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Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 68

  1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 21:05:05 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan

    ♲ @BirdRespecter@twitter.com: Being an independent contractor sucks for a lot of reasons, but it also affords you the unique ability to tell people to fuck off in delightful ways.



    pbs.twimg.com/media/FJahX9FVcA…
    In conversation Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 21:05:05 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 12:53:35 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    • Hank G ☑️
    I believe they correctly report on most facts, but opinion pieces including this "Morning Newsletter" are often deeply misleading, when not outright exhibiting damning conflicts of interest.
    In conversation Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 12:53:35 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 12:35:06 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    A bleak reminder that popular news outlet opinion pieces can't be trusted because of misaligned expectations. These outlets only have a very narrow subset of readers they actually care about and you aren't in it.

    ♲ @equalityAlec@twitter.com: THREAD. A new scandal is brewing at the New York Times. I try my best below to document the paper's corporate and police union copaganda, and to share actual evidence and research that the NYT ignores. The stakes are huge.

    In conversation Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 12:35:06 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  4. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 11:03:30 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Yesterday my partner said I was a god among men for spending about 45 minutes assisting my kid with his homework.

    Men, the bar for you is so low, and yet most of you still fail to clear it?! 🤷♂️
    In conversation Wednesday, 19-Jan-2022 11:03:30 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  5. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 17:32:36 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hank G ☑️
    I don't think centrism is morally corrupt but then again I'm not sure what is morally corrupt in the absolute, beyond my own morals. What I do believe is that it doesn't help anyone but the centrists, and as such I don't have time for it.

    My personal position is somewhat ambiguous because ideologically I'm strongly leaning left but in practice I'm a de facto centrist. So my political readings are affected by my frustration in my own inability to save anyone else but myself.
    In conversation Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 17:32:36 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  6. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 08:06:24 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    Thank you for the elaboration. I read that instructions have to be broken down into sub-steps for pipelined CPU to execute them, so it still processes 1 instruction at a time. It's enough for me to still support the analogy, although I learned something thanks to you!
    In conversation Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 08:06:24 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  7. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 07:32:14 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    How do they process multiple things at once? Isn't by creating several smaller CPUs (cores) on the same larger chip?
    In conversation Tuesday, 18-Jan-2022 07:32:14 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  8. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 17-Jan-2022 10:30:11 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    One of the most fascinating human mind limits to me is our inability to focus on two separate things at the same time. Interestingly, this limit is also present in computing where CPUs process a single piece of information at a time.

    Even if you add more CPUs, they each can only process a single piece of information at a time, and synchronization between each other becomes its own separate task.

    This tells me by analogy that human cooperation may be hard, but it's essential to progress on multiple fronts at the same time, even with the necessary synchronization overhead.

    To survive, build networks, not bunkers.
    In conversation Monday, 17-Jan-2022 10:30:11 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  9. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 18:02:15 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Brad Koehn ☑️
    Touché.
    In conversation Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 18:02:15 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  10. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 14:05:04 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    What do they mean what insufferable type of person I *would* be? I’m perfectly insufferable now, thank you very much.

    ♲ @crulge@twitter.com: What insufferable type of person would you be, had things broken a little differently in your life? I'd be an Animal Liberation Front guy with a zine about veganism featuring the world's worst writing

    In conversation Saturday, 15-Jan-2022 14:05:04 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 10:44:48 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    “Do what you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life”

    Counterpoint: You can grow to hate anything if you have to make a living out of it.
    In conversation Friday, 14-Jan-2022 10:44:48 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 07:41:21 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan

    Online reviews

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⚪ "Pretty good, recommended"

    ⭐⚪⚪⚪⚪ "Absolute horseshit, avoid"

    ⭐⭐⚪⭐⭐ "Fell asleep in the middle, good ending"

    ⚪⚪⚪⚪⭐ "Got spoiled the end"
    In conversation Friday, 14-Jan-2022 07:41:21 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  13. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 11:31:27 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    Centrism Gripe

    Yesterday I read a long "analysis" of the political landscape of the United States that has to be the most centrist piece I've ever read. It divided people in 4 neat categories with each their strengths and weaknesses and that they all needed to borrow from each other to... uh... do a happy dance? That part was unclear.

    The essay was pretty long but in the end it didn't say much. Most notably, the author never acknowledged their own position on the political chess board they outlined themselves. I got the impression that this text was meant to appeal to people who don't recognize themselves in any opinionated political current because they don't stand to benefit from any substantial change of the political and social landscape.

    I could almost feel the subtle smugness to have found such a neat way to rationalize other people's politics with bullet point lists while completely avoiding to question their own; and not having to stick their neck out to suggest any kind of change that probably would never happen. Consequently the essay itself is not wrong, but only because it never risks being wrong by lacking any political ambition.

    I simply don't have the time to devote to pieces like this that lack substance but manage to give a certain subset of readers the impression they got smarter just by reading it. Consequently I will not link to it or mention its name because if you haven't read it, you saved 45 minutes of your life you can do something better with.

    And if you're in the mood for political readings, check out David Graeber's work.
    In conversation Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 11:31:27 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  14. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 10:17:52 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    I tried to play Salt and Sanctuary (2016) the same way I played Hollow Knight (2017) and I'm here to tell you it doesn't work at all. Lesson learned.

    #videogames
    In conversation Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 10:17:52 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 06:34:13 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Hypolite Petovan
    • Marco R.
    It is now clear that nobody of any significance to GitHub and/or Microsoft can actually move their repo away. They can stop contributing to the GitHub repos, either voluntarily or involuntarily, but they have no actual ownership if it would be inconvenient for the platform owners.
    In conversation Wednesday, 12-Jan-2022 06:34:13 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  16. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 17:46:04 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    I believe we’re at the Extinguish step of the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish plan of #Microsoft acquiring #GitHub .

    ♲ @me@social.catgirl.is: An open source developer pushed an update removing all functionality and deleted their project from GitHub (going so far as to use git push --force to purge the Git commit tree).

    GitHub and Microsoft used this library internally so they reversed the changes and banned them from GitHub for deleting their project.

    The issue here is GitHub said you are not allowed to delete your project.

    twitter.com/marak/status/14792…

    In conversation Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 17:46:04 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  17. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 16:29:50 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • lambjams@pluspora.com
    Yes, this is the point this article makes, if you easily can pull your money from any system, then it becomes highly unstable as it makes politics obsolete and the group capabilities expand or contract as easily as stock market rises and falls which prevent any long term strategy.

    However, the ConstitutionDAO failure to achieve their goal shows that, even if everything goes as good as it could towards the goal (an auction is everything but a guaranteed success), it isn't that easy to take your money out as gas fees were subtracted from invested sums, which means most of the smaller investors actually lost money in the process of getting their money back as the transaction gas fees exceeded their invested sum.

    So once again, it favors the richest investors, which I feel like we already had in regular shares ownership which much lower transaction costs.
    In conversation Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 16:29:50 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  18. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 14:55:09 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    I've first seen the DAO acronym (meaning Decentralized Autonomous Organization) used when the ConstitutionDAO tried, and failed, to acquire an original copy of the United States Constitution. Here's a compelling description of the larger DAO trend:
    https://maxread.substack.com/p/ragequit
    In conversation Tuesday, 11-Jan-2022 14:55:09 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink

    Attachments

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      Ragequit
      The foundational fantasy of Silicon Valley weirdos finds a new application
  19. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 03:35:04 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan

    ♲ @rahaeli@twitter.com: all of my professional service providers keep asking me about crypto because they keep hearing about it and they know I'm a tech person and I'm like "look. if this were ever going to be a viable ANYTHING, porn studios would have embraced it 5 minutes after it showed up"

    In conversation Monday, 10-Jan-2022 03:35:04 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
  20. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Jan-2022 02:33:49 EST Hypolite Petovan Hypolite Petovan
    • Úr Balázs
    Friendica Directory version 2.3.4 released

    I've just published another minor release of the #Friendica Directory project, it turns out the Hungarian translation was available but not enabled in the language selector, thanks to @Úr Balázs for the good catch!
    git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien…
    In conversation Monday, 10-Jan-2022 02:33:49 EST from friendica.mrpetovan.com permalink
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