I didn't really get what they hate about it. I read some mild annoyances, which I had a hard time understanding because I grew up in an 800 sq ft house with 2 parents and 5 kids, then served on a submarine in the US Navy. I'm probably an outlier in the low direction in terms of Americans and their space requirements.
Readit Newsmichaelwww commented on I hate living in my tiny house (2019) fastcompany.com/90407740/... · Posted by u/fortran77
michaelwww commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
I think it’s depressing that droves of people are leaving Twitter because they believe that they might tone down all the censorship.
I get what you're saying but I don't think it's that depressing or surprising, but that's a big discussion better had in other places.
michaelwww commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
Isn't it the job of the police/FBI to do something in that situation? Why are we expecting corporations to be a private police force, judge, jury, and executioner?
If you owned Twitter and the site was suddenly flooded with calls to attack election officials and raid election offices what would you do? You'd probably meet with your lawyers and find out what kind of liability you had, then you'd field calls from advertisers saying they are all leaving unless you stop it. You'd also field calls from all your friends telling you that you need to stop it. Then you'd go for a walk and contemplate how you feel about people using your site to facilitate armed rebellion. Then you'd figure out how much money you were willing to lose over doing it your way. The most sensible thing to do at the point is pull the plug for a few weeks for "technical issues related to the purchase' and go home and get a good nights sleep.
michaelwww commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
>The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it.
What exactly is he supposed to do? I don't see how Nov 8 is megacorp's business.
> What exactly is he supposed to do?
When Twitter is flooded with threats of violence and calls to form mobs will he just do nothing? Is that what you are suggesting? He can take the site dark if he wants and he may have to.
michaelwww commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
It also isn't as if Elon was just thumbing his nose at naysayers. A day earlier he pledged to advertisers Twitter would not become a "free for all hellscape."
Now that's the new tagline.
It will be easy to switch to another platform and there will be tools to help as this post indicates. 4chan users are having fun saying the N word on Twitter and Le Bron James is complaining about it. And this is only day 2. I certainly think people should be able to exercise free speech, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to it. I can go somewhere else if Twitter gets too depressing.
michaelwww commented on Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon twitodon.com/... · Posted by u/srvmshr
I find this whole situation to be incredibly depressing, especially with Musk tweeting out a fact free insinuation about Paul Pelosi (since deleted without apology.) The proverbial shit is going to hit the fan on Twitter on election night Nov 8 in America and I don't think Musk is prepared to handle it. I'd love to live in a country where we could have nice things, but apparently America is not it.
michaelwww commented on Michael Crichton’s and John Grisham’s ambition types calnewport.com/blog/2022/... · Posted by u/1123581321
Crichton's and Grisham's books are both forgettable but quite enjoyable reads. In both cases, their formula is easily learned, and the 2nd and nth books you read just seem to scream out "formula." That's why I've read one or two of their books and don't feel the need to read any more.
It's a good formula. It can make very good movies. Sir Walter Scott [1] was hugely popular in his day. Some people do still read him. In 200 years, some analogous paragraph to this will appear for Crichton & Grisham.
Following the Modernist movement in literature in the aftermath of the first World War, Scott’s rambling and verbose text (indeed he was alleged to omit punctuation in his writing, preferring to leave this to the printers to insert as required) was no longer in vogue.
[1] https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Sir-...
I haven't read Grisham but that's how I felt about Crichton's books. His books were treatments designed to made into a movie and read like that.
michaelwww commented on TMG (language): A self-hosted compiler from scratch on paper en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMG... · Posted by u/michaelwww
Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan at VCF East 2019 (min 39, sec 46)
https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=2386
Describes how Douglas McIlroy designed a language, wrote a compiler in the language that he designed that didn't exist yet and hand converted this compiler to assembly. Ken Thompson says it's one of the most impressive things he's ever seen in his life.
michaelwww commented on Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion? bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/rntn
From the size of it, I'd say it's about the size of Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma city bomb, which was a 16 ton truck filled with fertilizer. All trucks over this bridge were supposedly inspected, so I think it would have to be a more compact explosive. Perhaps the secret services have classified explosives the could produce this kind of explosive punch just from a car trunk load?