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John Ousterhout, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discusses complex techniques on how to become a more confident coder.
Great talk and, perhaps unsurprisingly, well-delivered. I especially liked the built-in time for questions and lots of concrete examples, which show John’s experience in industry as well as academia.
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In 2018, anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer of Rice University filmed a documentary about its loss, Not Ok, and proposed a commemorative plaque. The plaque was installed on August 18, 2019, with an inscription written by Andri Snær Magnason, titled “A letter to the future”, in Icelandic and English. The English version reads:
A letter to the future
Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
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It’s a ground-up rebuild for the airport’s main terminal, replacing and reconfiguring everything from the ticket counters and security lines to the vendor booths and lounge areas, all underneath a sprawling new wooden roof designed to let in plenty of natural light for the newly installed trees throughout the wide-open space below.
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TinyVM is a small, fast, lightweight virtual machine written in pure ANSI C.
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Creative Coding: Generative Art, Data visualization, Interaction Design, Resources.
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I look at it like a puzzle - how long can I work with what I have? You’d be surprised sometimes how well you can do without a purpose-built item, or even how eventually you might end up preferring whatever you started with. There’s a big social element to this, in that there can exist a culture within a hobby or professional circle about what is “required” and it can take a certain amount of “waking up” to realize that this is total bull.
Anyways, buying stuff: it’s a question of balance always. I can’t put a post like this out without encouraging balance.
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Very excited about this suite of solutions for the almost-here ID.Buzz. I’ve rented a Metris camper from them, had my Vanagon worked on, gone to events, and they are an all-around great company.
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The FindMy Flipper app turns your FlipperZero into an AirTag or other tracking device, compatible with Apple AirTags and Samsung SmartTag and Tile Trackers. It uses the BLE beacon to broadcast, allowing users to clone existing tags, generate OpenHaystack key pairs for Apple’s FindMy network, and customize beacon intervals and transmit power.
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MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle shares her new research into “artificial intimacy”—the emotional connections humans form with chatbots… and the impact of these relationships on our health.
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Here are the rules. The person in the center ring can say anything she wants to anyone, anywhere. She can kvetch and complain and whine and moan and curse the heavens and say, “Life is unfair” and “Why me?” That’s the one payoff for being in the center ring.
Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings.