Forwarded from Fumettologica
Sbeffeggiato dai fan, deriso dalla critica, lo "Star Wars Holiday Special" compie quarant'anni ed è, nonostante tutto, uno dei prodotti più affascinanti della saga. Questa è la sua (strampalata) storia.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/star-wars-holiday-special/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/star-wars-holiday-special/
Fumettologica
Star Wars Holiday Special, storia del Natale in casa Skywalker - Fumettologica
Sbeffeggiato dai fan, deriso dalla critica, lo "Star Wars Holiday Special" compie 40 anni e rimane uno dei prodotti più affascinanti della saga.
Non solo Elon Musk: dietro di lui per guidare SpaceX c’è una grande donna: Gwynne Shotwell
Money quote: “Shotwell has rarely taken credit for any of this. “I try to run the company the way I think Elon would want me to run it,” she says. “He makes great decisions with good data. It’s irritating that he is right as often as he is.” That’s not to say he’s always right. Years earlier, Musk ordered Falcon Heavy canceled, forcing Shotwell, who’d been tipped off by another SpaceX employee, to sprint to a conference room and remind him that the U.S. Air Force, a critical customer, had already purchased a launch.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk
Money quote: “Shotwell has rarely taken credit for any of this. “I try to run the company the way I think Elon would want me to run it,” she says. “He makes great decisions with good data. It’s irritating that he is right as often as he is.” That’s not to say he’s always right. Years earlier, Musk ordered Falcon Heavy canceled, forcing Shotwell, who’d been tipped off by another SpaceX employee, to sprint to a conference room and remind him that the U.S. Air Force, a critical customer, had already purchased a launch.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-07-26/she-launches-spaceships-sells-rockets-and-deals-with-elon-musk
Bloomberg.com
SpaceX’s Secret Weapon Is Gwynne Shotwell
“We’re doing really cool stuff.”
I cinque signori del telefono low cost - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/i-cinque-signori-del-telefono-low-cost/
https://www.macitynet.it/i-cinque-signori-del-telefono-low-cost/
Macitynet.it
I cinque signori del telefono low cost - Macitynet.it
Sono cinque i marchi che dominano il mercato degli “feature phone”. Da Nokia-Hdm a Samsung, ma ci sono anche altre aziende. E con apparecchi 4G con Whatsapp, batterie che durano una settimana e scocche industruttibili, anche il futuro sembra roseo
Visto che durante le vacanze di Natale spesso si è in viaggio, un po' di abc dell’hacking: come ottenere connessione senza limiti in hotel, stazione e aeroporti che la limitano a 15, 30, 45 minuti. Nei commenti, tecniche ancora più semplificate soprattutto se utilizzate Linux. Serve la riga di comando.
https://gkbrk.com/2018/12/free-hotel-wifi-with-python-and-selenium/
https://gkbrk.com/2018/12/free-hotel-wifi-with-python-and-selenium/
gkbrk.com
Free Hotel Wifi with Python and Selenium
Recently I took my annual leave and decided to visit my friend during the holidays. I stayed at a hotel for a few days but to my surprise, the hotel charged money to use their wifi. In $DEITY’s year 2000 + 18, can you imagine?
Un viaggio meraviglioso (e tecnico al limite della nausea) nella specifica dei CD audio. Per capire tutto, ma veramente tutto, e soprattutto poterli rippare come se non ci fosse mai stato un domani
Money quote: “The piano arrangement album 帰るべき城 by Altneuland was published in 2005. I discovered it in 2008 (probably on YouTube), downloaded the best copy I could find, and filed it away in the TODO list. Recent advances in international parcel forwarding technology let me buy a used copy last year, but when it arrived none of my CD drives could read track #3. This sort of thing is common when buying used CDs, especially if they need to transit a USPS international shipping center. I shelved it and kept on the lookout for another copy, which I located last month. It arrived on Friday, I immediately tried to rip it, and hit the exact same error. This didn’t seem to be an issue of wear or damage – the CD itself was probably defective from the factory.
I had three choices: accept an imperfect rip in my archives1, hope to find another copy some day that would rip successfully (unlikely), or somehow regenerate the original audio data from my corrupt copies. You already know which branch I took.”
https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times
Money quote: “The piano arrangement album 帰るべき城 by Altneuland was published in 2005. I discovered it in 2008 (probably on YouTube), downloaded the best copy I could find, and filed it away in the TODO list. Recent advances in international parcel forwarding technology let me buy a used copy last year, but when it arrived none of my CD drives could read track #3. This sort of thing is common when buying used CDs, especially if they need to transit a USPS international shipping center. I shelved it and kept on the lookout for another copy, which I located last month. It arrived on Friday, I immediately tried to rip it, and hit the exact same error. This didn’t seem to be an issue of wear or damage – the CD itself was probably defective from the factory.
I had three choices: accept an imperfect rip in my archives1, hope to find another copy some day that would rip successfully (unlikely), or somehow regenerate the original audio data from my corrupt copies. You already know which branch I took.”
https://john-millikin.com/%F0%9F%A4%94/why-i-ripped-the-same-cd-300-times
John Millikin
Why I Ripped The Same CD 300 Times
A quanto pare l’articolo più importante tra quelli che ho condiviso qui nel 2018 è quello sulla tecnica di Feynman per imparare qualsiasi cosa. Visto che ci siamo, lo ripropongo come lettura di Natale. Auguri!
Money quote: “There are two types of knowledge and most of us focus on the wrong one. The first type of knowledge focuses on knowing the name of something. The second focuses on knowing something. These are not the same thing. The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. In fact, he created a formula for learning that ensured he understood something better than everyone else.”
https://fs.blog/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/
Money quote: “There are two types of knowledge and most of us focus on the wrong one. The first type of knowledge focuses on knowing the name of something. The second focuses on knowing something. These are not the same thing. The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. In fact, he created a formula for learning that ensured he understood something better than everyone else.”
https://fs.blog/2012/04/learn-anything-faster-with-the-feynman-technique/
Farnam Street
The Feynman Technique: Master the Art of Learning
Master any subject with the Feynman Technique, a proven four-step method for effective learning. Dive into the art of choosing a concept, teaching it to a child, refining your understanding, and organizing your knowledge for continual growth. Discover how…
Il regalo di Natale del roaming nell'Unione Europea per il 2019 - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-regalo-di-natale-del-roaming-nellunione-europea-per-il-2019/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-regalo-di-natale-del-roaming-nellunione-europea-per-il-2019/
Macitynet.it
Il regalo di Natale del roaming nell'Unione Europea per il 2019 - Macitynet.it
Dal 1 gennaio 2019 aumentano i gigabyte, sms e minuti disponibili in Europa per chi va temporaneamente in un altro paese dell'Unione. Ecco come funzionerà.
Quando chiesero a Bill Joy (avete presente BSD Unix?) come aveva fatto a scrivere uno stack TCP/IP migliore di quello Unix standard, rispose che aveva letto la documentazione e scritto il codice. Sembra una risposta arrogante o scema, ma a quanto pare anche in un approccio a due passi c’è un sacco di gente che riesce a perdersene per strada almeno uno.
Money quote: “For better or worse, Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly – interoperability and security issues.
However, with some insight into how they’re constructed and published, it’s a bit easier to understand what you’re looking at. Here’s my take, informed from my experiences with HTTP and a few other things.”
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
Money quote: “For better or worse, Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly – interoperability and security issues.
However, with some insight into how they’re constructed and published, it’s a bit easier to understand what you’re looking at. Here’s my take, informed from my experiences with HTTP and a few other things.”
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
«Oggi, Natale, è anche l'anniversario della morte del celebre scrittore e intellettuale Robert Walser. Walser scrisse, tra l'altro, il libro "La passeggiata". Morì d'improvviso mentre si faceva una passeggiata. Dal che ho concluso che il titolo del mio prossimo libro sarà "La modella di lingerie"» (R.R.Corsi, resident poet di Mostly, I Write)
Storia di Natale. Giornalista una volta, giornalista per sempre? Anche se guidi il furgoncino delle consegne di Amazon per vivere? Il racconto fatto a The Atlantic è tutto da leggere.
Money quote: “Let’s face it, when you’re a college-educated 57-year-old slinging parcels for a living, something in your life has not gone according to plan. That said, my moments of chagrin are far outnumbered by the upsides of the job, which include windfall connections with grateful strangers. There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company—Time Inc.—in playing for the team that’s winning big, that’s not considered a dinosaur, even if that team is paying me $17 an hour (plus OT!). It’s been healthy for me, a fair-haired Anglo-Saxon with a Roman numeral in my name (John Austin Murphy III), to be a minority in my workplace, and in some of the neighborhoods where I deliver. As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/
Money quote: “Let’s face it, when you’re a college-educated 57-year-old slinging parcels for a living, something in your life has not gone according to plan. That said, my moments of chagrin are far outnumbered by the upsides of the job, which include windfall connections with grateful strangers. There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company—Time Inc.—in playing for the team that’s winning big, that’s not considered a dinosaur, even if that team is paying me $17 an hour (plus OT!). It’s been healthy for me, a fair-haired Anglo-Saxon with a Roman numeral in my name (John Austin Murphy III), to be a minority in my workplace, and in some of the neighborhoods where I deliver. As Amazon reaches maximum ubiquity in our lives (“Alexa, play Led Zeppelin”), as online shopping turns malls into mausoleums, it’s been illuminating to see exactly how a package makes the final leg of its journey”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/what-its-like-to-deliver-packages-for-amazon/578986/
The Atlantic
I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon.
There’s a certain novelty, after decades at a legacy media company, in playing for the team that’s winning big.
Mentre i giornalisti finiscono a consegnare pacchi per Amazon, prosegue l’utopia del road warrior e del telelavoro.
Money quote: “When you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, it can be tempting to think about quitting your job, packing your bags, and going to someplace to snorkel with sea turtles on a journey of self-discovery. But not all of us have the financial means—or the desire—to blow up our lives full-stop. (Plus, even if you reach turtle nirvana, chances are you will eventually have to head home to replenish your funds.) Thankfully, in the age of wifi and international data plans, there’s a middle path: Taking your work on the road with you.“
https://qz.com/work/1494641/the-complete-guide-to-traveling-the-world-without-quitting-your-job/
Money quote: “When you’re feeling down or stuck in a rut, it can be tempting to think about quitting your job, packing your bags, and going to someplace to snorkel with sea turtles on a journey of self-discovery. But not all of us have the financial means—or the desire—to blow up our lives full-stop. (Plus, even if you reach turtle nirvana, chances are you will eventually have to head home to replenish your funds.) Thankfully, in the age of wifi and international data plans, there’s a middle path: Taking your work on the road with you.“
https://qz.com/work/1494641/the-complete-guide-to-traveling-the-world-without-quitting-your-job/
Quartz at Work
The complete guide to traveling the world without quitting your job
In the age of wifi and international data plans, it's never been easier to take work with you.
Addio 3G: Taiwan spegne la rete UTMS - Il mio articolo per La Stampa
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/27/tecnologia/addio-g-taiwan-spegne-la-rete-utms-omJminSw8HEvnMoTAtRVJK/premium.html
https://www.lastampa.it/2018/12/27/tecnologia/addio-g-taiwan-spegne-la-rete-utms-omJminSw8HEvnMoTAtRVJK/premium.html
LaStampa.it
Addio 3G: Taiwan spegne la rete UTMS
Taiwan dal 2019 sfrutterà solo il 4G, mentre la Cina lavora per arrivare prima sul mercato del 5G e Giappone e Corea del Sud spingono sulle reti a larghissima banda. Così l’Oriente diventa davvero hi-tech
Aerei e aeroporti, il piano della Cina per surclassare gli Stati Uniti - Il mio articolo per Wired
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/12/26/cina-aerei-aeroporti/
https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2018/12/26/cina-aerei-aeroporti/
Wired
Aerei e aeroporti, il piano della Cina per surclassare gli Stati Uniti
Entro il 2035 la Cina vuole costruire 216 scali per aumentare il traffico aereo. E anche le compagnie stanno incrementando modelli e rotte
GitHub supera i 100 milioni di repository - Il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/github-supera-i-100-milioni-di-repository/
https://www.macitynet.it/github-supera-i-100-milioni-di-repository/
Macitynet.it
GitHub supera i 100 milioni di repository - Macitynet.it
Il sito di gestione del codice sorgente, recentemente acquistato da Microsoft, viene usato da 31 milioni di sviluppatori
Abbiamo un problema. Anzi, abbiamo creato un problema.
Money quote: “Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
Money quote: “Years of metrics-driven growth, lucrative manipulative systems, and unregulated platform marketplaces, have created an environment where it makes more sense to be fake online — to be disingenuous and cynical, to lie and cheat, to misrepresent and distort”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html
New York
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
Voci dalla rete
Money quote: “son: mommy what’s a podcast?
me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...”
Money quote: “son: mommy what’s a podcast?
me: well, dear, when a group of men love their opinions very much...”
È Natale, giusto un paio di giorni fa. Tempo di cosine luminose e sbriluccicanti. Ma cosa sono? Cos’è che luccica in realtà? Se lo chiede il NYTimes
Money quote: “What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html
Money quote: “What is glitter? The simplest answer is one that will leave you slightly unsatisfied, but at least with your confidence in comprehending basic physical properties intact. Glitter is made from glitter. Big glitter begets smaller glitter; smaller glitter gets everywhere, all glitter is impossible to remove; now never ask this question again.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/style/glitter-factory.html
NY Times
What Is Glitter? (Published 2018)
A strange journey to the glitter factory.
Forwarded from Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/12/tiziano-sclavi-bonelli-intervista/
Fumettologica
Tiziano Sclavi: «Tra me e la Bonelli le cose non vanno affatto bene» - Fumettologica
In un'intervista a il Venerdì di Repubblica Tiziano Sclavi ha espresso giudizi piuttosto duri su Bonelli Editore e sul suo attuale rapporto con essa.
La scuola di New York è il punto di partenza per la fotografia in bianco e nero. Che deve essere pensata e ripensata, certamente. Ma nasce in bianco e nero già come intenzione.
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Money quote: “These “influences, aesthetic assumptions, subjects and stylistic earmarks” spread out far beyond New York, but they are an understood set of qualities that have become the pinnacle of black and white photography. Because they had no choice, they mastered and defined the process of thinking and shooting for black and white. For anyone looking to do effective black and white, the answers are all in the photographs of those who reached the height of photojournalism in the era where black and white was how it was done”
https://medium.com/s/the-photographers-almanac/mastering-black-and-white-photography-2b723f794b59
Medium
Mastering Black and White Photography
Approaching the monochrome mindset
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
https://www.macitynet.it/il-2018-di-apple-un-anno-particolare/
Macitynet.it
Il 2018 di Apple, l'anno che ha cambiato tutto - Macitynet.it
Cos’è successo nell’anno della “S” a Cupertino: dai nuovi iPad, Mac mini e MacBook Air ai prodotti che ancora non ci sono (Mac Pro, stiamo parlando di te)