Mostly, I Write
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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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Brutte notizie per noi rigattieri informatici! Da domani aumenteranno le commissioni ebay per le vendite (sia la percentuale sul prezzo finale, sia quella sulle spedizioni, sia la tassa fissa) e, sempre da domani, i venditori potranno ricevere i pagamenti da ebay solo via bonifico bancario; chi compra potrà ancora pagare con PayPal, volendo, ma poi sarà possibile ricevere quei soldi solo via bonifico. Una bella fregatura anche per chi lo fa per scherzo, non per professione. Chi ha un solo conto corrente, magari legato alla partita iva, dovrebbe incasinarlo con i bonifici (esteri?) di ebay?

Questo per dire che da domani aumenteranno i prezzi di tutto (le nuove commissioni partono dall'11.5% e adesso riguardano anche i costi di spedizione!) e che probabilmente molti sceglieranno altri modi di vendere i prodotti un po' più costosi. Ebay è diventato uno strumento adatto solo ai venditori professionali. Peccato.
Alcune ragioni per spiegare come mai c'è la nota sensazione che, invecchiando, il tempo passi più velocemente

Money quote: "There’s an inversely proportional relationship between stimuli processing and the sense of time speeding by, Bejan says. So, when you are young and experiencing lots of new stimuli—everything is new—time actually seems to be passing more slowly. As you get older, the production of mental images slows, giving the sense that time passes more rapidly."

https://qz.com/1516804/physics-explains-why-time-passes-faster-as-you-age/
Magari il Covid non l'abbiamo sconfitto. Ma l'influenza a quanto pare si

Money quote: "Since the novel coronavirus began its global spread, influenza cases reported to the World Health Organization have dropped to minuscule levels. The reason, epidemiologists think, is that the public health measures taken to keep the coronavirus from spreading also stop the flu. Influenza viruses are transmitted in much the same way as SARS-CoV-2, but they are less effective at jumping from host to host."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flu-has-disappeared-worldwide-during-the-covid-pandemic/
Se usate Firefox, questo add-on che permette di vedere le tab come un albero vi potrebbe tornare comodo

Money quote: "This is a Firefox add-on which provides ability to operate tabs as "tree".

New tabs opened from the current tab are automatically organized as "children" of the current.

Such "branches" are easily folded (collapsed) by clicking on down-triangle shown in a "parent" tab, so you don't need to be suffered from too many visible tabs anymore.
If you hope, you can restructure the tree via drag and drop."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
Dov'è finito l'ultimo dollaro? Un piccolo quiz per la festa dei lavoratori

Three tourists stop at a hotel, and the manager tells them that a shared room will cost $30. Finding the price agreeable, they pony up $10 each and retire to the room. Later that afternoon, the manager, who is honest, realizes that the room was meant to be priced at $25. The manager orders the bellhop to return the excess $5 to their guests. The bellhop, who is not honest, takes $5 from the register and return only $1 to each tourist, pocketing the remaining $2—​the guests don’t have to fuss over uneven change that way.

Now, each of the three tourists has spent $9, for a total of $27. The bellhop has retained $2, which brings the total to $29. Where did the other dollar go?
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https://antoniodini.com/iscrizione/
Si possono fare molte cose nella vita per hobby. Anche costruire una console per videogiochi nel tempo libero.

Money quote: "I've started and stopped trying to write up this project page several times, so I apologise if the narrative is a bit jumpy. Some of it was written back then, some of it about a year later, some of it now. The problem is that the project was enormous. The final source code is over 12,000 lines of hand-crafted assembly along with about 100kB of constants data."

https://mitxela.com/projects/console
I mille segreti di New York

Money quote: "Few cities on Earth are as well-trodden as New York–but as any intrepid traveler knows, the more you explore a place, the more wonders you find. You may not be able to discover all of these spots in a single trip, but that could be a good thing. No matter how many times you return, the city that never sleeps never ceases to surprise."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/itineraries/secrets-of-new-york-city-five-boroughs
Stiamo sempre più spesso utilizzando sevizi di intelligenza artificiale per fare ad esempio la colorazione di foto in bianco e nero. Ma quanto è accurata questa interpretazione della macchina?

C'è chi ha fatto un esperimento al riguardo, trasformando delle foto a colori in bianco e nero e facendole ricolorare dalla AI. I risultati sono molto interessante.

https://twitter.com/gwenckatz/status/1381652071695351810?s=12
Ogni tanto ci ripenso e me lo vado a rileggere: è un testo molto breve ma per me straordinariamente importante, a tal punto che ho voluto tradurlo e metterlo anche nel mio sito

https://antoniodini.com/writing-briefly/
Vivere, anzi arredare la casa come se fosse un videogioco. Why not?

Money quote: "Alguns preferem eleger um único jogo como inspiração para decorar, outros gostam de combinar referências de vários games em um mesmo espaço, e ainda tem aqueles que inserem apenas alguns detalhes do game que ama na decoração."

https://www.devoltaaoretro.com.br/2017/05/decoracao-inspirada-em-games-classicos.html
YOLO Economy: You Live Only Once. E quella volta, fai pure danni.

Money quote: "I started hearing these stories this year when several acquaintances announced that they were quitting prestigious and high-paying jobs to pursue risky passion projects. Since then, a trickle of LinkedIn updates has turned into a torrent. I tweeted about it, and dozens of stories poured into my inboxes, all variations on the same basic theme: The pandemic changed my priorities, and I realized I didn’t have to live like this."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/technology/welcome-to-the-yolo-economy.html