Sono anni che uso questo software gratuito e meraviglioso per visualizzare il contenuto del disco del Mac: Disk Invetory X. Ma da quando sono passato a macOS High Sierra non va più (crasha appena ha finito di caricare i dati).

Avete da suggerire alternative con una rappresentazione dei dati uguale o molto simile? Come al solito: @antoniodini

http://www.derlien.com

C'è un piccolo gruppo di programmatori che vorrebbe cambiare il modo con il quale si scrive il codice. Prima che sia troppo tardi. L'articolo dell'Atlanthic è godibile, ma totalmente inutile a mio avviso.

Money quote: "It’s been said that software is “eating the world.” More and more, critical systems that were once controlled mechanically, or by people, are coming to depend on code. This was perhaps never clearer than in the summer of 2015, when on a single day, United Airlines grounded its fleet because of a problem with its departure-management system; trading was suspended on the New York Stock Exchange after an upgrade; the front page of The Wall Street Journal’s website crashed; and Seattle’s 911 system went down again, this time because a different router failed. The simultaneous failure of so many software systems smelled at first of a coordinated cyberattack. Almost more frightening was the realization, late in the day, that it was just a coincidence."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/

Ok, mi correggo e lo faccio apertamente. È un articolo della Madonna. Magari non sono d'accordo, magari penso altre cose, ma in reaktà c'è molto più di quanto non pensassi in un primo momento. Cibo per la mente. E guardate che non lo dico molto spesso... Se ci sono programmatori là fuori, non vedo l'ora di avere il vostro feedback!

Un’altra anima bella che si chiede: i social media sono nocivi? Diventeranno come è stata la passione-ossessione per le sigarette, spinta dai big del tabacco e subita da generazioni di persone che si sono stroncate la salute una Marlboro alla volta?

Money quote: “After watching a man almost wander into the street while browsing his phone, my wandered a bit; will social media become the new smoking? Will browsing your phone anticipating the next notification become a dirty habit that others will shun you for?”

https://theroamingmind.com/2017/03/06/social-media-is-the-new-smoking/

Intanto il sottoscritto è sul treno per Malpensa. Si va a San Diego (via new York) e si torna in settimana. Il flusso qui non si interrompe ma diventa un po’ meno massivo. Pensatemi mentre saetto fra i cieli.

I segreti hi-tech dietro le partite della NFL - il mio articolo per La Stampa

http://www.lastampa.it/2017/10/07/tecnologia/news/i-segreti-hitech-dietro-le-partite-della-nfl-d79EjVSf4ShVTK0pI4nlTN/pagina.html

I non informatici magari ignorano anche chi sia. Ma Claude Shannon è una delle figure scientifiche più importanti del nostro tempo. Come pensava, lavorava, viveva? Qui la risposta.

Money quote: “Within engineering and mathematics circles, Shannon is a revered figure. Claude Shannon’s work in the 1930s and 1940s earned him the title of “father of the information age.” At the age of 21, he published what’s been called the most important master’s thesis of all time, explaining how binary switches could do logic. It laid the foundation for all future digital computers.

He wasn’t done. At the age of 32, he published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” which has been called “the Magna Carta of the information age.” Shannon’s masterwork invented the bit, or the objective measurement of information, and explained how digital codes could allow us to compress and send any message with perfect accuracy.

But that’s not all he did.”

https://medium.com/the-mission/10-000-hours-with-claude-shannon-12-lessons-on-life-and-learning-from-a-genius-e8b9297bee8f

Tra parentesi, questo che ho appena pubblicato è il primo messaggio che spedisco mentre sono in volo (sopra le Alpi, con un Airbus A330 scintillante). Di solito non compro la connessione in volo, ma Delta Air Lines dal primo ottobre permette di mandare messaggi (senza immagini) gratuitamente. E quindi, perché non approfittarne? :-)

Slack «Bot e intelligenza artificiale lavoreranno per noi» - il mio articolo (scritto e pubblicato in volo) per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/slack-lintelligenza-artificiale-faville/

Ecco la rete per la digital society: intuitiva e "autodidatta", il mio articolo per CorCom

http://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital/49193_ecco-la-rete-per-la-digital-society-intuitiva-e-autodidatta.htm

Sulla base di un algoritmo - una cosa che ho scritto un po’ di tempo fa per Link

http://www.linkideeperlatv.it/motori-di-raccomandazione/

Addio AOL Instant Messenger, dopo 20 anni chiude un pezzo di storia del web - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/addio-aol-instant-messenger-venti-anni-chiude/

Ryan Goslin mi sta cominciado ad essere simpatico...

Papyrus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

Perché non bombardare la Corea del Nord e chiudere la partita con un paio di atomiche o anche più? Sembra incredibile, ma c'è chi se lo chiede. Ma cosa sono oggi le armi atomiche e quali effetti avrebbero?

Money quote: “Maybe this is why Trump has been psychotically cavalier about the notion of starting a nuclear war lately. It’s as if we’ve time-traveled to 1950 when the Korean War gave Douglas MacArthur the idea to nuke China in response for intervening with his forces, an idea that was rebuffed as not to invite Russian use of nuclear weapons in otherwise conventional conflicts, and ultimately cost the general his job after he went rogue and tried to defy Truman’s orders on the subject. Just like MacArthur, Trump seems unable to grasp the real world consequences of deploying humanity’s deadliest invention on a whim”.

https://rantt.com/heres-what-would-happen-if-donald-trump-nuked-north-korea-ea40416581af

Uno di quegli articoli che poi ritrovate su Repubblica (o sul Post, ma in modo un po’ più divertito) che spiega con “dati scientifici alla mano” perché le donne tradiscono (e indirettamente perché gli uomini: ma quello si dà per acquisito). Con tanto di percentuali di quante, dopo il tradimento, si innamorano (70%) rispetto agli uomini (30%) che invece evidentemente pensano solo a una cosa.

Neuroscienza del luogo comune? Nuovi corsi per sceneggiatori di telenovele?

Money quote: “Our studies, led by the psychologists Daniel Conroy-Beam at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Cari Goetz at California State University San Bernardino, suggest that women tracking alternative mates operate in three dimensions. The first is interest: does the potential mate show attention, attraction and desire? Prolonged eye contact, selective smiles and sideways glances are some documented indicators here. Do these indicators signal long-term interest or a fleeting sexual desire? Many women are reluctant to leave their regular partner for a passing fancy, although some see it as an important signal that something is seriously wrong in their regular relationship. The second dimension is mate value: only large increments in value over the committed partner are likely to be worth the costs of breaking up. The third dimension for tracking is eligibility: is the interested alternative actually free of encumbering commitments such as an existing spouse or crushing obligations to dependent children? Conroy-Beam, Goetz and I also found that women scaled back on the effort to retain their regular partner only when operating in one or more of the dimensions above”

https://aeon.co/essays/does-the-mate-switching-hypothesis-explain-female-infidelity

Fotografare i fiocchi di neve. Questo tizio, uno dei milioni e milioni di tizi su internet, con una macchina fotografica economica e un secondo obiettivo russo di risulta da pochi soldi, fa delle foto spettacolari. Davvero spettacolari.

Money quote: “Currently, i use low cost variation of well-known lens reversal macro technique: compact camera Canon Powershot A650is at maximum optical zoom (6x) shoots through lens Helios 44M-5 (taken from old film camera Zenit, made in USSR), reversely mounted in front of built-in camera optics. Compared to Canon A650 standard macro mode, this simple setup achieves much better magnification and details, lesser chromatic aberrations and blurring at image corners, but also very shallow depth of field”

https://chaoticmind75.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-technique-for-snowflakes-shooting.html

L’intervista al CEO di Google, Sundar Pichai, è molto, molto buona: tecnologia, tasse, uguaglianza dei generi, protezione dei dati, come creare il futuro. Bravo Guardian, lettura veramente ricca. Non so però se l’apertura dell’articolo sia pensata per creare simpatia per la vita preistorica in India trent’anni fa: a me sembra l’Italia di inizio duemila...

Money quote: “hen Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when he got there he would have to stand and queue for an hour, often to be told the results weren’t ready.

It took five years for his family to get their first rotary telephone, when Pichai was 12. It was a landmark moment. “It would take me 10 minutes to call the hospital, and maybe they’d tell me, ‘No, come back tomorrow’,” Pichai says. “We waited a long time to get a refrigerator, too, and I saw how my mom’s life changed: she didn’t need to cook every day, she could spend more time with us. So there is a side of me that has viscerally seen how technology can make a difference, and I still feel it. I feel the optimism and energy, and the moral imperative to accelerate that progress.””

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/07/google-boss-sundar-pichai-tax-gender-equality-data-protection-jemima-kiss

Amazon rilancia con il nuovo Kindle Oasis resistente all’acqua - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/kindle-oasis-resistente-allacqua/

Hanno i terminali, hanno la rete, ma non hanno le prese elettriche per ricaricare i telefonini. L’Africa e l’Asia stanno vivendo un altro paradosso che definirà il modo nel quale si svilupperà l’innovazione in quei mercati.

Money quote: “While delivering the next billion smartphones to first-time customers is relatively easy, finding ways to charge them is not, because many people in developing countries lack reliable access to electricity. Solving this problem will challenge the rich world’s assumptions about what services should be provided by which kinds of network companies.

In most countries where people lack reliable access to electricity, they have better access to a 3G or better cellular network. This means the smartphone -- and its business, social and entertainment uses -- will create greater demand for electricity.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-06/the-challenge-to-keep-the-world-s-smartphones-charging

Due errori che Apple non doveva concedersi - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/due-errori-apple-non-doveva-concedersi/