He was right though, the metaphors in the book are, https://t.co/kgxxnr5wQ4
@mrled
There's an "Anti-Foreward" by Dennis Ritchie, who denounces the entire book https://t.co/lXY498d9EC
@mrled
There's an email on PDF pages 26-29 that one guy sent to an internal mailing list when they made him give up a lisp machine and get a Sun. 4 printed pages to all the sun users on campus bc he is mad they swapped his computer.
@mrled
u ever just want to reread the Unix Haters Handbook (1994)?
https://t.co/cw6uoSCTsN
@mrled
Someone should run an experiment, to see whether hardcore or softcore backups are more durable in the long run https://t.co/Y84OLje4QU
@danluu
"Hardcore backups" https://t.co/eqYalJHlsE
@mrled
The privacy implications alone are staggering. What kind of lawful intercept capabilities will the FBI ask a court to compel? https://t.co/3daWiLhdSI
@mrled
gm say it back https://t.co/ghgdJ4qWvp
@ThePatanoiac
You open your laptop in the morning to discover a cube-shaped pearl.
@wef
.@SatyaNadella says 'having a co-pilot for every cognitive task is right within our grasp' thanks to the power of #AI.
Watch the session live here: https://t.co/YLx9PEvP8n @Microsoft #wef22 https://t.co/A1eymvpPHV
@wef
.@Microsoft CEO @SatyaNadella talks to @ProfKlausSchwab about how 'caring became the currency' during the pandemic
Watch the session live here: https://t.co/YLx9PEvP8n #wef22 https://t.co/l7VP5OXRYq
@wef
A Conversation with @satyanadella, CEO of @Microsoft and @ProfKlausSchwab #wef22 https://t.co/Yy6c62IG1O
@mrled
This whole @flydotio + @litestreamio thing is pretty cool. https://t.co/6WW3A5ONcl
@mrled
@Virtual1nstinct Nice job :) if you ever want to talk about Hugo I have done some weird things with it, like this https://t.co/rBqTsACp4m
@Virtual1nstinct
hell yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
even kept the weird but cool title-flashing bug when u switch modes in dark reader
https://t.co/xdlfEvkbjn https://t.co/yemSvN5KNr
@Virtual1nstinct
according to my notes from before, it is time to take a walk,, https://t.co/AjMxENj8n9
@Virtual1nstinct
an eternity ago i wrote https://t.co/z0BdzHrFvR as a personal guide to remind me on how i actually do this, time to open it back up
@Virtual1nstinct
which means only one thing
i should probably finally get my actual website up and running, with all the links that entails fixed, so that i can at least reliably coordinate professional folk around a single point of interaction with me somewhat in the future
alright sounds fun!
@Virtual1nstinct
todo lists and notebooks and anki cards are all lovely tools for the aspiring knowledge worker because the person you yell at for filling them up with too much junk is yourself. in an ideal world, all collaborative todo lists / calendars / email addresses would have an entry fee.
@Virtual1nstinct
hokay, now we run into the problems of calendars...
calendars are a mf when it comes to systems like this because they exist primarily to let you coordinate with other people, rather than to help you coordinate with yourself. which means local solutions for them all suck
@Virtual1nstinct
got it
literally just dug up my own old article from 4 yrs ago https://t.co/doFSUsr0Tn and reimplemented it w/ obsidian tasks. why reinvent the wheel https://t.co/nwBt4niqGn
@Virtual1nstinct
back
let's set up a todo list which might actually be worth something
@Virtual1nstinct
time to make some eggs and think about what to do next hm
@Virtual1nstinct
obsidian is now auto-committing and auto-pushing changes every minute to github, and syncthing appears to be handling it without botching anything on its own end. i've got a pretty seamless interface on mobile too now. delightful.
@Virtual1nstinct
✅ obsidian + syncthing
**big** annoyance is syncthing can't write to SD cards on android. but i use my sd card for everything else and so i have plenty of space on main
@Virtual1nstinct
✅ obsidian + git
git is copy and paste's older brother. it works well with obsidian bc obsidian mostly works with plain text files. in practice i've never actually used this or rolled it back but it provides nice peace of mind
@Virtual1nstinct
now let's set up the bitch so it works well for that purpose
@Virtual1nstinct
as for actual foot-soldier view productivity i think you get 80% of the benefits by just having 3 tools, i wrote a lw post a long time back calling them 'stone age productivity':
- a todo list
- a calendar
- a notebook
obsidian got us covered for all 3 for personal use
@Virtual1nstinct
obsidian is the spiritual successor to org-mode and stores basically everything in plain old markdown notes
which means we can use syncthing for all our mobility needs. end-to-end encrypted, open source, doesn't even need internet to work https://t.co/4OvaMihyde
@Virtual1nstinct
currently going w/
- beeminder https://t.co/o3uzK5mnSP for commitment device / habit-building
- anki https://t.co/5AkGNaquXq for durable knowledge building
- obsidian https://t.co/rVGN0rSgEV for everything else
@Virtual1nstinct
good news is i've got 1/2 already covered! 2/2 can be covered with a few months' worth of savings. for this, and for other more design- and human-oriented reasons, it behooves me to build systems that emphasize
- simplicity
- security
- self-ownership
@Virtual1nstinct
my alternative view is "once agi hits my economic productivity is fucked so i'd better be living in a country which won't let me die + have at least a little money in index funds by then"
@Virtual1nstinct
let's start by clarifying goals
there was a mvmt called "financial independence retire early" that got pretty big on the internet a while back that i don't rly agree with but i admired for providing a narratively-coherent alternative to how people approached their working lives
@Virtual1nstinct
while i still await my irish passport i have decided to just start treating the days as if i was full-time employed again
today i'm starting out by setting up obsidian. please mute this thread if it gets boring
@mrled
RT @afraidofwasps: You only live once - you should try to spend as much time on the computer as possible. After you die, you won't have acc…
@mrled
The lengths some of you will go to search out, consume from beginning to end, and amplify content that enrages you and genuinely makes you sad boggle my mind
@mrled
Uber Eats letting me know I’m a lazy piece of shit. Thanks https://t.co/2wOMcABLVd
@ux_from_hell
Мы встроили тебе попап в попап в попап в попап, чтобы ты мог смотреть на попап, когда смотришь на попап, когда смотришь на попап, когда смотришь на попап https://t.co/MUTyLuigd5
@mrled
Oh shit, this is awesome. Maelstrom was the first Asteroids game I ever played as a kid, I thought it was so cool. (And Escape Velocity has possession of many hundreds of hours of my time too.) https://t.co/0S0OMuzNyZ
@mrled
Learned today that the platform we built for internal hiring is called Palpatine, because we want you to JOIN US
@mrled
It’s fucked up to me that news sites A/B test article headlines. I linked your dumb ass take to dunk on it and you changed it, that ain’t playing by the rules
@mrled
RT @FrankenGraphics: It's been a while since i've done a presentation and lots of you have followed me since, so here it goes!
I'm Ellen, 3…
@FrankenGraphics
It's been a while since i've done a presentation and lots of you have followed me since, so here it goes!
I'm Ellen, 35 yrs, an artist & gamedev specializing on accurate, NES playable games, scenes & gfx. I also produce specialized drawing tools & tutorial materials. https://t.co/KGgwzg38Y1
@mrled
when ur 4 year old gets into some makeup https://t.co/LYqJaNby9r
@mrled
This is one mod my favorite recent bot finds https://t.co/BJ050sB2hV
@WeirdSatellite
Manifest #948 from NROL-129 (CLASSIFIED)
1. Well of Yurts
2. Explosive Lizard Treatment Plant
3. Prison of Evil Light https://t.co/DJp8k4hg8O
@mrled
Cinema for this evening https://t.co/11V1vlp25O
@mrled
RT @WeirdSatellite: SIGINT #115 from NROL-82 (USAP)
1. Pool of Mars
2. Swiss NFTs https://t.co/K1hlm2ut8L