dives into the economic concept of the Ulysses pact: “when you take some possibility off the table during a moment of strength in recognition of some coming moment of weakness.”
In the excellent book Dopamine Nation, psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke dives into the Ulysses pact on the individual behavioral level, calling it “self-binding”.
#AskFedi Curious to hear your self-binding strategies? I’ll share mine (in reply)
@ethanjstark@pluralistic I put all kinds of blocks and limits on social media, I don’t have cigarettes at home, I won over nail biting by filing my nails perfectly smooth, to hack the moment where I unconsciously look for a sharp edge. I think of all these as kind of life hacks!
So Vice.com is shutting down and the team got cut off from the CMS, however the podcast system was still available so they run a rogue goodbye show telling stories about working in Vice.
Pretty funny talk about current state of digital media, fragility of technology and cursed offices.
Progressive hacker with passion for resilient web apps and good engineering practice. Also a considerate individual devoted to self-improvement. Proficient in Elixir, Python, Ruby, Java, Linux/DevOps, privacy, security. Capable advisor, mentor. Seeking remote contract/part/full-time roles from Poland.
Thinking about finding IT job in climate and today I started looking for area of monitoring of weather/climate disasters and following crisis response. What I have found, however, is climate risk modeling and predicting for companies to prepare / get insurance / mitigate, as well as emission accounting / estimation used to strategise how to lower them. Perhaps just govs&orgs work directly with disasters? Examples and pointers to such IT careers welcome #AskFedi#climate#crisis#disasters
@chucker@Tinido there is one related to weather but I was wondering about private sector innovation here.:. Is it just up to underfunded gov and non-gov agencies? 😭
Pioneering electric bicycle manufacturer VanMoof was declared bankrupt, and the reason is patents and no interoperability/way to repair 🤔 if only there was a solution to that problem…
I want bash scripts, but with conveniences and lightweight dependencies that can be inlined.
Imagine a "direnv-like" standard library of functions, alongside the ability to fetch-if-not-installed certain binaries, and maybe even a super simple module system.
Then, you bake the script, and it becomes a single file bash script.
To be clear, I want to write it in bash, and have it turn into "bash that I can curl".
Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-moat/
@theruran@nixfreak yup, agreed. Not a joke; Unix really was invented with a real world use-case in mind (writing technical documentation for AT&T's publications and patent filing departments. That's why it's so heavily text oriented.)
But it is absolutely one hell of a hack. An over-simplification of the multi-user model used by Multics, running on a computer with less than 64KB originally, Unix had been essentially one band-aid on top of another out of sheer necessity.
We've gotten a lot of great ideas from Unix. But, I do wish we could start fresh as well. Le sigh.
@vertigo@theruran@nixfreak they do rely but there are opinions systemd is distancing itself from unix philosophy- it’s more monolithic then small tools, uses a dbus to communicate and not pipes etc.
NixOs on he other hand changes the approach to FS layout and system configuration..
