The real tragedy of COVID is the collateral damage it’s causing to the way we interact with other people. This is worse than even the deaths it causes. The damage includes a lack of civility, division in families, and people dying alone in hospitals because nobody’s allowed in.
Web3 sound like bs —Elon Musk
https://maxread.substack.com/p/is-web3-bullshit
I’m just starting to come to terms with “Web3”, “blockchain” etc.
OK, so a year or so later I’m back online with both a self-hosted git and blog presence. I had been using both github for code and github.io for my blog, but for various reasons I decided to stop putting content there. Walled gardens go away Walled gardens go way whenever it stops suiting the bottom line of the company. All the form posts from CompuServe (my first employer) are gone AOL Instant Messenger messages (another employer) are gone.
…that time when you realize your blog is hosted on a web site who’s sole purpose is to support coding, and they plaster the motto
“Learn Git and Github without any code!”
all over their site, and you realize that its been taken over by marketing clones … and it’s time to do your geekly exit stage left and self host on a raspberry pi or something…
This is a HOWTO of the things I did to migrate my HUGO blog off github onto a self-hosted raspberry pi using mysocket.io.
The original setup is described here Publishing a blog on Github with Org and Hugo
Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO of Amazon Monday. I met him briefly at an internal company conference (the Amazon Machine Learning conference) when I worked there 2016. Figure 1: Jeff Bezos I admire him. He’s created things. He built a company that’s changing the world. He had vision. He (and his in-laws) took risks. He provided leadership (see the The Amazon Leadership Principals) and he knew when to get out of the way.
This is my personal history of putting words-on-page-or-screen-or-blog-entry covering the period from the late 1970s to present (2020-12-05).
It was written (partially) at the request of JTR from whom I borrowed a Hugo blog theme. Thanks JTR.
I was writing a post where I wanted to include the \(\TeX\) symbol in the post, which is perfectly possible in emacs org mode where \(\TeX\) and \(\LaTeX\) are first class citizens, but it wasn’t working.
The blog exports to markdown via the ox-hugo Org exporter back end (lost yet?) which Hugo then translates to HTML which can then be previewed locally with Hugo’s own web server and then pushed to the live site, in my case, this site using git push.
I pinged JTR who, it turns out had little experience with \(\LaTeX\) and so was not able to help. Along the way, he asked me
Is there more you can tell me about use case for it? In other words, can I get you to vent some more about this, it’s interesting.
Back in the late 70s Donald Knuth who was (and still is) publishing a seminal series of Computer Science text books got annoyed at the typesetting, layouts and font choices he was being presented by publishers. So he did what any self-respecting hacker who happened to be Donald Knuth would do: he created his own typesetting system called \(\TeX\) which (along with \(\LaTeX\) which borrowed heavily from SCRIBE) is something of a standard to this day in academic publishing.
Because, you know, why is it unreasonable to expect publishers to render simple equations, right?
\begin{multline*}
\vec{E}_{\mathrm{tot}}=
q\cdot k_{b}\cdot \dfrac{r}{r^3}
\left\lgroup
\frac{\hat{r}-\left(\dfrac{d}{2\cdot r}\right)\hat{d}}
{\biggl(1+\left(\dfrac{d}{2\cdot r}\right)^2-
\left(\dfrac{d}{r}\right)\hat{r}\cdot\hat{d}\cdot\cos(\theta)
\biggr)^{3/2}}
\right.
\\
\left.
{}-
\frac{\hat{r}+\left(\dfrac{d}{2\cdot r}\right)\hat{d}}
{\biggl(1+\left(\dfrac{d}{2\cdot r}\right)^2+
\left(\dfrac{d}{r}\right)\cdot\hat{r}\cdot\hat{d}\cdot\cos(\theta)
\biggr)^{3/2}}
\right\rgroup
\end{multline*}
But wait, there’s more.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, may I have your attention…” This piece began as some thoughts on “attention” and wound up as reflections on daydreams. I think I’m a fan of daydreaming. 1 Attention Attention is a finite commodity. You only have so much attention to give in your life, in your day. Parents want your attention. Brothers and sisters and friends want your attention. Teachers want your attention. Employers want your attention.
On this Armistice Day, 2020, commemorating the end of “The war to end all wars” 119 years ago, I reflect that if the whole world were busy fiddling with their emacs configs there would be no more war. Well… so the treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations did not work out as planned…so maybe we look for community in the small instead. There is community that has grown out of research labs in Boston (a city notable for its contribution to the birth of other well known communities).
For those who remember the “All in the family” sitcom:
Mister, we could use a man like Richard Nixon again
Figure 1: “Richard Nixon” by History In An Hour is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Richard Nixon lost the 1960 election to John F. Kennedy in the closest (popular) election of the 20th century. There was a credible case to be made that voting irregularities in Chicago (read, the Richard Daley political machine) and Texas put Kennedy over the top (in the electoral college). And yet…