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_uvvkon Scientists who never won a Nobel Prize

People who won both the Nobel and the Oscar:

- George Bernard Shaw - Al Gore - Bob Dylan (also a Pulitzer)

_uvvkon If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

Shameless plug:

I wrote my own blog engine in Python (https://github.com/betodealmeida/nefelibata). It generates static pages, but publishes a snippet to Twitter/Mastodon/etc., linking back to the blog post.

People can only comment on the social media sites, and periodically the comments get scraped and appended to the blog post. Here's an example: https://blog.taoetc.org/mastodon_integration/index.html

This way, people can comment in the other venues where they're used to, and comments get persisted past the lifetime of these venues.

_uvvkon The XY Problem (2014)

> "I'm not interested in Go, I'm interested in the power of future computers!"

Reminded me of this story. I told a co-worker, while we worked on our DB:

  - I wish we had the money to run Oracle.
  - Are you crazy? Postgres is awesome and perfect for us!
  - I know. I'm not saying "I wish we were running Oracle". I just wanted to have the money to do that. :)

_uvvkon Bitwig Studio 3: Enter The Grid.

There's also Ardour, which I use after starting in Ableton and going through Bitwig. I love Bitwig and its modular approach, but I really wanted to make music with open source software.