Гардіан про продуктивність
Then there’s the matter of self-consciousness: virtually every time management expert’s first piece of advice is to keep a detailed log of your time use, but doing so just heightens your awareness of the minutes ticking by, then lost for ever.
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One of the sneakier pitfalls of an efficiency-based attitude to time is that we start to feel pressured to use our leisure time “productively”, too – an attitude which implies that enjoying leisure for its own sake, which you might have assumed was the whole point of leisure, is somehow not quite enough. And so we find ourselves, for example, travelling to unfamiliar places not for the sheer experience of travel, but in order to add to our mental storehouse of experiences, or to our Instagram feeds. We go walking or running to improve our health, not for the pleasure of movement; we approach the tasks of parenthood with a fixation on the successful future adults we hope to create.
Then there’s the matter of self-consciousness: virtually every time management expert’s first piece of advice is to keep a detailed log of your time use, but doing so just heightens your awareness of the minutes ticking by, then lost for ever.
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One of the sneakier pitfalls of an efficiency-based attitude to time is that we start to feel pressured to use our leisure time “productively”, too – an attitude which implies that enjoying leisure for its own sake, which you might have assumed was the whole point of leisure, is somehow not quite enough. And so we find ourselves, for example, travelling to unfamiliar places not for the sheer experience of travel, but in order to add to our mental storehouse of experiences, or to our Instagram feeds. We go walking or running to improve our health, not for the pleasure of movement; we approach the tasks of parenthood with a fixation on the successful future adults we hope to create.
the Guardian
Why time management is ruining our lives | Oliver Burkeman
The Long Read: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
go statement considered harmful
Go statements break error handling. Like we discussed above, modern languages provide powerful tools like exceptions to help us make sure that errors are detected and propagated to the right place. But these tools depend on having a reliable concept of "the current code's caller". As soon as you spawn a task or register a callback, that concept is broken. As a result, every mainstream concurrency framework I know of simply gives up. If an error occurs in a background task, and you don't handle it manually, then the runtime just... drops it on the floor and crosses its fingers that it wasn't too important.
Go statements break error handling. Like we discussed above, modern languages provide powerful tools like exceptions to help us make sure that errors are detected and propagated to the right place. But these tools depend on having a reliable concept of "the current code's caller". As soon as you spawn a task or register a callback, that concept is broken. As a result, every mainstream concurrency framework I know of simply gives up. If an error occurs in a background task, and you don't handle it manually, then the runtime just... drops it on the floor and crosses its fingers that it wasn't too important.
vorpus.org
Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful — njs blog
Clark goes on to explain that the people who collected this data—sorry, “scraped” this data—did so by using a feature designed to help new users find their friends on the platform.
“This feature was designed to help people easily find their friends to connect with on our services using their contact lists,” Clark explains.
The contact importer feature allowed new users to upload their contact lists and match those numbers against the numbers stored on people’s profiles. But like most of Facebook’s best features, the company left it wide open to abuse by hackers.
“Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook,” security expert Mikko Hypponen explained in a tweet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
“This feature was designed to help people easily find their friends to connect with on our services using their contact lists,” Clark explains.
The contact importer feature allowed new users to upload their contact lists and match those numbers against the numbers stored on people’s profiles. But like most of Facebook’s best features, the company left it wide open to abuse by hackers.
“Effectively, the attacker created an address book with every phone number on the planet and then asked Facebook if his ’friends’ are on Facebook,” security expert Mikko Hypponen explained in a tweet.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88awzp/facebook-says-its-your-fault-that-hackers-got-half-a-billion-user-phone-numbers
Vice
Facebook Says It’s Your Fault That Hackers Got Half a Billion User Phone Numbers
A database containing the stolen phone numbers of more than half a billion Facebook users is being freely traded online.
Інтерв'ю Романа Ратушного на початку домашнього арешту: погано працюючий браслет, небажання займатись політикою
Depo.ua
На дроті: Як живе під домашнім арештом активіст Роман Ратушний
Активіст і захистник Протасового Яру Роман Ратушний, якого посадили під домашній арешт за участь в акції до дня нарождення Стерненка 20 березня (коли був розмальований фасад ОП), розповів Depo.ua, як йому живеться під арештом, коли він сподівається з нього…
Про проблеми ШІ в пошукових системах і про метадані
Perhaps the bigger illusion is that when you search with Google you are somehow searching the sum total of human knowledge. Of course, you aren't. The accumulated knowledge of human civilisation is still mostly in books. Humanity wrote books for thousands of years and has only written web pages for a few decades. When you search, you are really just searching the sum total of things that people have put, and managed to keep, on the web since about 1995. Perhaps this is one reason why commercial "content sites" appear often in searches: they put a lot of stuff on the web.
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A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.
I'm sure there's someone out there working tirelessly to perfect all the disparate technologies - computer vision, control systems, depth perception, etc - required in order for a Tesla to successfully navigate a McDonald's drive through. Just as they get it sorted and demonstrate its utility, McDonalds will probably just calculate and provide those routes as public information. After all, why bother with the maths and machine vision when you can just write it down in an XML file?
Perhaps the bigger illusion is that when you search with Google you are somehow searching the sum total of human knowledge. Of course, you aren't. The accumulated knowledge of human civilisation is still mostly in books. Humanity wrote books for thousands of years and has only written web pages for a few decades. When you search, you are really just searching the sum total of things that people have put, and managed to keep, on the web since about 1995. Perhaps this is one reason why commercial "content sites" appear often in searches: they put a lot of stuff on the web.
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A general pattern seems to be that Artificial Intelligence is used when first doing some new thing. Then, once the value of doing that thing is established, society will find a way to provide the necessary data in a machine readable format, obviating (and improving on) the AI models.
I'm sure there's someone out there working tirelessly to perfect all the disparate technologies - computer vision, control systems, depth perception, etc - required in order for a Tesla to successfully navigate a McDonald's drive through. Just as they get it sorted and demonstrate its utility, McDonalds will probably just calculate and provide those routes as public information. After all, why bother with the maths and machine vision when you can just write it down in an XML file?
calpaterson.com
We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
How simple structured data trumps clever machine learning
Путін написав статтю, голова українського інституту національної пам'яті йому відповів.
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Про історичну єдність в тюрмі народів
Володимир Путін давно і старанно працює над власним образом. Йому здається, що замало бути президентом найбільшої за площею держави. Він хоче виглядати лідером...
Роки йдуть, а я не перестаю дивуватись історії, як Агенти Змін зробили плакати для метро на кожен день року.
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Дизайн-брутфорс
Під час роботи над плакатами про ремонт у метро постала задача: як можна зробити так, щоб у метро самостійно могли робити плакати, коли їм потрібно бо ремонт може бути у будь-який день, але при цьому проконтролювати, щоб початковий дизайн…
Під час роботи над плакатами про ремонт у метро постала задача: як можна зробити так, щоб у метро самостійно могли робити плакати, коли їм потрібно бо ремонт може бути у будь-який день, але при цьому проконтролювати, щоб початковий дизайн…
Ми ж, як виглядає по тридцяти роках все більш повного розвою української мови, досі намагаємось українізуватися інструментами, створеними для зросійщення.
Остап Українець знов про місцеві діалекти.
Остап Українець знов про місцеві діалекти.
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Антиросійська українська
Одним із найпопулярніших нині підходів до української мови є антиросійськість, що вимагає від української бути повною і послідовною протилежністю російській