We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.
Why Conspiracy Videos Go Viral on YouTube - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/reason-conspiracy-videos-work-so-well-youtube/583282/
A lot of people are going to start watching Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, and then say ‘this looks like trash’ and stop watching it. They’re right, and it’s a shame. Higurashi had the same problem.
Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/
Bitcoin, Snapchat, Drugs And Death: How A Woman Followed Two “UGNazi” Hackers’ Lies To Her Tragic Killing https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/josephbernstein/tomi-masters-down-the-rabbit-hole-i-go
Unusual core features for a dream language for small computing: MUMPS-style disk persistence of otherwise normal variables indicated by sigils, go-style piping between coroutines or greenthreads, message passing & guards like erlang, parsing backtracking like icon, constraint solving like prolog
i think it’s going to take some time before i can actually Do School again…
One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.
@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.
My furnace broke & the furnace repair guy is snowed in, & it’ll be going below zero tonight. So, I had to run to walmart & buy a bunch of space heaters, & I’ll be up all night making sure nothing catches on fire :(
We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.
Broken Chain Restaurants: When Fast Food Franchises Go Solo https://tedium.co/2018/12/04/broken-chains-fast-food-restaurants/
Remember: unless your turkey sees its shadow, you must go back underground and avoid buying anything until halloween of next year.
Oh no… The Alita movie is going to try to cover the rollerball arc in addition to the first arc.
I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html
Bunny-Girl Senpai is an interesting show. It seems to be going for a theme with the various arcs: each one seems to be about how communications media change our behavior & self-image by exerting social pressure with expectations.
Because of the use of ‘rune’ to refer to unicode codepoints in go, a fulthark transliteration program might have somewhat confusing source…
Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
At work for only 70 min and I already want to go home.
New repository: aquilax/time66 - Go library to get the 6/6 time. Based on https://xkcd.com/2050/
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
@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.
Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang
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.
I’m not used to a second match in a tournament already being a ‘do or die’ match. Go #Germany! #GERvsSWE #WorldCup2018
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
Only a few hours left till #Germany vs #Mexico starts. Go Germany! #Worldcup2018
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
Pushed my #xmpp #twtxt bot written in #go to Github: https://github.com/mdosch/goxtxt
If anyone wants to have a look (and suggest a good name :D): https://files.mdosch.de/2018-03/goxtxt.go
Unbelievable! Germany beats Canada and goes to the finals! #Miracle of #Pyeongchang! Go for gold!
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
New repository: aquilax/crossword - Crossword generator for go
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.
@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.
New repository: aquilax/skyscanner-go - SkyScanner API Client
Man, I love to twtxt with my mail client 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
@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 …
@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 …
New repository: aquilax/go-lionwiki - Go implementation of LionWiki
New repository: aquilax/npg - Go no player game
How to Install Go on Ubuntu 18.04/20.04 ⌘ Read more…
Fizz-Buzz Test in Go ⌘ Read more…
@kenkouot legacy PHP mostly, but my heart is with Go for my own projects
@kenkouot way to #go mate ;)
You can at least go sledding @kas@enotty.dk! It’s been raining for hours in Berlin. #weather
You can at least go sledding @kas@enotty.dk! It’s been raining for hours in Berlin. #weather
Too sick to go working. I’m heading back to bed.
Too sick to go working. I’m heading back to bed.
I think we need something to tell us if we go beyond the 140 chars. http://i.imgur.com/9rZ1wyg.png
New repository: aquilax/gocommerce - Go library for accessing popular e-commerce platforms
Basic Go Routines (like Threading) ⌘ Read more…
NixOS Foundation
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was started to improve our ability to maintain and extend the infrastructure
used by the Nix related projects. If you would like to support us, please go
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Hello world! How to Start any Go Application ⌘ Read more…
New repository: aquilax/go-dirble - Go library for accessing the Dirble.com API
New repository: aquilax/go-wakatime - Go library for accessing WakaTime API