charge in it every so often, so I had it keep my iPad powered up away from any outlet. Fully drained it and plugged it in to a powered-off computer to recharge. Overnight, it’s only recharged…halfway. Didn’t expect the recharge to be this slow.
On the blog: Tweets from 05/11 to 05/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/15/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Cows make milk. They milk themselves. Other cows check the milk (for free). Cows - get this - PAY THE FARMER to take the milk away. Then the farmer (you won’t believe this, honestly) sells the milk back to the cows. Sometimes the farmer lets the cow drink a tiny bit of its own milk. The farmer calls it ‘longstanding commitment to Open Access’. What Is a Sustainable Path to Open Access? | Hacker News
The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time… trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, International Nurses Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/11/nurses.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part V https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/10/project.html #quora #career
Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect, so you have to make it different. Different is better. The Technium: 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club - Orang-U https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/09/orangu.html #freeculture #bookclub
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 05/04 to 05/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/08/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Squire of Gothos https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/07/squire.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to Insert a Bullet Point (Unordered) List with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/unordered-lists.shtml
Continue to disregard - Now I’m checking that line feeds are consistent…
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, If You Give a Mouse a Sci-Fi Franchise… https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/04/mouse.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu
One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part IV https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/03/tooling.html #quora #career
Most people think of “evil” as being synonymous with “malicious” and “doing really, really bad things.” But I have a broader view of “evil.” I consider a thing to be evil if it creates bad outcomes not just out of malice, but instinct or carelessness. Peep Show – The Most Realistic Portrayal of Evil Ever Made – Dormin
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Culture Book Club https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/02/freeculture.html #freeculture #bookclub
If you don’t rephrase something in your words, you probably don’t care enough to learn it How to Take Smart Notes :: Up and to the Right — Jonathan Borichevskiy
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 04/27 to 05/01 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/05/01/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Two things are difficult about cloaking spaceships: First is to figure out how to dive below the vacuum’s surface, second is to not get eaten by what swims there
Time to write a RISC-V emulator I guess, https://book.rvemu.app/
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Galileo Seven https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/30/gseven.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
I’m enjoying listening to music on my re-discovered #MiniDisc players. Pop in the disc, press play and listen to about 150 minutes of your own music in clear digital quality.
Well, it was not a proper fix, more like a duck-tape mend, the right thing to do is to add a BSD branch and fix the calls to BSD’s awk and fmt so they produce the data in the way the rest of the code expects it. #txtnish #gnu #bsd
Well, it was not a proper fix, more like a duck-tape mend, the right thing to do is to add a BSD branch and fix the calls to BSD’s awk and fmt so they produce the data in the way the rest of the code expects it. #txtnish #gnu #bsd
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, End of April https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/27/april.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part III https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/26/programming.html #quora #career
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Distributed Community Curation https://john.colagioia.net/blog/programming/2020/04/25/distribmod.html #programming #decentralization #socialmedia #moderation #community #cultivation #curation #socialshowdown
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 04/20 to 04/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/24/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, Shore Leave https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/23/leave.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to Start a List with a Number Other than 1 and Still Have it Automatically Numbered (HTML) ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/html-tutorial/start-ordered-list-with-different-number.shtml
I like the clean and simple design choice. Easy to read and not distracting. Good!
What about int * a?? ;) I struggle more with if(NULL == var) and if(true == var)… more error prone, because missing one “=” won’t assing anything. But it looks odd to my eye.
Learning a little about Apache Airflow https://sg.com.mx/sgvirtual/sessions/introduction-to-apache-airflow/ #SGVirtual
Learning a little about Apache Airflow https://sg.com.mx/sgvirtual/sessions/introduction-to-apache-airflow/ #SGVirtual
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, 中国语言日 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/20/chinese.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu #font
When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you, and you lose the part of your identity that was external to you, and kept within that person. When someone dies, you lose the memories they have of you. - memory loss death | Ask MetaFilter
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part II https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/19/techstack.html #quora #career
You can just say that a person it a slave to the extent of their desires/attachments. You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” You’re a Slave to Money, Then You Die | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 04/13 to 04/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/17/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message.
If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing “If you want to know what an institution does, watch it when it’s doing nothing”*… | (Roughly) Daily
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, Balance of Terror https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/16/trek-balance.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Listening to Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix while enjoying a Belgian Leffe during these dark hours.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Experimenting with Worker Threads https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/15/worker.html #techtips #programming #javascript #threads
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, Jefferson’s Birthday https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/13/jefferson.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu #font
Need to remember to use single quotes tho
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Advice for Aspiring Career-Hoppers, Part I https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/12/career.html #quora #career
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - And the Rest https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/11/rest.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #okuna #bitnation #socialshowdown
first thing that comes to mind: this can be used for ascii art.
Welcome to twtxt @marado!
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 04/06 to 04/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/10/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Moving to a tilde -> http://tilde.pt/~gil/twtxt.txt, hopefully it will be easier to manage using one liners instead of a google sheet
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Conscience Of The King https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/09/trek-conscience.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
How to Insert a List that Automatically Numbers/Renumbers Itself with BlueGriffon ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/numbered-lists.shtml
@johanbove@johanbove.info After hearing about your Gopher server and seeing a .plan link on your website, I was disappointed to not see a finger daemon running on your server
New post on my Gopher site. Back to updating it once a month.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, Early April, Minus the Fools https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/06/no-fool.html #programming #project #devjournal
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Database Basics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/05/database.html #database #intro #education #preparation
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - gitgeist https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/04/gitgeist.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #gitgeist #socialshowdown
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 03/30 to 04/03 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/03/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Menagerie, Part II https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/02/trek-menagerie-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, End of March https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/30/board.html #programming #project #devjournal
I am selecting WeBWorK problems and one says: “What is the approximated probability …” with “approximated” emphasized. Then they continue: “Give you answer to at least 3 decimal places.” What the heck?
Connect to PostgreSQL and Run a Query ⌘ Read more…
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: A Free Culture License Wish List https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/29/copyleft.html #license #meta #opensource #freesoftware #gpl #creativecommons #copyleft
you wake up, open the window to take in a little sunlight. outside, a truck surfaces, leaves a plume of exhaust, dives again. many now-feral cars have organized into schools, parting around police cars looking for their breakfast
and the streets become rivers and take the houses with them, while their inhabitants hardly notice because for them, the outside ceased to exist weeks ago
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Matrix https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/28/riot.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #riot #matrix #socialshowdown
Wise choice of the evening: deciding to pause Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol when sipping my can of La Croix.
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 03/23 to 03/27 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/27/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
In Internet culture, the 1% rule is a rule of thumb pertaining to participation in an internet community, stating that only 1% of the users of a website add content, while the other 99% of the participants only lurk. 1% rule (Internet culture) - Wikipedia)
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Menagerie, Part I https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/26/trek-menagerie-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
What to do if a registrar quotes an exorbitant price for a domain ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/exorbitantly-priced-domain.shtml
It’s 2020. Here’s me, blogging about SCCS. https://dev.to/tux0r/tired-of-jira-here-s-a-pure-posix-to-do-environment-versioned-and-awesome-or-a-case-for-sccs-3pfa
Happy Bring Your Work To Cat Month! The cat pictures will continue until morale improves | MetaFilter
- Eat a banana before singing to help improve vocal quality How I recorded an album on my own, in my room | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Developer Journal, Three Days into Spring https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/23/spring.html #programming #project #devjournal
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Open Oubliette https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/22/oubliette.html #boardgame #announcement #creativecommons
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn “A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there’s nothing to learn”*… | (Roughly) Daily
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization. “I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”*… | (Roughly) Daily
I get what they’re doing, but I wish all my minecraft splash screen messages weren’t about coronavirus. I come here to get AWAY from my worries and troubles!
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - twtxt https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/21/twtxt.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #twtxt #socialshowdown
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Tweets from 03/16 to 03/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/03/20/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Corbomite Maneuver https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/19/trek-corbomite.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Got to fix some scripts, today. Whee…
@kas@enotty.dk Sorry I never replied. Haven’t quite gotten up to speed, here, but investigating the blog issue and twistnik!
Just got up out of bed to do my duolingo to keep my streak going = 82 dias de espanol
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small-D date Night https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/18/date.html #techtips #programming #shell #date #gnu #linux #calendar