Saturday beach walk
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Quoting Benedetta Tobagi
For those who have found their meaning, their place in the world, and what they feel they want to live for, death is just one part - inevitable, but not...
On founders doing customer support
I just came across this tweet by Aaron Levie: The best founders I know — no matter their company’s scale — thrive on doing customer support directly. There’s...
Astral Gold by Dean McPhee
Thanks to Giovanni Ansaldo’s convincing review on yesterday’s issue of Il Mondo podcast, my first Bandcamp purchase1 is the recently released Astral Gold...
Sick and tired of Spotify's music-consuming model
I’m growing sick and tired of Spotify’s music-consuming model. There are many compelling and sometimes conflicting reasons, most perfectly outlined in The...
REPLAY by Jordan Mechner
Jordan Mechner (@jmechner, creator of Prince of Persia) has written and drawn a graphic novel memoir, REPLAY. It’s out in French and will be released in...
Quoting John Carmack on AI
“Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it. Problem solving is the core skill. The discipline and precision...
Beach walk
In a brigh Sunday morning, we went on a lonely beach walk Our third kid turned eighteen yesterday; she’s an adult now, and we’re left with no teenagers in...
Quoting Ran Prieur
There’s a common belief that suffering is necessary for pleasure, or that evil is necessary for good, like the change of the seasons. It’s one of those ideas...
SQLite foreign key constraints are disabled by default
Today, I learned that SQLite only enforces foreign-key constraints if explicitly instructed. I imagine this is well-known and trivial for the SQLite...
Quoting Ethan Mollick
Many skeptics about the impact of AI are focused on the flaws that LLMs have today: hallucinations, short context windows, slow answers, and so on. These are...
Default ASP NET Core 8 port changed from 80 to 8080
Today, I learned the hard way that the default port for ASP.NET Core 8 container images has been updated from port 80 to 8080, quite a remarkable breaking...
Monte Tiravento
Yesterday, I went on a hiking trip to Monte Tiravento. This majestic loop tour is uncommon compared to the classic woody image of the Parco Nazionale del...
Paying people to work on open source is good actually
From my experience as a maintainer of midly successful open-source projects, I have come to the conclusion that people who criticize accepting payment for...
Solo winter attempt at Cerro Torre
My mountaineering days are mostly left behind, and I miss them, so now and then, I look at some YouTube videos from the field specialists. Today, the...
AI generated videos just changed forever
Yesterday’s OpenAI launch of Sora is, as if always the case with OpenAI, mind-boggling. Marquees Browniee’s comment is spot-on, so much so as he’s obviously...
Content of Charles Darwin's personal library revealed for the first time
I’m always fascinated by these in-depth bibliography efforts, and this one, with its unique 300-page catalog detailing 7,400 titles from Charles Darwin’s...
Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times
Technically, The New Yorker’s Baruch Spinoza and the Art of Thinking in Dangerous Times reviews a book on Spinoza. It is so well conceived that it also...
GitHub Wikis don't allow edits or pull requests
Today I learned that GitHub wikis are not editable online and do not support pull requests. You can clone and edit a wiki locally but not return your change...
Isolated indigenous people as happy as wealthy western peers
Interviews with people in remote communities challenge widely held perception that money buys happiness. People living in remote Indigenous communities are...