Snipd kindly added Hilaritas Press Podcasts to their platform, which generates transcripts & summaries for the highlights. Very cool app - highly recommended!..
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Today there will be some glitches as I am reclaiming disk space by shrinking rooms, reindexing and vacuuming…
I think we will get this tech want it or not…
The listing of Hilaritas Press publications was determined, mostly, by Amazon’s sales rankings…
Probably tech will slow down as it is difficult to find people who can (and want) to work…
Light a little light and enjoy the movie…
Talk about Tron now. Fascinating stuff - how to see through the chip…
"Zach Edwards, a cybersecurity researcher who closely follows the data marketplace, told Motherboard in an online chat after reviewing the documents: “The CDC seems to have purposefully created an open-ended list of use cases, which included monitoring curfews, neighbor-to-neighbor visits, visits to…
Good start on distributed systems’ consistency…
How many trucks of diesel they have?..
The Rotary Un-Smartphone is a followup to this personal project. It’s a production-ready ground-up design with all new parts (yes, the rotary dial too) and many neat bells and whistles…
A rare audio recording of Gerald Suster’s lecture on Aleister Crowley - recorded in West Hollywood, California on September 1st, 1989…
I understand fully the developer who wants to get paid for his work and wants to end free support and it seems to be that this bait and switch tactics might work in the short run if the software is widely adopted.
Not sure how it will work out in the long run though - will companies start to pay up for the software or will they start creating their one closed source clones with subpar quality. We will see.
Here is additional writeup about the lecture and also there is a link to lecture handouts in pdf
https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/the-craft-of-writing-effectively-uchicago.html
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