Latest bookmarks (page 97 of 134)

"“opinion” ranges from tastes or preferences, through views about questions that concern most people such as prudence or politics, to views grounded in technical expertise, such as legal or scientific opinions....The problem is that sometimes we implicitly seem to take opinions of the second and even the third sort to be unarguable in the way questions of taste are."

"Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items."

"In the beginning, life was easy. We had a very limited set of top-level domains: .com, .edu, .gov, ..int, org, .mil, .net, .org, .edu. In addition, we had .arpa for infrastructure use and various two letter country level domains."

"The set of information we have as individuals is often limited and biased. And if you’ve made up your mind based on an incomplete set of evidence, it’s going to be harder to change your mind. This is why we have the enterprise of science"

"To do the work, some Roombas use a creepy little electronic eyeball to create detailed maps of your home. Doomba takes that map and makes it into a level of Hell."

"An entire section of the night sky that includes Orion was photographed rising above Śnieżka, a mountain on the border between Poland and the Czech Republic. The long duration exposure sequence brings up many faint features including the Orion and Flame Nebulas, both encompassed by the curving Barnard's Loop. The featured wide-angle camera composite also captured night sky icons including the blue Pleiades star cluster at the image top and the red Rosette Nebula to the left of Orion. Famous stars in the frame include Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Aldebaran." Photo by Marcin Ślipko

"Locally mirror commenters' Gravatar or Mastodon profile images."
instead of pinging Gravatar on every page load

Jamie Zawinski in 1997, paraphrasing David Tillbrook around 1985, whose quote about AWK was used as a signature by John Myers as early as 1988.

4096 cores, or smooth full-screen video?