Doug Webb @douginamug@mastodon.xyz

Sticker fail.

Originally read 'FGHT NZS', but the 'FGHT' was written in white, and since the background (red) has faded, it just looks like 'NZS', especially in the evening 🤦‍♂️

On top of that, I believe more and more that 'negating the frame, reinforces the frame', and that where possible we should positively, constructively frame our beliefs. (That's not to discredit resistance)

Hey, do you write notes in plain text, markdown or org-mode?

Check out https://logseq.com/ (among others)

Enables [[wikilinks]] and #hashtags in your notes. Notifies backlinks and has nice graph views...

It's open-source, cross-platform and in rapid development.

#logseq #secondbrain #zettelkasten

Me getting absolutely mashed up by an old boy in a park in #Odessa. There's this one bit which is continuously occupied by older men playing chess, dominoes and backgammon, usually for a bit of cash.

My opening game is so weak. He recommended us to use #lichess - cool to see the reach it gets!

There is a game theory scenario I keep coming back to, because I feel it is so often experienced when nice people are trying to coordinate around slight preferences.

Unfortunately, it was initially coined as 'Battle of the Sexes', imagining a hetero couple where the guy wants to watch boxing and the girl ballet 😴

Since the early 90's, people have instead been calling it 'Bach or Stravinsky'.

Should I move the wikipedia page? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_sexes_(game_theory) Anyone got advice on doing that?

Just finished another two s5neos for friends.

Bought used, cleaned, protective glass and case. Lineage OS + microG.

mood today

"Camera and smartphone sales by year showing the explosive growth of smartphones compared to standalone cameras. By 2015, smartphone sales dwarfed traditional camera sales, and the numbers have only become more extreme since then"

https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones-vs-cameras-closing-the-gap-on-image-quality/

Sunset from a derelict factory

What lies beneath (Demmeringstraße, Leipzig) - a bunch of tubes

Genius-level spice storage at gf's new flat: metal plate stuck under shelf with 'power strips'; small, shoulderless jars; small, powerful magnets under each lid.

Roller ball pen refill procedure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmyJEsU4Jgs

❌ uni-ball eye (pen featured in video: pen writes very faintly and unevenly, based on my experience and the other people who tried)

✅ stabilo worker (easier (simpler construction) and works fine)

Do you know when global population *growth rate* peaked? "The answer may surprise you" https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth (Forward to all your Matlhusian edge-buddies)

Dr. Stone is a great mix of cheesy, epic and funny. Can recommend.

Who said it better, Keith Gill or Texas-lawyer-guy?
😹 #GME #Gill #RoaringKitty

Screenshots from 'the flowering of the hippy movement' https://www.jstor.org/stable/1037113?seq=1 a personal account + interviews about the original hippy scene, and the reasons for its demise.

Spoiler: free-riding off of ideological volunteerism 🤷 Is this a counterpart to the Paradox of Tolerancem

My friend works in a small, organic garden in the west of Leipzig.

They recently just got one of these seeders to reduce the pain-staking work of seeding

Looks like a 🐙 Pricey, ~1000€. (Still) made by a small german firm it seems. http://saetechnik.de/en/home-2/

I'm working though the German bureaucracy right now, which is not fun.

When you register as a resident, you get a 'Persönliche/Steuerliche Identifikationsnummer' (Personal/Tax ID)

Interestingly, it has built in error detection: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerliche_Identifikationsnummer#Aufbau_der_Identifikationsnummer according to ISO/IEC 7064 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7064#Algorithmus_f%C3%BCr_hybride_Systeme (both links DE)

Basically, the last/11th digit indicates if the first 10 were an acceptable combination.

Ad in Times Square, NY today

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/times_square_right_now/

💎 🙌 🦍 🚀 🌔 , as they say

Here, anyone out there seen/have/played with Turing Tumble? https://www.turingtumble.com/

It's a marble-powered, Turing-complete computer 'game'!

At €60, in no rush to buy tho.

"In 2019, OpenAI LP received a US$1 billion investment from Microsoft." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

"Why did OpenAI choose to release an API instead of open-sourcing the models?" https://openai.com/blog/openai-api/

😴 😴 😴 😴 😴 😴

Well, you can change your fucking project name for a start #openai #gpt3