Ragionamenti sul perché cancellare tutti i propri social e mandare al diavolo 60mila follower così, come se non valessero niente. (E in effetti...)
Money quote: "Aside from the social media affecting the type of work that I create, there is also the human element to consider. Personally, I am someone who gleans much of my information through external data points. I overthink everything. This makes social media a minefield for someone like me. I would analyze likes and follows and unfollows and draw conclusions based on what were likely benign engagements, and I would arrive at concrete and final conclusions that negatively impacted real-life relationships.
It sucked, to put it mildly."
https://petapixel.com/2019/02/19/why-i-deleted-all-of-my-social-media-and-60000-followers/
Money quote: "Aside from the social media affecting the type of work that I create, there is also the human element to consider. Personally, I am someone who gleans much of my information through external data points. I overthink everything. This makes social media a minefield for someone like me. I would analyze likes and follows and unfollows and draw conclusions based on what were likely benign engagements, and I would arrive at concrete and final conclusions that negatively impacted real-life relationships.
It sucked, to put it mildly."
https://petapixel.com/2019/02/19/why-i-deleted-all-of-my-social-media-and-60000-followers/
Peta Pixel
Why I Deleted All of My Social Media and 60,000 Followers
Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a
Back to basics. Sette cose utili a tutti quelli che manipolano grosse quantità di dati su una macchina Linux/Unix/macOS
Money quote: "This is the selected list, probably in the order of most frequent usage:
grep
cat
find
head/tail
wc
awk
shuf
In addition, it is shown how two auxiliary commands (xargs and man) can improve even further the usability of the 7 commands above."
https://neowaylabs.github.io/programming/unix-shell-for-data-scientists/
Money quote: "This is the selected list, probably in the order of most frequent usage:
grep
cat
find
head/tail
wc
awk
shuf
In addition, it is shown how two auxiliary commands (xargs and man) can improve even further the usability of the 7 commands above."
https://neowaylabs.github.io/programming/unix-shell-for-data-scientists/
NeowayLabs
7 Unix Commands Every Data Scientist Should Know
Uno strano, strano ragionamento sulle generazioni. Ma strano, eh
Money quote: "What I’ve observed on campus—and what Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about in our book—is that there’s an increasing tendency to define, to look at any place where there’s not numerical parity, where any group is underrepresented relative to the population and to say, “that is unjust.” And any social scientist who’s thinking in any other domain would say, “well, no, wait a second. You have to know the pipeline. You have to know how many people were trying to get in, were people treated differently because of their group membership?”"
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/the-well_meaning-bad-ideas-spoiling-a-generation
Money quote: "What I’ve observed on campus—and what Greg Lukianoff and I wrote about in our book—is that there’s an increasing tendency to define, to look at any place where there’s not numerical parity, where any group is underrepresented relative to the population and to say, “that is unjust.” And any social scientist who’s thinking in any other domain would say, “well, no, wait a second. You have to know the pipeline. You have to know how many people were trying to get in, were people treated differently because of their group membership?”"
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/the-well_meaning-bad-ideas-spoiling-a-generation
Nautilus
The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation
In 2011, a friend of mine in college asked me if I’d read The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom, by Jonathan…
Quando la computer science è più science che non solo computer.
Money quote: "A quine is a fixed point of an execution environment, when the execution environment is viewed as a function transforming programs into their outputs. Quines are possible in any Turing complete programming language, as a direct consequence of Kleene's recursion theorem. For amusement, programmers sometimes attempt to develop the shortest possible quine in any given programming language."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
Money quote: "A quine is a fixed point of an execution environment, when the execution environment is viewed as a function transforming programs into their outputs. Quines are possible in any Turing complete programming language, as a direct consequence of Kleene's recursion theorem. For amusement, programmers sometimes attempt to develop the shortest possible quine in any given programming language."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
Wikipedia
Quine (computing)
self-replicating program
Il futuro degli Animali fantastici è relativamente sicuro - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/animali-fantastici-3-segreti-silente/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/04/animali-fantastici-3-segreti-silente/
Fumettologica
Il futuro degli Animali fantastici è relativamente sicuro
Com'è I segreti di silente, il terzo capitolo della saga fantasy Animali fantastici derivata da quella di Harry Potter.
Gare di piccolezza
Money quote: "I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article "A Minimal Ray Tracer" from the book Graphics Gems IV).
The goal was to produce the source code for a raytracer...that would fit on the back of a business card."
https://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
Money quote: "I recently came across Paul Heckbert's business card raytracer. For those that have never heard of it: It is a very famous challenge in the Computer Graphics field that started on May 4th, 1984 via a post on comp.graphics by Paul Heckbert ( More about this in his article "A Minimal Ray Tracer" from the book Graphics Gems IV).
The goal was to produce the source code for a raytracer...that would fit on the back of a business card."
https://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
fabiensanglard.net
Raytracing
Il romanzo più bello di tutti. Ma proprio di tutti tutti tutti.
Money quote: "“If we concede that human life can be governed by reason, then the possibility of life is destroyed,” the book’s epilogue instructs. Even more than their Western European counterparts, Russians were obsessed with establishing a hard social science, as certain as physics. Any Western theory that promised such certainty found enthusiastic Russian supporters. In England, utilitarianism supported moderate liberalism, but by the 1860s Russians took it as proof of revolutionary socialism. The French positivist Auguste Comte, who coined the term “sociology,” originally planned to call his new discipline “social physics.” His Russian followers presumed that this “physics” already existed. Of course, Marxism—or “scientific socialism”—would eventually triumph over its rivals."
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels
Money quote: "“If we concede that human life can be governed by reason, then the possibility of life is destroyed,” the book’s epilogue instructs. Even more than their Western European counterparts, Russians were obsessed with establishing a hard social science, as certain as physics. Any Western theory that promised such certainty found enthusiastic Russian supporters. In England, utilitarianism supported moderate liberalism, but by the 1860s Russians took it as proof of revolutionary socialism. The French positivist Auguste Comte, who coined the term “sociology,” originally planned to call his new discipline “social physics.” His Russian followers presumed that this “physics” already existed. Of course, Marxism—or “scientific socialism”—would eventually triumph over its rivals."
https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2019/3/the-greatest-of-all-novels
The New Criterion
The greatest of all novels by Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson on Tolstoy’s masterpiece.
Una console fatta in casa. Ma proprio tutta in casa.
Money quote: "This post serves as an introduction to a “homebrew” video game console made from scratch, using a lot of inspiration from retro consoles and modern projects but with a unique architecture.
Some friends of mine have told me again and again not to keep this project to myself and to put this information online, so here it goes."
https://internalregister.github.io/2019/03/14/Homebrew-Console.html
Money quote: "This post serves as an introduction to a “homebrew” video game console made from scratch, using a lot of inspiration from retro consoles and modern projects but with a unique architecture.
Some friends of mine have told me again and again not to keep this project to myself and to put this information online, so here it goes."
https://internalregister.github.io/2019/03/14/Homebrew-Console.html
Internal Register
Building a ‘Homebrew’ Video Game Console
Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing
Ieri era il primo maggio ma nonostante tutto Mostly Weekly, la mia newsletter, è uscita come ogni domenica. Se volete potete leggerla anche qui:
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/165/
https://antoniodini.com/weekly/165/
Mostly Here
~165
La festa dei lavoratori
C'è tutta una matematica dello sviluppo cellulare che ignoravamo
Money quote: "Cells in embryos need to make their way across a “developmental landscape” to their eventual fate. New findings bear on how they may do this so efficiently."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-tells-cells-what-they-are-20190313/
Money quote: "Cells in embryos need to make their way across a “developmental landscape” to their eventual fate. New findings bear on how they may do this so efficiently."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-tells-cells-what-they-are-20190313/
Quanta Magazine
The Math That Tells Cells What They Are
During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.
È arrivato il multiverso della follia e Doctor Strange ci è dentro fino al collo - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/doctor-strange-multiverso-follia-recensione-film/
https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/doctor-strange-multiverso-follia-recensione-film/
Fumettologica
È arrivato il multiverso della follia e Doctor Strange ci è dentro fino al collo
Recensione di Doctor Strange nel multiverso della follia, film dei Marvel Studios diretto da Sam Raimi con Benedict Cumberbatch.
A me il mare aperto terrorizza. È profondo, e se ci caschi dentro pian piano vai fino in fondo. Questa è la storia della ricerca di una portaerei americana affondata durante la Seconda guerra mondiale nel Mar dei Coralli. Brrrr.
Money quote: "The ocean is also frighteningly deep. Much of the bottom of the Coral Sea, where the Wasp went down, lies between 4,000 and 6,000 meters, in what is known as the abyssal zone: a lightless realm characterized by frigid water temperatures, scant animal life and crushing atmospheric pressure. (Below 6,000 meters, in the oceanic trenches, the deepest part of the ocean, is known as the hadal zone; it is truly the underworld.)
It can be hard to grasp the profundity of the abyss. You could imagine its depth as being between eight and 12 Freedom Towers, stacked one on top of another; or, at the higher end of the range, one Denali. But even thinking about the distance to the ocean floor in terms of height is ultimately unhelpful, because to imagine skyscrapers or mountains is to imagine them made visible by light, and the sea is entirely dark below about 1,000 meters. While I was on board the Petrel, the concept that I found most vivid and unsettling was the idea of “sinking time.” When the crew dropped a transponder fitted with a 60-pound weight from the deck of the Petrel, it took more than an hour to reach the bottom."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html
Money quote: "The ocean is also frighteningly deep. Much of the bottom of the Coral Sea, where the Wasp went down, lies between 4,000 and 6,000 meters, in what is known as the abyssal zone: a lightless realm characterized by frigid water temperatures, scant animal life and crushing atmospheric pressure. (Below 6,000 meters, in the oceanic trenches, the deepest part of the ocean, is known as the hadal zone; it is truly the underworld.)
It can be hard to grasp the profundity of the abyss. You could imagine its depth as being between eight and 12 Freedom Towers, stacked one on top of another; or, at the higher end of the range, one Denali. But even thinking about the distance to the ocean floor in terms of height is ultimately unhelpful, because to imagine skyscrapers or mountains is to imagine them made visible by light, and the sea is entirely dark below about 1,000 meters. While I was on board the Petrel, the concept that I found most vivid and unsettling was the idea of “sinking time.” When the crew dropped a transponder fitted with a 60-pound weight from the deck of the Petrel, it took more than an hour to reach the bottom."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/magazine/uss-wasp-lost-world-war-ii-aircraft-carrier.html
Nytimes
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier (Published 2019)
In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find…
Strategie computazionali. Stiamo per tornare ai sistemi monolitici?
Money quote: "It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. It’s no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of “How I migrated my monolith to 150 services”. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: “I don’t hate my monolith, I just care that things stay performant”. We’ve actually seen some migrations from micro-services back to a monolith. When you go from one large application to multiple smaller services there are a number of new things you have to tackle, here is a rundown of all the things that were simple that you now get to re-visit:"
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-monolith
Money quote: "It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. It’s no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of “How I migrated my monolith to 150 services”. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: “I don’t hate my monolith, I just care that things stay performant”. We’ve actually seen some migrations from micro-services back to a monolith. When you go from one large application to multiple smaller services there are a number of new things you have to tackle, here is a rundown of all the things that were simple that you now get to re-visit:"
http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2019/03/13/give-me-back-my-monolith
Craigkerstiens
Give me back my monolith - CRAIG KERSTIENS
It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. It’s no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of “How I migrated my monolith to 150 services”. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: “I don’t hate my monolith…
Una storia d'amore alquanto improbabile ma delicata, antica, fragile: un bel documentario presentato dal New Yorker.
Money quote: "In “Coby and Stephen Are in Love,” the co-directors, Carlo Nasisse and Luka Yuanyuan Yang, movingly recount the story of this unlikely pair. Separated by age, cultural milieu, and temperament—he romantic and unconventional, she no-nonsense and more focussed—King and Yee nonetheless forged a lasting bond, on the dance floor and off."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/an-aging-burlesque-dancers-unlikely-romance
Money quote: "In “Coby and Stephen Are in Love,” the co-directors, Carlo Nasisse and Luka Yuanyuan Yang, movingly recount the story of this unlikely pair. Separated by age, cultural milieu, and temperament—he romantic and unconventional, she no-nonsense and more focussed—King and Yee nonetheless forged a lasting bond, on the dance floor and off."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/an-aging-burlesque-dancers-unlikely-romance
The New Yorker
An Aging Burlesque Dancer’s Unlikely Romance
“Coby and Stephen Are in Love” traces a partnership forged late in life and steeped in art.
Come si gioca a PacMan? Come si gioca a PacMan? Lo sapete? Secondo me no. Una fantastica etnografia che la mussa, la mussa, la mussa nella zagola come se non ci fosse un domani. A me l'approccio Sherazade alle volte fa (molta) fatica come lettore, ma da autore lo capisco molto molto bene.
Money quote: "Human beings leave physical impressions upon the things they love and use just as much as their do upon the lives of people and the planet they live upon. For every action, there’s a reaction. For every pressure, there’s an affect on mass and volume. And in the impressions left by that combination, particularly if you’re lucky enough to see the sides of a rare, unrestored vintage Pac-Man cabinet, lies the never before told story of how we really played the game.
Until now, I don’t believe anyone has ever written about it."
https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/pac-man-the-untold-story-of-how-we-really-played-the-game/
Money quote: "Human beings leave physical impressions upon the things they love and use just as much as their do upon the lives of people and the planet they live upon. For every action, there’s a reaction. For every pressure, there’s an affect on mass and volume. And in the impressions left by that combination, particularly if you’re lucky enough to see the sides of a rare, unrestored vintage Pac-Man cabinet, lies the never before told story of how we really played the game.
Until now, I don’t believe anyone has ever written about it."
https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/pac-man-the-untold-story-of-how-we-really-played-the-game/
Retro Bitch
Pac-Man: The Untold Story of How We Really Played The Game
People can tell you how many levels, what patterns to follow to beat the levels and how to get a “perfect game”. But until now, no one’s ever told you how people really played the…
Anni fa intervistai il Ceo di Mozilla, a Parigi. Alla fine mi chiese: "Hai qualche idea da suggerirmi per il nostro futuro?" Nel tempo ci ho ripensato varie volte. Non me l'aspettavo: avrei dovuto proporgli temi come la collaborazione, la gestione delle identità, la creazione di una piattaforma per quelli che all'epoca si chiamavano widget e presto sarebbero diventate app da browser. L'avessi fatto, questa sarebbe stata figlia della mia idea.
Money quote: "Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private"
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/
Money quote: "Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private"
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/03/12/introducing-firefox-send-providing-free-file-transfers-while-keeping-your-personal-information-private/
The Mozilla Blog
Introducing Firefox Send, Providing Free File Transfers while Keeping your Personal Information Private
Firefox Send, send.firefox.com, is a free encrypted file transfer service that allows users to safely and simply share files from any browser.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Dove si colloca temporalmente Doctor Strange nel Multiverso della follia rispetto alle altre produzioni del Marvel Cinematic Universe?
👉 https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/doctor-strange-multiverso-della-follia-marvel-cinematic-universe/
👉 https://fumettologica.it/2022/05/doctor-strange-multiverso-della-follia-marvel-cinematic-universe/
Fumettologica
Dove si colloca il nuovo film del Doctor Strange nel Marvel Cinematic Universe
Dove si colloca temporalmente "Doctor Strange nel Multiverso della follia" rispetto alle altre produzioni del Marvel Cinematic Universe?
Quel vecchio baco di WinRar. Ma proprio vecchio, eh?
Money quote: "WinRAR, a Windows file compression program with 500 million users worldwide, recently fixed a more than 14-year-old vulnerability that made it possible for attackers to execute malicious code when targets opened a booby-trapped file.
The vulnerability was the result of an absolute path traversal flaw that resided in UNACEV2.DLL, a third-party code library that hasn’t been updated since 2005. The traversal made it possible for archive files to extract to a folder of the archive creator’s choosing rather than the folder chosen by the person using the program. Because the third-party library doesn’t make use of exploit mitigations such as address space layout randomization, there was little preventing exploits."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/nasty-code-execution-bug-in-winrar-threatened-millions-of-users-for-14-years/
Money quote: "WinRAR, a Windows file compression program with 500 million users worldwide, recently fixed a more than 14-year-old vulnerability that made it possible for attackers to execute malicious code when targets opened a booby-trapped file.
The vulnerability was the result of an absolute path traversal flaw that resided in UNACEV2.DLL, a third-party code library that hasn’t been updated since 2005. The traversal made it possible for archive files to extract to a folder of the archive creator’s choosing rather than the folder chosen by the person using the program. Because the third-party library doesn’t make use of exploit mitigations such as address space layout randomization, there was little preventing exploits."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/nasty-code-execution-bug-in-winrar-threatened-millions-of-users-for-14-years/
Ars Technica
Nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions of users for 14 years
If you're one of the 500 million utility users, now would be a good time to patch.
Senza una lira, una svanzica, un euro. Niente. Cashless
Money quote: "It is very difficult already today to find an establishment where they accept cash. You have to be ready to pay by card or by the mobile application Swish."
https://interestingengineering.com/sweden-how-to-live-in-the-worlds-first-cashless-society
Money quote: "It is very difficult already today to find an establishment where they accept cash. You have to be ready to pay by card or by the mobile application Swish."
https://interestingengineering.com/sweden-how-to-live-in-the-worlds-first-cashless-society
Interesting Engineering
Sweden: How to Live in the World's First Cashless Society
In 2021, Sweden starts using its own digital currency: The e-Krona. In 2023, Sweden becomes the world's first cashless society, stops accepting cash. Read more.
La fine del futuro: la morte del Mriya: la tragedia nella tragedia
Money quote: "In a hangar a few miles away rested the world’s largest airplane, so special that only one was ever built. Its name is Mriya, pronounced Mer-EE-ah, which in Ukrainian means The Dream. With its six jet engines, twin tail fins and a wingspan nearly as long as a football field, Mriya hauled gargantuan amounts of cargo across the world, mesmerizing crowds wherever it landed. It was an airplane celebrity, aviation enthusiasts say, and widely beloved. It was also a cherished symbol of Ukraine."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/world/europe/ukraine-airplane-russia-war-mriya.html
Money quote: "In a hangar a few miles away rested the world’s largest airplane, so special that only one was ever built. Its name is Mriya, pronounced Mer-EE-ah, which in Ukrainian means The Dream. With its six jet engines, twin tail fins and a wingspan nearly as long as a football field, Mriya hauled gargantuan amounts of cargo across the world, mesmerizing crowds wherever it landed. It was an airplane celebrity, aviation enthusiasts say, and widely beloved. It was also a cherished symbol of Ukraine."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/world/europe/ukraine-airplane-russia-war-mriya.html
NY Times
One Ukrainian War Casualty: The World’s Largest Airplane
Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, was destroyed in a pivotal battle at the start of the war. It was a beloved symbol for all of Ukraine but perhaps no one misses it more than its first pilot.