In America sono rimaste pochissime grandi fabbriche di matite. Le fotografie che documentano l’attività della più grande sono ipnotiche.
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Money quote: “Payne conveys the incidental beauty of functional machines: strange architectures of chains, conveyor belts, glue pots, metal discs and gears thick with generations of grease. He captures the strangeness of seeing a tool as simple as a pencil disassembled into its even simpler component parts. He shows us the aesthetic magic of scale. Heaps of pencil cores wait piled against a concrete wall, like an arsenal of gray spaghetti. Hundreds of pencils sit stacked in honeycomb towers. Wood shavings fly as fresh pencils are dragged across the sharpening machine, a wheel of fast-spinning sandpaper.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html
Nytimes
Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories
A photographer captures a colorful world of craft and complexity.
Il CES non ama più Apple - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-ces-non-ama-piu-apple/
Macitynet.it
Il CES non ama più Apple
Mentre è in corso a Las Vegas la kermesse della tecnologia la presenza indiretta di Apple quest’anno è più debole che mai. Vinceva senza partecipare, adesso non più
Alle Hawaii tornano le sirene degli attacchi atomici, rimasuglio della guerra fredda. Siamo finiti in un fumetto di serie B.
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Proprio per questo secondo me non è il momento di giocare al panico scandalistico. Se si fa informazione, anche per gioco con un canale Telegram, serve un’etica della responsabilità.
Money quote: “In the event of an actual nuclear missile launch at Hawaii from North Korea, the attack sirens would give island residents and tourists just 12 or 13 minutes of warning before impact, according to the state’s fact sheet.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-hawaii/hawaii-to-resume-cold-war-era-nuclear-siren-tests-amid-north-korea-threat-idUSKBN1DS099
Ebbene sì: siamo schiavi delle nostre abitudini. Il trucco è scegliere quelle buone ed evitare quelle cattive. Lo diceva mia nonna con italica sintesi. Ci vuole mezza internet per articolare lo stesso ragionamento.
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Money quote: “A few months ago, I started to track my food to know how much calories I was consuming. Not too long later, I started exercising. I then started to reduce my intake of carbohydrates. That meant that I ordered takeout less and had to prepare my own meals.
Looking back, it seems a little absurd how the small act of keying my food into the MyFitnessPal app could start off such a reaction. But the thought process was simple.”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/keystone-habits-how-one-small-change-can-improve-your-entire-life-a32375763da2
Medium
Keystone Habits: How One Small Change Can Improve Your Entire Life
Not all habits are created equal. There are some habits — keystone habits — which create positive effects that spill over into other areas.
Sono orologi meccanici abbastanza particolari: sono immersi dentro una bolla di liquido (olio? benzina? alcool?). Non hanno lancette ma cerchi che ruotano, cosa che più o meno in modo elegante rivoluziona il quadrante in continuazione. Adesso ce la novità del modello che si connette al telefono per avere l’ora esatta e sincronizzarli perfettamente, anche se è stato a lungo fermo. Ci ha lavorato il papà dell’iPod, Tony Fadell, che è ache un discreto Watch nerd.
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Money quote: “Its latest concept watch, the Type 2 e-Crown, was in part designed by ex-Apply designer Tony Fadell and connects wirelessly to a phone. This means it can be set to two different time-zones and be set to the correct time instantly after it has stopped.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/tony-fadell-has-designed-a-new-kind-of-mechanical-watch-2018-1
Business Insider
The 'father of the iPod' has designed a new kind of mechanical watch
It will set itself even if it hasn't been worn in months, just by tapping the glass.
È domenica. Tempo di relax. Un racconto pubblicato da Vice Italia (Motherboard) di Giuseppe Lippi, curatore di Urania, con illustrazione di Franco Brambilla
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Money quote: "Felip si godeva la pioggia acida e camminava tra le file ordinate di passanti su Madison Avenue, poco più a nord dell’Abisso di New York. Il cratere lo affascinava ma, al confronto, i pedoni e gli autisti delle disciplinate autoguida erano uno spettacolo molto più vario e interessante. Il cervello positronico è meraviglioso, pensò. Può fare di tutto e di più perché le Tre Leggi lo rendono eccezionalmente adatto alla N.C. (Nuova Convivenza). "
https://motherboard.vice.com/it/article/paqbng/altra-faccia-della-spirale-giuseppe-lippi-racconto-terraform-audi-innovative
Motherboard
L'altra faccia della spirale
Giuseppe Lippi, il curatore di Urania, ha scritto un racconto per la nostra rubrica di racconti di fantascienza in cui immagina delle nuove leggi per la robotica.
Certo, quelli che mettono lo sportellino per coprire la webcam del portatile sono un po' esagerati. Però, è possibile utilizzare il feed video anche da un sito web, come dimostra questa divertente applicazione html5: un contatore di flessioni. Cioè, lo accendi, lo fai partire e lui "vede" i tuoi movimenti e li conta: se non fai tutte le flessioni che hai dichiarato, suona l'allarme e non si ferma più... Inquietante, anzi doppiamente inquietante, direi.
Money quote: "This is an alarm which you can only close by doing a preset number of pushups. This is not based on your honesty, the app will intelligently count your pushups through your webcam. I recommend you try it out a few times to find the positioning which gives you the most accurate results. After, you can use it to interrupt hours of sitting with a set of pushups; or, use it to wake up in the morning."
https://pushupalarm.com/
Money quote: "This is an alarm which you can only close by doing a preset number of pushups. This is not based on your honesty, the app will intelligently count your pushups through your webcam. I recommend you try it out a few times to find the positioning which gives you the most accurate results. After, you can use it to interrupt hours of sitting with a set of pushups; or, use it to wake up in the morning."
https://pushupalarm.com/
Un articolo-fumetto che spiega come l'America, a partire dagli anni Novanta, abbia cambiato passo e si sia innamorata per calcolo e interesse della guerra. "The Good War" è bello da leggere e fa pensare. Perfetto per telefoni e tablet la domenica sera a letto
Money quote: "How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience"
https://thenib.com/the-good-war
L'articolo da cui è tratto il fumetto è questo:
https://chrishayes.org/articles/the-good-war-on-terror/
Money quote: "How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience"
https://thenib.com/the-good-war
L'articolo da cui è tratto il fumetto è questo:
https://chrishayes.org/articles/the-good-war-on-terror/
The Nib
The Good War
How America’s infatuation with World War II has eroded our conscience.
È tutta colpa di Amazon, diciamo sempre. È colpa del colosso di Seattle se chiudono i negozietti di quartiere. Ma non è necessariamente detto che sia così, anche perché la realtà è una cosa complessa e le spiegazioni troppo semplici suonano sempre un po' troppo facili. Ad esempio, a New York, sostiene il Guardian con una sua inchiesta, a fare piazza pulita dei negozietti di quartiere non è stata Amazon. Tutt'altro.
Money quote: "Part of the problem is the changing make-up of New York landlords. Many are no longer mom-and-pop operations, but institutional investors and hedge funds that are unwilling to drop rents to match retail conditions. “They are running small businesses out of the city and replacing them with chain stores and temporary luxury businesses,” says Moss.
In addition, he says, banks will devalue a property if it’s occupied by a small business, and increase it for a chain store. “There’s benefit to waiting for chain stores. If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-retail-shops-amazon-rent
Money quote: "Part of the problem is the changing make-up of New York landlords. Many are no longer mom-and-pop operations, but institutional investors and hedge funds that are unwilling to drop rents to match retail conditions. “They are running small businesses out of the city and replacing them with chain stores and temporary luxury businesses,” says Moss.
In addition, he says, banks will devalue a property if it’s occupied by a small business, and increase it for a chain store. “There’s benefit to waiting for chain stores. If you are a hedge fund manager running a portfolio you leave it empty and take a write-off.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/24/new-york-retail-shops-amazon-rent
the Guardian
New York's vanishing shops and storefronts: 'It's not Amazon, it's rent'
Vacant storefronts are becoming more noticeable in the capital of consumption, as small retailers are being pushed out by wealthy investors
Anche WebKit, il motore open source dei browser Apple e altri (Safari e tutto quel che gira su iOS per far vedere pagine web) viene colpito dal pasticcio di Intel che apre la strada a Spectre and Meltdown. In questa spiegazione offerta dalla associazione omonima, non solo viene indicato come funzionano gli effetti delle vulnerabilità e come mitigarli, ma viene indicato molto bene anche il funzionamento e le ragioni delle scelte dei progettisti di CPU.
Money quote: “This document explains how Spectre and Meltdown affect existing WebKit security mechanisms and what short-term and long-term fixes WebKit is deploying to provide protection against this new class of attacks. The first of these mitigations shipped on Jan 8, 2018”
https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
Money quote: “This document explains how Spectre and Meltdown affect existing WebKit security mechanisms and what short-term and long-term fixes WebKit is deploying to provide protection against this new class of attacks. The first of these mitigations shipped on Jan 8, 2018”
https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-for-webkit/
WebKit
What Spectre and Meltdown Mean For WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
La mia recensione del Capitolo VIII di Star Wars, "Gli ultimi Jedi", (come moltissime altre) è stata criticata da alcuni e amata da altri. Non perché io scriva in modo bipolare, cioè non più della media. Invece, è successo perché secondo me è Star Wars ad essere un argomento sempre più divisivo.
Il mito del primo film del 1977 non lo discute nessuno, però. Invece, tornare indietro nel tempo e ritrovare l'equilibrio perfetto, dettato tanto da cause interne quando da quelle esterne al film, più la nostra soggettiva ingenuità del tempo che fu, oggi a molti pare proprio impossibile. E sono arrabbiati per questo.
Money quote: "The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different ways. In 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the director J. J. Abrams told a completely derivative “Star Wars” story, placating fans who were desperate for the “magic” of the originals, while boring everyone else. Last year, Gareth Edwards went out on a limb with “Rogue One”—an atmospheric, sombre, and tragic film in which (spoiler alert) all the heroes die. With this year’s “The Last Jedi,” Rian Johnson has split the difference: he’s made a familiar-feeling “Star Wars” film in which many of the franchise’s tropes are serially subverted. For once—read no further if you haven’t seen the film!—the crazy long-shot plan turns out to be a bad idea and a waste of time; the rebellious charm of the hotshot who comes up with it is revealed as narcissistic immaturity. In a new twist, the dark side of the Force—previously associated exclusively with scaly old men—is shown to be sexy: in one of the film’s best moments, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) busts in on Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) while they’re flirting by means of a telepathic link. The movie contemplates the possibility that the Jedi religion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; there are even hints that the aristocratic family saga at the heart of the “Star Wars” story is a red herring, and that ordinary people can become Jedis. All of these departures from the norm don’t necessarily add up to riveting drama—they’re inside baseball rather than truly new developments in the plot—but they do buy the film (and perhaps its sequels) some tonal breathing room."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-all-star-wars-movies-the-same
Money quote 2: "Author Rajan Khanna feels that some amount of disorientation and alienation is inevitable, as we start to lose some of the most familiar Star Wars actors and characters. “They’re setting up a world more removed from the touchstones that we know from Star Wars,” he says, “which I think is why it’s starting to feel a little bit weird to some people.”"
https://www.wired.com/2017/12/geeks-guide-last-jedi/
Il mito del primo film del 1977 non lo discute nessuno, però. Invece, tornare indietro nel tempo e ritrovare l'equilibrio perfetto, dettato tanto da cause interne quando da quelle esterne al film, più la nostra soggettiva ingenuità del tempo che fu, oggi a molti pare proprio impossibile. E sono arrabbiati per questo.
Money quote: "The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different ways. In 2015’s “The Force Awakens,” the director J. J. Abrams told a completely derivative “Star Wars” story, placating fans who were desperate for the “magic” of the originals, while boring everyone else. Last year, Gareth Edwards went out on a limb with “Rogue One”—an atmospheric, sombre, and tragic film in which (spoiler alert) all the heroes die. With this year’s “The Last Jedi,” Rian Johnson has split the difference: he’s made a familiar-feeling “Star Wars” film in which many of the franchise’s tropes are serially subverted. For once—read no further if you haven’t seen the film!—the crazy long-shot plan turns out to be a bad idea and a waste of time; the rebellious charm of the hotshot who comes up with it is revealed as narcissistic immaturity. In a new twist, the dark side of the Force—previously associated exclusively with scaly old men—is shown to be sexy: in one of the film’s best moments, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) busts in on Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) while they’re flirting by means of a telepathic link. The movie contemplates the possibility that the Jedi religion isn’t all it’s cracked up to be; there are even hints that the aristocratic family saga at the heart of the “Star Wars” story is a red herring, and that ordinary people can become Jedis. All of these departures from the norm don’t necessarily add up to riveting drama—they’re inside baseball rather than truly new developments in the plot—but they do buy the film (and perhaps its sequels) some tonal breathing room."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-are-all-star-wars-movies-the-same
Money quote 2: "Author Rajan Khanna feels that some amount of disorientation and alienation is inevitable, as we start to lose some of the most familiar Star Wars actors and characters. “They’re setting up a world more removed from the touchstones that we know from Star Wars,” he says, “which I think is why it’s starting to feel a little bit weird to some people.”"
https://www.wired.com/2017/12/geeks-guide-last-jedi/
The New Yorker
Why Are All “Star Wars” Movies the Same?
The directors of the new wave of “Star Wars” films have coped with the prison of fandom in different, unsatisfying ways.
Oggi il MacBook Air compie dieci anni. Era la prima generazione, una cosa molto diversa da quella rilanciata nel 2010 e che è ancora nei listini di Apple. Però, insomma, l'esordio è stato oggi, dieci anni fa. In questo video un'ottima ricapitolazione della sua storia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyr-tngrmNI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyr-tngrmNI
YouTube
The Original MacBook Air
Introduced in 2008, the MacBook Air defined the modern-day notebook. To learn more, check out my column at MacStories: https://www.macstories.net/mac/the-mac...
Dieci anni di MacBook Air, la rivoluzione silenziosa - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-arrivava-macbook-air/
https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-arrivava-macbook-air/
Macitynet.it
Dieci anni di MacBook Air, la rivoluzione silenziosa - Macitynet.it
Niente lettore Cd-Dvd, niente porte e connessioni tranne una Usb e una micro-Dvi, tutto il resto era wireless. Ed è stata subito leggenda
LFino a pochi anni fa la totalità o quasi delle persone che conoscevate erano etero. E invece non era vero. Oggi, superata quella costruzione sociale, la quasi totalità delle persone che conoscete sono monogame (realmente o solo formalmente). Insomma, il poliamore non esiste. O almeno, così ce la raccontiamo. Vero?
Il punto di vista di una donna.
Money quote: “I’ve been out as polyamorous for years. Because of this, non-monogamous people who aren’t out often feel able to talk to me about their own situations. When I go to conferences, I can’t help noticing all the philosophers who are in closeted non-monogamous relationships. This discrepancy between reality and socially acknowledged reality can be disorienting; the ‘official’ number of non-monogamous people in the room is almost always one (me).
So what’s going on? No doubt there are several factors at work, but I want to talk about one that’s both powerful and insidious: non-monogamy isn’t considered ‘romantic’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-a-hackneyed-romantic-ideal-is-used-to-stigmatise-polyamory
Il punto di vista di una donna.
Money quote: “I’ve been out as polyamorous for years. Because of this, non-monogamous people who aren’t out often feel able to talk to me about their own situations. When I go to conferences, I can’t help noticing all the philosophers who are in closeted non-monogamous relationships. This discrepancy between reality and socially acknowledged reality can be disorienting; the ‘official’ number of non-monogamous people in the room is almost always one (me).
So what’s going on? No doubt there are several factors at work, but I want to talk about one that’s both powerful and insidious: non-monogamy isn’t considered ‘romantic’.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-a-hackneyed-romantic-ideal-is-used-to-stigmatise-polyamory
Aeon
How a hackneyed romantic ideal is used to stigmatise polyamory
Is romance dead? Maybe not, but it’s complicated… How polyamory is the new love that dare not speak its name
I giornali non ne hanno tanto parlato e in effetti bisogna cercare con il lumicino, per così dire, qualche notizia in rete. Però, se ci pensate, il fatto che per almeno due ore sia andata via la luce a tutto il CES, il Consumer Electronic Show che si è da poco concluso a Las Vegas, è abbastanza paradossale. La più grande kermesse della tecnologia per alcune ore in ginocchio a causa di un black-out...
Money quote: "The outage impacted hundreds of companies, including giants like LG, Samsung, and Sony, as well as many small startups that paid thousands of dollars to have a presence on the massive show floor. This year’s CES seems to be marked by more chaos than usual, including unprecedented rain that flooded streets and shut down Google’s giant funhouse booth for a day."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16875192/ces-2018-blackout-power-outage
Money quote: "The outage impacted hundreds of companies, including giants like LG, Samsung, and Sony, as well as many small startups that paid thousands of dollars to have a presence on the massive show floor. This year’s CES seems to be marked by more chaos than usual, including unprecedented rain that flooded streets and shut down Google’s giant funhouse booth for a day."
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16875192/ces-2018-blackout-power-outage
The Verge
Major power outage hits CES, a consumer electronics show
Two hours of CE-mess
Medium andrebbe studiato un po’ di più. Lo cito spesso in questo canale, lo leggo molto (per la capacità di moto suoi autori di uscire dalle righe tradizionalmente definite dei giornali), ma non è quell’angolo di democratica libertà che sembra. Le confessioni di una che ci scrive da sette mesi.
Money quote: “As a writer, my expectation is that since there is a bell, it should ceaselessly toll. It should be green each time I am here. When I say ‘each time,’ I mean almost half of my waking hours. I’m not exaggerating if you hear me say that I am on Medium so frequently that my six year old knows what Medium is all about and what I do here”
https://medium.com/@sravss/confessions-of-a-medium-writer-d836144ffa20
Money quote: “As a writer, my expectation is that since there is a bell, it should ceaselessly toll. It should be green each time I am here. When I say ‘each time,’ I mean almost half of my waking hours. I’m not exaggerating if you hear me say that I am on Medium so frequently that my six year old knows what Medium is all about and what I do here”
https://medium.com/@sravss/confessions-of-a-medium-writer-d836144ffa20
Medium
Confessions of A Medium Writer
I will be honest. Brutally. Shamelessly. <Feel free to add all the adverbs that Stephen King warns you against.>
Microsoft ha fatto qualche aggiornamento alla sua PowerShell, il secondo ambiente a riga di comando dopo cmd (il prompt del Dos, tipo). Mentre cmd rimane per motivi di compatibilità, PowerShell è il futuro della strategia di apertura e potenziamento di Windows 10 e successivi: crea un ambiente secondo loro molto più potente di Bash o altre shell per Unix/Linux (macOS incluso).
Sono curioso, visto che è anche compatibile trasversalmente con Linux e macOS, ma non ho nessuna intenzione di installare software Microsoft sul mio computer (non uso nessuno dei loro prodotti, né Office né Outlook né altre cose).
Come fare allora? Da utente basico di Docker, che uso per capire un po' di cose sul funzionamento dei container e giocare in libertà con le app trasformate in servizi, ho scoperto che esiste un container per Docker con la PowerShell, disponibile liberamente (ci mancherebbe altro).
Money quote: "The release containers derive from the official distribution image, such as centos:7, then install dependencies, and finally install the PowerShell package.
These containers live at hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/powershell.
At about 440 megabytes, they are decently minimal, with their size being the sum of the base image (200 megabytes) plus the uncompressed package (120 megabytes), and about 120 megabytes of .NET Core and bootstrapping dependencies."
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docker
Per adesso non ho idee precise, se non che l'assunto di fondo della PowerShell, cioè che si possano passare non solo testo ma anche oggetti. Già questo non mi piace tanto. Anche la filosofia di fondo di Unix/Linux, di avere uno sciame di programmi semplici che fanno poche cose e lavorano assieme, evapora.
Perché dentro un container se comunque faccio girare PowerShell sulla mia macchina? La risposta è semplice: quando sono stanco
docker rmi microsoft/powershell
e scompare tutto senza problemi...
Sono curioso, visto che è anche compatibile trasversalmente con Linux e macOS, ma non ho nessuna intenzione di installare software Microsoft sul mio computer (non uso nessuno dei loro prodotti, né Office né Outlook né altre cose).
Come fare allora? Da utente basico di Docker, che uso per capire un po' di cose sul funzionamento dei container e giocare in libertà con le app trasformate in servizi, ho scoperto che esiste un container per Docker con la PowerShell, disponibile liberamente (ci mancherebbe altro).
Money quote: "The release containers derive from the official distribution image, such as centos:7, then install dependencies, and finally install the PowerShell package.
These containers live at hub.docker.com/r/microsoft/powershell.
At about 440 megabytes, they are decently minimal, with their size being the sum of the base image (200 megabytes) plus the uncompressed package (120 megabytes), and about 120 megabytes of .NET Core and bootstrapping dependencies."
https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/docker
Per adesso non ho idee precise, se non che l'assunto di fondo della PowerShell, cioè che si possano passare non solo testo ma anche oggetti. Già questo non mi piace tanto. Anche la filosofia di fondo di Unix/Linux, di avere uno sciame di programmi semplici che fanno poche cose e lavorano assieme, evapora.
Perché dentro un container se comunque faccio girare PowerShell sulla mia macchina? La risposta è semplice: quando sono stanco
docker rmi microsoft/powershell
e scompare tutto senza problemi...
GitHub
PowerShell/PowerShell
PowerShell for every system! Contribute to PowerShell/PowerShell development by creating an account on GitHub.
Siete rincoglioniti perché dormite male, ecco.
Money quote: "The study was the result of an effort to understand how the sleeping brain turns short-term memories into memories that can last a lifetime, says Walker, the author of the book Why We Sleep. "What is it about sleep that seems to perform this elegant trick of cementing new facts into the neural architecture of the brain?""
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep
Money quote: "The study was the result of an effort to understand how the sleeping brain turns short-term memories into memories that can last a lifetime, says Walker, the author of the book Why We Sleep. "What is it about sleep that seems to perform this elegant trick of cementing new facts into the neural architecture of the brain?""
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/18/571120472/older-adults-forgetfulness-tied-to-faulty-brain-rhythms-in-sleep
Microsoft: sbatti il Surface in prima pagina - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/microsoft-tutta-birra-rilanciare-surface/
https://www.macitynet.it/microsoft-tutta-birra-rilanciare-surface/
Macitynet.it
Microsoft: sbatti il Surface in prima pagina - Macitynet.it
Con il “product stretch” i tablet/pc di Redmond sono in tutte le serie tv e film, veri e propri spot neanche troppo nascosti
Oltre alle scie chimiche, ai vaccini killer e alle cure del diabete tenute nascoste, c'è anche un bel po' di ignoranza diffusa sulla genetica. Qui invece il racconto è molto bello, anche se a tratti terribile: la persistenza del materiale genetico dei figli nel corpo della madre (che a sua volta contiene materiale genetico anche dei propri genitori). I motivi sono i più vari, e la logica, una volta usciti dalle sovrastrutture sociali della "mamma", diventa piuttosto complessa e a tratti violenta. La placenta come separatore in un conflitto tra esseri uniti dal bisogno ma separati profondamente dagli obiettivi e dal desiderio di vita. Eppure, anche questa sarebbe una lettura riduttiva. Perché cercare congiure quando la meraviglia di quel che esiste è così tanta?
Money quote: "The phenomenon, believed to have developed in mammals some 93 million years ago, is common to placental mammals to this day. Its persistence and reach was made astonishingly clear in 2012, when Nelson and colleagues analysed brain samples drawn from dozens of deceased women, ranging in age from 32 to 101. They found that the majority contained male DNA, presumably picked up from past pregnancies. And some of these Y chromosome cells had apparently been there for decades: the oldest subject was 94, meaning that male DNA that transferred during gestation would have persisted for more than half a century."
https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna
Money quote: "The phenomenon, believed to have developed in mammals some 93 million years ago, is common to placental mammals to this day. Its persistence and reach was made astonishingly clear in 2012, when Nelson and colleagues analysed brain samples drawn from dozens of deceased women, ranging in age from 32 to 101. They found that the majority contained male DNA, presumably picked up from past pregnancies. And some of these Y chromosome cells had apparently been there for decades: the oldest subject was 94, meaning that male DNA that transferred during gestation would have persisted for more than half a century."
https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna
aeon.co
Microchimerism: how pregnancy changes the mother’s very DNA | Aeon Essays
Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity?
Eh si: la biologia, la nostra biologia, è davvero affascinante... (sempre lo stesso articolo)
Money quote: "Far from drifting at random, human and animal studies have found foetal origin cells in the mother’s bloodstream, skin and all major organs, even showing up as part of the beating heart. This passage means that women carry at least three unique cell populations in their bodies – their own, their mother’s, and their child’s – creating what biologists term a microchimera, named for the Greek fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent."
https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna
Money quote: "Far from drifting at random, human and animal studies have found foetal origin cells in the mother’s bloodstream, skin and all major organs, even showing up as part of the beating heart. This passage means that women carry at least three unique cell populations in their bodies – their own, their mother’s, and their child’s – creating what biologists term a microchimera, named for the Greek fire-breathing monster with the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a serpent."
https://aeon.co/essays/microchimerism-how-pregnancy-changes-the-mothers-very-dna
aeon.co
Microchimerism: how pregnancy changes the mother’s very DNA | Aeon Essays
Women are chimeras, with genetic material from both their parents and children. Where does that leave individual identity?