La storia del frisbee è più complicata e lunga di quanto uno non possa immaginare. Ma molto interessante.
Money quote: "It starts with Thanksgiving dinner in 1937. Walter Frederick Morrison and his girlfriend (later wife) Lucille started a game of catch with a metal lid from a popcorn container. The pair had a good time with it, but discovered that the popcorn tin lids were easy to dent, and subsequently, no longer great for flying. They started using cake pans to play; they were easier to find, and cheap to buy. Fred and Lucille would even take the pans on outings to public places so they could play. One such outing was to a beach in Santa Monica, California. People watched as they played, and someone even offered the duo a quarter for their cake pan so they could play. Morrison knew an opportunity when he heard it; at that time, cake pans themselves only cost five cents. It stood to reason that there might be a commercial market for a flying disc toy. Dubbed the Flying Cake Pan — yes, Flying Cake Pan — they began to sell them for a quarter a piece at L.A. beaches.""
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/09/the-surprisingly-complicated-history-of-the-frisbee/
Money quote: "It starts with Thanksgiving dinner in 1937. Walter Frederick Morrison and his girlfriend (later wife) Lucille started a game of catch with a metal lid from a popcorn container. The pair had a good time with it, but discovered that the popcorn tin lids were easy to dent, and subsequently, no longer great for flying. They started using cake pans to play; they were easier to find, and cheap to buy. Fred and Lucille would even take the pans on outings to public places so they could play. One such outing was to a beach in Santa Monica, California. People watched as they played, and someone even offered the duo a quarter for their cake pan so they could play. Morrison knew an opportunity when he heard it; at that time, cake pans themselves only cost five cents. It stood to reason that there might be a commercial market for a flying disc toy. Dubbed the Flying Cake Pan — yes, Flying Cake Pan — they began to sell them for a quarter a piece at L.A. beaches.""
https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/09/the-surprisingly-complicated-history-of-the-frisbee/
The Saturday Evening Post
The Surprisingly Complicated History of the Frisbee | The Saturday Evening Post
It starts with a lid and ends in the Toy Hall of Fame.
Anche da noi le biblioteche possono prestare la copia digitale di un libro per leggersela sul Kindle e sul Kobo. C'è anche il portale per poterlo fare a distanza. Negli Usa sono un po' più avanti, non solo per l'aspetto tecnologico e la capillarità del sistema, ma anche perché sono un popolo di lettori più forti di noi, che usano molto il sistema pubblico. Ma cosa vuol dire che una biblioteca può prestare l'ebook di un libro? C'è un costo e un'intera economia, dietro. E questo articolo del New Yorker la spiega.
Money quote: “We then saw the first wrinkle in one copy, one user,” Potash said. In 2011, HarperCollins introduced a new lending model that was capped at twenty-six checkouts, after which a library would need to purchase the book again. Publishers soon introduced other variations, from two-year licenses to copies that multiple readers could use at one time, which boosted their revenue and allowed libraries to buy different kinds of books in different ways. For a classic work, which readers were likely to check out steadily for years to come, a library might purchase a handful of expensive perpetual licenses. With a flashy best-seller, which could be expected to lose steam over time, the library might buy a large number of cheaper licenses that would expire relatively quickly. During nationwide racial-justice protests in the summer of 2020, the N.Y.P.L. licensed books about Black liberation under a pay-per-use model, which gave all library users access to the books without any waiting list; such licenses are too expensive to be used for an entire collection, but they can accommodate surges in demand. “At the time of its launch, the twenty-six-circulation model was a lightning rod,” Josh Marwell, the president of sales at HarperCollins, told me. “But, over time, the feedback we have gotten from librarians is that our model is fair and works well with their mission to provide library patrons with the books they want to read.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books
Money quote: “We then saw the first wrinkle in one copy, one user,” Potash said. In 2011, HarperCollins introduced a new lending model that was capped at twenty-six checkouts, after which a library would need to purchase the book again. Publishers soon introduced other variations, from two-year licenses to copies that multiple readers could use at one time, which boosted their revenue and allowed libraries to buy different kinds of books in different ways. For a classic work, which readers were likely to check out steadily for years to come, a library might purchase a handful of expensive perpetual licenses. With a flashy best-seller, which could be expected to lose steam over time, the library might buy a large number of cheaper licenses that would expire relatively quickly. During nationwide racial-justice protests in the summer of 2020, the N.Y.P.L. licensed books about Black liberation under a pay-per-use model, which gave all library users access to the books without any waiting list; such licenses are too expensive to be used for an entire collection, but they can accommodate surges in demand. “At the time of its launch, the twenty-six-circulation model was a lightning rod,” Josh Marwell, the president of sales at HarperCollins, told me. “But, over time, the feedback we have gotten from librarians is that our model is fair and works well with their mission to provide library patrons with the books they want to read.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books
The New Yorker
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do.
La Fender Stratocaster, ma fatta di Lego.
Money quote: "It’s one of the most iconic symbols in rock history, famous for birthing the biggest tunes ever recorded, and now the Fender Stratocaster is getting the LEGO treatment. The guitar best remembered for being set ablaze by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock ’69, lovingly shredded by Stevie Ray Vaughan and punished by Kurt Cobain has been reimagined by LEGO Ideas fan designer Tomáš Letenay.""
https://manofmany.com/entertainment/lego-ideas-fender-stratocaster-set
Money quote: "It’s one of the most iconic symbols in rock history, famous for birthing the biggest tunes ever recorded, and now the Fender Stratocaster is getting the LEGO treatment. The guitar best remembered for being set ablaze by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock ’69, lovingly shredded by Stevie Ray Vaughan and punished by Kurt Cobain has been reimagined by LEGO Ideas fan designer Tomáš Letenay.""
https://manofmany.com/entertainment/lego-ideas-fender-stratocaster-set
La genialità di una compagnia aerea che in Europa consociamo solo per sentito dire (ma che è stata tra gli altri l'ispirazione di Ryanair). Raccontata da una rivista texana (molto interessante) in occasione dei suoi 50 anni di servizio. La storia della Southwest Airlines è un gran bel leggere.
Money quote: "Fifty. Five-O. No one who was there for the start-up of Southwest Airlines can quite believe that much time has passed. No one can believe how successful their irreverent little company has become, either. “I wish I’d had enough money to buy the stock in the early days,” says Gene Van Overschelde, one of the original pilots and the first head of Southwest’s pilots union. If he’d put just under $1,000 into the company’s stock in 1978, he would have more than $1.5 million today""
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/southwest-airlines-50-anniversary/
Money quote: "Fifty. Five-O. No one who was there for the start-up of Southwest Airlines can quite believe that much time has passed. No one can believe how successful their irreverent little company has become, either. “I wish I’d had enough money to buy the stock in the early days,” says Gene Van Overschelde, one of the original pilots and the first head of Southwest’s pilots union. If he’d put just under $1,000 into the company’s stock in 1978, he would have more than $1.5 million today""
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/southwest-airlines-50-anniversary/
Texas Monthly
Hot Pants, Love Potions, and the Go-go Genesis of Southwest Airlines
Fifty years ago this month, the Dallas-based carrier first took flight. It’s reflecting on its past as it confronts a pandemic-shaped future.
Se non fosse che è vero, sembrerebbe uno scherzo. Siamo messi davvero male.
Money quote: "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earmarked $1 billion of his $10 billion environmental philanthropy to conservation efforts Monday afternoon, aiming to protect 30% of the Earth's land and sea by 2030 in an effort to prevent mass extinctions."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jeff-Bezos-pledges-1-billion-to-protect-30-16474428.php
Money quote: "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earmarked $1 billion of his $10 billion environmental philanthropy to conservation efforts Monday afternoon, aiming to protect 30% of the Earth's land and sea by 2030 in an effort to prevent mass extinctions."
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Jeff-Bezos-pledges-1-billion-to-protect-30-16474428.php
SFGATE
Bezos pledges $1 billion to protect 30% of Earth's land and sea
The Bezos Earth Fund, which he formed in 2020, did not identify any of the groups or...
Negli Usa l'ascensore sociale è costantemente in moto, almeno all'apparenza. Tuttavia, ci sono rigidità nel sistema. E una certa memoria del passato. Il paese del manifesto destino, nato dalla volontà di pochi figli dell' illuminismo e della rivoluzione francese di sfuggire alle aristocrazie geriatriche (oltre che dai credenti di sette minoritarie per fuggire le persecuzioni e le guerre di religione) però ha una sua ricchezza antica, una sua specie di nobiltà, fatta di gente ricca da più tempo. La "Old Money" della east coast fotografata dal New Yorker.
(Old) Money quote: "You could say that the lives and tastes of so-called old money—old, that is, in the American sense—are the subject of Ellison’s staged photographic tableaux and cheeky, deadpan still-lifes. The markers we’ve come to associate with a particular brand of buttoned-up, Ivy League, East Coast Waspish wealth are omnipresent. His subjects seem to have stepped out of the pages of a J. Crew catalogue, and look as though they probably have names like Bunny and Tripp. They are white and often blond and are situated among gleaming Land Rovers, rolling golf courses, and pristine marble kitchens. The photographs appear, in other words, to be a part of the robust artistic tradition of depictions of the beneficiaries of fabulous dynastic wealth, with the Vineyard Vines fleece taking the place of baroquely ruffled lace and velvet as a mark of distinction. And they would be, if only his subjects were who they seem to be.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-old-money-looks-like-in-america-and-who-pays-for-it
(Old) Money quote: "You could say that the lives and tastes of so-called old money—old, that is, in the American sense—are the subject of Ellison’s staged photographic tableaux and cheeky, deadpan still-lifes. The markers we’ve come to associate with a particular brand of buttoned-up, Ivy League, East Coast Waspish wealth are omnipresent. His subjects seem to have stepped out of the pages of a J. Crew catalogue, and look as though they probably have names like Bunny and Tripp. They are white and often blond and are situated among gleaming Land Rovers, rolling golf courses, and pristine marble kitchens. The photographs appear, in other words, to be a part of the robust artistic tradition of depictions of the beneficiaries of fabulous dynastic wealth, with the Vineyard Vines fleece taking the place of baroquely ruffled lace and velvet as a mark of distinction. And they would be, if only his subjects were who they seem to be.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-old-money-looks-like-in-america-and-who-pays-for-it
The New Yorker
What Old Money Looks like in America, and Who Pays for It
Buck Ellison serves bluebloods up for public scrutiny as only one of their own could.
Può sembrare che stiamo iniziando adesso, ma la verità è che c'è un tot di gente che vive da un decennio nel futuro. Questi li invido e sono contento per loro.
Money quote: "Over the past 8 years, I’ve driven it nearly 70,000 miles (my commute is just over 4 miles each way and COVID had me working from home for nearly 16 months). I’ve driven it all over the Eastern half of the United States, including several trips exceeding a thousand miles. I’ve seen Superchargers go from rare to nearly ubiquitous. In mid-2013, there were just 15 Supercharger stations in North America. Today, there are over 1,100 of them and more get added every week.""
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/lessons-from-eight-years-with-an-electric-car-7a1b03b6321b
Money quote: "Over the past 8 years, I’ve driven it nearly 70,000 miles (my commute is just over 4 miles each way and COVID had me working from home for nearly 16 months). I’ve driven it all over the Eastern half of the United States, including several trips exceeding a thousand miles. I’ve seen Superchargers go from rare to nearly ubiquitous. In mid-2013, there were just 15 Supercharger stations in North America. Today, there are over 1,100 of them and more get added every week.""
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/lessons-from-eight-years-with-an-electric-car-7a1b03b6321b
Medium
Lessons from Eight Years with an Electric Car
The pros, cons, and what needs to happen next
Non ho mai letto qualcosa del genere, ma questo spiega tutto o quasi. Pazzesco. E, temo, verissimo.
Money quote: "Aubrey Vogel, a journalism major at Texas A&M, has had similar experiences to Drossman. She’s encountered directory structure before; she shared a computer with her grandfather, who showed her how to save items in folders, as a child. But as she’s grown up, she’s moved away from that system — she now keeps one massive directory for schoolwork and one for her job. Documents she’s not sure about go in a third folder called “Sort.”"
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
Money quote: "Aubrey Vogel, a journalism major at Texas A&M, has had similar experiences to Drossman. She’s encountered directory structure before; she shared a computer with her grandfather, who showed her how to save items in folders, as a child. But as she’s grown up, she’s moved away from that system — she now keeps one massive directory for schoolwork and one for her job. Documents she’s not sure about go in a third folder called “Sort.”"
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
The Verge
Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z
"Dune" è un film che va visto - la mia recensione per Fumettologica
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/09/dune-recensione-film-villeneuve/
https://www.fumettologica.it/2021/09/dune-recensione-film-villeneuve/
Fumettologica
"Dune" è un film che va visto
"Dune" di Denis Villeneuve è il film da vedere questo autunno, una pellicola eccezionale per vari motivi, anche se con qualche sbavatura.
Sentivate la mancanza di nuovo polemiche? Non sentitela più. (Io in collegio avevo la divisa: che dovrei dire?)
Money quote: "School dress codes are sexist, racist, and classist. They put the onus on girls to not be distracting or not call attention to themselves instead of putting the onus on all students to respect everyone's body.""
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/us/politics/mask-dress-code-protest.html
Money quote: "School dress codes are sexist, racist, and classist. They put the onus on girls to not be distracting or not call attention to themselves instead of putting the onus on all students to respect everyone's body.""
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/us/politics/mask-dress-code-protest.html
NY Times
‘Sexist,’ ‘Racist,’ ‘Classist’: Georgia 8th Grader Challenges School Dress Code
After being cited for a rip in her jeans on the first day of school, Sophia Trevino has led a protest seeking changes to the district’s dress code, which she says unfairly targets girls.
Da una parte c’è questo scontro politico ma anche ideologico attorno al reddito di cittadinanza. Dall’altra, una trasformazione del mondo del lavoro che ha radici profonde che non si limitano ai mestieri “di base” ma che per la prima volta risalgono su, verso gli impiegati di concetto, come li avremmo chiamati una volta. La gente non vuole più far carriera, insomma. Un po’ come a scuola, dove gli insegnanti da tempo hanno interiorizzato che la classe non è più il momento informativo e interessante che era in passato per gli studenti, perché tutte le cose “ricche” di contenuti avvengono al di fuori, sulle piattaforme di intrattenimento.
Tornando a noi: e se adesso la gente non vuol più fare carriera, cosa succede?
Money quote: “People are quitting jobs across class and industry lines. Perhaps the most famous example is the “nobody wants to work anymore” meme that bounced around Twitter in April. The meme kicked off after a TikTok user named @BrittanyJade903 posted a video of a McDonald’s drive-thru sign which read, "We are short-staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did show up. Nobody wants to work anymore."It triggered a whole series of posts about low wages and worker exploitation that quickly grew beyond the service industry.”
https://warzel.substack.com/p/what-if-people-dont-want-a-career
Tornando a noi: e se adesso la gente non vuol più fare carriera, cosa succede?
Money quote: “People are quitting jobs across class and industry lines. Perhaps the most famous example is the “nobody wants to work anymore” meme that bounced around Twitter in April. The meme kicked off after a TikTok user named @BrittanyJade903 posted a video of a McDonald’s drive-thru sign which read, "We are short-staffed. Please be patient with the staff that did show up. Nobody wants to work anymore."It triggered a whole series of posts about low wages and worker exploitation that quickly grew beyond the service industry.”
https://warzel.substack.com/p/what-if-people-dont-want-a-career
Galaxy Brain
What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?'
Just asking questions
Noi siamo le parole che usiamo e il modo in cui le decliniamo e coniughiamo. Questa riflessione sull'uso della prima persona singolare e plurale e della seconda singolare come strumento per cambiare prospettiva e lavorare sulla presa di coscienza del proprio essere immerso nella vita è un discorso delicato ma molto interessante. L'esempio di Marco Aurelio è simpatico.
Money quote: "Through adopting this more distanced self-perspective, Aurelius was able to recognise that his feelings of anguish were temporary""
https://psyche.co/ideas/lost-perspective-try-this-linguistic-trick-to-reset-your-view
Money quote: "Through adopting this more distanced self-perspective, Aurelius was able to recognise that his feelings of anguish were temporary""
https://psyche.co/ideas/lost-perspective-try-this-linguistic-trick-to-reset-your-view
Psyche
Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view
By using ‘distanced self-talk’, you can leverage the structure of language to take a step back and see the bigger picture
Nel caso siate tra quelli che hanno preso un nuovo iPhone o un nuovo iPad e ne abbiate uno vecchio dal quale fare la migrazione, il mio consiglio è migrare sul nuovo direttamente dal vecchio con il trasferimento device-to-device invece che usare iCloud. Non vi preoccupate se è leggermente più lungo: il vantaggio è che sposta tutte le credenziali di login tra gli apparecchi. Invece, dato che su iCloud per sicurezza alcune credenziali non vengono salvate, usando il backup di iCloud dovrete poi rifare il login in un sacco di app e reinstallare le carte di credito sul Wallet e gli account, i sistemi di autenticazione con codice e altre cose che neanche mi vengono in mente. Ricordate: da apparecchio ad apparecchio, è molto meglio.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210216
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210216
Apple Support
Use Quick Start to transfer data to a new iPhone or iPad
Set up your new iOS device automatically using an iPhone or iPad.
Forwarded from Riccardo
Il nuovo sito si chiama Pressappoco, pressappoco.it.
È tutto pronto, ma devo finire di scrivere la pagina di apertura. C'è un podcast omonimo, ma devo caricare il primo audio e poi distribuirlo sulle piattaforme. Per il giorno del lancio ci sarà un video di presentazione e poi, pezzo pezzo, spiegherò cosa, come e perché l'ho fatto.
La tagline è "Un diario di cedevolezza" quindi proviamo a togliere l'àncora e vedere come va.
È tutto pronto, ma devo finire di scrivere la pagina di apertura. C'è un podcast omonimo, ma devo caricare il primo audio e poi distribuirlo sulle piattaforme. Per il giorno del lancio ci sarà un video di presentazione e poi, pezzo pezzo, spiegherò cosa, come e perché l'ho fatto.
La tagline è "Un diario di cedevolezza" quindi proviamo a togliere l'àncora e vedere come va.
Un viaggio nel tempo: se già c'eravate all'epoca delle BBS, questo fa per voi (e vi racconta anche cose inedite)
Money quote: "Today’s Tedium talks about efforts to give BBSes graphics and why RIPscrip, as the most popular effort was called, might have been secretly ahead of its time."
https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps
Money quote: "Today’s Tedium talks about efforts to give BBSes graphics and why RIPscrip, as the most popular effort was called, might have been secretly ahead of its time."
https://tedium.co/2020/07/21/bbs-graphics-history-ripscrip-naplps
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
BBS Graphics History: Pretty Awesome, Until the Web Showed Up
Most people remember bulletin board systems as having chunky text-based graphics. One developer tried fixing that, but RIPscrip ran head-first into the web.
Negli Usa da un po' di tempo a questa parte stanno aggiungendo nuovi tipi di gargoyle alle loro chiese (ma anche in Francia).
Money quote: "Just as Catholic sacred architecture used to be like a historical picture book, describing Middle Ages ways of life, so is adding a modern motif of modern monsters like the “ear mouse” grotesque of Saint George’s Chapel (inspired by Dr. Charles Vacanti’s experiments) reactivating the traditional function of Gothic Architecture."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pop-culture-gargoyles-hidden-in-gothic-architecture
Money quote: "Just as Catholic sacred architecture used to be like a historical picture book, describing Middle Ages ways of life, so is adding a modern motif of modern monsters like the “ear mouse” grotesque of Saint George’s Chapel (inspired by Dr. Charles Vacanti’s experiments) reactivating the traditional function of Gothic Architecture."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/pop-culture-gargoyles-hidden-in-gothic-architecture
Pocket
Pop Culture Gargoyles Hidden in Gothic Architecture
Bring binoculars.
Domenica è morto Ugo Malaguti. Mi spiace tantissimo, avrei voluto conoscerlo e magari intervistarlo, visto l'impatto che da ragazzo ebbe leggere i suoi romanzi e la sua curatela editoriale di Libra, la capacità di pubblicare nuovi autori italiani e autori stranieri sconosciuti in Italia prima di chiunque altro (è lui che ha portato in Italia il buon Philip K. Dick, per dire) con Nova-SF* e molto altro, tra cui le ottime traduzioni in italiano dell'amato Philip Jose Farmer.
Che il viaggio per l'eterno le sia lieve, signor Malaguti.
Money quote: "Forse mi conosci da una vita, ma sicuramente non conosci bene il mio lavoro. Ho citato i nomi degli scrittori italiani più prestigiosi perché ho voluto, vedi quello che ho risposto più sopra, onorarli in vita di un riconoscimento al loro lavoro, e fare in modo che questo non fosse disperso in una miriade di pubblicazioni piccole, rare e introvabili. Quello nei confronti di Aldani e Pestriniero è stato un tributo a due tra i pochi grandi scrittori del settore che abbiamo avuto in Italia. La stessa cosa l’ho fatta con A Lucca mai per la storia della sf italiana, con Cesare Falessi e altri.
Contemporaneamente, ho cercato, insieme a Lino Aldani, di scoprire e incoraggiare i nuovi talenti, soprattutto con Futuro Europa, dove hanno esordito quasi tutti i nomi importanti o presunti tali dell’ultimo periodo. Ho pubblicato i Vitiello, i Fambrini, gli Antonetti, e altri seicento che nessuno conosceva, tra i quali gente come Forte e Tonani, i connettivisti, i cyberpunk, senza curarmi del fatto che fossero o meno amici, come è spesso italica abitudine. Non mi sono né mai mi aggrapperò alle certezze, come non lo feci quando ventenne assunsi la direzione di Galassia e poi costruii la Libra, presentando Farmer, Dick, Vonnegut, Le Guin, Sladek, come ora pubblico le Bianco, i Paul Di Filippo, le Griffith, e qualche centinaio di altri."
https://www.nuove-vie.it/ugo-malaguti-il-ritorno-pubblico-sulle-scene/
Che il viaggio per l'eterno le sia lieve, signor Malaguti.
Money quote: "Forse mi conosci da una vita, ma sicuramente non conosci bene il mio lavoro. Ho citato i nomi degli scrittori italiani più prestigiosi perché ho voluto, vedi quello che ho risposto più sopra, onorarli in vita di un riconoscimento al loro lavoro, e fare in modo che questo non fosse disperso in una miriade di pubblicazioni piccole, rare e introvabili. Quello nei confronti di Aldani e Pestriniero è stato un tributo a due tra i pochi grandi scrittori del settore che abbiamo avuto in Italia. La stessa cosa l’ho fatta con A Lucca mai per la storia della sf italiana, con Cesare Falessi e altri.
Contemporaneamente, ho cercato, insieme a Lino Aldani, di scoprire e incoraggiare i nuovi talenti, soprattutto con Futuro Europa, dove hanno esordito quasi tutti i nomi importanti o presunti tali dell’ultimo periodo. Ho pubblicato i Vitiello, i Fambrini, gli Antonetti, e altri seicento che nessuno conosceva, tra i quali gente come Forte e Tonani, i connettivisti, i cyberpunk, senza curarmi del fatto che fossero o meno amici, come è spesso italica abitudine. Non mi sono né mai mi aggrapperò alle certezze, come non lo feci quando ventenne assunsi la direzione di Galassia e poi costruii la Libra, presentando Farmer, Dick, Vonnegut, Le Guin, Sladek, come ora pubblico le Bianco, i Paul Di Filippo, le Griffith, e qualche centinaio di altri."
https://www.nuove-vie.it/ugo-malaguti-il-ritorno-pubblico-sulle-scene/
Fantasy & Fantascienza
Ugo Malaguti, il ritorno pubblico sulle scene - Fantasy & Fantascienza
Ma Ugo Malaguti, dove è finito? La Casa Editrice Elara pubblica sempre libri in cui Ugo è protagonista, come scelte o come autore
Dijo, un tracker per vedere cosa fate basato sulla riga di comando (ma con curses) e compatibile con le scorciatoie di Vim. Cosa chiedere di più?
Money quote: "dijo is a habit tracker. It is curses-based, it runs in your terminal. dijo is scriptable, hook it up with external programs to track events without moving a finger. dijo is modal, much like a certain text editor."
https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo
Money quote: "dijo is a habit tracker. It is curses-based, it runs in your terminal. dijo is scriptable, hook it up with external programs to track events without moving a finger. dijo is modal, much like a certain text editor."
https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo
GitHub
GitHub - nerdypepper/dijo: scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker
scriptable, curses-based, digital habit tracker. Contribute to nerdypepper/dijo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Amazon ha presentato Astro, un piccolo robot per la sorveglianza in casa. Secondo l'indagine di Vice è un prodotto immaturo e improbabile, a dir poco.
Money quote: "Developers who worked on Astro say the versions of the robot they worked on did not work well.
"Astro is terrible and will almost certainly throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented the opportunity. The person detection is unreliable at best, making the in-home security proposition laughable," a source who worked on the project said. "The device feels fragile for something with an absurd cost. The mast has broken on several devices, locking itself in the extended or retracted position, and there's no way to ship it to Amazon when that happens.""
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypp8/leaked-documents-amazon-astro-surveillance-robot-tracking
Money quote: "Developers who worked on Astro say the versions of the robot they worked on did not work well.
"Astro is terrible and will almost certainly throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented the opportunity. The person detection is unreliable at best, making the in-home security proposition laughable," a source who worked on the project said. "The device feels fragile for something with an absurd cost. The mast has broken on several devices, locking itself in the extended or retracted position, and there's no way to ship it to Amazon when that happens.""
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypp8/leaked-documents-amazon-astro-surveillance-robot-tracking
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Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do
Leaked meetings show the robot will heavily rely on facial recognition and user behavior, but sources who worked on Astro say the robot is flawed.