TILDE ~ 20 È IN ONDA!

TItolo: Madrid, la mistica orientale, Apple Watch Ultra, Quantified Self

Sottotitolo: Siamo tornati: con microfoni nuovi, consapevolezze inedite e soprattutto libri da consigliare.

Ascoltate il podcast su Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show.

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Che ne dite di celebrare la prima puntata della seconda stagione con una recensione sull'app di ascolto preferita? A buon rendere!

La fisica dietro al salame piccante che si piega quando cuoce sulla pizza

Money quote: "As the pizza bakes, the edge of the pepperoni curls upwards, forming a distinct lip. Once exposed like this, the lip cooks faster than the base, which is insulated by the cheese and crust, and thus crisps and renders its fat faster. This fat drips down into the center of the cup. What you're left with is a gloriously flavorful little sip of pepperoni grease, neatly contained within its own, crisp-lipped edible container. The browned lip takes on an almost bacon-like quality—melt-in-your-mouth crunchy. It's one of the true joys of a pepperoni pizza, and once you've experienced it, plain old flat pepperoni just won't do."

https://www.seriouseats.com/the-pizza-lab-why-does-pepperoni-curl

Per gli indecisi al voto:

https://www.indecis.it

Ci sono siti, come eBay e molte banche, che quando vi collegate fanno la scansione per capire quali porte sono aperte sul vostro computer e quindi quali software funzionano. Lo scopo probabilmente è la sicurezza (capire se c'è installato un qualche software pirata o se siete stati hackerati) ma il modo e il risultato sono estremamente discutibili.

Money quote: "Port Scanning is an adversarial technique frequently used by penetration testers and hackers to scan internet facing machines and determine what applications or services are listening on the network, usually so that specific attacks can be carried out. It's common for security software to detect active port scans and flag it as potential abuse.

Most home routers don't have any open ports, so scanning an internet users IP address is unlikely to return any meaningful data. However, many users run software on their computer that listens on ports for various reasons - online gaming, media sharing, and remote connections are just a few things that consumers might install on a home PC.

A Port scan can give a website information about what software you are running. Many ports have a well defined set of services that use them, so a list of open ports gives a pretty good view of running applications. For instance, Steam (a gaming store and platform) is known to run on port 27036, so a scanner seeing that port open could have reasonable confidence that the user also had steam open while visiting the web site."

https://nullsweep.com/why-is-this-website-port-scanning-me

Tutto quello che vi serve per scrivere (finalmente) il vostro grande romanzo. Io poi però non lo voglio leggere

Money quote: "The most important point to start from is that while there are a number of things you should consider when planning your book – such as characterisation, plotting or the style and voice of your work – there is no single golden rule for how to write a novel. Some authors will sit down in their study – or even hire an office where they go to work every day – and work 9 to 5, while others will grab an hour or two at the end of the day after the children have gone to bed. Some writers like to plot out every event meticulously before they begin the first sentence; others get bored if they know everything in advance, and instead treat fiction as a kind of experiment to see how characters will react. However, while every author will write a novel differently, there are some common themes that occur again and again."

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-plan-a-novel-by-developing-your-writing-craft-and-habits

Un discorso storicamente motivato che cerca di descrivere la traiettoria del "remote working", che è una categoria generale dentro la quale ci sono sia il telelavoro che lo smart working etc. Il punto di partenza è che non funziona, l'idea è cercare di farlo funzionare.

Money quote: "Office work seemed on the brink of a profound shift. Instead of commuting into crowded cities, white-collar workers would soon relocate to more affordable, bucolic areas; they’d enjoy flexible schedules, picking up their kids from school and sitting down for family dinners after productive days at home. Some people envisioned more radical departures. In his book “The 4-Hour Workweek,” from 2007, Timothy Ferriss, a twenty-nine-year-old entrepreneur, suggested that readers aggressively negotiate remote-work agreements with their employers and then move to parts of the world where the cost of living was low. (Argentina was experiencing a currency crisis, and so could be a good spot for such “geo-arbitrage,” Ferriss wrote.) Unsupervised by bosses, these ultra-remote workers could do their jobs in highly efficient bursts, enjoying lavish lives of leisure the rest of the time."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/can-remote-work-be-fixed

Gli open space, che sono una delle cose più tremende della storia del lavoro di concetto, a quanto pare non moriranno presto

Money quote: "Open offices were popularized in the 1980s as a scheme to lower real estate costs and break down divisions between teams; with fewer walls, bosses can claim they’re emphasizing transparency and collaboration while maximizing their square footage per employee. Despite evidence-based complaints that the layout is distracting and noisy, hampers productivity, and actually discourages in-person interaction, by 2017, 7 in 10 offices had adopted the model. (Among the proponents of open-plan office design is Bloomberg LP, the parent of CityLab, and the company’s founder and majority owner, Michael Bloomberg.)"

https://www.citylab.com/life/2020/05/open-office-design-coronavirus-risk-safe-workplace-health/611299/

Esperienze quasi metafisiche: le sale di controllo sovietiche: una collezione di fotografie di tutto rispetto, esteticamente devastanti (in tutti i sensi).

https://designyoutrust.com/2018/01/vintage-beauty-soviet-control-rooms

Obsidian è un cms personale che ha l'ambizione di diventare il vostro secondo cervello, quello fuori dalla vostra testa

Money quote: "The human brain is non-linear: we jump from idea to idea, all the time. Your second brain should work the same.

In Obsidian, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph."

https://obsidian.md

Marketing per gli ingegneri. Ecco tutte le risorse, spiegate alla mente di una persona che si occupa di tecnologia (magari per fare la propria startup)

Money quote: " It’s a hand-picked collection of resources for solving practical marketing tasks, such as:

finding beta testers
growing first user base
advertising project without a budget
scaling marketing activities for building constant revenue streams."

https://github.com/LisaDziuba/Marketing-for-Engineers

Gli esseri umani hanno difficoltà con i numeri. Più precisamente, con le scale. Abbiamo difficoltà a capire le dimensioni delle cose, quando ne vediamo più di una messa a confronto. Un esempio è la trasformazione delle nostre economie: le software house sono sempre più numerose e ricche, anche se piccole. È una ricchezza le cui dimensioni non riusciamo a percepire.

Money quote: "Austen Allred shared how, when matching Lambda graduates to jobs, he’ll discover software companies he’s never heard of in Oklahoma pocketing $10m/year in profit. Doing things like “making actuarial software for funeral homes.”3

It’s not surprising. Of the 3,000+ software companies acquired over the last three years, only 7% got TechCrunch, Recode, HN, or other mainstream tech coverage.4"

https://secondbreakfast.co/patio11-s-law

La teoria dell'informazione spiegata con "Indovina chi".

Money quote: "There seems to be a dilemma here: if we want accuracy, we must lower the rate of transmission.

This is the problem Claude Shannon tackled in his 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication. In it, he proved that there is a limit for the rate of information that can be reliably transmitted over a noisy channel (the Shannon limit). However, below this limit we can transmit information with an increasingly small error. This important result tells us that there exists a code that allows arbitrary accuracy over a given comunication channel, but it does not tell us how to build it."

https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-brief-introduction-to-the-beauty-of-information-theory-8357f5b6a355

Scrivere codice diventa sempre più collaborativo e se ne va online: il piano di Microsoft per riconquistare la centralità nel modo con il quale viene sviluppato il software passa da GitHub e adesso dalle IDE online

Money quote: "The popular software development hosting platform GitHub may be about to change that status quo. The Microsoft-owned company unveiled a new code editor called Codespaces last week that works entirely in the web browser, regardless of the device you’re using. Based on the same codebase as Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor — which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS — Codespaces creates a button on the GitHub website that is a one-click route to your entire development environment online. Since GitHub is where many developers are already accessing and storing their code regardless of which coding environment they use, it’s a convenient place to launch a code editor. And there’s no need to install anything on your device."

https://onezero.medium.com/the-future-of-code-is-in-your-browser-2c51a08e8ab2

I dinosauri di Jurassic Park e Jurassi World, spiegati bene

Money quote: "Many of you reading this already know that the prehistoric animals depicted in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films are not in-line with what current science tells us about these animals, however, most people are not. This article is designed to educate readers on what paleontologists have learned about the extinct animals presented in the Jurassic Park franchise."

https://jurassicparkterror.net/jurassic-park-dinosaurs

SOS dallo spazio

Money quote: "More than 100 FRBs have been discovered to date, and most of them are one-offs, flaring up just a single time (as far as we know). In January of this year, astronomers reported that one member of the "repeater" class, called FRB 180916.J0158+65, appears to exhibit a 16-day activity cycle: It fires off bursts for a four-day stretch, goes quiet for 12 days and then starts all over again."

https://www.space.com/mysterious-fast-radio-burst-repeater.html

Una avvocatessa a quanto pare single assume una tata full time e le si sblocca la testa e quindi la carriera. Il titolo è ovviamente un click-bait per giovani madri che non riescono a coniugare lavoro e famiglia.

Money quote: "What Luisa allowed me to achieve in just a few short months got me thinking about whether certain male lawyers had the edge over someone like me simply because they had wives holding down the domestic front. Perhaps the extra time and brain space that I just discovered was something they had all along."

https://medium.com/@chrismorgan_1657/i-hired-a-wife-and-my-career-took-off-16dc8ae481fe

David Burnett è il fotografo che si aggira come uno spettro nell'America del potere e dintorni facendo foto a pellicola. E che pellicola: la sua mitica "Aero Liberato" (e anche una Holga). Essere artisti richiede essere consapevole e andare all'essenza delle cose, anziché puntare ad avere una apparecchiatura avanzata.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnL24q11oEU

Visto anche qui

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/2937027624/photographer-david-burnett-at-today-s-impeachment-hearings

Seguo con interesse Matt Stroller perché la sua visione radicale di come funziona l'economia e soprattutto sul ruolo dei big (contro i piccoli) e soprattutto dei monopoli è la cosa più interessante che abbia trovato negli ultimi anni. Ed è americano.

Money quote: "The big lesson from Stoller’s book: the way our economy and politics works is not just natural law, created in a vacuum. It’s real policies, created by real people.

We are confused because we were taught to conflate democracy with the success of a few large businesses. As Louis Brandeis, says, “we can have democracy, or we can have power in the hands of a few, but not both.”

When we have large companies ignoring the way they are exacerbating inequality, tearing down our democratic systems, and accelerating climate change in the name of “we’re doing what’s best for the consumer” or “we need to serve our shareholders,” they’re not citing natural law: they’re citing ideas invented by a relatively small number of people in Chicago in the 1970s, that then spread like a virus."

https://impactalpha.com/beyond-blue-vs-red-americas-great-battle-is-small-vs-big/

Vizi e virtù: comportamenti morali e immorali. Buoni e cattivi. A quanto pare c'è una relazione tra il modo con il quale ci si comporta e il modo che ci definisce. Razzolare bene porta a cose non buone. Come diceva Oscar Wilde: "Charity creates a multitude of sins."

Money quote: "In one paper, economists at the University of Chicago reported that working for a socially responsible company motivated employees to act immorally. In one experiment, people were hired to transcribe images of short German texts and paid 10 percent upfront, with the remaining payment being delivered if they completed the trannoscriptions, or if they declared the documents too illegible to transcribe. When they were told that, for every job completed or marked illegible, 5 percent of their wages would be donated to Unicef’s educational programs, the instances of cheating rose by 25 percent, compared to where no charitable donation was offered. Cheating manifested in both workers not completing jobs (taking the 10 percent upfront fee and running) and also workers saying that documents were too illegible to transcribe (and so receiving the full fee)."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-doing-good-makes-it-easier-to-be-bad

Quella cosa facile facile da capire che è la ricorsività.

Money quote: "My background is in OO programming, mostly using C#. C# being the versatile language it is, I have had the perception that whatever you do in other programming languages, you can with a little more code and hassle achieve in C# as well. If need be, I can program C# using a functional paradigm. And, of course I use recursion all the time. I know all there is to know about recursion."

https://www.bekk.christmas/post/2019/18

Sono ipnotizzato da questo tizio che, usando un iPhone X e GarageBand, rifà le canzoni in tempo reale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xljyigEc-Ag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMVTnUg-xcc