Quel pasticciaccio brutto di Urania: è uscito un romanzo in edicola con alcune pagine rimescolate per un errore di rilegatura. Poca roba, poche pagine e che comunque sono solo spostate, non mancano. Mondadori però l’ha presa sul serio e ci mette una toppa. Uno scherzo che dal punto di vista economico costerà un sacco di soldi.
Money quote: “”Tutti coloro che hanno già acquistato il libro nella sua versione fallata potranno rivolgersi al proprio edicolante per farselo sostituire con una nuova copia, non appena la nuova tiratura sarà a disposizione dei punti vendita, cosa che cercheremo di realizzare nel minor tempo possibile.
http://blog.librimondadori.it/blogs/urania/2021/02/04/problema-per-urania-di-febbraio/
Money quote: “”Tutti coloro che hanno già acquistato il libro nella sua versione fallata potranno rivolgersi al proprio edicolante per farselo sostituire con una nuova copia, non appena la nuova tiratura sarà a disposizione dei punti vendita, cosa che cercheremo di realizzare nel minor tempo possibile.
http://blog.librimondadori.it/blogs/urania/2021/02/04/problema-per-urania-di-febbraio/
Forwarded from Riccardo
È uscita Tilde ~ 8, la puntata che finora mi piace di più (perché parla di argomenti che mi interessano).
08 | Io so’ io e l’altro è l’altro.
Sembra una puntata fatta con i piedi, ma in realtà parliamo anche d'altro: Tarzan, le cripto, Clubhouse e Corrado Augias che risponde al phishing.
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon venerdì.
08 | Io so’ io e l’altro è l’altro.
Sembra una puntata fatta con i piedi, ma in realtà parliamo anche d'altro: Tarzan, le cripto, Clubhouse e Corrado Augias che risponde al phishing.
→ tilde ~ su Spotify
→ tilde ~ su Apple Podcast
→ tilde ~ su Google Podcast
Potete ascoltare il podcast da Spotify, Google Podcast o Apple Podcast, oppure dal sito: tilde.show. Buon ascolto e buon venerdì.
Scusate ma non riesco a smettere di guardarlo. https://twitter.com/crazysciencee/status/1356142582032568323?s=28
Twitter
Crazy Science
https://t.co/vHl008Emq7
La nostra coscienza, il nostro io, il nostro "self", dove sta? Nella testa? L'identificazione che ne diamo con la testa è fortissima - ci sono anche molti organi di senso e poi c'è il cervello - ma ovviamente la storia è molto diversa.
Money quote: "My colleagues and I recently took this idea of embodied consciousness further and looked into mapping the ‘cartography’ of conscious feelings onto the body (building on our earlier work on the bodily basis of emotions). We first generated a list of 100 common feelings such as such as seeing, breathing, hunger, pleasure and so forth, and asked participants to locate these states on their bodies by colouring in the regions of a human shape where each sensation was felt. We also gathered basic information regarding each feeling, such as how pleasant these states were, how often they are experienced, and how similar different states feel when experienced."
https://aeon.co/ideas/it-is-not-all-in-your-head-sometimes-its-in-your-legs
Money quote: "My colleagues and I recently took this idea of embodied consciousness further and looked into mapping the ‘cartography’ of conscious feelings onto the body (building on our earlier work on the bodily basis of emotions). We first generated a list of 100 common feelings such as such as seeing, breathing, hunger, pleasure and so forth, and asked participants to locate these states on their bodies by colouring in the regions of a human shape where each sensation was felt. We also gathered basic information regarding each feeling, such as how pleasant these states were, how often they are experienced, and how similar different states feel when experienced."
https://aeon.co/ideas/it-is-not-all-in-your-head-sometimes-its-in-your-legs
Aeon
It is not all in your head. Sometimes, it’s in your legs | Aeon Ideas
It is not all in your head, sometimes it’s in your legs or your torso: a cartography of conscious feelings in the body
Mentre non ho problemi con le cose che navigano nell'aria, le cose che navigano sull'acqua (o sotto, se è per questo) non mi piacciono per niente. Adesso, dopo aver letto questo articolo, francamente la voglia di prendere una nave da crociera mi è passata completamente.
Money quote: "Of the millions of people like Samantha Broberg who step onto cruise ships each year, few are aware that their personal safety is in the hands of one of the world’s most globalized, legally complex, and opaque industries. While the vast majority will not meet tragic fates like Broberg’s, her story shows how the expectations passengers have about their rights and safety on board a cruise ship do not always match the reality.
Since 2000, 284 people have fallen off cruise ships—and another 41 from large ferries—an average of about 1.5 people per month"
https://qz.com/1443797/why-do-people-keep-falling-off-cruise-ships-because-people-keep-stepping-onto-them/
Money quote: "Of the millions of people like Samantha Broberg who step onto cruise ships each year, few are aware that their personal safety is in the hands of one of the world’s most globalized, legally complex, and opaque industries. While the vast majority will not meet tragic fates like Broberg’s, her story shows how the expectations passengers have about their rights and safety on board a cruise ship do not always match the reality.
Since 2000, 284 people have fallen off cruise ships—and another 41 from large ferries—an average of about 1.5 people per month"
https://qz.com/1443797/why-do-people-keep-falling-off-cruise-ships-because-people-keep-stepping-onto-them/
Quartz
People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. What can be done to stop it?
The thought of falling off a cruise ship is horrifying—but are these incidents inevitable? Or preventable?
Secondo me quelli del New York Times si sono stancati di tenere il coccodrillo pronto per Donald Knuth, e l'hanno pubblicato. Nel dubbio che fallisca prima il giornale che non passi a miglior vita l'ottantenne genio dell'informatica. Tra l'altro, l'hanno pubblicato più di due anni fa e ancora non è servito...
Money quote: "At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine. He became a computer scientist before the discipline existed, studying mathematics at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He looked at sample programs for the school’s IBM 650 mainframe, a decimal computer, and, noticing some inadequacies, rewrote the software as well as the textbook used in class. As a side project, he ran stats for the basketball team, writing a computer program that helped them win their league — and earned a segment by Walter Cronkite called “The Electronic Coach.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
Money quote: "At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine. He became a computer scientist before the discipline existed, studying mathematics at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He looked at sample programs for the school’s IBM 650 mainframe, a decimal computer, and, noticing some inadequacies, rewrote the software as well as the textbook used in class. As a side project, he ran stats for the basketball team, writing a computer program that helped them win their league — and earned a segment by Walter Cronkite called “The Electronic Coach.”"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
NY Times
The Yoda of Silicon Valley (Published 2018)
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
Vi consiglio di non perdere OnWriting, la newsletter di Alessandra. No, vi consiglio proprio di non fare questo sbaglio
https://tinyletter.com/alessandrapple
https://tinyletter.com/alessandrapple
Consigli per rendere accogliente una camera da letto minuscola (tipo, a New York e Tokyo, ma anche a Londra e Milano, il metro quadro è pesante e va sfruttato)
Money quote: "Due to the nature of our jobs, we are privy to a lot of chic, innovative spaces from around the world. A good chunk of these dream homes reside on the smaller end of the square foot spectrum, and come with a bevy of genius tips and tricks. So between coming in contact with a steady stream of tiny bedroom design inspo on the regular and dealing with our own area-averse spaces, suffice it to say we’ve seen (and tried) it all."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hacks-that-finally-saved-our-tiny-bedrooms
Money quote: "Due to the nature of our jobs, we are privy to a lot of chic, innovative spaces from around the world. A good chunk of these dream homes reside on the smaller end of the square foot spectrum, and come with a bevy of genius tips and tricks. So between coming in contact with a steady stream of tiny bedroom design inspo on the regular and dealing with our own area-averse spaces, suffice it to say we’ve seen (and tried) it all."
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-hacks-that-finally-saved-our-tiny-bedrooms
Pocket
The Hacks That Finally Saved Our Tiny Bedrooms
Here’s how Domino’s editors style their small spaces.
Se volete leggere un thread pazzesco su Twitter (o i relativi articoli) ecco a voi un caso di investigazione online per scoprire chi compra e vende animali esotici di specie protette a personalità e influencer online. Scandaloso e moralmente ripugnante
Money quote: "This is a multi-million dollar industry. Much like cars and watches, exotic animals such as tigers have a long history of being used as status symbols, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
However, keeping animals such as lions and tigers as ‘pets’ is problematic, causing harm to the animals’ physical and social well-being.
It can also be illegal, sustaining poaching and international organised crime. In 2017, the UAE adopted a law that prohibits individuals from owning, trading or transporting dangerous or exotic animals such as primates and big cats, placing heavy restrictions on facilities such as zoos and breeding centres that keep them."
https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1358871618240589825?s=12
Money quote: "This is a multi-million dollar industry. Much like cars and watches, exotic animals such as tigers have a long history of being used as status symbols, particularly in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
However, keeping animals such as lions and tigers as ‘pets’ is problematic, causing harm to the animals’ physical and social well-being.
It can also be illegal, sustaining poaching and international organised crime. In 2017, the UAE adopted a law that prohibits individuals from owning, trading or transporting dangerous or exotic animals such as primates and big cats, placing heavy restrictions on facilities such as zoos and breeding centres that keep them."
https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1358871618240589825?s=12
Twitter
Eliot Higgins
New investigation from @Bellingcat shows how influencers use services that provide monkeys, tigers, lions and cheetahs that they pose with in their Instagram posts that can be tracked to a shady network involved in the wildlife trade https://t.co/QJB6hc2gzX
Una cosa in php per generare ebook da soli
Money quote: "This PHP tool helps you write eBooks in markdown. Run ibis build and an eBook will be generated"
https://github.com/themsaid/ibis
Money quote: "This PHP tool helps you write eBooks in markdown. Run ibis build and an eBook will be generated"
https://github.com/themsaid/ibis
GitHub
GitHub - themsaid/ibis: A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF.
A PHP tool that helps you write eBooks in markdown and convert to PDF. - themsaid/ibis
Ci credereste che è stato (per un periodo) il mio client di posta? Mutt alla versione 2.0
Money quote: "This release was bumped to 2.0, not because of the magnitude of features (which is actually smaller than past releases), but because of a few changes that are backward incompatible. Please read this list carefully to be aware of these changes"
http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/
Money quote: "This release was bumped to 2.0, not because of the magnitude of features (which is actually smaller than past releases), but because of a few changes that are backward incompatible. Please read this list carefully to be aware of these changes"
http://www.mutt.org/relnotes/2.0/
Il numero cento della mia newsletter, Mostly Weekly. In caso vi mancasse qualcosa da leggere
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/mostly-weekly/archivio/100.html
https://antoniodini.com/mostly/mostly-weekly/archivio/100.html
Mostly Here
[Mostly Weekly ~100]
I miei primi cento numeri
Una proposta per il bike-to-work: una alternativa alla mobilità tradizionale pagata (poco) dalle aziende
Money quote: "La proposta è quindi di destinare parte di queste risorse risparmiate per introdurre nelle varie realtà pubbliche e private un incentivo economico per promuovere il “bike-to-work”. In questo modo il lavoratore che sceglie la bici come modalità di trasporto potrebbe maturare mediamente intorno ai 50 euro al mese (considerando una decina di chilometri al giorno).
Se questa misura fosse stata adottata in primavera oggi un bike-to-worker mediamente avrebbe guadagnato 250 euro da spendere per una bici che gira effettivamente sulle strade italiane. Sebbene esistano esperienze pilota di cofinanziamento del bike-to-work queste richiedono un impegno delle aziende significativo. Per una realtà di 1.000 dipendenti ad esempio, considerando erogazione e iscrizione a piattaforme che gestiscono il sistema, si può arrivare a 40.000 euro annui."
https://altreconomia.it/mobilita-sostenibile-e-welfare-aziendale-una-proposta-oltre-i-bonus/
Money quote: "La proposta è quindi di destinare parte di queste risorse risparmiate per introdurre nelle varie realtà pubbliche e private un incentivo economico per promuovere il “bike-to-work”. In questo modo il lavoratore che sceglie la bici come modalità di trasporto potrebbe maturare mediamente intorno ai 50 euro al mese (considerando una decina di chilometri al giorno).
Se questa misura fosse stata adottata in primavera oggi un bike-to-worker mediamente avrebbe guadagnato 250 euro da spendere per una bici che gira effettivamente sulle strade italiane. Sebbene esistano esperienze pilota di cofinanziamento del bike-to-work queste richiedono un impegno delle aziende significativo. Per una realtà di 1.000 dipendenti ad esempio, considerando erogazione e iscrizione a piattaforme che gestiscono il sistema, si può arrivare a 40.000 euro annui."
https://altreconomia.it/mobilita-sostenibile-e-welfare-aziendale-una-proposta-oltre-i-bonus/
Altreconomia
Mobilità sostenibile e welfare aziendale: una proposta, oltre i bonus
Sui ticket restaurant imprese ed enti pubblici stanno maturando significativi risparmi. Si tratta di risorse dei lavoratori che saranno oggetto di contrattazione. Perché non destinarne una parte per incentivare la scelta della bici come modalità di trasporto?…
Forwarded from Riccardo
Ecco un intero libro* su come avere un ambiente di sviluppo senza mouse. Consiglio di rimediare una buona tastiera.
*: oppure un tutorial molto molto lungo, una specie di wiki stampato in PDF.
https://themouseless.dev/
*: oppure un tutorial molto molto lungo, una specie di wiki stampato in PDF.
https://themouseless.dev/
themouseless.dev
Do You Write Code With Your Mouse?
Building Your Mouseless Development Environment
C'è gente che guadagna meglio di quello che non pensate. E non sono pochi
Money quote: "My god. Look, the commenter had the self awareness to bring up regional cost of living and that not everyone can work at the FAMANGs of the world, but really? Getting $3.7 million dollars for just 7 years of work is, like, a bad deal?
To consider making $500K pa as a doable, realistic salary to be taken into account when deciding between starting a company or just seeking a job... Like us millennials say, "I can't. Even."
That annual salary far outstrips what I can reasonably expect to earn in a decade, and I'm a developer working for a fintech startup with a good couple of years under my belt. For most people in the world, $500K pa is a preposterous amount of money."
https://www.riknieu.com/the-gods-on-hackernews
Money quote: "My god. Look, the commenter had the self awareness to bring up regional cost of living and that not everyone can work at the FAMANGs of the world, but really? Getting $3.7 million dollars for just 7 years of work is, like, a bad deal?
To consider making $500K pa as a doable, realistic salary to be taken into account when deciding between starting a company or just seeking a job... Like us millennials say, "I can't. Even."
That annual salary far outstrips what I can reasonably expect to earn in a decade, and I'm a developer working for a fintech startup with a good couple of years under my belt. For most people in the world, $500K pa is a preposterous amount of money."
https://www.riknieu.com/the-gods-on-hackernews
Rik Nieu
The Gods on HackerNews
Every so often I encounter a comment on HackerNews that involuntarily makes my jaw drop, head shake and eyes water. It's usually concerning what some on HackerNews consider a 'worthwhile' amount of money you can earn as an entrepreneur VS being an employee.
Ma perché tutta questa enfasi sulle auto elettriche? Cosa c'è dietro? Chi ci guadagna? La triste realtà, per le menti che amano il complotto o semplicemente sono state bruciate dallo scetticismo sulla natura umana, è che in Europa abbiamo stabilito degli obiettivi per evitare di farci travolgere dall'inquinamento. Le soluzioni ibride non sono la risposta di politica ambientale giusta, anche se lo sono forse dal punto di vista dello sviluppo ingegneristico della ricerca.
Money quote: "In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines.
The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged.
“It was a small step closer to the 2025 goal,” by which time Norway’s parliament wants all new cars to be emissions-free, Oeyvind Solberg Thorsen, head of the NRF, told a conference."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/norway-electric-cars-1.4963204
Money quote: "In a bid to cut carbon emissions and air pollution, Norway exempts battery-driven cars from most taxes and offers benefits such as free parking and charging points to hasten a shift from diesel and petrol engines.
The independent Norwegian Road Federation (NRF) said on Wednesday that electric cars rose to 31.2 percent of all sales last year, from 20.8 percent in 2017 and just 5.5 percent in 2013, while sales of petrol and diesel cars plunged.
“It was a small step closer to the 2025 goal,” by which time Norway’s parliament wants all new cars to be emissions-free, Oeyvind Solberg Thorsen, head of the NRF, told a conference."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/norway-electric-cars-1.4963204
CBC
Norway's incentives boost electric cars to 31% of new vehicle market | CBC News
Almost a third of new cars sold in Norway last year were pure electric, a new world record as the country strives to end sales of fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025.
Abbiamo tanti problemi. Uno di questi è dormire. Nel senso che ne abbiamo bisogno ma riusciamo sistematicamente a privarcene. Geni tutti.
Money quote: "“If we don’t continue to chip away at our collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success, we’ll never be able to restore sleep to its rightful place in our lives,” Arianna Huffington wrote a couple of years ago, in her best-selling how-to guide “The Sleep Revolution.” By way of inspiration, she offered her own conversion story."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant
Money quote: "“If we don’t continue to chip away at our collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success, we’ll never be able to restore sleep to its rightful place in our lives,” Arianna Huffington wrote a couple of years ago, in her best-selling how-to guide “The Sleep Revolution.” By way of inspiration, she offered her own conversion story."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/why-we-sleep-and-why-we-often-cant
The New Yorker
Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
Does our contemporary obsession with sleep obscure what makes it special in the first place?