lkanies

lkanies, 10 months ago to random

Wow. What a note to attach to an article.

https://lingo.lol/@Neverfadingwood/110826104304469376

lkanies, 4 months ago to random

Good. Wage theft is far larger than theft by individual citizens, yet it is barely enforced and written about even less.

Props to ProPublica giving it some of the attention it deserves. I’d love to see the average media org write about this and civil forfeiture (which steals more from people than burglary), rather than all the BS claims about shoplifting killing stores.

Proposed Wage Theft Legislation Would Strip Violators of Their Ability to Do Business in New York https://www.propublica.org/article/wage-theft-law-new-york-violators-doing-business

lkanies, 3 months ago to random

Studies have shown that people who ride e-bikes get more exercise than those who ride pedal bikes. “Researchers have discovered that when riders find it less grueling, they tend to go on longer rides.”

https://kottke.org/24/02/0044076-studies-have-shown-that-p

lkanies, 10 months ago to random

Rail is going to be so crucial for the next century worldwide, this is good news:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/inside-amtrak-s-75-billion-plan-to-revive-us-train-travel

But man it just shows how crazy far we are behind our peers.

lkanies, 4 months ago to random

One of my nephews just reached out to me because he’s looking for a coding job and could use some help. And I quote:

“Most entry level or junior jobs require three years of experience”

WTF?

I wish I were surprised. But I am still appalled.

(If you’re looking for remote hard working entry level js/react programmers, my nephew in Chattanooga would like to talk.)

lkanies, 2 months ago to random

I know almost nothing about npm, but I know this is where this story takes an insane turn that Gödel would be proud and ashamed of.

iykyk

npm install everything, and the complete and utter chaos that follows https://boehs.org/node/npm-everything

lkanies, 1 year ago to random

Email is federated but I get every reply to emails, no matter what the server relationships are.

Why don’t I see all the replies to every mastodon post?

I think this gap should be treated as a bug.

lkanies, 9 months ago to random

G20 poured more than $1tn on fossil fuel subsidies despite Cop26 pledges – report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/g20-poured-more-than-1tn-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-despite-cop26-pledges-report

lkanies, 5 months ago to random

A very interesting article about a regiment of white southerners from Alabama fighting for the union side in the Civil War, and how hard Lost Cause historians worked to hide this and so much other history:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/howell-raines-alabama-civil-war-history/

lkanies, 8 months ago to random

One of those few cases where there actually was a single person behind the conspiracy to ensure most fantasy books were crap.

The Man Who Invented Fantasy https://slate.com/culture/2023/10/lester-del-rey-invention-fantasy-book-publishing.html

lkanies, 1 year ago to random

Every day I get to show someone the Falkirk wheel is a good day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

lkanies, 1 year ago to random

LLMs are likely to significantly increase worker productivity, but businesses are highly unlikely to share those gains with them. IMO, we can expect more tenuous jobs, lower pay, and lower strategic value for workers.

This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2023/05/02/1172791281/this-company-adopted-ai-heres-what-happened-to-its-human-workers

lkanies, 4 months ago to devops

Holy shit. I love everything about this: a cross-platform, standardized configuration language.

I have not had a chance to fully grok this. But this was definitely one of my dreams when I started Puppet. I did not want puppet to win. I just wanted something we all used, something that made us better, able to move on.

I don’t know if this is it. But it fills me with hope that people are trying.

https://pkl-lang.org/blog/introducing-pkl.html

#devops #sysadmin #programming #configuration #config

lkanies, 1 year ago to random

It’s very clear that everyone comparing the apple headset to Google Glass never had the latter.

Google Ventures was an investor in my company so I got one. Literally useless for anything at all. And hilariously awkward physically.

#wwdc

lkanies, 4 months ago to random

This shit is a next level puzzle.

Pipe Organ desk https://www.kagensound.com/pipeorgandesk.html

lkanies, 7 months ago to random

CIA admits 1953 Iranian coup it backed was undemocratic https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/13/cia-1953-iran-coup-undemocratic-argo

lkanies, 11 months ago to random

What You Don’t Understand About E-Bikes Until You Ride One https://slate.com/business/2023/06/e-bike-buying-changed-my-life.html

A man on an ebike, with a yellow crate on the bike. Hand drawn on the picture is an arrow pointing at him, with the caption “This could be

lkanies, 10 months ago to random

‼️‼️‼️

“the more than 6,000 times officers used force during the city’s mass protests after the killing in May 2020 of George Floyd”

https://pdx.social/@dadbod/110867946892724279

lkanies, 3 months ago to random

I’m an Ultrarunner. Taylor Swift’s Treadmill Workout Wrecked Me. https://run.outsideonline.com/training/workouts/taylor-swift-workout/

lkanies, 10 months ago to random

My wife has a PhD in biology. She worked with HeLa cells constantly (and never knew through that time that they were an acronym for someone’s name, much less who that person was).

It’s no exaggeration to say that modern human biological science is built entirely on cells taken from Henrietta Lacks without her family’s permission or even knowledge.

https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/110814369746877025

lkanies, 3 months ago to random

This interview is an absolute fucking delight.

(Well. It’s about a depressing reality.)

"A man will say he's a feminist but he doesn't wipe the counters": Lyz Lenz on the beauty of divorce https://www.salon.com/2024/02/20/a-man-will-say-hes-afeminist-but-he-doesnt-wipe-the-counters-lyz-lenz-celebrates/

lkanies, 1 year ago to random

Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom present Link as like the Winter Soldier:

He’s a super soldier too dangerous to let run loose all the time. They keep him on ice until he’s needed. When they wake him up, he’s disoriented, and they’ve stripped his powers to keep him off balance and weak.

They take his leash off just long enough for him to kill thousands of foot soldiers and hunt down the big bosses, then they put him away again.

And Zelda is the kingpin.

lkanies, 30 days ago to random

Solid review of the many shortcomings of ipadOS. I am not as heavy an iPad user as @viticci, but it’s been my favorite computer since it came out.

At this point, Apple needs to either dramatically increase the pace of change, or start knocking down walls and letting people do what they want without Apple’s help. The constraints of the system are becoming too burdensome.

Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/

lkanies, 2 months ago to photography

This is a solid article on how to think about shooting RAW vs jog photographs.

The RAW vs JPEG Debate Needs to End… Again https://fujixweekly.com/2022/08/30/the-raw-vs-jpeg-debate-needs-to-end-again/

#photography

lkanies, 1 month ago to random

This is why we should not have billionaires.
https://www.threads.net/@noahshachtman/post/C6PmQubsBdI