tag:scarysize,2023:atoms2026-05-18T05:30:09.974967MjAyNi0wNC0yMFQwOTowNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==art of rally on Steam last week. Such a joy to play. Very soothing graphics but then challenges you with high fidelity racing simulation. It pushed me into a bit of a rally rabbit hole on YouTube. This Canadian guy went from sim racing to real life rally racing within a year.]]>MjAyNi0wNC0wOFQyMToyMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii. Just the right amount of detail for someone with next to zero knowledge of Mac drivers and the boot process.]]>MjAyNi0wMy0yNlQwODozNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==„This Is Not The Computer For You“.]]>MjAyNi0wMi0yNlQyMDoxMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==claude.ai and have my query typed out. Please vibe-code your way to a native desktop app.]]>MjAyNi0wMi0wMlQxMDo1MDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==source). This rings true; AI won’t safe your IT if you haven’t had your eye on the ball before. At Spotify, we’ve got a plethora of easily accessible APIs, datasets and tools. All easy to find on Backstage. Having Claude Code integrate with those gives every engineer incredible leverage.]]>MjAyNS0xMi0yOFQxNjozMzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==What happened to all the gold Spain got from the New World?]]>MjAyNS0xMi0xNFQxMDoxOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Zed editor. It feels less clunky than vscode and its derivatives. On my 2020 MacBook Air (M1), the performance difference is significant. On my work machine, I mostly notice it through different start-up times.]]>MjAyNS0wOC0xOFQxMDo0ODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed (Ars Technica)]]>MjAyNS0wOC0xNVQxMTo0NzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Hazel Weakly writes about how we’re building AI tools backwards (and wants us to stop). It’s a long read. The gist is that we need tools that help us think instead of thinking for us.]]>MjAyNS0wNy0yNVQwOTowMjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==thinking, understanding, and learning. I don’t think you need to organize your notes. Most often, I write things down and throw them away the next day. The “writing down” served its purpose; it helped me work through a specific problem. Of course, there is writing you should organize and keep around: think journals, work logs, or texts you intend to share.]]>MjAyNS0wNC0yM1QwOToyNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==request the form here.]]>MjAyNS0wMy0yMVQwOToxNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==The IndieWeb Doesn’t Need to ‘take off’” by Susam Pal: “It's like saying that gardening hasn't taken off because most people buy their vegetables at the supermarket”. Agree! The post is definitely stating the obvious, but that doesn’t make it less valuable.]]>MjAyNS0wMy0xMFQxNzoxNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==talk from Maximilian Fichtner on energy storage of the future (German).]]>MjAyNS0wMS0xN1QxMDo1NzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==FDP, SPD, AfD, CDU (upcoming), Grüne (upcoming). Their insights mostly focus on the economics of the programs.]]>MjAyNS0wMS0wMlQxMDo0ODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==cropping vertical videos to a square viewport gives a straight up 90s 4:3 vibe.]]>MjAyNC0xMi0xNlQxNDoxMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Slides from Dan McKinley 2024 talk “Egoless Engineering”. It’s about empowering those dependent on your engineering team instead of building domain silos.]]>MjAyNC0xMi0wOVQwODo1MTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==One Million Checkboxes website a few months ago, published another fascinating hack: everyuuid.com. It’s accompanied by a blog post explaining how the website handles 2^128 UUIDs, including text search!]]>MjAyNC0xMS0zMFQxMzoxMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==A good explainer on the math behind the BM25 full text search algorithm.]]>MjAyNC0xMS0yMVQxNjo0NDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==A 2017 paper talking about beating sports betting bookmakers by using the odds published by them. They used the probability intrinsic in the odds to predict game results. Then used that prediction to identify betting market inefficiencies aka bookmakers publishing skewed odds. When their real life bets panned out too often, they got their betting accounts restricted heavily. It’s a fascinating read that isn’t to heavy on the math.]]>MjAyNC0xMC0yMlQyMTozNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyNC0wOS0xM1QwOTo1MjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Rob Pike’s 5 Rules of Programming”. Rule 5 especially stuck with me: “Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.”.]]>MjAyNC0wOC0xN1QyMDoyNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Ed Zitron on Microsoft investing in OpenAI with Azure cloud credits. „…it’s like an airline investing in a company but, instead of providing cash, it hands over air miles.“]]>MjAyNC0wNy0zMVQxMDoxMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Creativity Fundamentally Comes From Memorization” on mastering the basics to free up your mind for higher-level tasks.]]>MjAyNC0wNi0zMFQxNjo1NzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==digital media phenomenon that was Game of Thrones]]>MjAyNC0wNi0xM1QwOTo0MDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==A Finnish guy builds a remote controlled submarine with a sonar to solve two missing person cases.]]>MjAyNC0wNi0xMFQxMDoyNjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Adobe pinky swears that it’s not going to train their GenAI models on users private files content. IANAL, but unless they change the wording of their terms of service, they can just wait until this blows over and go nuts later.]]>MjAyNC0wNi0wM1QwODo0OTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Will Larson suggests a No Wrong Door policy to help navigate unintuitive organizations. Instead of giving people in need of help the runaround, you take the lead in reaching out to the relevant contacts. This works for agencies providing social services but also for technology orgs.]]>MjAyNC0wNS0yMFQxNjo0ODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==great rebuttal on the viral „No one buys books“ from a few weeks ago. To summarise: People still buy books. The quotes and stats from the original post try to paint a dire picture of the publishing industry because they are sourced from a merger court case.]]>MjAyNC0wNS0wMVQxOToyMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Here’s a good review of the third season (spoilers) from Stephen Rodrick: „Oldman once portrayed John Le Carré’s George Smiley, so imagine spymaster Smiley gone to seed, a seed buried at the bottom of a waste treatment plant.“]]>MjAyNC0wNC0yOFQxNTowNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Why You Can’t Get a Restaurant Reservation“ How bots, mercenaries, and table scalpers have turned the restaurant reservation system inside out.]]>MjAyNC0wNC0yNFQwOToyNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==No one buys books“ is an analysis of a merger hearing transcript, book publishers talking numbers: „…58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies.“. A few big books drive most of the profit, followed by backlog purchases (Hungry caterpillar, LotR etc.). The only money most authors ever make from their books is the advance paid by the publisher.]]>MjAyNC0wNC0xMlQwOToxNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Ads Don’t Work That Way” makes the case for advertisement working by cultural imprinting rather than emotional inception. The idea of inception assumes that exposure to an ad creates an emotional bond in your brain. Resulting in your brain going “Nike good shoe” when shopping for new shoes. Cultural imprinting seems more comprehensible to me: You learn to associate a given brand with a given message. On top of that you learn that other people got the same message. “Wearing Nike shoe shows my peers how athletic I am (or want to be)”.]]>MjAyNC0wNC0wOVQxNDoxMjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Die Linke, FDP, SPD, BSW (episodes for AfD and CDU are still to come).]]>MjAyNC0wNC0wOVQwODo0NDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==how to use LLMs in a product. He clears up some common misconceptions and misleading mental models.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0zMFQxNDozOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Postlight Parser (formerly Mercury Parser) over to Swift to use in my read-later app. It’s a great use case for picking up a new language: It’s a bit like building legos from the manual. You already know what the end result should look like. Individual functions and their unit tests help you proceed in manageable steps.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0zMFQxNDozMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==well-thought-out approach to collecting user data: Don't store it in the first place. Don’t identify users. Don’t bolt privacy on “later”.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0yOVQwNzoxODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Writers are complaining that the follow feature is costing them a lot of valuable subscriptions. I guess that’s the feature enabling their feed that I noted last year.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0xOFQwOTowMzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==online registry for organ donors in Germany. Currently you need an eID (Personalausweis mit Onlinefunktion) to register. This means you can stop carrying around that physical donor card. Next stop: Make organ donations opt-out not opt-in.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0wM1QxOTozODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Flexible Schemas Are The Mindkiller.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0wM1QxOTozNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Listening six hours to Matthew Cox conning the sh*t out of banks is one of the most entertaining Lex Fridman episode as of yet. He’s a great story teller, and boy, does he have stories to tell.]]>MjAyNC0wMy0wM1QxOTozNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==price fixing using algorithms: “When you replace once-independent pricing decisions with a shared algorithm, expect trouble.” and “And even if some of the conspirators cheat by starting with lower prices than those the algorithm recommended, that doesn’t necessarily change things. Being bad at breaking the law isn’t a defense.”]]>MjAyNC0wMi0yMVQwOToyMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyNC0wMi0yMFQxMzo0NzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This article gives an insightful overview of the states of carbon capture and sequestration. Even the largest facility produces about 25 times the CO2 it sequesters. Others are even less efficient. Globally, a single year’s output of wind and solar has avoided 35 times CO2 that has been sequestered in the last 50 (!) years.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0yMFQwOToyODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Most recently complaining about the Arc browser, which uses a summary model for search queries. It won’t display „traditional“ search results. As if ads are the only way to make a profit in the space. There are options, there’s no law against offering more than one. Ryan Broderick had a great write up on this. Subscriptions work, if the content is worthwhile. There are many examples of media companies increasing their profits in the “digital age”: The Guardian, Slate, NYT, 404 Media, Defector. If nobody wants to read your click baity stuff to get the info that would have fit in 140 chars, maybe it’s okay if an AI summarises it.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0xOFQxMDozODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Source). “Social democracy is unimaginable in a world where cloud-proles are reduced to automata, while almost everybody else works for free as cloud-serfs, without even realising that their labour replenishes the dominant form of capital”, writes Yanis Varoufakis. He outlines the concept of techno-feudalism in his recent book.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wOVQxODozMDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Link list, reading view.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wOFQwODoxMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==banning e-scooters, Paris voted to triple parking fees for SUVs. Both vehicles are huge risk factors, but more generally are just fricking annoying. They block street crossings, visually and physically. Already narrow side walks have to bear them as an additional burden. In Hamburg, the SPD and Grüne are pushing for more dedicated scooter parking spots. There are currently 34 in all of Hamburg. At least a tiny sliver of hope.]]>MjAyNC0wMi0wM1QxMzowOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==trouble getting it out: „The problem with removing a bundled plugin is that it can break application signatures and cause problems with updates.“. Hey, it’s not a plugin if you can’t easily unplug it. It’s right in the name! That’s just hype driven, irresponsible product development.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0zMVQyMDoyNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Garbage Day newsletter posits two interesting questions that nobody else seems to ask: Do people actively seek out news content? And secondly, do they want summaries of information once they receive it? I agree with the resounding „No“ to both questions. Conversely, many emerging AI products assume just that.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0yMlQwODoyNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==a video (4min) of the impressive mission. The satellite-like spacecraft orbited the astroid a few times, then sprayed it with liquid nitrogen to loosen up dust to collect. It sent the dust back to earth and continues to travel to another, smaller astroid.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xOFQxMToxMzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Nutritionist Answers Diet Questions From Twitter” has some pretty useful, actionable insights around your diet. Related, the John Hopkins Institute for Medicine has an editorial on the effects of multivitamins. Spoiler, they don’t reduce risk for heart disease or cancer. They also found that they didn’t reduce risk for mental decline. The only exception being folic acid for pregnant women. It prevents neural tube defects in babies.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xMlQwOTowOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==DHH suspects that GCP eliminates exit egress costs because of impending EU anti trust laws or to steal market share from its competitors. I think there’s also a tiny possibility that this might be step one in spinning down their cloud business. Not completely shutting down, but making larger cuts, focusing on the money makers.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0xMVQxOTo1NDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==An interesting study on social influence. They replicated the Asch experiment on conformity and extended it by introducing incentives. It tests how individuals yield to a majority group in simple tests. They replicated the results of the original study, additionally, they analysed whether the big five personality traits had an influence on the results.]]>MjAyNC0wMS0wOFQxMDoyOTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==An App Can Be A Home-Cooked Meal and 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev]]>MjAyNC0wMS0wNVQxODozMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==class action lawsuit to get 23andMe to enforce 2FA for all its users. They still say it's the user's fault for reusing passwords. It sort of is, but it's also hugely negligent not to offer better protection when storing DNA (!) data.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0zMFQxNToyMjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMi0yOFQyMToyNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Bluesky invite codes. That’s the Twitter/AT Protocol social thingy. Send me a message at atoms[at]franz.hamburg if you want one.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0yN1QwOTo0NTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==higher thermal conductivity than air. If you want to thaw something frozen quicker, put it in a room temperature water bath.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0yNlQxODo0NzowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMi0yNFQwODowNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==how good Uniqlo’s self-checkout is. Uniqlo is a big Asian fashion retailer. They have a store in Hamburg that I went to, and I’ve got to say that the checkout experience is spectacular. You just have to dump your clothes in a bin, confirm the list of items on an iPad-powered register, pay, and leave. Please give me that experience at a regular supermarket's self-checkout. Both Edeka and REWE are horrible UX-wise. As the article states, they only shift the labor of scanning everything from the cashier to you. Uniqlo's process actually makes it more efficient.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0xOVQxMToxNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Rémusat wrote about a 1830 political meeting.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0xNVQwNzoxNDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==longer posts haven’t seen an addition in the last year.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0wN1QwODo0NDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==another 17% of its employees. If you’re currently hiring, here’s a list of all those talented people.]]>MjAyMy0xMi0wMVQxMzoyODowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Password Rules Are Bullshit” situations: I couldn’t use my randomly generated, 64-character password because I wasn’t allowed to use my first or last name in there. It contained a single capital L.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0yMlQxMDo1MjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==capable hands /s]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xOVQwNzozMDowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This post by the Marginalia search engine’s creator inspired me.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xOVQwNzoyNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Hades, a rogue-like from Supergiant Games. Before that, I played a bunch of Dead Cells. With over a hundred hours on both games, I’m allowing myself a little comparison: They’re both extraordinary if you're into the genre at all. Dead Cells is a little less casual, especially if you consider all the DLCs. It becomes overwhelming when you come back to it after a longer break. All the little decisions that go into your build increase significantly with each extension. It’s also more demanding in terms of mechanics. Enemies punish you hard when you do screw up those mechanics. On the other hand, the game is much more rewarding when you succeed. Hades has all these aspects, but tuned down. It’s perfect for an hour or so in the evening. Its pace is more forgivable. You don’t have to clear all the floors flawlessly to have a realistic chance at succeeding at your run. Both games are great on the Steam Deck, I haven’t turned on my Windows PC this month.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xNlQwNzozNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==„Small Web“ site. It’s a directory of small (personal) blogs. The site helps you randomly pick one that has fresh content. So, you always land on something recent and dead pages are filtered out. Not that dead content is bad, but Kagi tries to find people that you can actively „follow“.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0xMlQxMToxMTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==video on improving text editing on mobile. The accompanying website is here. Editing (not writing) sucks on mobile, both on Android and iOS. This looks to improve that by unifying gestures.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wOFQyMDozNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==A Thousand Streams in Your Pocket” Kristin Graziani explains Spotify’s new royalty model. It also makes it kind of obvious why there’s a huge outcry from distributers. Those sitting between Spotify and actual artists. The won’t continue to bank micro payouts from Spotify while maintaining thresholds for payouts towards their artists.]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wNVQxNjowNTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Charles's Rules of Argument” from 2004 still applies today. The piece discusses how to avoid online arguments altogether. And if you do find yourself in one, use this two-step approach: (1) State your case (2) Clarify any misunderstandings. Martin Fowler summarized this concisely as "only reply once".]]>MjAyMy0xMS0wNVQxNTo1OTowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==You and your 1544 partners don’t value my privacy. Edit: The pictured banner lead me to search for a new banner blocking extension. I’ve used Super Agent in the past, but everything even slightly popular needs to be a hustle. So, they started charging money. A quick web search and a Reddit post (talk about a hustle…) lead me to Hush. Open source, native iOS and macOS, does the job.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0zMVQxNToyNjowMCswMTowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==pay for DNA data from 23andMe? They could just wait for their next security breach.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0yNFQwOTo0NTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0xMC0xOVQxOToxMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==But here we are. I think this is as much on the user as it is on the company. If you allow simple passwords, users will use simple passwords. If you want to allow easy passwords at least have the courtesy to check against known breaches.]]>MjAyMy0xMC0xNFQxNTowNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==How To Like Things. A pleasant explainer how you go about liking things. Why would you want to like new things? How do you go about? Finding joy in the things you don’t like (but want to). I even got a personal example related to the previous post on Java: While I never liked Java, I learnt to appreciate it. Not for its verbosity, not for its build system, not for Spring but for its ubiquity. It’s literally everything, especially at Spotify. I can ask about a thousand colleagues if I have an issue with it. I can read and understand another team’s code, heck, even help them fix a bug. The barrier is just so fricking low. That’s how I like Java. (And how it’s such an huge enabler for Clojure).]]>MjAyMy0xMC0xM1QwODoxMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Java for Everything.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0yN1QxOTowMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wOS0yMVQyMTowODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==lead the way.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xOVQyMjowMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==main website. All the post links should still work, they redirect to the post on the new site.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xNlQxMzo1MzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==I wrote about a few weeks ago went on to win the ACX review contest. Well deserved! The author, Brandon Hendrickson, has his own Substack. There he tries to convey more of Egans theories on education.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0xMVQxMDoyOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Effectiveness of wearable activity trackers comes to the conclusion that “…there is sufficient evidence to recommend the use of activity trackers”. Specifically they notice an increase of 1800 steps per day, 40 mins more walking and an reduction of 1kg in bodyweight (on average). Fits with my anecdotal evidence.]]>MjAyMy0wOS0wOFQwOToxMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==1]. The discussion happened below this post describing how Chrome starts to directly track users. It’ll share a list of your “topics” with advertisers. I remember a huge uproar when they announced FLoC, they let that the attention cool down and basically turned it on.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0zMFQwODo0MjowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==paper’s site and here’s a demo on Hugging Face. The pessimist in me sees this abused for surveillance.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0yOFQxMzo1MzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==MjAyMy0wOC0xN1QxNTowMzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==DIY Espresso, a 3D printed espresso maker powered by liquid CO2 cartridges. Awesome!]]>MjAyMy0wOC0xNFQxNTozNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==This is what medium.com looks like in 2023. I’m so pleased to have moved my posts off from their on my own site. Own your content, but feel free to cross post to other platforms.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0xM1QxMDoxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Credit card debt collection“, alternatively dubbed „waste stream management“ by patio11 goes into the intricacies of debt collection. As you might suspect, a lot of abuse happens within this system.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wN1QwOToxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==link) and for the article of the day (link). You can change the language by editing the subdomain of the url. I only found these feeds on the German front page, the English one weirdly doesn’t link to them.]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wNFQxNzoyNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Dictator Book Club: Putin. A review of Masha Gessen‘s „The Man Without A Face“. (Yes, I’m rediscovering Scott Alexander‘s blog)]]>MjAyMy0wOC0wMlQxOTo1MDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==book review of Kieran Egan‘s The Educated Mind. In the book, Egan outlines his vision for a revamped education system. His primary critique on the status quo is that it ignores what students at a particular are naturally good at. He argues that kids in the elementary age are good at understanding stories, metaphors, binaries and jokes. We should use those as tools for teaching. In middle school, extremes, gossip, heroes and idealism join the party. High school students are eager to look at the big „simple“ questions, come up with general schemes, find their place in the world and seek certainty. I haven’t thought about education a lot, but that piece had me on the hook. It’s about a two hour read and I enjoyed every single minute of it.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yOVQwODoyODowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==On Climate Change by Bert Hubert. The first time I heard about solar radiation management, injecting sulfur in the stratosphere to cool the earth. It has been a taboo until recently, but is gathering more acceptance. The sulfur converts to sulfur dioxide, which then reflects a tiny amount of sunlight back into space.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yNVQxMDozNTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==a study across 21 countries, 140k participants, and a 10y follow-up period found out. Daniel Lemire regularly posts science and technology links, highly recommended!]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yMlQxNTowOTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==starts postings screenshots (!) of their tweets. „…It contradicts the principles of the Federal Government to provide the official communication of the Federal Chancellor and the government spokesman alone registered users of a commercial service…“. Yeah, so how about not using privately held platforms to communicate with your people? What a half-assed solution to a problem that was foreseeable from the minute they opened a Twitter account. It looks exactly like some kind of meme page.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0yMVQxMDozNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==ongoing HN thread about a fly.io outage and the non-response of their support. You can read about multiple commenters migrating to AWS. It’s ridiculous how resilient the Amazon cloud is. But that’s what you get by dog fooding your product. They’ve got a whole other billion dollar business arm relying on their infra. A lot of smaller hosting companies don’t have that luxury and it shows in cases like this. When Bezos calls you because his bookstore is down once a week, you sure as shit put the effort in. And all your smaller customers profit from that. (And you‘ll profit too because you’re going to charge them for that extra 9).]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xN1QxMDowMTowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Shell Script RSS Publishing or „shinobi website“ is a shell script for generating and deploying a static website. It also publishes a RSS feed, alle based on .txt files and a bit of metadata. I like the simplicity of that. Wouldn’t be a good fit for me as I do most of my writing here on my phone. (Also not a fan of monospace fonts for longer reads)]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xNlQxNDoxMDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==China is going green fast, faster than any other nation. It’s not just renewables, forestry and transportation too.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xMVQxNDozNDowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==support page.]]>MjAyMy0wNy0xMFQyMToyNzowMCswMjowMFtFdXJvcGUvQmVybGluXQ==Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation” from 2015 looks at the history of automation. It mentions ML only in passing. Otherwise, it goes very deep into affected jobs and skills. First time hearing about job polarisation, where mid-skilled jobs are substituted by tech. Moreover, my first encounter with the lump of labour fallacy. “AI and the automation of work” acts as the perfect segue to the latter piece. It, too, goes into the history of automation, but details LLMs and AGI specifically. “Why customers don’t want chatbots” finally adds a bit of product and UX perspective to the mix. The author warns that most of the chatbot hype is on the business side, while nobody is looking at the need of the customer.]]>