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I spent a lot of time trying to add parts to a song that was probably perfectly fine. Good lord, I do not have time to waste this week. Making music is really satisfying, but it's hard for me to detect when I've crossed over into pure woodshedding.
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Well, we got back from out trip last night. Actually one of the least stressful family visits yet!
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Power
NPM will intervene to make sure that the interests of companies are protected. The open source license that took a political stand is reverted to one that’s loose and company-friendly. The message is clear: keep working for free. Don’t quit: that would be irresponsible. Don’t protest: that’s disruptive. Your power, your control of your work, will disappear if you try to use it.
Open source is another example of how our current capitalism often doesn't actually reward the producers of actual value. -
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Had one of those discussions with my dad, in which I try to explain that certain core assumptions about how people work are no longer true, hence all of this Trump stuff. I brought up flat earthers while trying to explain how education does not matter as much as we thought it does with regard to respecting reason and the scientific method. There has been a huge increase in the number of flat earthers, but it's frustratingly hard to nail down how many there are.
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iOS caching is the worst.
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Hey!
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Test
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Currently reading Weapons of Math Destruction. The section on the US News and World Report college rankings was unexpected but fits in really well. This magazine came up with this shoddy, proxy-based model that produced numbers that people accepted as the value of a college. Then, colleges were (more or less) forced to fit to the model to get a higher score, whether it actually helped or not.
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I had a dream last night that the S&P 500 lost 90% of its value overnight. I wonder if this is because I have anxiety about retirement/college/nursing home planning.
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I don't know if he'd agree, but I think Stephen P. Sandford looks amazing like this.
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30 minutes after me telling the guy that the orange line track was on fire Friday: [Bursts forth from room] "Dad, Dinosaur School is on fire!"
5 minutes after that: "Bad news! The Lego train tunnel is on fire!" -
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39 minutes to get from North Quincy to Davis.
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There's microbes that can directly absorb electrons. I think they then use them to make hydrogen? I'm not clear on that. Still very cool. Via Hot Garbage.