description: Warning, spoilers. It is a recognition and description of the AIs in Gibson’s Neuromancer.
comment:
description: Aphrodite presided over politics, business, war, human relationships, and nature.
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description: The author’s thesis is that devs spend wasted effort adapting their apps to Apple’s annual hardware design changes instead of making the app that they really want.
comments:
It does seem like there is a lot of overfitting necessary to make the visual design of things look right on each pocket computer model.
I’m not saying that we should make a fixed standard for pocket computers, but maybe some standard tools for families of devices? Surely design can be made to flow for that and look good and not all samey.
See also the folk programmers post. We don’t know what we’re doing.
tags: folk programmers
description: The M1 is only 4 years old.
description: No. 8 is about the lamposts. They have a decoder ring.
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I wish they had included a picture of the plaque.
This is one of those secret keys of knowledge that if you know to notice, you notice more. Related to On Looking.
tags: NYC, New York, Central Park, On Looking
description: Small bottle opener sharpish edged thingy. Keychain tool.
description: Big skyscraper in the distant background of close urban housing.
description: That minimalist simplified phone screen list look.
comments:
dumbify app 5$
small phone. matte screen protector
SocialFocus Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
UnTrap for YT, Safari plugin 12$/y after 3$.
SocialFocus and UnTrap have a 3rd partner app by the same developer: DumbPhone, 3$ one time.
Those three apps come in a bundle for 6$.
description: Type words to select emojis and press enter to get them on the clipboard.
tags: single use websites, emoji
description: How to write blog posts so it’s easier for people to be interested and read them.
tags: blogging, writing
description: In this last chapter of the video, Nick discusses the headier bits.
description: The thesis is that organizing people into a managerial machine is more effective than maximizing individual potential. The average is easier to lift a small amount and sum over many people in order to achieve more than it is to have a single or a few outliers pull the average up by their efferts alone.
tags: Francis Bacon
description: Database of geodetic markers.
comments:
If you need a random nearby-ish destination, this is one possible source of those.
Scroll down in the pop up.
Use the passive info page to get a text log about the marker.
tags: geodesy, NOAA, maps
description: A geography consultant blogs about his epic roadtrip. And donuts.
description: It’s a recap of Giles’ vacation trip to Tuscany.
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Sounds like a nice trip.
It’s got a good balance of description and highlights without drowning in details.
Unexpected focus on geothermal features.
description: Bing has a cache alternative to the now removed Google Cache.
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Another place to look if the Wayback machine fails to have a copy.
By induction, there are several sources for caches. If one isn’t helping, then try another.
description: What it says on the tin.
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There are only 5 suggestions. Not what it says on the tin. The other 5 will come later in part 2.
Finding the truth (‘truth’) can be kind of like a puzzle game. Don’t play it with people who aren’t fun? But do engage. It’s easier if it’s not a war.
A group of experts is more likely to be right than any individual. Be more skeptical of the individuals than the consensus.
Put percentages to what you believe. This forces you to examine it a little bit more. Maybe to start to articulate why you believe it at that level and seek supporting or better yet contrary evidence.
Our memories are weak. Remember that. Ha.
Prefer sources of information that admit, advertise even, there past errors.
tags: disinformation
description: Best of Home Shopping Network of the internet
description: September 14, 2024 weather forecast for the state.
description: A bit of background on the blaze star. From NASA.
comments:
Basic, but useful. Aimed at lay audiences.
The artists rendering makes it look rather larger than it will actually be.
description: Timelsapse view of a fire behind downtown LA, in the hills, from earlier this week.
description: A ‘chef-y’ vegan mushroom barley soup that looks great.
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This looks really tasty!
Pity about the sound, but it’s ok.
There are some things I would do differently next time. Roast at 400 F. Remember to toast the barley, since he doesn’t put that in the text version. He says to cook the mushrooms in the broth too but I didn’t do that; try it next time.
description: Comment about the book ‘Metaphors we live by’ by Lakoff and Johnson
description: A long article about using Google Docs to publish things.
tags: archiving, publishing, raw notes
description: weekly walk notes
description: It’s a tutorial for using a generator to make a page or post in Jekyll.
description: It’s brown rice that barely tastes like brown rice. Also it cooks faster.
description: It’s Japanese rice.
description: Part two of landscape photobooks.
tags: photography
description: A 30 minute, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The webpage.
description: A 30 minutes, one pot, meaty spaghetti. The video.
description: Some recommended bread making books from bread focused online shop.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages
tags: art, space, photography, astrophotography
description: Contemporary illustrations and stuff.
tags: art
description: A random online person takes a deep look at what it will take to get to the moon soon. They have doubts.
tags: moon, NASA, Artemis
description: Every scene or frame in the movie is redone in watercolor.
comment: I haven’t watched it yet.
description: All of the categories in the Dewey decimal system.
tags: hacks
description: Blog post on how a Googler is using AI (the chat bots) recently.
comment: I’ve read some of it, I guess I’m starting to grok it.
description: It’s a list of places to buy really good, the best, milk. For making cheese.
description: It’s a quick tutorial for how to speedrun through making something anything.