Timelinize unifies and organizes your digital life on your own computer.

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An exciting journey with Forth. Read this. The author gave up in the end, by the way.

Gotta make an icon for Betula and request it to be added here...

I've been creating small, hand-written websites to organise my files. It's a lightweight, flexible approach that I hope will last a long time.

There's a screenshot there, take a look. What's surprising is that the author employs no static site generator. Huh?? I'd rather use one or come up with a cool CGI setup. I wonder if they still make these websites...

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This article gets better every time I open it because Alex adds something to it. It goes about classic ontological, ethical and motivational problems of publishing texts online.

Alex talks about the thrill of getting comments and his fear of judgement in this comments. Well, I do not share this feeling. I do like getting comments (and I get them less often than I want), but I wouldn't call it a thrill. Certainly not “It makes me nervous. The heart beats. The heart bleeds.”-level thrill. Although I often find myself not knowing what to post in my Telegram channel, which is my most popular and least tended to writing place.

I like this quote:

Blogging turns into a performance where I feel like I’m demonstrating my moral character.

But is it blogging? I think it's the social and parasocial ties in general that make us perform. To real people, not just some internet people, I show some positions. Are they my true opinions? Do I really care about this or that topic? Maybe not so much.

And who cares about those laborious system administration blog posts where I struggle with this or that ephemeral problem. All these issues are lost pages. Nobody cares.

Please do continue your Butlerian Jihad notes though. I will need them in a couple of years, I feel that.

And there are so many posts to read, the folders on my disk with saved articles and snippets are more like compost heaps, where layer upon layer of good stuff gets dropped, never to see the light of day again.

I encourage you to curate this compost heap. Throw away 90 %.

The key is to find that happy state where the imagined audience adds a little zest

I think you have found it.

And now, the real banger quote comes:

For me, this imagined audience is more important than getting it right. Which is why I write my blog posts with the wiki spirit. All these sites are pretty similar, in essence. Blog, wiki, digital garden, Zettelkasten, there’s not enough difference to draw lines. It’s all a question of intent, of culture, of belonging. The blog spirit is to write pages over time, and they disappear into the archive. The digital garden spirit is to write unfinished articles and papers, to be refined or not. The Zettelkasten spirit is to follow the trail of thoughts you thought and add new branches, small notes with new thoughts leading to more thoughts on new notes. And the wiki spirit is to write and edit online, to hit the Save button and then it’s live. There is no editor, there is no draft. Wiki is like brutalism in content management. I can see the page sources and the end result is obvious and full of that old web power. It’s not an app. The software has no idea of process. The wiki spirit is to open that window, write the text and hit save. And then I read it again, and edit it. And tomorrow, I read it again, and edit it. And next week, perhaps, I read it again, and edit it.

I no longer live in the Wiki Now. The pages are intended for future readers but they are not timeless. I add timestamps all over the place. The blog spirit is strong. The pages do disappear into the great compost of thoughts. The archive gobbles them up. I do go back but I don’t rewrite the pages completely. I’m more likely to simply add a timestamp and some thoughts like I did on this page.

Abandoning the Wiki Now is one of the lessons I took from Alex. I'm now adding the timestamps in a lot of places. Even on Minecraft signs, to be honest. It just makes rereading a little bit cooler and more useful. But I do rewrite texts sometimes. I still believe in Wiki Now.

It's 2024 - do you know where your post-quantum cryptography is?

Q-day is in 10 years max.

Результат всего этого счастья нужен в режиме реального времени и крайне важен. Пропускать нельзя ни одного замера, потому что основную работу по анализу данных исследователи выполняют после окончания эксперимента. Поэтому всё это богатство данных, помимо показа на экране, придётся записывать на жёсткий диск. Все 1,3 гигабайта данных в секунду. И потом читать в Matlab'е, NeuroExplorer'е или другой программе. Система, которая сохраняла 99,99999% данных, не прошла контроль качества и была забракована, потому что теряла до 13 тысяч замеров каждую секунду.

В комментах пишут ещё:

я долго мечтал войти в медицину и больше 5 лет пытался работать с врачами. в итоге пришёл к печальному выводу, что это очень трудные во взаимодействии люди. не умеют мыслить структурно, стараются постоянно держать лицо, привыкли к строгой иерархии и за её пределами работать не обучены. так что непреодолимое и авторитарное требование виндовса тут неудивительно.

Статью написал Alex Hitech, что уже показатель качества. И комментарии у него заводные:

Мозг необязательно должен быть человеческим. Большинство исследований мозга выполняются на крысах и мышах, — их мозг очень похож на наш, а стоят они не в пример дешевле.

Ken describes how he injected a virus into a compiler. Not only did his compiler know it was compiling the login function and inject a backdoor, but it also knew when it was compiling itself and injected the backdoor generator into the compiler it was creating. The source code for the compiler thereafter contains no evidence of either virus.

This one mentions me! Of course it does 😎

Gio is an open source library for creating portable, immediate mode GUI programs for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, macOS.

Башкирский ярус (Bashkirian) соответствует башкирскому веку среднего карбона (и нижней пенсильванской эпохе согласно международной стратиграфической шкале). Башкирский век начался 318.1 ± 1.3 и закончился 311.7 ± 1.1 млн. лет назад.

Я из Башкортостана!!

Durden is a program that identifies, counts and, optionally, marks and/or cuts out and saves unique tiles in a given image file.

scim is a bash script to simplify scanning from the command line.