1. Corona Virus Diary, Part 108

    Just recently, we had "Daylight Savings Time" something-something in California. I heard at least one person complain about software problems with this. The quantification of time remains a complex issue that you probably shouldn't ever try to write software for yourself unless you are a specialist with a deep understanding …

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  2. Written Communication, 2021

    What follows is an analysis on various forms of written communication and how to make these tools useful to you. Choose the right (write? har har) tool for the right job!

    What is available

    Most modern people make frequent use of at least a few different tools to do written …

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  3. Corona Virus Diary, Part 107

    Libraries of earlier times were primarily collections of (paper) books. Nowadays, many things which may have been previously stored on paper are found in databases on servers. A "digital transformation" is largely complete.

    There are lots of different sorts of books

    When modern people think of books, people often think …

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  4. Corona Virus Diary, Part 106

    One tool for decision making is casting lots. 1 Often, we aren't sure which of multiple choices is better. So rather than being held back by inaction ("paralysis by analysis"), we can appeal to some random process to give us a decision. I use the word "random" here in the …

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  5. Corona Virus Diary, Part 105

    I've been doing some learning on digital media—graphics, video editing and so on. There's tons of money going into this stuff because we're all being made to interface with the world through what academics call Computer Mediated Communication.

    There's some more spooky angles to this—people in developed countries …

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  7. Law and Code, Impersonal systems

    Today I thought a bit about software licensing mostly in simple human terms—I was thinking about this considering the fact that all widely used pieces of software will contain software licenses in their source code. In what ways can we understand "law as code"?

    Nerds just wanna coooooooooode

    I …

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  9. Corona Virus Diary, Part 103

    You may have heard that it is often better to start slow and learn correctly first rather than jumping to (overly) advanced learning. How is it that we find out what it is to learn correctly? In modern times, sometimes this is tricky.

    With respect to technology stuff, there are …

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  10. Corona Virus Diary, Part 102

    Just a little rant on tooling today. I've been returning to some UNIX learning stuff, which has me again studying the problem of "personal computing" generally. As modern people, what relationship do we have with computers?

    The tools we have affect how we approach problems. Windows is very corporate (as …

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