Lost knowledge: ropes and knots
"Few realize the importance that knots and cords have played in human history. It is remarkable that they are not even mentioned in otherwise great books on the history of technology."
"Few realize the importance that knots and cords have played in human history. It is remarkable that they are not even mentioned in otherwise great books on the history of technology."
Sam Harris speaks with Gavin de Becker about the primacy of human intuition in the prediction and prevention of violence.
I recently updated my podcast pre-processing script to Python 3.6 & the multiprocessing.Pool module and then a few days later realized the whole thing would be much better as a simple Makefile
The goal is to:
Source:
Prerequisites:
Bob Fass Wait a minute, wait a minute. Before you say goodbye, give us like -- it takes about 20 minutes to trace a call, and you haven't been on the phone with us for three minutes yet.
Suicidal Caller You telling me the truth?
Bob Fass I'm telling you the truth. It takes about 20 minutes to trace a call. I know, because we tried to --
Suicidal Caller Why does it take so long?
Bob Fass Because the telephone company is more messed up than your life is, and they're not about to commit suicide.
This big dumb rocket has a lot going for it. The ocean launch is particularly neat.
"time geography" == life logging
I made a little script that uses Selenium to create a single page containing all the new posts from my Facebook friends.
This lets me see everything that is posted without having to seek it out and wade through the ads and other things Facebook is trying to recommend to me.
The output is currently very rough, but it'll do for now - in particular, it just screenshots the post, rather than trying to extract the content and re-render it.
Boring is quite interesting - how hole-making tools have evolved.
See also https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/