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so Lockpicking Lawyer is a badass and has way more tool time than me. But lockpicking is surprisingly easy. He does it precisely and slowly, but it can be done much more aggressively and with less thought. Individually manipulating the pins is great but turns out aggressive imprecise raking works too, especially on cheaper locks. Lots of techniques out there.

This guy uses it tastefully though and its not hard to see why he likes it and he's right. It's highly readable. The people who hate it probably encountered it during Web 1.0 with accompanying Geocities style webdesign. GIFS! Cursor trails! Neon! Ads in technicolor! And double embossed chunky comic sans links and tables in too many colors because you just could. Web 1.0 was crazy and I miss it.

Almost as petty as pointing out pettiness!

The only way this wouldn't work is if there is a smell your body makes that never leaves your body. But otherwise it seems pretty reasonable that you could read offgassing as a way of detecting underlying effects.

I'm right there with you though, I bet the tricorder has a nose not a eye.

I am currently working in a ROWE (results only work environment). I have a similar schedule. I get way more done and have way more ideas. It's almost as if "gasp" letting people design their own work process makes them more effective!

Labor tech is the future. Next up block chain mutual aid networks.

Nothing wrong with deplatforming.

Yes we need to eliminate states.

Don't do those three things though. Do something that will actually change society. Fix, Build, Create, Expand, Move Beyond.

Yeah, they only show me stuff I would have wanted if I knew it existed, which for me is the essence of discovery. If it was limited to this and only the HQ stuff, not the I SEE YOU WENT TO WEBSITE SO HERES THEIR BANNER AD FOR THE NEXT MONTH stuff.

Not enough data to make this conclusion in any actionable way.

Sometimes you just gotta aim at the head.

If your company relied on some sort of margin related to commodity electronic components: congratulations you were doomed anyway, this just hastens it. Let's face it, hardware is not where the money is. Hardware is a tool of software now and forever. If you can't figure out how to make the money with software to pay for the hardware then forget it! I hear Amazon is hiring again.

First mover is a pretty strong advantage.

"The greatest designer of our generation."

Pffft. Greatest stylist maybe.

Once again the distinction between design and styling is lost on journalists.

Unequivocally yes.

Hey maybe some other parts of the world need populating too. This obsession with location location location is quaint to me in the age of telecom. Maybe the Bay Area is just Done. It'll turn into every other Rich Person Town and the people who need to get real s* done will go somewhere else.

Legacy industry is no excuse to keep cramming more people onto a tiny peninsula in California. It sucks for people in the middle and lower involved right now but honestly I encourage them to move at all costs.

The writing is on the wall.

Yeah but "us" aka normal people who are not capitalists don't care. Every single person who is not a land owning capitalist wants affordable housing. If you can handle post-Marxist thought, a great manifesto called the Housing Monster addresses this. http://prole.info/thm.html

Yes. And so does every single other blog with any sort of popularity.

Just the next first step off the current plateau onto a slope of improvement. FB is garbage pork barrel software anyway. Something cooler is coming along right around the corner. The design space is wide open it's just about who can grab more users. FB UX has never really changed much in ten years and old people use it. Need I say more?

The real story here is that the ship was past it's retirement age AND poorly maintained. Any of the series of small events that happened due to the maintenance issues like the scuttle popping open, or the oil sumps not being filled all the way up (these guys were really macho idiots, how expensive is a sump top off really!). The engineers at the NTSB determined that they hit the sweet spot of their engines not working because of the extreme weather and list and unfilled sumps and broken anemometer so they couldn't tell the weather like sailors have been relying on for years. Basically tech is useless if you don't maintain it or replace it or you treat human beings like disposable parts to run your depreciating hulks. The whole world shipping community is running ridiculously old and poorly maintained wrecks sailed by the worlds poorest people for the world's richest assholes. How's that for a class struggle?

I suspect that human driven errors like this will lead the shipping industry to transition to autonomy. Through this whole story the autopilot was the only one steering the ship, the humans in the loop were responsible for plotting and course setting. Obviously this is a bad idea. It's not hard to imagine an expert software system that could have done a better job with this situation, especially in processing the text based weather data coming over the C-sat.

Apparently some Norweigans agree with me and are doing exactly this. I suspect this will become the future norm once the bugs are ironed out.

https://www.km.kongsberg.com/ks/web/nokbg0238.nsf/AllWeb/0CB...

The old ways are going away.

Where is the relevance of the label system now that producers can master and release tracks directly digital with no pressing time at all? Gucci Mane is great example of a hugely popular artist who released track after track as fast as he could grind them out, for years (decades now! go count how many mixtapes the guy has made). This is the new normal, hyper creativity and high speed production. Pop cylces are like 100x as fast. You're telling me some old white dudes in suits can A&R faster than teenagers can hashtag and invent there way into new genres and music with their laptops. Yeah right. Dinosaurs.

It was dead with Mp3s and the internet and it's just still gasping along like all the old media giants. Smaller and smaller labels are able to survive these days, finding more and more niche audiences. Music has gotten more diverse in the last 17 years and you can tell. Genres launch and burn out in months now, or develop a cult fan base and continue on for years (ICP still tours this is like my perfect example of trash that still has fans).

I'm not saying Spotify is the king but people using "the labels" as a threat, come on, we all know what disruption means. Bandcamp and Soundcloud and even Youtube have runaround the label system.

The one thing I'll grant you is that maybe subscription fees aren't enough to keep the infrastructure going. This is possible. But the big pile of data is certainly worth something now and in the future, and the ability to scoop trends might be the sword that tames whats left of the big labels monopoly.

I personally have supported them since beta (when they charged more) so I will probably pick up a share or two. They are certainly worth NFLX money. Music is insanely easy to produce, it is certain they will start courting artists directly, and if they can find an acquisition that fills the DIY punk music scene that was Soundcloud they will be just fine. They need more DIY content to go along with the curated big label stuff. And by DIY I mean letting every small Bandcamp DJ and artist on there. Might as well swallow everything right?

The experience on the platform was always stellar and just keeps getting better the more data they collect. It's a good example where big data isn't creepy at all, it's amazing. They constantly filter my preferences and show me the key types of songs I like to listen to, impressive in itself but the song radio aping Pandora is also impressive and way more interactive than Pandora itself.

Basically I'm mega bullish Spotify and am not even going to front like I'm not. You don't need to buy it but I doubt it goes anywhere bad. /end-activist-investor-rant

Capitalism's inherent problem in one series of images. I wonder how much carbon is sitting in that pile.

The current method of hog farming is basically the worst possible version of traditional farming evolved through technology. Quonset huts, gestation cages, and fecal lagoons. Instead we could have mob grazing free range pig farming integrated with agroforestry, leading to animal waste going directly where it is the most useful i.e. as manure. Even the existing system could be set up to use natural swamp permaculture techniques to filter the waste or even capture in a biogas plant. Instead of lagoons of pig shit we could have useful forest products and methane fuel. Monoculture hog farming is showing it's limits environmentally and agronomically.

The barriers right now are the incumbent methods of farming subsidized by BigGov on behalf of BigAg and BigChem, and the lack of suitable off the shelf technology to make any of these ideas feasible for the average hog farmer. Until then they are going to keep putting up quonset huts and digging shit lagoons.

This to me shows the biggest problem with games. They aren't made by gamers anymore. It's Yet Another Media Outlet so it's been cash cowed to death.

Split screen is gone too. It used to be mandatory in the 1990s-2000s for FPS, now your lucky if a current gen title has split screen at all. This ruins one of the primary fun things to do with a game which is couch play.

Both of these things make it harder to microtransact and make games RPG like, so I get it. But I hate it really. The games are worse.

They will send drones. But they'll also send people in suits too. By the time iron man suits are ubiquitous, the battle space will be 99% drone anyway. But people still need to be there sometimes. So they'll have suits.

This is a good thing. People need to realize work chat is a paper trail...

I'm borrowing yours but replacing Goal 3 with: push fusion power over the technical hump. Which is pretty much the same thing right?