I think I'm in the "let's find out what this can do" mode...
@simonw I think I'm in the "let's find out what this can do" mode with a piece of new software, otherwise it's not an obvious menu item. But overall I just really like it.
They're totally fine but I'm always closing them by...
@michelet They're totally fine but I'm always closing them by accident using command-W after 20 years of reflex and Firefox makes me actually mouse over and close with a menu item.
Mini-review of Firefox, coming from Chrome:
1) Pinned tabs...
Mini-review of Firefox, coming from Chrome: 1) Pinned tabs work great (you can't CTRL-w close them by accident) 2) "Containers" ease having work gmail/home gmail at once, great w/pinned tabs 3) Easy to take screenshots of elements & paste into Slack 4) Just overall good
I met a Jewish guy in the neighborhood with I think an...
I met a Jewish guy in the neighborhood with I think an Irish wife. They moved in like 20 years ago. On their first Christmas Eve the doorbell rang and he opened it to find carolers. He paused for a minute and yelled BABE IT'S FOR YOU.
Sometimes when I'm walking the kids to school a little...
Sometimes when I'm walking the kids to school a little late, and this one bus driver is a little early in his route, he sees me and honks and waves at me as we pass by each other, and it's one of the most joyful feelings of my life.
Karen do you want to be right or do you want to get paid...
@karenmcgrane Karen do you want to be right or do you want to get paid actual money to launch a wordpress site about the right way to drink margaritas.
This is entirely true. Add in (4) complicated engagement...
This is entirely true. Add in (4) complicated engagement management; and (5) deep understanding of API-driven platforms, and come work for @PostlightStudio. We will help you say no. twitter.com/...
I have g o a l s:
1) Learn to machine learn. Use corpora to...
I have g o a l s: 1) Learn to machine learn. Use corpora to predict COPYRIGHT DATE from any given paragraph. Etc. 2) An archive of organized OSes/software/emulators so that I can have all computers at once. 3) Mess with vespa.ai and large datasets from LoC and IA.
First, it's great work, @NYMag always leads here. Second, I...
First, it's great work, @NYMag always leads here. Second, I am very soothed that @ianadelman CANNOT stop solving this same problem, year after year. NYMag doesn't edit away voice in search of consistency, and that makes it HARD to have a design system that works. twitter.com/...
If O'Reilly published a book with a picture of a tarsier...
If O'Reilly published a book with a picture of a tarsier sipping tea called OS Drama I'd spend $49.95. Torvalds/Tennenbaum, ESR in general, a selection of purely incendiary RMS emails, "we don't need a code of conduct" disasters, ill-intentioned forks, on and on.
I have tuned out most online drama but I cannot get enough...
I have tuned out most online drama but I cannot get enough of open source community drama. I will read the GitHub thread, the proggit thread, the YCombinator thread, and then search for subtweets. I'm pretty sure that's how I learned to program.
Oh god when they get in the car. The Sandra Bullock/Melissa...
@michelet Oh god when they get in the car. The Sandra Bullock/Melissa McCarthy chemistry is real and good. They fall in love in that movie and it's very pure. I'm going to watch it again this week.
When it slams into that white bowl all at once, and you can...
@ItsTheBrandi When it slams into that white bowl all at once, and you can still see the ridges from the can, then you just spoon it onto the plate and let it work its magic as it bumps against gravy and stuffing and carrots. I look forward all year.
Gutenberg metadata lacks pubdates. I'm going to spend some...
Gutenberg metadata lacks pubdates. I'm going to spend some hobby time normalizing and extracting publication dates from Gutenberg texts, also using wikidata/LOC MARC where possible. Has anyone done this before so that I can avoid doing it?
day two of facebook at war. they have yet to declare...
day two of facebook at war. they have yet to declare another belligerent. no one on the streets or subway seems to even register what has been unleashed. fools! do you think your free sticker packs are truly free? now the bill comes due.
I once worked for weeks with a shrink on the right way to...
@tressiemcphd I once worked for weeks with a shrink on the right way to get out of a sticky job situation. The key phrase: "I could only have found the bravery to move on to a new job because I learned so much working for you." Thank them for giving you wings and while they're confused, run.
[All human history, knowledge, pain, struggle, and,...
[All human history, knowledge, pain, struggle, and, ultimately, joy is available to me while I have an omelette at a diner, via a device that puts me into contact with much of humanity and weighs as much as a tangerine.]
My children are going to have 100 terabyte sensor driven...
My children are going to have 100 terabyte sensor driven million core devices in their pockets (to help them navigate our flooded anarchoseastead libertarian pirate-run riverscape).
Like I know things look bad out there but the lowering cost...
Like I know things look bad out there but the lowering cost of storage, the progress in cloud tech, the vibrancy of the commons, and the spread of cheap SoCs is going to enable a million new businesses (for aliens to discover when they visit our empty skull-filled desert planet).
One thing that makes tech so challenging is that while the...
One thing that makes tech so challenging is that while the industry at large is exhausting, every single part of it is making huge incremental progress every year. It's so cheap and so good now! You can see a beautiful future as long as you never look up from your monitor.
Good morning, in November 2018 the United States can't get...
Good morning, in November 2018 the United States can't get it together to launch observation satellites over North Korea¹ but George Clooney can manage a satellite operation² over the Sudanese border.
I basically just think our only choice is to quintuple down...
@amyhoy I basically just think our only choice is to quintuple down on pebble bed nuclear reactors and hope that battery tech can support containerized shipping.
This is very very true. I installed 18.10 at home to be a...
@sophaskins This is very very true. I installed 18.10 at home to be a staging environment and file server but ended up using it for desktop. I keep forgetting to switch back to MacOS even though it's one KVM switch press. (I don't understand snaps yet. They seem like a...chiller docker?)
It's harder for the poll workers than for you. They have to...
@tolar It's harder for the poll workers than for you. They have to rip two sheets out cleanly, which is how mine got ripped. Your stuff just comes apart fine. And the scanner is not having it.
Update: they ripped the ballot and it didn't scan so I had...
Update: they ripped the ballot and it didn't scan so I had to do it twice and they froke and yelled at me because I was standing there with two ballots and I was fussy about it and my kids got to watch all of that and feed the ballot into the machine. Pretty normal voting. twitter.com/...
Democracy isn't attractive especially the way I do it. And...
Democracy isn't attractive especially the way I do it. And most of my candidates lose because I always vote for the saddest wet dogs standing in the rain. And everything is a broken mess. Still. Gotta go.
My voting plan is to go to the middle school on Cortelyou,...
My voting plan is to go to the middle school on Cortelyou, and then to forget my district for the 100th time, then to wrestle with this ridiculous eight foot long NYC ballot, and to hope I don't have another incident where I sweat through the ballot and the machine rejects it.
One of the most wholesome things I've ever seen is...
One of the most wholesome things I've ever seen is @BuzzFeedBen proudly handing out the new neighborhood newspaper edited by his wife @lienazagare at the Cortelyou/Stratford B103/BM1/2/3/4 bus stop. twitter.com/...
So in general, I just love to see the piles of crap and the...
@studiesincrap So in general, I just love to see the piles of crap and the 2000 book collections. More specifically I'm looking for old Omnis and Whole Earth Reviews. We should do a Guideposts event in NYC at a bar.