Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 66

@ink_slinger @schlink I'm thinking about getting one too. I've been using an iPad for the last few months and it's painful, as if the device belongs to Apple and they let me use it. Android is better, but what I really long for is Debian running on something the size of a phone.

Apps are a big question for me as well. I don't need much, but I'd like to run the one issued by Brossard (my city) to replace library cards, and the one to pay Montreal parking meters.

@aral Sorry if you got this multiple times; I had trouble with the tablet. It's not so profound that I think it needs to be repeated.

@aral

Perhaps what's missing is "Satisfy customer demands."

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages” --- Adam Smith

#FreeMarket #capitalism

@diegovicente Sorry, can't answer your question about data science.

For #civil #engineering , Probability Concepts in Engineering by Ang and Tang is good.

“Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.” --- Mickey Rivers (pro baseball player)

Via http://marginalrevolution.com/

Happy 2019!

I know the Feds are running deficits; I know that they claim the money is going into infrastructure. Why doesn't it feel like we're in a building boom?

Years into Liberals’ ambitious infrastructure program, few signs of promised economic benefits | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/years-into-the-liberals-ambitious-infrastructure-program-have-the-promised-economic-benefits-borne-out?video_autoplay=true

#canpol #engineering

Nancy, a 1930s comic strip, was one of the best comics of 2018 - Vox
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/26/18151274/nancy-olivia-jaimes-best-comic-2018

#comics

@JubalBarca I have just come across @bgcarlisle 's discussion of embrace and extinguish. I'm trying to imagine how that could apply in this case.

@JubalBarca @bgcarlisle I think we all agree that it was bad when Google Talk dropped support for the XMPP protocol; wouldn't it be desirable if they restored that feature? Similarly, wouldn't the users of Facebook and Twitter be better off if they supported ActivityPub?

Explain to me please why I'm wrong.

(I agree that no. 3 should be a serious concern.)

Secretary Khrushchev's "Industrialised Building Speech" to the Soviet construction conference in 1954. from Volume.

http://volumeproject.org/industrialised-building-speech-1954/

He favoured mass production (e.g., #precast) and standard details; he opposed ornamentation and poor quality.

#engineering #architecture #concrete #USSR #volume