Goat Simulator in real life!!
…Knocking away portions of stone walls and even wandering into people’s homes, prompting demands for a solution
“They move around in packs and cause damage, there are just too many of them.”
www.theguardian.com/world/202…
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together” — apocryphal African proverb, incomplete..
Full version is:
“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. If you want to go slowly, to always be late, and to hardly get anywhere, travel with children.”
Good one from the Urban Cycling Institute:
Our cities do not need driverless cars. They desperately need more carless drivers!
We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost-effective.
(Kurt Vonnegut, apparently, since I cannot find the source)
Apple Announces Ability to Download iPhone Apps From Websites in EU. UK should get the same freedom for those millions iOS users that could benefit from such a regulation.
The fact that car makers don’t give a sh*t about privacy is not new; but the extent of what they do is disgusting. They go beyond telemetry and driving behaviour, they can collect information about your “sex life" and share it with data brokers.
I am not even sure any one can really opt out, or remove that damn always-on modem.
foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/p…
“The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly,” in the words of J. H. Holmes. “It is simply indifferent.”
#links
One of the hardest facts to accept as an adult is that I am the only one responsible for me.
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
“In 1984”, Huxley added, “people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.”
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.
– Neil Postman
Stretching Video by Versus Arthritis youtube.com/watch
One of the hidden gems that I can find nowhere else:
Hanns Wolf - Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor (1929) solist Dana Borșan at Enescu Festival
“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.” ― Richard P. Feynman
Some inspiration from the “Domain Modeling Made Functional” book:
There are two ways of dealing with errors and exceptions inside functions when programming one in the most obvious is to return a result type like in rust, another one is to make sure that the function when it receives an input the input is already validated and not by trusting it but by using a specific type.
This later approach is useful and usable in languages that can enforce type that compile time, But can be very elegant, it’s shown in the book about functional domain driven design
The first one, that return result is called “extending the output”, while the other, which deals with the input is called “restricting the input”
My ideal code is that where the documentation is done by types.
If people walk their dogs, why wouldn’t we walk our toddlers as well, especially after dinner? This would be useful both for of the kids to put them to bed earlier, but also for the parent to help with their digestion.
The three branches of philosophy:
Metaphysics - the ultimate nature of reality Epistemology - the theory of knowledge Axiology - value (right and wrong, beautiful and ugly)
ChatGPT has voice now. Dawn of a new era…
Word of the month: enshitification
Once users are locked in, the platform then shifts its surpluses to suppliers, and once suppliers are locked-in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders.
Once the platform is fundamentally focused on shareholders and the users and vendors to the users are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.
Enshittified platforms which act as intermediaries can functionally act as both a monopoly on services and a monopsony on customers, as high switching costs prevent either from leaving even when alternatives technically exist.
I am inside a land zeppelin.
Once in a while I like to become a tourist in the place I live.
London, from inside a Thames clipper.
When I see people with tape or plasters over their laptop’s cam I wonder if that’s a legitimate concern for their privacy or they do have some very dark secrets.
I see more and more Godot news and growing interest. Unity’s attitude towards their users helps a lot.
🚲 Just exchanged my electric bicycle for a traditional human-powered one. Amazing how much power I lost in the six months I used motor assistance. I hope it will take me less to recover than it took me to lose all the fitness, although I am afraid it might be longer.
I know it is a cliché that says “if you want to go fast you go alone, if you want go go far go with others.”, but it is a cliché partially because it is true. I think it applies in couples, in teams. It is one of those trade-offs that govern the life. You can’t have fast and far.