Notices by Venkat (vgr@refactorcamp.org)

I hope to see many of you at the in-person refactor camp in LA in June https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/04/04/escaping-reality-refactor-camp-2019-los-angeles-june-15-16/

@dschorno start putting lots of samples of your work online

@aRandomCat An unjustified presumption of superiority based on circumstantial evidence from the unearned conditions of one's life

Question: what, if any, small private domestic hobbies do you pursue besides cooking/baking? Creative activities whose output only cohabiting close friends and family get to see?

My latest series start, domestic cozy, should be of particular interest to the fediverse, since I think it is a prime example https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/03/04/domestic-cozy-1/

You can make any regular history sound sexy these days by calling it ‘secret history’. Simply because normies don’t read anything more complex than blog posts written at Medium level now. If it is known in a more complex form, it’s effectively a secret.

@strangeattractor I wrote but didn’t publish a think about it. It’s basically culture shock but down a power gradient, like a white tourist in Asia. Something like an illegibility effect kicks in. You don’t understand what you see (the culture shock part) but because you assume superiority, you have high-modernist contempt for it/false confidence in your judgments rooted in ignorance.

Happy new year fediverse!

@riga Well you've also got Jeffries tubes. Jeffries must have had a good patent on it.

Also shields, deflector array, warp core, dilithium matrix, holomatrix, transporter, replicator. And everything has a "frequency" that can be used to hack it.

Is our search turned off? I can't seem to search anything cc @zacharius

I already have too many toots to search for my own without a search function. Looking for something I tooted about how some science fiction approaches closer to reality instead of escaping from it...

@Elmkast it is amazing how convenient a villain Facebook has turned into, a veritable get out of jail free card for other institutions re: their own failures

The difference between a grand narrative and a narrative is that the former is where surplus middle-class attention preferentially flows #heyfeedfox

I have 73 MB of tweets and 2.32 GB worth of images in my twitter download, holy crap. Anyone know of any good tools to work with the json file? I don't want to do any coding if I can help it, but would like to do crap like filter tweets by keyword and send to a csv or something

Funny how identity variables change in their ranked importance over time as you age. Looks, intelligence, gender identity, sexual orientation, and race are probably the top 5 in that order when you’re young. By 40, they recede into the background and barely break the top 10. The top 5 at 40 are likely major highly personal life-story-defining battle scars (both honorable and shameful). The next 5 are probably wealth/class identity, health identity, home ownership, parenthood, eldercare provider

Pumped concreto like pumped hydro #heyfeedfox https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

Yo crowd, need more people feeding the feedfox good links via #heyfeedfox hashtag. How about picking a beat that interests you and you follow anyway to share links about.

Brainstorm request

What sub-tribal, sub-Dunbar pack structures (human groups <30 that cooperate on a practical day-to-day level) can you think of besides the nuclear family and corporate team/workgroup?

Looking to cast a really wide net and find unusual examples. Must cooperate on practical things. A sign is having financial ties.

I’m looking for good case-study type reads on decentralized and federated architectures, business models, economic dynamics, polities, biological systems etc based on real examples (ie not speculations, whether with or without blockchains).

Also looking for analytical things like CAP theorem, Mundel-Fleming trilemma etc.

@nindokag back when I was doing product management, I'd divide the backlog into three kinds of features, which I called stabilize/evolve/jump and allocated across them.

Stabilize = in production things into which we're integrating bug fixes and stuff

Evolve = incremental feature expansion things into next release that had low probability of destabilizing production

Jump = radical feature expansions that could destabilize the product, often on a branch

Risk mgmt = rebalance the 3.

Just did a dinner meetup where the 6 people who showed up RSVPed on 4 different media (twitter, mastodon, email, facebook), with sms for final coordination and venmo+cash for dinner bill settlements.

Interesting that despite the friction, I prefer the fragmentation. 5 years ago the meetup would have been "if you're not on facebook, you're note invited"