La dura vita del sistemista: aggiorna una serie di sistemi e sbaglia a premere il pulsante di spegnimento di un server in produzione (con l'installazione di SAP totale-globale). Però se ne accorge prima di rilasciare il pulsante di spegnimento: resta così per un'ora in attesa che i colleghi risolvano tutti i problemi e consentano di spegnere il server in sicurezza... ehhh...
Money quote: "At this point the nature of that power button became critical, because its design meant that so long as it was not released, the juice would flow.
And thankfully Jeremy's mate had pressed the button, but not released it."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/who_me/
Money quote: "At this point the nature of that power button became critical, because its design meant that so long as it was not released, the juice would flow.
And thankfully Jeremy's mate had pressed the button, but not released it."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/05/who_me/
The Register
Sysadmin left finger on power button for an hour to avert SAP outage
Tedious Y2K maintenance made chap a bit vague, then a bit sore
L’invenzione del capitale umano, un’arma concettuale della scuola di Chicago per combattere il comunismo.
Money quote: “In essence, the idea of human capital wasn’t new. Adam Smith had pointed out long before how the skills and abilities acquired by workers (eg, training, education, etc) can add economic value to an enterprise. But Schultz had only recently become intrigued by the idea. He actively encouraged new faculty and PhD students to build a more robust and formalistic theory of human capital. Legend has it that Schultz suddenly grasped its importance after visiting an impoverished farm. He asked the threadbare owners why they were so content. Because they’d managed to send their children to school, they replied. It would guarantee a secure income for the family long into the future”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory
Money quote: “In essence, the idea of human capital wasn’t new. Adam Smith had pointed out long before how the skills and abilities acquired by workers (eg, training, education, etc) can add economic value to an enterprise. But Schultz had only recently become intrigued by the idea. He actively encouraged new faculty and PhD students to build a more robust and formalistic theory of human capital. Legend has it that Schultz suddenly grasped its importance after visiting an impoverished farm. He asked the threadbare owners why they were so content. Because they’d managed to send their children to school, they replied. It would guarantee a secure income for the family long into the future”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-cold-war-led-the-cia-to-promote-human-capital-theory
aeon.co
How the Cold War led the CIA to promote human capital theory | Aeon Essays
Human capital theory was invented as an ideological weapon in the Cold War. Now it is helping to Uberise the world of work
Viviamo tempi difficili.
Money quote: “Ottenere, anche momentaneamente, anche parzialmente, questa lucidità vuol dire rimettersi un passo avanti rispetto a chi è invece alterato, stanco, nevrotizzato, delirante, ossia in una condizione psico-emotiva carente, uno standard che però è talmente diffuso da essere considerabile una norma. La lucidità è diventata tra le persone che conosco il bene posizionale per eccellenza.”
http://www.minimaetmoralia.it/wp/la-lucidita-bene-posizionale/
Money quote: “Ottenere, anche momentaneamente, anche parzialmente, questa lucidità vuol dire rimettersi un passo avanti rispetto a chi è invece alterato, stanco, nevrotizzato, delirante, ossia in una condizione psico-emotiva carente, uno standard che però è talmente diffuso da essere considerabile una norma. La lucidità è diventata tra le persone che conosco il bene posizionale per eccellenza.”
http://www.minimaetmoralia.it/wp/la-lucidita-bene-posizionale/
Morte al blog, viva Medium (urla il tizio che scrive su Medium)
Money quote: "I almost always give the same exact answer — stop writing at your own personal domain name or WordPress site and start posting on Medium instead. I don’t know if they ever listen, I just know they should.
Before I discovered this wonderful place my writing has called home for over the last year, I too dreamed of having my own domain name where I wrote at."
https://theascent.pub/how-medium-is-murdering-the-modern-blog-and-why-were-all-better-off-for-it-5be2160e5bbf
Money quote: "I almost always give the same exact answer — stop writing at your own personal domain name or WordPress site and start posting on Medium instead. I don’t know if they ever listen, I just know they should.
Before I discovered this wonderful place my writing has called home for over the last year, I too dreamed of having my own domain name where I wrote at."
https://theascent.pub/how-medium-is-murdering-the-modern-blog-and-why-were-all-better-off-for-it-5be2160e5bbf
The Ascent
How Medium is Murdering The Modern Blog and Why We’re All Better Off For It
On almost a daily basis, someone on Quora asks me how they can monetize their blog or better build an audience for their writing.
Il tema della scomparsa delle pagine personali è l’altro lato della medaglia rispetto alla supremazia dei social e di Medium. Mattia, uno dei lettori di mostly, mi segnala questo articolo molto molto interessante.
Money quote: “Did I say we are witnessing the traditional personal site’s disappearance? That is inaccurate. We are the ones making our own sites disappear.”
https://medium.com/let-me-repost-that-for-you-zeldman/the-vanishing-personal-site-72103ffd521b
Money quote: “Did I say we are witnessing the traditional personal site’s disappearance? That is inaccurate. We are the ones making our own sites disappear.”
https://medium.com/let-me-repost-that-for-you-zeldman/the-vanishing-personal-site-72103ffd521b
Medium
The vanishing personal site
Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are…
Il matto che aveva creato la più bella galassia di emulatori per giocare su Mac ai giochi delle console e homecomputer vari, Richard Bannister, e che mi ha fatto passare gli anni Novanta e i primi duemila con grande divertimento digitale, dieci anni dopo ci ha rimesso mano e li ha aggiornati. Pensa te!
Money quote: "As in times past the standard versions of these ports are completely free. Those of you who want more functionality have the option of installing Emulator Enhancer 3.0, which adds a number of extra features including HID device support, Full Screen Mode, Network Play, and a graphical Recent Games window. EE3 is available at no charge to EE2 customers who purchased on or after January 1, 2017."
http://www.bannister.org/software/index.htm
Money quote: "As in times past the standard versions of these ports are completely free. Those of you who want more functionality have the option of installing Emulator Enhancer 3.0, which adds a number of extra features including HID device support, Full Screen Mode, Network Play, and a graphical Recent Games window. EE3 is available at no charge to EE2 customers who purchased on or after January 1, 2017."
http://www.bannister.org/software/index.htm
“Tomb Raider”, la recensione del nuovo film con Alicia Vikander | il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/tomb-raider-recensione-alicia-vikander/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/tomb-raider-recensione-alicia-vikander/
Fumettologica
"Tomb Raider", la recensione del nuovo film con Alicia Vikander
Com'è il nuovo film di "Tomb Raider", reboot della saga cinematografica ispirata al videogioco e con Alicia Vikander nel ruolo dell'esploratrice Lara Croft.
L'America avverte un grande cambiamento alle porte. Davvero.
Money quote: "The next great reset in American history, the one that finally supplanted this system, was the mid 20th Century switch from traditional town design to the modernist approach. The ideas of modernism had been building in the first half of the 20th Century. Ideas like Corbusier’s Ville Radieusse, Howard’s Garden City, Wright's Broadacre City, and Futurama by General Motors. But we all know when these ideas exploded across the American landscape in various bastardized forms"
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/02/26/next-great-urban-reset
Money quote: "The next great reset in American history, the one that finally supplanted this system, was the mid 20th Century switch from traditional town design to the modernist approach. The ideas of modernism had been building in the first half of the 20th Century. Ideas like Corbusier’s Ville Radieusse, Howard’s Garden City, Wright's Broadacre City, and Futurama by General Motors. But we all know when these ideas exploded across the American landscape in various bastardized forms"
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2018/02/26/next-great-urban-reset
CNU
The next great urban reset
Sometime this century—perhaps in the next decade—America will be physically repurposed in a new urban form that is different from sprawl or 19th Century gridded towns. Is CNU ready to lead when that happens?
Se pensate che i tappi di plastica forabile dei bicchieroni del caffè, quella cosa che fa tanto Starbucks, siano folkloristici ma non interessanti, ebbene non pensatelo più. E non solo perché Starbucks sta arrivando in Italia (perlomeno, a Milano), bensì perché la storia dei tappi è veramente interessante.
Money quote: "The coffee cup lid is one of those seemingly mundane inventions that are so fully integrated into modern life, they’re easy to overlook. But as Harpman details in the introduction to the new book she co-wrote with Specht, Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture, there is a fascinating design history behind the objects."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffee-lids-design-history
Money quote: "The coffee cup lid is one of those seemingly mundane inventions that are so fully integrated into modern life, they’re easy to overlook. But as Harpman details in the introduction to the new book she co-wrote with Specht, Coffee Lids: Peel, Pinch, Pucker, Puncture, there is a fascinating design history behind the objects."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coffee-lids-design-history
Atlas Obscura
Decoding the Design History of Your Coffee Cup Lid
It's a modern marvel.
Forwarded from Social&Positive News - L'informazione che fa bene
📌 #Daleggere (e praticare ;)
La felicità ha bisogno di tempo. Un gruppo di ricercatori americani e canadesi ha condotto 4 diversi studi sulla percezione della felicità e sulle modalità attraverso cui le persone cercano di raggiungerla. Dalla ricerca è emerso che il tempo e la sua percezione giocano un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra ricerca della felicità: siamo più felici se, invece di considerare la felicità un obiettivo senza fine, ci diamo obiettivi raggiungibili che ci aiutino a liberare tempo ed energie per noi stessi e gli altri. Lo studio ha infatti evidenziato che chi ha la sensazione di avere poco tempo per sé è più insoddisfatto e tende a dedicare meno attenzione al prossimo. Insomma per essere felici abbiamo bisogno di tempo per noi e per gli altri. Qui i risultati dello studio se volete approfondire.
Intanto liberate il vostro tempo e trascorrete un buon fine settimana! 🤠
La felicità ha bisogno di tempo. Un gruppo di ricercatori americani e canadesi ha condotto 4 diversi studi sulla percezione della felicità e sulle modalità attraverso cui le persone cercano di raggiungerla. Dalla ricerca è emerso che il tempo e la sua percezione giocano un ruolo fondamentale nella nostra ricerca della felicità: siamo più felici se, invece di considerare la felicità un obiettivo senza fine, ci diamo obiettivi raggiungibili che ci aiutino a liberare tempo ed energie per noi stessi e gli altri. Lo studio ha infatti evidenziato che chi ha la sensazione di avere poco tempo per sé è più insoddisfatto e tende a dedicare meno attenzione al prossimo. Insomma per essere felici abbiamo bisogno di tempo per noi e per gli altri. Qui i risultati dello studio se volete approfondire.
Intanto liberate il vostro tempo e trascorrete un buon fine settimana! 🤠
TPI
Per essere felici ci vuole tempo e fatica: i consigli dei ricercatori
La felicità è una questione di tempo: uno studio ha rivelato cosa bisogna fare per raggiungere questo stato d'animo opposto alla tristezza.
Ok, c'è un tizio che ha fatto un pedale Usb per il computer che gli permette di usare più velocemente VIm entrando e uscendo dal modo inserimento. Si chiama VIm Clutch.
Money quote: "VIM Clutch is a hardware pedal for improved text editing speed for users of the magnificent VIM text editor (1, 2). When the pedal is pressed down, the pedal types "i" causing VIM to go into Insert Mode. When released, it types <Esc> and you are back in Normal Mode."
https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
Money quote: "VIM Clutch is a hardware pedal for improved text editing speed for users of the magnificent VIM text editor (1, 2). When the pedal is pressed down, the pedal types "i" causing VIM to go into Insert Mode. When released, it types <Esc> and you are back in Normal Mode."
https://github.com/alevchuk/vim-clutch
GitHub
GitHub - alevchuk/vim-clutch: A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim
A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim. Contribute to alevchuk/vim-clutch development by creating an account on GitHub.
Per gli appassionati di font che fanno sembrare i vostri scritti o le vostre pagine web degli schermi di vecchi computer anni settanta-ottanta, ecco la cura di tutti i mali. Il sito, con una parvenza di colorazione da sintassi di linguaggio di programmazione è quasi divertente (per i primi cinque minuti).
Money quote: "All fonts are available with the CP437 (DOS Latin-US) character set. Those with expanded, multi-lingual ('PxPlus') versions are labeled "Plus" (see the readme section for more info about encodings)."
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
Money quote: "All fonts are available with the CP437 (DOS Latin-US) character set. Those with expanded, multi-lingual ('PxPlus') versions are labeled "Plus" (see the readme section for more info about encodings)."
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
int10h.org
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: Font Index
Full index of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles
Può essere anche un sistema per imparare la notazione delle formule matematiche con LaTex (se funziona). Questa app per macOS consente di evidenziare una formula e trasformarla nell'equivalente LaTex. Se anche non vedete una utilità a riprendere le formule altrui, può essere utile per recuperare la parte matematicosa dei vostri lavori pre-LaTeX, o di quelli dei quali non avete più il file .tex ma solo il .pdf finale.
Money quote: "The Mathpix desktop app allows users to take screenshots of math equations and paste the extracted Latex, all with a single keyboard shortcut."
https://mathpix.com/
Money quote: "The Mathpix desktop app allows users to take screenshots of math equations and paste the extracted Latex, all with a single keyboard shortcut."
https://mathpix.com/
Un columnist del Colorado Daily di arrampica sugli specchi per cercare di spiegare perché la musica dei dischi di vinile suona meglio di quella digitale (e delle cassette del Walkman, aggiungerei). Per me non ci siamo, ma la sua idea di fondo invece convince molte persone, soprattutto se hanno la barba lunga...
Money quote: “Why? Well, it has a lot to do with what I've been talking about in recent weeks, which is the dynamics of the recordings, i.e. the difference between quiet and loud. Mostly it has to do with keeping that needle in the groove”
http://www.coloradodaily.com/columnists/ci_31737725/audio-file-groovy-tunes-are-why-vinyl-has
Money quote: “Why? Well, it has a lot to do with what I've been talking about in recent weeks, which is the dynamics of the recordings, i.e. the difference between quiet and loud. Mostly it has to do with keeping that needle in the groove”
http://www.coloradodaily.com/columnists/ci_31737725/audio-file-groovy-tunes-are-why-vinyl-has
Coloradodaily
Audio File: Groovy tunes are why vinyl has a major following in the digital age of music
Before the dawn of the iPod and smartphones, a Sony Walkman was probably the most complete modern personal music system we had available for portable use.
Su BGR un fantastico esercizio di gattosulvetrismo: iPhone X è il miglior telefono del pianeta (finora) ma neanche questo ha uno schermo delle dimensioni giuste. E lui li ha provati tutti, dal primo nel 2007.
Verrebbe da chiedersi quali siano le dimensioni giuste per il giornalista, se non fosse che lo spiega lui: quelle del Samsung Galaxy S9+.
Povero iPhone X...
Money quote: “But there’s one thing that Apple has never gotten right over the years, at least not to my taste, and that’s display size and overall device size. These are obviously matters of personal preference, but I have always found Apple’s iPhones to be too small. That changed in 2016 when the iPhone 6 Plus was released, and that phone was far too large. The kicker, of course, is that the iPhone 6/6s/7/8 Plus is too big overall, but the display is far too small for phones of that size”
http://bgr.com/2018/03/16/galaxy-s9-vs-iphone-x-comparison-specs-screen-size-dammit/
Verrebbe da chiedersi quali siano le dimensioni giuste per il giornalista, se non fosse che lo spiega lui: quelle del Samsung Galaxy S9+.
Povero iPhone X...
Money quote: “But there’s one thing that Apple has never gotten right over the years, at least not to my taste, and that’s display size and overall device size. These are obviously matters of personal preference, but I have always found Apple’s iPhones to be too small. That changed in 2016 when the iPhone 6 Plus was released, and that phone was far too large. The kicker, of course, is that the iPhone 6/6s/7/8 Plus is too big overall, but the display is far too small for phones of that size”
http://bgr.com/2018/03/16/galaxy-s9-vs-iphone-x-comparison-specs-screen-size-dammit/
BGR
Something about the iPhone X is starting to annoy me, and I blame Samsung’s Galaxy S9+
Look, there is no question whatsoever that the iPhone X is the best smartphone Apple has ever made, in my opinion. It’s not perfect, of course, but the iPhone X is the best phone on the plane…
Ma la dipendenza è chimica o psicologica, un’abitudine cioè? Probabilmente la seconda che hai detto.
Money quote: “I already knew a lot about addiction. I had struggled with my own drug compulsion, back in my 20s, and lost most of what I valued as a result. But then I quit, returned to university, earned a PhD in developmental psychology, and went on to become a professor at the University of Toronto”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-high-time-that-attitudes-to-addiction-changed
Money quote: “I already knew a lot about addiction. I had struggled with my own drug compulsion, back in my 20s, and lost most of what I valued as a result. But then I quit, returned to university, earned a PhD in developmental psychology, and went on to become a professor at the University of Toronto”
https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-high-time-that-attitudes-to-addiction-changed
Aeon
The addiction habit
Addiction changes the brain but it’s not a disease that can be cured with medicine. In fact, it’s learned – like a habit
I 70 anni di William Gibson, il papà del cyberpunk | il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/william-gibson-cyberpunk-fantascienza/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/03/william-gibson-cyberpunk-fantascienza/
Fumettologica
I 70 anni di William Gibson, il papà del cyberpunk
Oggi William Gibson compie settant'anni. È nato infatti 17 marzo 1948. Ci penso mentre ho in mano il suo ultimo libro uscito da poche settimane: Inverso...
Prima della lingua e delle corde vocali il nostro organo di comunicazione era (e in buona parte rimane) l’occhio.
Money quote: “The phenomenon is unique to humans alone. Indeed, after comparison with nearly half of all primate species, the human eye has been shown to be morphologically and responsively unique. Humans not only show the greatest horizontal elongation of the eye outline and the largest amount of exposed tissue (called sclera) around the eyeball, but are also the only species with sclera that is white. When compared with our closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees, we humans focus more steadily on the eye region when scanning faces. By 14 months of age, the human gaze follows eyes almost exclusively whereas other great apes rely more on head direction.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-learn-to-read-anothers-mind-by-looking-into-their-eyes
Money quote: “The phenomenon is unique to humans alone. Indeed, after comparison with nearly half of all primate species, the human eye has been shown to be morphologically and responsively unique. Humans not only show the greatest horizontal elongation of the eye outline and the largest amount of exposed tissue (called sclera) around the eyeball, but are also the only species with sclera that is white. When compared with our closest living primate relatives, chimpanzees, we humans focus more steadily on the eye region when scanning faces. By 14 months of age, the human gaze follows eyes almost exclusively whereas other great apes rely more on head direction.”
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-we-learn-to-read-anothers-mind-by-looking-into-their-eyes
Aeon
How we learn to read another’s mind by looking into their eyes
Windows to the soul: human eyes form a bridge between self and other, giving direct access to another person’s inner state
Proviamo a reimmaginare per un attimo le dinamiche del sesso in una coppia eterosessuale. Cosa cercano e come funzionano le attività di un uomo e di una donna?
Money quote: “sex tends to be better when men are getting gratifying shared experience and women are getting their bodies well-handled”
https://medium.com/straight-talkers/men-want-sex-and-women-want-love-not-exactly-633ddb3f5178
Money quote: “sex tends to be better when men are getting gratifying shared experience and women are getting their bodies well-handled”
https://medium.com/straight-talkers/men-want-sex-and-women-want-love-not-exactly-633ddb3f5178
Medium
Men want sex and women want love? Not exactly.
Our use of technology hints at something surprising about men and women.
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Mostly, I Write procede sereno per la sua strada. Spero lo troviate sempre/ancora interessante. Se volete segnalarmi articoli, idee, problemi, giudizi o semplicemente farvi vivi, messaggi diretti qui su Telegram a @antoniodini sono i benvenuti.
Se poi volete spargere la
buona novella, forwardate un articolo che vi è piaciuto a un/a amico/a a cui potrebbe piacere. Diveniamo mille! Poi troviamoci a Quarto...