So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.

Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow

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This is wild...

Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269338907_The_Information_Theory_of_Individuality

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Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!

I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?

I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.

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10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html

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10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html

@sundarpichai

Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson

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Whoa... Cheap q-bits would be a huge game changer...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02781-4

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This is the good stuff

Many AI ethics talking points aren’t specific to AI. They’re about technology in general and they’re nothing new.

https://medium.com/@kozyrkov/forget-the-robots-heres-how-ai-will-get-you-b674c28d6a34

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Android Q disabled the http://Last.fm m App on upgrade until I launched it and confirmed permissions.

Lost a couple days scrobbling :(

BRB gotta finish rebinging the Plasmatics back catalog...

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Attending Category Theory Bootcamp today.

Live stream is available. Live blog

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Ruha Benjamin presented this 1957 robot future by SuperGirl creator Otto Binder today. Prescient and horrifying at the same time and brings to mind Graeber's take on flying cars.

@ruha9 @davidgraeber

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/youll-own-slaves-by-1965/

Somewhat amazed that 'Carbon Copy' (Cc) lives on in the email vernacular given that most people have never had to deal with the physical version...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy

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Kent Beck would not approve of calling hot desks "Agile Seating"...

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So has anyone made a poster with Udi Manbar's "It's our problem" statement?

It was one of the more inspiring things I had seen when I was watching old TFIFs (when we could do that..)

See the attached Noogler training deck and consider how things have changed today. (Also a reminder of go/gthink and the insight reports on https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/gthink/g/resources/analyst-insights-reports)

if users can't spell, it's our problem

if they don't know how to form the query, it's our problem

if they don't know what words to use, it's our problem

if they can't speak the language, it’s our problem

if there is not enough content on the web,
it’s our problem

if the web is too slow, it’s our problem

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZBLK7WfoLHRveZs8FiSlMvgVlkKWNKDhiEgi2Ocy4W8/edit#slide=id.i1...

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tfw you get music recs from your VP.

Also, let's never let Google become ITT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jptR_YwCs3o

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The latest by the always excellent Cassie Kozyrkov

#datadriven

https://towardsdatascience.com/your-dataset-is-a-giant-inkblot-test-b9bf4c53eec5

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It's the 6502 source for Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set. (Released a while back, but new to me..) How far we've come....

Oh and MAKE1 MAKE2 and MAKE3 is your blaze build. Here's MAKE1:

CALL -151
3F2:69 FF 5A
BLOAD GPAK.OBJ,A300
BLOAD CDRAW.O,A480
BLOAD PCSA800.PIC,AB00
BLOAD DLIST.O,A910
BLOAD SWAP.O,D2,AA00
BLOAD TST.O,D1,AB00
BLOAD GOATARI.O,D2,AB45
BLOAD BOOT.O,D2,AE00
BLOAD BOOT2.O,AE80
BLOAD ZAP1.O,AF00
BLOAD DOWNLOAD.O,D1,A00


https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_Atari800

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Bluetooth MAC randomization is not enough anymore... Prepare to implant a heartbeat randomizing defibrillator if you want privacy out-and-about....


https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/07/05/the-pentagons-new-heartbeat-detection-lase...

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Small world. Bumped into @micropixie today in the Mission. A reminder to support your local artists and musicians. Also do check out "Dark Sight of the Moon" which is vg

https://micropixie.bandcamp.com/

Totally unconventional company...

[but we have a long way to go before we match Yahoo, Verizon and Oracle with sports sponsorships...]


https://tokyo2020.org/en/news/sponsor/20190627-01.html

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Is a 3GB+ GPU Process on Chrome Stable normal these days?

Is there a way to debug that?

At least there's chrome://gpuclean/ now -- before I was just killing off the GPU Process by hand....

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Logging into Dreamhost after a few years.

Yep, it's time to fix another hacked Wordpress blog for a friend...

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Curious if Google's housing efforts won't have unintended side effects. Especially given the Prop 13 continues to be a limit-to-growth.

Maybe some of the 4514$ we give to non profits can be used to repeal Prop 13.

Also would be curious if Google will put property into a land trust, and if they intend to lobby for things that will systemically fix the underlying issue like a land-value tax.

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<singsong>"Well Helloooo Everybody!"</singsong>

A #logread on how to be "authentic" on YT..

https://medium.com/@newanddigital/youtube-populism-and-the-commodity-of-the-authentic-7eeed7376f7a

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Project Idea:

ML Dogwhistle Detector

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I'd even settle for notifications that chimed between songs TBH...

https://towardsdatascience.com/designing-for-appropriate-interaction-dcaaeffb7fb5

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Students must bring own whiteboard and Cracking the Code Interview textbook

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs9/

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#nottheonion

https://abc7news.com/business/startup-wants-to-offer-on-demand-pogo-sticks-in-sf/5325071/

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TODO(lindner): attend tech debt conference

https://2019.techdebtconf.org/

"What hath we wrought?"

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Ia4A/state-farm-kims-discount

Your periodic reminder to reread 10 things. Not sure this is linked from anywhere but it still exists.

I'd like to see a required online course for history, philosophy and ethics on equal footing with "You Said What" and other legal mandated training.

https://www.google.com/about/philosophy.html

Is this even covered in Noogler training?

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Martin Fowler with the hot takes. I for one hope that we can get away from the speed vs quality arguments that always pop up..

The building blocks of software development - languages, libraries, and platforms - change significantly every few years. The equivalent in the physical world would be that customers usually add new floors and change the floor-plan once half the building is built and occupied, while the fundamental properties of concrete change every other year.

https://martinfowler.com/articles/is-quality-worth-cost.html

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Looking for a convenient place to repair my pixel 2 XL screen in SF/East Bay.

Looks like all the ubreakifix outlets are south of here (Fremont, Santa Clara..)

Screen is starting to shed glass shards so it's probably time...
#lazyplus

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Just got the password notification email on my personal dasher domain.

**hugs** to the teams dealing with unencrypted passwords.

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I finally finished the very long https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism Anyone else?

I have opinions, but I don't think I'll write them here... However reading the background on B.F. Skinner brought up childhood memories of coin operated "chicken playing tic-tac-toe" at the County Fair.

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My fear is that the solution for data labeling is the Apps Flexible Orgs project which is all about implementing silos within a dasher domain. For example: large customer wants union vs non-union workers kept in separate Org Units and unable to communicate.

I'd link it, but I'm not sure if it's need-to-know or not...

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“Instead of i7 they should have called it Pentium Pro MAX 8.”

https://twitter.com/davidcrawshaw/status/1128407291408023555

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Requesting some additions to the Noogler curriculum:

1. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality aka "bikeshed"

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Happy that I was finally able to donate some vacation time. [Of course between the time I applied and the time it was used I was no longer maxed out...]

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/time-off/vacation/overview--emergency-vacation-don...

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Arrived Sydney, Australia.

Smells like wild fires.

Sydney I am in you this week for Arcs Meetup.

Sadly smells like wildfires.

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How long before Javascript starts looking like Perl?

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/12/class-fields

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Youtube is good again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZvPoE0EH1o

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https://www.engadget.com/2019/04/11/google-and-huawei-nexus-6p-settlement/

Notably, people who got Pixel 1XL phones will only get 0. In retrospect giving those phones out was a great investment...

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Some days it feels like our whole industry is built on quicksand...

Also hope that Play Books folks are finding ways to help these folks transfer purchases over...


https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/2/18292177/microsoft-ebooks-refund-stops-selling-digital-books-store

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Press '+' to Pay Respects

Goodbye Google+, thanks for trailblazing tech, good times and connections made.

Please donate to @internetarchive to support the upkeep of the (finally real) Google+ Ghost Town.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190313142515/https://plus.google.com/+PaulLindner

Tempted.. Nora Bateson takes the #cybernetics of her upbringing and takes it to a whole new level.


Cc +106683584710120301522 since posting to G+ collections are removed from my App..

https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2019-04-02/our-inner-ecology-its-all-about-shifting-how-we-t...

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#connectdogfood

I can't seem to create a post using the FAB on Web (Chrome Stable). Also if you make the window narrow the FAB button goes under the Posts.

[Also what is the experiment I can turn off to disable temporarily?]

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""What we found was that the majority of news outlets had not given any thought to even basic strategies for preserving their digital content, and not one was properly saving a holistic record of what it produces.""

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/the-dire-state-of-news-archiving-in-the-digital-age.php

Moved my G+ following graph to Twitter more or less..

Wrote a hacky script to grab twitter URLs using the Google People API. Fed that into a web page with follow widgets

Hope to find more folks in the Fediverse https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/