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#рубрика_прекрасное ∙ #now_this_is_awesome - urbansheep@gmail.com

“It's a story as old as, well, the Internet. A woman is a video game journalist. She receives rape and death threats. The end. But in a delightful new take on the old story, said video game journalist has reached out to the mothers of her harassers, just to let them know what their sons are up to.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Старая добрая ремнетерапия наносит много ответных ударов по филейным частям преследователей. - темноводное

А наутро взрослые ему сообщили, что «барабан куда-то пропал». I can relate. - urbansheep@gmail.com

— Прочитай, что в итоге получилось? — Ничего. Бессмысленный набор букв. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Брендинг-шмендинг. - urbansheep@gmail.com

"I’m writing this post freshly after a single restore of 370 gigabytes of database that took almost a week of wrestling with broken storage, incomplete archives, interrupted transfers, stuck communication, and — most of all — Waiting for Stuff to Complete, for hours and hours. In fact, much of this post has been written during the Waiting. Many of the issues I have wrestled with were caused by mistakes on my side: misconfiguration, insufficient monitoring that should have detected issues earlier, and the fact that over last month I was not able to pay enough attention to the day-to-day maintenance, which allowed the suckage to accumulate. At the same time, the software systems should automate out the common parts, make it easy to get things right, and be easy debug when they aren’t. All of the backup systems I’ve ever used or seen fails miserably at two or more out of these three points. But let’s start from the beginning." - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The point of all this is that when it comes to letters of extortion, attackers can actually be quite effective in carrying out their threats. They can destroy businesses to that extent that a Bitcoin or two to keep it alive suddenly doesn't seem like such a bad deal and that’s enormously worrying. But the spate of extortion we’ve seen this year goes well beyond mere threats to damage the victim’s business, increasingly the attacker already owns the target and now they’re talking ransom.” • #безжалостный_постмодернизм - urbansheep@gmail.com

“I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I'm a prisoner in my own apartment. Second, worse, I am out of cat food, and in consequence my beloved companion Squee has, under the duress of feline starvation, started a brutal ankle-biting campaign. I do not blame him. For Squee, bless his tortoiseshell heart, is a Cat Most Special with Issues of Digestion, and, to maintain his sleek coat and sterling disposition, must only ever eat cat food of great expense, and I am out of it. Simple, you say! Just buy some food! But I cannot leave this abode for fear of missing the sofa. Also: The very smallest bag of said food is a full eighteen ounces too heavy for micro-delivery, which means hand-delivery on a major surge day. And so I have to spend All The Money to get cat food hand-Ubered or risk not obtaining my sofa. My ankles are suffering, friends. I look forward to the healing balm of your supportive replies.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

О роли краткости в семье таланта. - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Кракен российской экономики» is not a valid display name. ( - urbansheep@gmail.com

Про гипотезу о влиянии недостатка кислорода на уровни серотонина и допамина в мозгу. И интересно параллелится с альпинистским пристрастием к горам. #схватил_за_мозг - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Это уничтожение истории. История перестает существовать как время, отличное от нас и от наших интересов. Смысл исторического знания в том, что люди по-разному думали в разные эпохи, преследовали разные цели, ими двигали разные мотивы, они были отличны от нас. Ровно этот урок инаковости важен и полезен — ровно для этого люди изучают историю: «Батюшки, вон как оно бывает, может, и нам когда-нибудь пригодится». Если мы историю уничтожаем и говорим, что во все времена были олигархи, во все времена злодеи боролись с православием, не возникает опыта. Выставка преобразует сложную историческую ткань в простую лубочную картинку, которая не годится для воспитания современного сложного человека». - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Замечательно, в 3D-реконструкции средневековых русских крепостей нет города, детинец стоит прямо посреди леса. Где второй ряд новгородских стен, третий ряд валов, где огромные новгородские концы, посад, где люди, строившие крепость?! Они в лесу, что ли, жили? Хотя на самом деле это, конечно, очень символично. В русской истории есть Кремль, где князь и митрополит, а народа нет. Крепость без посада ведь не имеет никакого смысла. Вы представляете, как все уставлено посадскими храмами на другой стороне Волхова в Новгороде? А здесь голый лес. Очень характерно». - urbansheep@gmail.com

А ТКС в новой версии приложения сделал отправку кодов через пуш-сообщения (что логично с точки зрения удобства и ненависти к опсосам, но немного beats the purpose двухфактора, если ты в аппе и в него же получаешь пуши). Но хоть так. - urbansheep@gmail.com

"Please do not let it be lost that Lewis did not come out an tell you who owns the tower with FCC License No. 1215095; he wanted you to care enough to find out yourselves. Change will come only if you care enough to dig, and talk, and be vocal. Powerful." - urbansheep@gmail.com

ФЦП «Больше заботы, иначе будет хуже». - urbansheep@gmail.com

Скоро будет так http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/kamerza... - По кофе и спать

Такие дела. - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Нам бы ваши проблемы.» - flamebait generator

“Growing up in Soviet Ukraine in the 1980s, Whatsapp founder Jan Koum learned to distrust the government and detest its surveillance. After he emigrated to the U.S. and created his ultra-popular messaging system decades later, he vowed that Whatsapp would never make eavesdropping easy for anyone. Now, Whatsapp is following through on that anti-snooping promise at an unprecedented scale.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

Кстати Ян только что пожертвовал лимон FreeBSD http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014... - eugenio

Sony had previously announced in 2012 that its new sensors would support HDR for video recording, but not for still images. The new IMX230 sensor supports both, and it's also able to capture HDR stills at the sensor's full 21 MP. Perhaps the most impressive part about this new sensor and its image processing capabilities is that it can shoot 4k video in HDR in real-time. The sensor also supports 1080p@60fps smooth recording and 720p@120fps slow-motion recording. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Сенсор для 6s, похоже. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Шутка про проценты искренности. - urbansheep@gmail.com

(Называется «загадочный троллейбус», но мы-то знаем, что это за троллейбус.) • #музыкальная_шкатулка - urbansheep@gmail.com

"Computer scientists have developed software that not only detects and eradicates never-before-seen viruses and other malware, but also automatically repairs damage caused by them. The software then prevents the invader from ever infecting the computer again." • #будущее_прекрасно ∙ #технологические_прорывы - urbansheep@gmail.com

во-первых, opensource! во-вторых, пора знакомиться с Антоном Бурцевым: https://www.flux.utah.edu/project... - eugenio

“In The Zen Teachings of Homeless Kodo, three generations of dharma teachers grapple with the social and technological changes they witnessed in Japan over the course of their respective lifetimes. Kodo Sawaki, the eponymous "Homeless Kodo," first brought Soto Zen Buddhism out of the monasteries and into the streets during the early 1900s. His dharma heir, Kosho Uchiyama, continued this tradition during the latter half of that century. Now Shohaku Okamura, the title's translator and last commentator, applies the wisdom of his forebears to our present day.—Ed.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

The Crimea of Human Advancement - тополиный сережка

"Human beings are idiots. " - кактусовый марокканский

"Pantone, the color swatch company which has influenced fashion and design for decades, has expanded into hospitality in 2010 with the Pantone Hotel in Brussels. These photos were totally new to us, and we just had to share them with you. ¶ At this Belgian designers' paradise, guests immerse themselves in a realm of bright, minimalist colors like 520 C, 230 C and 377 C. Designed by architect Olivier Hannaert and decorated by interior designer Michel Penneman, the hotel features seven color palettes spread over 59 rooms. Belgian photographer Victor Levy created Pantone-hued photographs to go along with the color scheme of each room. There is a Pantone roof terrace, Pantone meeting rooms, Pantone bicycles and even Pantone coffee mugs to sip during breakfast. It is truly a Pantone paradise." - urbansheep@gmail.com

Старый знакомый жанр фотографии, эгегей — теперь #звёздные_войны в хипстерском ЧБ! - urbansheep@gmail.com

“There was the author, Chad Harbach, who had spent a decade on a novel his friends thought he’d never finish. There was the agent, Chris Parris-Lamb, who recognized its power. There was the editor, Little, Brown’s Michael Pietsch, who won it in a high-stakes auction. With the story of one book, The Art of Fielding Keith Gessen examines the state of the troubled, confused, and ever unpredictable world of U.S. book publishing in the age of Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and e-readers.” • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

Ммм, Эмма Стоун :) - тополиный сережка

Как что-то сделать, когда никак. - urbansheep@gmail.com

10 предложений — как это делается: (а) писать любые связные фразы, неважно про что и какие, (б) к внутреннему критику относиться, как к отвлечениям во время медитации, (в) вообще подойти к вопросу как к медитации. - urbansheep@gmail.com

RT @otisframpton: Stephen King says the way he writes is "one word at a time." That aphorism feels very true as I continually update my @NaNoWriMo webpage. - urbansheep@gmail.com

“This is a letter from Arthur C. Clarke, the famous sci-fi author. And besides suggesting communications satellites, he notes that you could put three satellites up in the air and use them to plot your position anywhere on earth using something the size of a watch. ¶ It’s from 1956, a year before Sputnik went up. And it turns out that Clarke had proposed a version of this in 1945. ¶ Now the model is somewhat different than the APL version as we’ll see later — in APL they were using doppler shift with Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. Clarke’s idea involves geostationary satellites in a high earth orbit. ¶ So I’m not saying that Clarke had the full idea here. ¶ Still, nowhere in the history can I find any indication that the people working on this had heard of Clarke’s idea — an idea he had had since WWII. ¶ And ultimately, even if they had, this is just one idea among thousands that never saw the light of day. This is the one where we have a record. Who knows how many other ideas about satellite aided GPS were never captured anywhere?” • #стайность - urbansheep@gmail.com

"Rejoice, people! Totem is back. Next Thursday, design studio Ustwo will release Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores. It’s not a sequel to the immensely popular (and rewarding) iOS game, but rather an expansion of the world you’ve already gotten to know. Eight new levels will be available as an in-app purchase for $1.99. Conceptually, these levels aren’t tacked onto the end of the game, but inserted between the penultimate and final levels of the original. But most importantly: They provide a deeper dive into the emotional story of Ida and her amiable friend, the totem." • #проигры - urbansheep@gmail.com

Ура! - кукуникулы

MC? - Sasha Rakovets

ГГ. В смысле — главный герой, main character, протагонист. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Ещё одна история про «сон из двух частей» — “My own night-waking confirms this difference between night- and day‑waking; my night brain definitely feels more dreamlike. When dreaming, our minds create imagery from memories, hopes and fears. And in the dead of night, drowsy brains can conjure up new ideas from the debris of dreams and apply them to our creative pursuits. In the essay ‘Sleep We Have Lost’ (2001), Ekirch wrote that many had probably been immersed in dreams moments before waking up from the first of the two sleeps, ‘thereby affording fresh visions to absorb before returning to unconsciousness. Unless distracted by noise, sickness, or some other discomfort, their mood was probably relaxed and their concentration complete’.” • #схватил_за_мозг - urbansheep@gmail.com

#четыре_утра - urbansheep@gmail.com

я просто оставлю это здесь http://macfreedom.com/ (и немедленно вышел) - тополиный сережка

Пять старушек - рупь #извинити - Nazer

...only try to realize the truth: there's no tomorrow. - 9000

o_O - mindszenty

“Don't get greedy boys and girls. This could happen to you too.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

^ adequate cooling is key for intense computing! - 9000

“Meet Reedsy, a new startup that wants to unbundle the good old publishing company and provide all the services you need to self publish a book. As an author, writing the first draft is only the first step. You will need to work with an editor, copy editor and cover illustrator to turn your draft into a book. We already covered Reedsy’s big plans, and the startup is now open for business.” • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

"The startup targets serious writers who are willing to spend a few thousand dollars to polish their work." -- serious business! - Maхx Tee

“Marking pages for future reading predates browsers and the web. In fact, the practice is much older even than printed books. This post introduces various ways in which monks and other medieval readers kept track of the page at which they had stopped reading – and from which they planned to continue in the near future. What tools were available for this purpose? And how did these differ from one another? Apart from addressing these two queries, this post also reports on a genuine discovery: a new specimen of a rare but particularly smart type of bookmark, which I found in my own University Library here in Leiden. Cleverly, and unlike our modern equivalent, the bookmark in question showed medieval readers not only at what page they had stopped reading, but also in which text column and line they had left off.” • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

Also: http://erikkwakkel.tumblr.com/ — тамблер его же. - urbansheep@gmail.com

"The research team combined two kinds of noninvasive instruments and fine-tuned software to connect two human brains in real time. The process is fairly straightforward. One participant is hooked to an electroencephalography machine that reads brain activity and sends electrical pulses via the Web to the second participant, who is wearing a swim cap with a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil placed near the part of the brain that controls hand movements. ¶ Using this setup, one person can send a command to move the hand of the other by simply thinking about that hand movement." • #схватил_за_мозг - urbansheep@gmail.com

“The project could also eventually lead to “brain tutoring,” in which knowledge is transferred directly from the brain of a teacher to a student.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

«В книге профессора Калифорнийского университета в Беркли Алексея Юрчака «Это было навсегда, пока не кончилось» слово «нефть» не употребляется ни разу; вынесенный в заглавие парадокс — как система, казавшаяся вечной, могла рухнуть за три года, если не дня, — объясняется не через цену за баррель, без апелляций к гонке вооружений, Афганской войне, конкуренции двух супердержав, безотносительно к Рейгану, Тэтчер, Бжезинскому и прочим внешним врагам. На протяжении почти что шестисот страниц Юрчак подробнейше исследует, как советские люди постепенно и незаметно выходили из-под нормативов этой системы, создавали смыслы, языки, образы жизни, системе неподконтрольные, так что к концу 1980-х от системы осталась только оболочка из мертвых догм, а поставленный во время перестройки вопрос «Зачем они вообще нужны, какое отношение они имеют к реальной жизни?» уничтожил и эту иллюзорную скрепу». • #прокниги - urbansheep@gmail.com

Последуем же ему. - urbansheep@gmail.com

Что-то вроде полнолуния резко проявилось еще неделю назад, так что я уже давно затаилась и с интересом наблюдаю. - vezunchik

“Neuroscience seems like a hot topic, but a series of interviews with members of the public finds that they see brain science as largely irrelevant to their lives.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“Now there’s even more evidence that the neuro-revolution is on hold. Cliodhna O’Connor and Helene Joffe at UCL in London have just published in-depth interviews with 48 members of the British public and their main finding is that people mostly feel that neuroscience is irrelevant to them. ¶ The researchers recruited a socially diverse sample balanced by age and gender. Half read tabloid newspapers, the others read broadsheets. None had any formal education in psychology or neuroscience. The participants were interviewed for about half an hour about what ideas came to mind when they thought of brain research.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

“Doug Menuez spent 15 years in the middle of what many call the golden era of Silicon Valley. Between 1985 and 2000, he had unparalleled access to Steve Jobs, Steve Capps, and 70 other people and companies, including Adobe and NeXT. His amazing archive of images comprise one of the richest records of this seminal moment in American and technological history.” - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Если вас здесь нет, то вы либо не присоединились к российскому региону, или вообще не принимаете участия. Позор, позор». Так как для «Всей России» нужен отдельный логин-пароль, который я пока не выпросил у @lookinglaz. - urbansheep@gmail.com

80 тысяч слов за день! Расходимся, пацаны. - тополиный сережка

Без паники, такие герои каждый год находятся. ) - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Официальный курс доллара к рублю вырос больше чем на 2,43 руб. и впервые в истории (после деноминации 1998 года) поднялся выше психологически важной отметки 44 руб. С 6 ноября 2014 года курс доллара установлен ЦБ на уровне 44,3993 руб./долл. Выше 43 руб. официальный курс доллара впервые поднялся 30 октября 2014 года» • #рукономика - urbansheep@gmail.com

«Официальный курс евро поднялся сегодня на 2,9 руб.» - urbansheep@gmail.com

"After installation, Chrome users are able to save bookmarks with a click, organize them and use Google’s search technology to find bookmarks that got buried deeply in their collections. The extension also eliminates the need for manual organization, if you choose, as it’s smart enough to organize bookmarks into automatically generated categories based on what you’ve saved." - urbansheep@gmail.com

Currently Chrome-only :( - 9000

Кажется, тем, кто пользуется Pinboard, этот сервис не пригодится? - flamebait generator

"Police in London have tested software designed to identify which gang members are most likely to commit violent crimes. The 20-week pilot study is thought to have been the first of its kind in the UK, although similar experiments have been carried out elsewhere. It used five years worth of historic data, but the idea would be to analyse up-to-date details if it is deployed. Civil liberty campaigners have voiced concerns. But Accenture - the firm that developed the software - highlighted the potential benefit it offered. "You've got limited police resources and you need to target them efficiently," said Muz Janoowalla, head of public safety analytics at the company. "What this does is tell you who are the highest risk individuals that you should target your limited resources against."" - urbansheep@gmail.com

"MetaFilter began in 1999 as a sort of humane proto-Reddit. Why did a site for sharing "best of the web" links become a place where strangers help each other in real life in extraordinary ways?" • #стайность - urbansheep@gmail.com