schmudde

schmudde, 10 days ago to random

Is this person crazy for porting Doom to AIX or am I crazy for watching it? Either way, a lovely romp through hell. https://youtu.be/XzhCGSE7KKw?feature=shared

schmudde, 29 days ago to random

Great overview of @pluralistic's current thoughts on what's wrong with the web and what we can do about it.

His list of solutions which include 1. competition, 2. labor, 3. interoperability, and 4. end user computing lays out a holistic path for the years ahead.

Happy to have been in the audience for this talk here in #torino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5NC2EZCYBg

schmudde, 1 month ago to space

"Engineers Pinpoint Cause of Voyager 1 Issue, Are Working on Solution"

"The team suspects that a single chip responsible for storing part of the affected portion of the FDS memory isn’t working. Engineers can’t determine with certainty what caused the issue. Two possibilities are that the chip could have been hit by an energetic particle from space or that it simply may have worn out after 46 years."

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/04/engineers-pinpoint-cause-of-voyager-1-issue-are-working-on-solution/ #NASA

schmudde, 2 months ago to random

A reminder that David Bowie’s “Earthling” is an absolute classic. Somehow the only person who really managed to create a remarkable synthesis of Rock and Jungle music. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-bowie-earthling-25-years/

schmudde, 3 months ago to random

On designing complex software with pen and paper:

'"Still designing," he'd say. He wanted the diagrams to look beautiful and symmetrical as well as capturing all the state information. I was getting nervous about the schedule, so I was glad when he finally began writing code. He wrote in pencil, at his desk, instead of using a terminal. He declined offers of typing help, and just kept writing away in pencil. He rewrote parts, copied things over, erased and rewrote. '

https://multicians.org/andre.html

schmudde, 3 months ago to random

These are quite beautiful by Tiril Hasselknippe. Now on display in NYC.

"Hasselknippe’s balance of smoke-and-mirrors fantasy and deconstruction; her sophisticated convergence of obvious and obscure allusions in something as transient and elusive as ambience; the simple staging of an actually immersive work." https://4columns.org/fateman-johanna/tiril-hasselknippe

schmudde, 3 months ago to random

Pong wars. https://pong-wars.vercel.app/

schmudde, 3 months ago to random

There is lways something amazing to see at MAO in Turin.

Kongo Rikishi standing on a large base
Kamakura period, 13th Century

J12t, 4 months ago to classicalmusic

I have yet to come across a single instance where #classical #music performers deviate (and often directly contradict!) the dynamics or phrasing written down by the composer and that deviation improved matters. Doesn’t matter who the performer is or the piece. (YT is great with sheet music video!) Somehow nobody would ever dare to deviate from the written notes, but phrasing and dynamics is disregarded all the time… consistently making it worse. Count me baffled.

gruber, 4 months ago to random

Kinda concerning.

dabeaz, 4 months ago to random

Saw "Sugar Hill", a production of the Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker yesterday. Wow, was that awesome. I'd consider myself to be reasonably "up" on big-band jazz music, but had no idea Ellington and Strayhorn had tackled the Nutcracker until somewhat recently. It did not disappoint.

schmudde, 5 months ago to random

Such a critical point in the #PublicDomain Manifesto: "There must be a practical and effective path to make available ‘orphan works’ and published works that are no longer commercially available (such as out-of-print works) for re-use by society." https://publicdomainmanifesto.org/manifesto/

anirvan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

It's the end of an era

#Usenet

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

schmudde, 7 months ago to random

"The Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed" https://bengrosser.com/blog/andreessens-techno-optimist-manifesto-as-redaction-poetry/

Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry
Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto as Redaction Poetry

schmudde, 7 months ago to random

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

Edward Abbey, The Journey Home (1977)

fribbledom, 7 months ago to random

You know you're absolutely desperate for an answer when you start looking at the 2nd page of Google results.

schmudde, 7 months ago to random

The new concentration of power in private entities is astonishing.

The capital/employee ratio at OpenAI is unprecedented.

Even the USA Pentagon is being upstaged, e.g. "This concern led Musk to deactivate Starlink near Crimea last September to thwart Ukrainian communication." (via https://email.projectliberty.io/star-wars-the-technology-and-politics-of-satellite-internet?ecid=ACsprvtpo_0yfIwIVrDWT9I5ymjQY5H2WyFI4N1wTlTafbLlUARIrIQsZxAP5JFG7fcAhgNrtJAH)

These power arrangements are more profound than that held by historic corps like the Dutch East India Co. or families like the Bush dynasty.

schmudde, 8 months ago to random

“Be careful where you start because it’ll determine where you end up.” Andrew Black on parameter passing design in languages. You can get stuck with bad ideas. #strangeloop https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/why-programming-languages-matter.html

abrooks, 8 months ago to random

On my way to the very last #StrangeLoop full of excitement and sadness. Looking forwards to seeing y'all. I'm hoping someone will be inspired to create a fascinating, beautiful, inspired, connecting tech+arts+??? conference in a city with good food and interesting places like STL.

peter, 9 months ago to retrocomputing

On this day (1977 Aug 3), 46 years ago, the Tandy TRS-80 was released

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

"The TRS-80 Micro Computer System (TRS-80, later renamed the Model I to distinguish it from successors) is a desktop microcomputer launched in 1977 and sold by Tandy Corporation through their Radio Shack stores. The name is an abbreviation of Tandy Radio Shack, Z80"

#retroComputing

LibrarianRA, 9 months ago to Vintage

1992 Eagle Vision Advertisement.
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#Chrysler #carsofmastodon #Automotive #Advertisement #Ephemera #Retro #Vintage #90s

RetroWizzard, 10 months ago to retrogaming

Newest addition to the collection is #DoubleDragon for the #AtariJaguar.
#RetroGaming #Atari

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schmudde, 10 months ago to random

Big golf boom after increased work from home. Not surprising because many who play golf actually don't work for a living, they just sat in an office and got paid while others worked.

1. Working from Home (WFH) has powered a huge boom in golfing
2. Golfers are playing more golf on weekdays, for example 143% more on Wednesday in 2022 vs 2019
3. Golfers are playing more mid-afternoon, for example 278% more on Wednesday 4pm in 2022 vs 2019

~ https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/07/work-from-home-and-golf.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=work-from-home-and-golf

louis, 11 months ago to emacs

I had my first Emacs coaching session with Prot today. It was even better than I could have imagined.

We focused mainly on the minibuffer:

Out:

• icomplete
• fido
• which-key

In:

• vertico
• marginalia
• orderless with customized matching rules for different completion categories.

https://protesilaos.com/coach/

#Emacs