È un po' di tempo che mi chiedo perché la smart home non ha avuto il successo che le aziende ritengono debba avere. Una parte della risposta potrebbe essere in questo articolo: fa schifo.
Money quote: "The CTA says its stagnant forecast is merely a function of competition, as an influx of device makers drive down the cost of hardware. But as someone who’s been living with various smart home gadgets for several years now, I have a different theory: They’re just not worth a big investment unless you have a limitless supply of time and patience."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks
Money quote: "The CTA says its stagnant forecast is merely a function of competition, as an influx of device makers drive down the cost of hardware. But as someone who’s been living with various smart home gadgets for several years now, I have a different theory: They’re just not worth a big investment unless you have a limitless supply of time and patience."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90660570/the-smart-home-is-flailing-as-a-concept-because-it-sucks
Fast Company
The smart home is flailing as a concept—because it sucks
Smart homes were supposed to be tech's next big frontier. Now they've stalled out.
Usare i "device" rende più stupidi del dovuto? A quanto pare, no: non è colpa della tecnologia bensì un talento innato.
Money quote: "Many articles in the popular and academic press assert that digital technology is to blame. Some experts, including those recently featured in stories by major news outlets, state that excessive use of digital technology is clearly linked to psychological distress in young people. To deny this connection, according to a prominent proponent of the link, is akin to denying the link between human activity and climate change."
https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585
Money quote: "Many articles in the popular and academic press assert that digital technology is to blame. Some experts, including those recently featured in stories by major news outlets, state that excessive use of digital technology is clearly linked to psychological distress in young people. To deny this connection, according to a prominent proponent of the link, is akin to denying the link between human activity and climate change."
https://theconversation.com/flawed-data-led-to-findings-of-a-connection-between-time-spent-on-devices-and-mental-health-problems-new-research-162585
The Conversation
Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research
You’re probably wrong about how much time you spend on your devices, and that has big implications for the link between device use and mental health.
A quanto pare tutti i giochi gestionali ambientati nel Medio Evo sono decisamente sbagliati.
Money quote: "Any gameplay loop that tells a story of linear settlement growth is incongruent with how a medieval economy worked (see Foussier 2004). Medieval villagers were often living on the edge of subsistence. Agricultural surpluses were skimmed by the church and the feudal lords. Bad harvests, banditry, warfare and disease might decimate a village community at any time. For this very reason, the demography of many European villages remained relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century. It may therefore be clear that the gameplay loop of city builders pivots around the concept of doing the historically exceptional (i.e. growing a settlement to a town) and thereby strays far from what actually happened in the lives of our medieval forebears."
https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate
Money quote: "Any gameplay loop that tells a story of linear settlement growth is incongruent with how a medieval economy worked (see Foussier 2004). Medieval villagers were often living on the edge of subsistence. Agricultural surpluses were skimmed by the church and the feudal lords. Bad harvests, banditry, warfare and disease might decimate a village community at any time. For this very reason, the demography of many European villages remained relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century. It may therefore be clear that the gameplay loop of city builders pivots around the concept of doing the historically exceptional (i.e. growing a settlement to a town) and thereby strays far from what actually happened in the lives of our medieval forebears."
https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historically-inaccurate
www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl
Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate
This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.
Vivere il sogno!
Money quote: "I take a lot of vacation. I find it more enjoyable than working.
That's not to say that I don't like working. I write software for a living, which is crazy fun in and of itself. If you'd have told little 14 year old Jason, writing games on his Commodore 64, that he'd one day have a job doing basically the same thing, he'd have been pretty stoked.
But over the years I've found a lot of other stuff that I like doing even more than programming computers. I like to climb rocks, surf and travel through interesting parts of the world, and always found it hard to do that for, say, most of the year every year when I had to work for other people. So I set out to build a business with the heuristic of "Maximize Jason's Vacation Time".
This is a rather long and drawn out account of how I did that (and how you can probably do that too.)"
https://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html
Money quote: "I take a lot of vacation. I find it more enjoyable than working.
That's not to say that I don't like working. I write software for a living, which is crazy fun in and of itself. If you'd have told little 14 year old Jason, writing games on his Commodore 64, that he'd one day have a job doing basically the same thing, he'd have been pretty stoked.
But over the years I've found a lot of other stuff that I like doing even more than programming computers. I like to climb rocks, surf and travel through interesting parts of the world, and always found it hard to do that for, say, most of the year every year when I had to work for other people. So I set out to build a business with the heuristic of "Maximize Jason's Vacation Time".
This is a rather long and drawn out account of how I did that (and how you can probably do that too.)"
https://www.expatsoftware.com/Articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html
Altri grandi classici: ho forti aspettative per il prossimo Natale. The Matrix Resurrections
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“Lo sapete, no, se c’è una cosa che contraddistingue il paradiso, è che a un certo punto smette di essere tale, tutti ne veniamo scacciati, presto o tardi”
Il "tremendo problema" della procrastinazione nell'era degli strumenti e delle metodologie digitali automatiche
Money quote: "Another thing that might feel familiar: The things that IDoneThis users actually did accomplish, they did very quickly. Half of completed to-do items were done within a day of writing them down. These weren’t longer-term, complex tasks. Ten percent were done within a minute. It was almost like people were writing them down just so they had something to check off. A nice psychological boost, to be sure, but it somewhat defeated the purpose of a to-do list."
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
Money quote: "Another thing that might feel familiar: The things that IDoneThis users actually did accomplish, they did very quickly. Half of completed to-do items were done within a day of writing them down. These weren’t longer-term, complex tasks. Ten percent were done within a minute. It was almost like people were writing them down just so they had something to check off. A nice psychological boost, to be sure, but it somewhat defeated the purpose of a to-do list."
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
WIRED
Hundreds of Ways to Get S#!+ Done—and We Still Don’t
You want to be productive. Software wants to help. But even with a glut of tools claiming to make us all into taskmasters, we almost never master our tasks.
Il lavoro remoto è la norma per i programmatori (lo dice l'Economist!)
Money quote: "On the first weekday of every month, a thread called “Who is hiring” is posted on Hacker News, a news-aggregation website popular with programmers. Hundreds of companies, from one-person operations to trillion-dollar corporations, submit listings. Most of them are based in America, although startup hubs such as Berlin or London are popular as well. According to an analysis by The Economist, only 13% of the jobs posted in the thread in 2011 mentioned remote work. In 2021, more than 75% do"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/11/for-programmers-remote-working-is-becoming-the-norm
Money quote: "On the first weekday of every month, a thread called “Who is hiring” is posted on Hacker News, a news-aggregation website popular with programmers. Hundreds of companies, from one-person operations to trillion-dollar corporations, submit listings. Most of them are based in America, although startup hubs such as Berlin or London are popular as well. According to an analysis by The Economist, only 13% of the jobs posted in the thread in 2011 mentioned remote work. In 2021, more than 75% do"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/08/11/for-programmers-remote-working-is-becoming-the-norm
The Economist
For programmers, remote working is becoming the norm
Tech workers were ditching the office before the pandemic
A proposito di lavoro remoto: sto finendo mostly weekly, la mia newsletter che esce domani. Vi potete iscrivere qua. La nuova versione è sempre gratuita
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Editore USA abbandona la carta e offre iPad a migliaia di abbonati https://www.macitynet.it/chattanooga-times-abbandona-la-carta-e-offre-ipad-a-migliaia-di-abbonati/
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Editore USA abbandona la carta e offre iPad a migliaia di abbonati
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Ci lamentiamo più del dovuto del lavoro che viene fatto in Italia, particolarmente a Roma ma anche nel resto del Paese, per trovare e preservare i resti archeologici di un tempo perduto. Guardate la terribile bellezza della situazione di Istambul.
Money quote: "Throughout Istanbul, there are clues to how residents of the Byzantine capital lived, worked in and built their city. These blend in with the current surroundings: The ruins of an ancient Roman bathhouse frame the boiler room of a modern office building. A 6th century cistern with blinding-white columns serves as a jewelers' workshop, with machinery to etch out silver necklaces and rings. ("The ventilation isn't great," says the owner, "but it stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.") And the shell of a small church — reachable by ladder — sits beneath the basement of a hookah bar.
After Ozgumus completed a 13-year archeological survey of Istanbul's historic peninsula in 2010, younger scholars have continued his work, adding hundreds of sites to the public record."
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements
Money quote: "Throughout Istanbul, there are clues to how residents of the Byzantine capital lived, worked in and built their city. These blend in with the current surroundings: The ruins of an ancient Roman bathhouse frame the boiler room of a modern office building. A 6th century cistern with blinding-white columns serves as a jewelers' workshop, with machinery to etch out silver necklaces and rings. ("The ventilation isn't great," says the owner, "but it stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer.") And the shell of a small church — reachable by ladder — sits beneath the basement of a hookah bar.
After Ozgumus completed a 13-year archeological survey of Istanbul's historic peninsula in 2010, younger scholars have continued his work, adding hundreds of sites to the public record."
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements
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I migliori libri su Dante Alighieri e la Divina Commedia https://www.macitynet.it/i-migliori-libri-su-dante-alighieri-e-la-divina-commedia/
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I migliori libri su Dante Alighieri e la Divina Commedia
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Raccontare la storia di Alvy Ray Smith vuol dire raccontare la storia di Pixar ma anche quella dell'invenzione della grafica, del video e delle animazioni digitali. Vuol dire raccontare la storia di un modo di vedere.
Money quote: "Call it restraint. “As far as history goes, I feel like he got shafted, both in Pixar history and in computer graphics history in general,” says Pam Kerwin, a former Pixar colleague. “Everything that you currently use in Photoshop right now basically came from Alvy.” Even self-driving cars and augmented reality, “which are all about image processing, machine vision ... Alvy and his colleagues brought all that stuff into the world.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
Money quote: "Call it restraint. “As far as history goes, I feel like he got shafted, both in Pixar history and in computer graphics history in general,” says Pam Kerwin, a former Pixar colleague. “Everything that you currently use in Photoshop right now basically came from Alvy.” Even self-driving cars and augmented reality, “which are all about image processing, machine vision ... Alvy and his colleagues brought all that stuff into the world.”"
https://www.wired.com/story/pixar-animation-alvy-ray-smith-pixel/
WIRED
Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.
Sette libri per conoscere meglio Dante - il mio articolo per Anobii
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/14/sette-libri-per-conoscere-meglio-dante/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/14/sette-libri-per-conoscere-meglio-dante/
Anobii Blog
Sette libri per conoscere meglio Dante - Anobii Blog
Nell'anniversario della morte del poeta fiorentino, qualche piccolo consiglio ragionato di lettura
La storia delle moderne macchine fotografiche con il rullino di pellicola da 35 mm, che poi è diventato il sensore "full frame" (anche se ai tempi era definito il "piccolo formato") è legata a un uomo solo e alla sua particolare condizione fisica. La racconto qui
Money quote: "Barnack era malato: soffriva di asma acuta, che lo aveva reso invalido. Nonostante questo, l’uomo amava la vita all'aria aperta: il suo hobby preferito era la fotografia, ma l'asma gli impediva di portare con sé le fotocamere in legno per il grande formato "da campagna" e tutta l'attrezzatura necessaria (a partire dal cavalletto) che i fotografi del tempo utilizzavano.
Da uomo ingegnoso qual era, Barnack creò una piccola macchina fotografica che utilizzava dei piccoli rullini di pellicola e che poteva essere trasportata più facilmente durante le escursioni in montagna."
https://antoniodini.com/leica-invenzione-fotocamera/
Money quote: "Barnack era malato: soffriva di asma acuta, che lo aveva reso invalido. Nonostante questo, l’uomo amava la vita all'aria aperta: il suo hobby preferito era la fotografia, ma l'asma gli impediva di portare con sé le fotocamere in legno per il grande formato "da campagna" e tutta l'attrezzatura necessaria (a partire dal cavalletto) che i fotografi del tempo utilizzavano.
Da uomo ingegnoso qual era, Barnack creò una piccola macchina fotografica che utilizzava dei piccoli rullini di pellicola e che poteva essere trasportata più facilmente durante le escursioni in montagna."
https://antoniodini.com/leica-invenzione-fotocamera/
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Leica e l'invenzione della fotocamera
Se ve lo siete mai chiesti, l'inventore della macchina fotografica così come la conosciamo si chiama Oskar Barnack
Anobii si sta finendo di trasformare: comincia una vera Vita Nova
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/13/la-vita-nova-di-anobii/
https://blog.anobii.com/it/2021/09/13/la-vita-nova-di-anobii/
Ci credete ai pianeti abitabili? Il più grande problema è arrivarci per verificare e toccare con mano. Questo, dopo venti anni, sembra un buon candidato.
Money quote: "That data, combined with archival data from colleagues going back 20 years, confirmed the presence of two orbiting super-Earths sized planets, i.e., planets which have a mass greater than the Earth’s but substantially below those of our local ice giants Uranus and Neptune."
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/close-and-tranquil-solar-system-has-astronomers-excited/
Money quote: "That data, combined with archival data from colleagues going back 20 years, confirmed the presence of two orbiting super-Earths sized planets, i.e., planets which have a mass greater than the Earth’s but substantially below those of our local ice giants Uranus and Neptune."
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/close-and-tranquil-solar-system-has-astronomers-excited/
astrobiology.nasa.gov
NASA Astrobiology
Close and Tranquil Solar System Has Astronomers Excited