Sunday, October 6, 2019

Sunday Assorted Links 2019-10-06

https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
I love keyboards and I love auction theory and this link has both!

https://www.eidel.io/2019/04/24/making-my-own-glasses/
Know thyself.

https://qz.com/1721901/hong-kong-anti-mask-law-a-history-of-mask-bans-around-the-world/
Masks are about inverting power dynamics.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/10/college-students-dont-want-fancy-libraries/599455/
Books are good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y
Toasters: another thing that's gotten worse.
I will say though that this machine is awesome, and if you need a toaster just forget all the stuff that only toasts bread and get this instead, because it's better at that and it does other stuff (e.g. it reheats pizza like a boss).

https://williamyaoh.com/posts/2019-10-05-you-are-already-smart-enough.html
"...the perception of what tools, libraries, and concepts are important ends up distorted by novelty and excessive cleverness."
Honestly that feels like reason enough to avoid this whole scene.

http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/10/05/nxdomain/
Vendor shit is awful. ISPs are awful. Know how your tools work. It's worth spending extra effort to do things properly.

https://towardsdatascience.com/coding-ml-tools-like-you-code-ml-models-ddba3357eace
This is cool and I want to try it.

https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/17/cloudflare-is-ruining-the-internet-for-me/
American tech companies pretend most of the rest of the world doesn't exist, film at 11.