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- as a data point, Mastodon’s API does this: docs.joinmastodon.org/client/token/. you programmatically register and use a separate OAuth app for each instance. self-hosted single-user Mastodon instances are uncommon, but they do exist, and support the API just like multi-user instances.
- aka “Welcome to Computer Programming is the Worst, episode 8,495!” š
- 1. get a with c: None 2. laugh nervously 3. update to (a.get(‘c’) or {}) 4. get a with f: None 5. grumble 6. realize extent 7. refactor everything to eg pypi.org/project/Coalesā¦ 8. fail 9. despair 10. try homegrown, eg github.com/snarfed/granarā¦ 11. fail 12. become a beet farmer
- also, hello GitHub feature request for @-mention notifications in private repos i don’t have access to. pixelated, obfuscated, translated to assembly code, i dunno. something!
- yass snarfed.org/2016-01-11_169ā¦
- hi! i’ve known @dackboor for 15y, he pointed me your way recently. i’m in the same boat, motivated by worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ etc, worked a bit with @electricityMap and others. want to grab breakfast or coffee and compare notes? open to SF or east bay. feel free to DM!
- there’s a great Alan Kay quote, “Technology is anything invented after you were born.” maybe AI is similar.
- definitely! i just wonder if we’ve ended up with ML-tinted glasses and now use it as our first (and often only) answer to any question.
- Maybe the scale of modern problems simply overwhelms other approaches, so this is a good thing? Are we putting all our eggs in the big-data-and-opaque-emergent-models basket, though? Are there other forms of AI that weāre neglecting? Or am I just being old fashioned and naive?
- This is one of the main theses of @stewartbrand’s How Buildings Learn. Amazing book. google.com/books/edition/ā¦
- Notably, serializing distributed transactions algorithmically, offline. https://t.co/h1ClcXiQl9
- merry christmas, enjoy your four minutes of peace š
- “There’s nothing new under the sun.” “Good artists borrow; great artists steal.” It’s actually kind of a relief, maybe even liberating, if you look at it the right way. š
- yes! https://t.co/Olx1DGsFTu
- I’ve read them all, and paulgraham.com/goodart.html has stuck with me the most. An inspiring guide to all sorts of work, both creative expression and beyond, and a critical rebuttal of postmodernism’s depressingly nihilistic “nothing can be better or worse than anything else.”
- The Precautionary Principle doesn’t work. snarfed.org/2013-04-13_theā¦
- Bill Buford, Among The Thugs. crazy gonzo embedded journalism among English soccer hooligans in the 80s and 90s. amazing stories.
- When @haldaume3 and I discovered this in middle school, we had bigger egos and less actual knowledge than you. We thought we’d discovered a huge vulnerability, so we emailed a bunch of big news outlets. We couldn’t understand why none of them ran with the story. Simpler times.
- one of my favorites is from uwsgi: “your mercy for graceful operations on workers is …”
Recent retweets:
- 10 yo asked when I’d let him and his 7 yo brother walk to school by themselves. I told him the task was not to get himself to school safely, but to get his brother to school safely. I could practically hear his brain struggle to assimilate this paradigm shift.
- As is the tradition, here’s the year 2019 as seen on @electricityMap. Not all countries are green 24/7!
- Incredibly haunting photo from David Caird in todayās Oz
- Susie,, Just when you thought I’d never get to heaven. I think I’ve arrived. Sorry that you missed it.
- Unpopular prediction: the 2020s will be for solar #geoengineering (research & policy) what the 2010s have been for adaptation and #carbonremoval. #ClimateTech #ClimateChange
- Don’t try to be novel simultaneously in two completely unrelated ways. It will decrease your chances of succeeding in the one that matters.
- I keep asking my boss for more and more headcount at work to grow my team. He says yes, every time. Meanwhile, he keeps expanding our charter to match. Somehow, this was an exciting, dynamic, fast paced dream. I have no idea how.
- 50 years ago = first packet sent. blog.google/inside-google/ā¦
- The year is 2192. The British Prime Minister visits Brussels to ask for an extension of the Brexit deadline. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.
- Iām being interviewed today on what taking LSD in the ā60s was like. Let this image be my answer.
- The only thing that would make cats better is if you could bring them with you when you go places
- I’m a network engineer, working on streetlights. I arrive at Cisco to give a talk. I have the base of a streetlight with me as a prop. No one comes to the talk, but my hosts tell me the room is too full for me, so I have to speak from an overflow room, which is also empty. š¤·āāļø
- *Huge* turnout in New York City for the Global #ClimateStrike!
- āWe are vaguely prepared for a world of more people; we are utterly unprepared for a world of fewer.ā trib.al/zLaADjV
- “Pace layers provide many-leveled corrective, stabilizing feedback throughout the system. It is in the contradictions between these layers that civilization finds its surest health.” – @stewartbrand jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-braā¦
- š ā”All of America’s energy consumption in one cool flow chart: go.usa.gov/xyhuJ Curious about what “rejected energy” means? Watch this video to find out: bit.ly/2GYftwG
- Here is a simple population density map. Source: buff.ly/2KnNVSD
- “If you see hooded figures in the Dog Park, no you didn’t.” – @NightValeRadio
- Did you know? -Global rates of extreme poverty are falling for any poverty line we choose -Global income inequality is falling -World median income almost doubled from 2003 to 2013 -Income inequality within countries is constant on average (up in some countries, down in others)
- Arctic melt goes into overdrive across land and sea, including Greenland. axios.com/arctic-melt-clā¦ š·Ā Steffen Olsen
Recent likes and favorites:
- 4a or gtfo
- 3a if it’s the hipster quality stuff, 4b if it’s greasy spoon fare
- Itās not official but there is a dark mode for the web. Itās under Manage > Goodies. https://t.co/oHDcgCMr4v
- Mongabay staffer Philip Jacobson was just moved from prison to “city detention” in Palangkaraya. We are grateful that authorities have made this accommodation and remain hopeful that Phil’s case can be treated as an administrative matter rather than a criminal one #FreePhil
- Fascinating new research: What happened when Germany shutdown its nuclear plants? It replaced much of the lost energy with coal. “The social cost of this shift from nuclear to coal is approximately $12 billion per year.” ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/2ā¦
- Of course the mini bar at the Ace Hotel would have Fernet Branca.
- Dessert.
- #FreePhil ~ President @Jokowi Please free American editor Philip Jacobson #freephiljacobson youtube.com/watch?v=B4Wkzkā¦
- Cater vegan by default – Tantek
- āWhen we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.ā – Wendell Berry
- A speaker jumps into a stage with a big ugly stain in his white shirt. He performs a great play but nobody is able to take their eyes off the stain. 98% of is shirt is clean but still, the audience is thinking less of him – Negativity bias
- I have never said anything like this, nor will I ever say it. Itās never too late to do as much as we can, every fraction of a degree matters. There are of course no magical ādatesā for āsaving the worldā. I am only quoting the SR1,5 IPCC report on remaining CO2 budgets.
- He has a point — young people have a different circadian rythm. time.com/3162265/schoolā¦
- We know who shot first in the Great War between macro and micro mobility, but we do not know (yes we do) who will win.
- I won email!
- Shout out to the old days when Google would show you an ad for Google Reader if your Gmail was empty.
- Hehe, here’s the minified version: return { “aa”: [ { “b”: a.get(“c”, {}).get(“d”), “e”: [f for f in a.get(“f”, [])], } for a in aa ] } (and don’t think it doesn’t hurt me that our style-guide prefers double-quotes over single)
- Philip Jacobson, Mongabay’s award-winning editor, has been arrested in Indonesia #FreePhilJacobson news.mongabay.com/2020/01/mongabā¦
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