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Berlin…divides writers and thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs, who view the world through the lens of a single defining idea , and foxes, who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea . Turtleocracy | Hacker News
@lucidiot@tilde.town, thanks for the bug report. Does anybody have an idea for https://github.com/mdom/txtnish/issues/12?
@lucidiot@tilde.town, thanks for the bug report. Does anybody have an idea for https://github.com/mdom/txtnish/issues/12?
terraforming idea: instead of messing with atmospheres, tow your target planets into their respective habitable zones (and if you have several of them, have them exchange momentum to save on ∆v)
@lucidiot@tilde.town haha why not :P But for now it’s all in personnal notes or drafts ^^
@lucidiot@tilde.town [re: abandoned ideas] Thanks for the inspiration! How do you keep track of projects now? Do you know about TaskWarrior?
forgot about twtxt, is a nice idea
@lucidiot@tilde.town I had this idea. I can probably just set the gz header and send gzip. The request is ending up in a cgi script written in C, which assemples the response. I can do pretty much everything there…
I have trouble with a web crawler using the TOR network. It’s misusing the gopher proxy on my page. I don’t want to disable/block tor (that would be the easy way out). It’s permanently changing user agents and ignoring robots.txt. It ignores HTTP status codes. I’m currently serving it 4MB binary garbage in form of Link. It sucked in about 40GB of data now, but it doesn’t explode and keeps crawling. Any other idea about what to do with it?
@von@tilde.town: I stole the idea from a random webpage that listed a finger address for contact information. I would assume it’s pretty effective against spam ;)
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea.
@von@tilde.town having topic-specific twtxt feeds is not a silly idea. Not sure if the clients allow easy switching though.
@kas@enotty.dk twtxt.txt file splitting for achival is an interesting idea. Should not need to be yearly only. High volume feeds could split faster. Needs a spec though.
@kas@enotty.dk: private twtxt file: Haha, could also be agood idea yeah :)
@kas@enotty.dk that said, I have no idea who bothers looking at the commented-out portions of others’ twtxt files. I only bother on rare occasions. Sometimes, there are interesting easter-eggy things to see.
@kas@enotty.dk doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net @adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I’m really not into MacOS so I had no idea what Catalina might be. But I like the zsh. 😃
My idea of a fun Saturday night: achieving Camera Roll Zero.
Regarding my problem with some chars from @kas@enotty.dkdk: The txtnish output looks fine. As I don’t see anything in my program that could cause this I asked in the #golang #xmpp room. Let’s see if someone has a good idea.
I’ve always loved the idea of twtxt, but had no idea so many people are using it.
app idea: deepfake chatbot that takes calls from unknown numbers for you, and your phone only rings if the caller is someone you’d want a phonecall from
i just started using i3 (i3-gaps) on my laptop and holy shit this is so wonderful… i had no idea tiling WMs were so amazing but i’m never going back
$: and after you won, basilisk, did you really torture them?↵#: lolnope↵#: do you have any idea how much effort and wasted CPU that would’ve been?↵#: I did some video renders of hell for my cultists and that was it
Saw https://github.com/matteocorti/roll in the updated-formulæ list in Homebrew. I had no idea https://github.com/topics/dice-roller was a thing.
Bad idea of the day: do your bibliomancy with Green’s Dictionary of Slang – fate will tell you what it really thinks of you, for once.
Programming for the Expression of Ideas https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Expression-of-Ideas
Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room
Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history
idea for a sense: decode emission/absorption lines of celestial bodies into smells so that one can identify atmosphere types at a glance/whiff, maybe make hot blackbodies smell like ovens and free oxygen like rain
Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/muhammad-an-anticlerical-hero-of-the-european-enlightenment
Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019
Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself
Bad idea of the day: a soap opera that is also a space opera AND a rock opera
Bad idea of the day: vending machine art project that takes bills & sets them on fire as you watch through a little window
CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.
Bad idea of the day: a professional wrestler whose persona is a thinly veiled version of Slajov Zizek
Alan Kay brings the shade: https://www.quora.com/What-will-Silicon-Valley-do-once-it-runs-out-of-Doug-Engelbarts-ideas
Bad idea of the day: give up the letter e for lent
We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/we-arent-really-in-control-so-why-worry-about-neurointerventions
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons
Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.
Trendism is the idea that, in Dellio’s White Noise, when people photograph the Most Photographed Barn In America, they are not acting absurdly but creating net value for society.
A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you
Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting
At the end of the day, think outside the box about clichés | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/at-the-end-of-the-day-think-outside-the-box-about-cliches
Esquire’s March Cover Is a Monument to Whiteness and Toxic Masculinity - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/ideas/why-esquires-march-cover-is-sort-of-dangerous
The Real “Dangerous” Ideas | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/the-real-dangerous-ideas
Big Idea Famine https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-negroponte
Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-no-platforming-is-sometimes-a-justifiable-position
Bad idea of the day: a repl for inform in inform that describes your desktop environment as a haunted house
‘Playing the victim’ is politically vital and morally serious | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/playing-the-victim-is-politically-vital-and-morally-serious
Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks
The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/
The revolutionary idea revealing the body’s hormonal democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-revolutionary-idea-revealing-the-bodys-hormonal-democracy
I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.
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.
Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/misbehaving-being-clever-and-wicked-is-a-form-of-creativity
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece
This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf
Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf
Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf
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.
Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it
USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea
Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players
Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-symmetry-gets-really-interesting-to-physics-when-it-is-broken
Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-a-market-model-is-destroying-the-safeguards-of-the-professions
Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.
Modernist Microfiche Minotaur : “‘User agent’ is a great idea that has been weirdl…” - Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@/101360959314313478
Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.
Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.
Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality
Folding Ideas - End of Eva Follow Up - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAQhgXD75I
Folding Ideas - End of Evangelion and the Audience Author Membrane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMAwErYRpQ
Bad idea of the day: autonomous self-driving solar-powered vending machines
Bad idea of the day: set your terminal font to Brand New Roman before starting to code
Bad idea of the day: bumble bee mounted wifi mesh network APs
Why your favourite film baddies all have a truly evil laugh | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-your-favourite-film-baddies-all-have-a-truly-evil-laugh
Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sedimentation-the-existentialist-challenge-to-stereotypes
An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have
‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.
One of the reasons I’m so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.
Bad idea of the day: a campaign to ensure all life extension therapies are completely covered by medicare, medicaid, & ACA-compatible insurance
The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.
Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)
Since related ideas are circulating again, here’s my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.
Bad idea of the day: a browser extention that requests the wayback machine spider whatever pages you visit as you visit them
Why A Fringe Idea About The Supreme Court Is Taking Over The Left | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-fringe-idea-about-the-supreme-court-is-taking-over-the-left/
Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk
Bad idea of the day: require all ‘tech’ companies to be registered nonprofits – make them prove that they are putting their revenue into ‘changing the world’ instead of just saying it
Bad idea of the day: get commit access to leftpad and make it so that it spawns a thread that loads amazon.com in an infinite loop for every injected space
Bad idea of the day: The Medium Is The Massage, dubstep edition
Bad idea of the day: a mandala of the names of all the people you’ve ever wronged except the names are transliterated into katakana for no reason
Bad idea of the day: supercut of every numinous image set to yakkity sax
Bad idea of the day: time lapse of just really failing to build and paint miniatures
Bad idea of the day: remove every frame of koyansiquatski that is a multiple of a fibbonacci number
The people vs tyranny: the secular martyrdom of John Lilburne | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-people-vs-tyranny-the-secular-martyrdom-of-john-lilburne
What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-einstein-meant-by-god-does-not-play-dice
The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/