Nix is so oasch wie der Sommer in Wien.
Das Bild als angeblich „grünste Stadt der Welt“ grenzt an Selbstbetrug. Denn tatsächlich leidet der Großteil der Bevölkerung an einem schweren Mangel von Grünflächen in unmittelbarer Nähe ihrer Wohnung. Ja, die Wiener Stadtfläche mag auf dem Papier zu einem sehr hohen Prozentsatz aus Grünflächen bestehen. Nun umfasst aber diese Stadtfläche aber erstens einen beträchtlichen Teil des Wienerwaldes, und zweitens sind die Parks in der Stadt überaus ungleich verteilt.
The Languages Which Almost Became CSS.
@BODY fo(fa=he,si=18)
Single Page Applications using Rust.
Since Rust compiles to wasm, is it possible to build SPAs (Single Page Applications) purely in Rust and without writing a single line of JavaScript? The short answer is YES!
Australian magpies have seagull heads as beaks.
Unacceptable, where is my privacy?
«Alexa» reacts to the words "unacceptable" and "election," while «Google» often triggers to "OK, cool." «Siri» can be fooled by "a city," «Cortana» by "Montana," «Computer» by "Peter," «Amazon» by "and the zone," and «Echo» by "tobacco."
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In the Cells of the Eggplant is an introduction to meta-rationality: ways of using rational systems more effectively by examining their relationships with their surrounds.
You may care about meta-rationality if you want to level up your work in science, engineering, or other fields that make use of formal systems.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Blaise Pascal, Pensées.
Kind of a weird journey.
You May Finally Use JSHint for Evil.
Real experts know what they don’t know and we should value it.
A small but real part of the problem is that reputational incentives to appear qualified and knowledgeable drive experts to overstate their certainty. One way to counter this tendency is to ask better questions, and that usually means questions about the nature of the evidence and what it allows. We can also change the way that we relate to experts, not just listening to the loudest and most confident voices, but to those with a track record of only claiming as far as the evidence will take them, and a willingness to say ‘I don’t know.’
The enterprise of philanthropy does well out of doing good.
Because of their own business backgrounds, billionaires and their foundations insist on cost-benefit calculations, metrics-based accountability and a return on investment for those initiatives they support. Yet there is little transparency or system of governance through which they themselves can be held accountable.