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by genmon 4y ago
Kottke.org defined a kind of blogging which expresses wonder in the world around us, a format which has been cloned and bent to the shape of SEO a million times since. More Kottkes and fewer content farms in the future please. My newsreader
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by genmon 4y ago
“Dialect” implies that this is ad hoc, but the RSS 2.0 standard specifies a way to extend the format and that is through namespaces, which is exactly what Apple does with the iTunes namespace. This is a good way to extend the format IMO: no
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by genmon 5y ago
(Post author here) Engelbart's team (the one that came up with the personal computer back in 68) was a combination of engineers and psychologists, and I think there's something really powerful about that. It's not about the p
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by genmon 5y ago
For me - Writing publicly is minimum viable pressure to make me better formulate my ideas. It doesn’t require feedback; 80% of the value is in my words being public. When my ideas are better formulated, it leads to me new ideas I wouldn’t h
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by genmon 5y ago
This is awesome, and I didn't even think of looking on Wikipedia. Thanks! (Post author here)
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by genmon 5y ago
> I'm still looking forward to 2fa devices that can be backed up or copied or otherwise actively replicated. I use a 2fa authenticator with cloud backup for this reason. I know it introduces an additional single point of failure...
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The LAPSUS$ ransomware group claims Okta breach, screenshots show Jan 21st, 2022(twitter.com)
27 points by genmon 5y ago|1 comments
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by genmon 5y ago
I don't get this: > Second, the recourse to two M1 Max chips fused into a M1 Ultra means TSMC’s 5 nm process has reached its upper limit. It also means TSMC’s 3 nm process isn’t ready, probably not shipping until late 2022. Apple, b
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by genmon 5y ago
Video magnification -- I've always been surprised that this hasn't been commercialised. Would be valuable in e.g. infant monitors, or as a diagnostic tool in remote video medical consultations. https://people.csail.mit.
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by genmon 5y ago
Every edition has been incredibly researched, and the stories so well told. I can't wait for the book. Three personal favourites: - Oregon Trail (1971) -- the first issue. Includes a great detail on the speed on typing "BANG"
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by genmon 5y ago
This is crazy petty, I know, but the article starts with “You’ve never heard of Dan or Bob. But you should have.” I mean, I do know about VisiCalc. But even if I didn’t, don’t try to shame me for it — learning is awesome. This kind of neggi
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by genmon 5y ago
That’s a serious statement! Do you have direct knowledge of this, or is it just gossip?
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by genmon 5y ago
I have trouble understanding NFTs too (article author here). The closest I’ve come to understanding them is this: an NFT is an abstract handle to which various rights can optionally be attached. So (in theory) it becomes an easy way to have
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by genmon 5y ago
> the trillies As in companies with a trillion dollar market cap? I hadn't heard that slang before -- I like it.
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by genmon 5y ago
That reminds me of a project to interface with vending machines. (We built a bookshop in a vending machine that would tweet whenever it sold an item, with automated stock management.) Vending machines have an internal protocol a little like
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by genmon 5y ago
This is amazing! Is the email newsletter critical to your model, or would you consider supporting RSS?
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by genmon 5y ago
Interesting! I'm not from a Clojure world but that stability is great.
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by genmon 5y ago
Over long periods of time, and assuming I chose stable 3rd party libraries in the first place, I've found that breakages are down to (a) language changes, and (b) patched security holes. And that's where the risk of a majorly chan
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by genmon 5y ago
PHP has astounding longevity. In maintaining my personal websites (static pages, web toys, projects with my writing groups), I always ask myself: how will I keep this running in 20 years? It's unrealistic to think that languages will s
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Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence (Interconnected)(interconnected.org)
1 points by genmon 6y ago|0 comments
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by genmon 6y ago
Post author here. Here’s what prompted me to write it: Tracy Kidder’s book says that a NAND gate cost eight cents in 1981. The latest iPhone has 11.8 billion transistors. So the chip at the heart of each phone is $1.4 billion in parts, no m
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by genmon 6y ago
Assuming requester IPs are being logged, this is a good way to build a map of potentially vulnerable organisations. No need to do anything now.
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by genmon 6y ago
RSS onboarding is a struggle for new users. RSS, unlike commercial products, lacks a "front page" to explain the benefits and how to get started. Two things that can help: 1. Have a prettified RSS feed that tells new users what it
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by genmon 6y ago
Excellent approach to making a mobile friendly text adventure. Did you invent this tap/log pattern, or is it common in the IF world?
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by genmon 6y ago
(Post author here) That's a good summary of what I was trying to say, and I appreciate the effort you put into deciphering my rambling style. This wasn't a post I expected to get much attention!
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by genmon 6y ago
I was wondering about _exogeology?_
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by genmon 6y ago
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson is astounding, the benchmark. The Space Merchants (Kornbluth/Pohl) is an oddball novel about a hyper-consumerist future, where the settlement of Venus is driven by marketing. It's all about an adve
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by genmon 6y ago
I see. Yes, in the paper the scope was set to be model it on the space station: there's a habitable zone of the atmosphere about 50km up, and the mission parameters were to base there for ~10 years with multiple human/robot missio
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by genmon 6y ago
A space elevator that lifts chunks of atmosphere up till they freeze, and whips them towards Mars from the rotational velocity at the top?
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by genmon 6y ago
Post author here. I realise I wasn't explicit about the metaphors I was trying to draw. Mars problems have grand scale but we can see them from the beginning. Google building the original web search index was a Mars problem: massive (a

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