https://modfoss.com/ - a blog by me, a person and a programmer! I don't know about great, but I try :)
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The code is all open source, at https://github.com/symkat/BlogDB/ and I wrote an article on my own blog about initially writing the software from design to deployment: https://modfoss.com/building-blogdb.html
I built BlogDB to make it easier for me to follow blogs I enjoy and discover new ones. The idea was inspired by conversations I’ve heard here.
I documented the initial design and coding at https://modfoss.com/building-blogdb.html and have open sourced the code, you can find it at https://github.com/symkat/BlogDB/
The independent people who are self-employed are already doing what they enjoy and their enjoyment results in other people getting their hair done. Doing hair for play, as opposed to doing it for a profit. The will of the person doing the hair is within their own agency and an expression of what they want to be doing and is self-fulfilling.
So you can style hair, and be self-fulfilled in doing it. You can take a scholarly approach and make better techniques for doing hair, create solutions to problems with hair, and you can share these things with others, and improve the society-level understanding of styling hair.
Take someone else who really needs to have an apartment to live in, and food on the table, and this is what they are trying to solve. They have a hair salon close by and they go get a job there, they trade their time and collect a wage to pay for the apartment. They are styling hair now to meet their basic needs, not as the fulfillment of their own self. This, I think, is the problem Anti-Work is pointing out.
That what you spend the majority of your life on, ought to be something which is an expression of yourself and a manifestation of your will, rather than an expression of someone else's business interest and a manifestation of your boss's will through you.
> That only works if everyone knows who that "one in ten thousand" person is, and does everything that they can to support that person, so that they don't have to spend all of their time doing the things that we would have to do individually
I suppose the counter idea here is that if everyone is fulfilling their own personal will and is within their own agency, the will of society itself will align to take care of everyone. It isn't that 1 in 10,000 people is special and should be given all of this extra support to do something that becomes massively beneficial, it's that if all needs are met, tens of thousands of people are now working on what they are interested in, rather than fulfilling other people's will, and you have far more of those 1-10,000 people actually doing massively beneficial things to improve society even further.
I think the advantage of the mind map is using it as a tool to explore things I'm not entirely sure about and get more depth on them. Like in my examples, I choose Goals and Obligations as things I had used mind mapping for exploring. Once I have some of them written on the whiteboard, more like items start to come to mind that might not otherwise. I might also be conflating the value of any of the elements of this -- pacing in front of the whiteboard, it being a more physical representation by being big and hand-drawn, that it starts to look a bit like a puzzle. Then it starts to present all of these questions. Like after mapping out what my obligations were, it made sense to ask, "well, why?", and then tie those to core reasons, which started to get into agreements, which then made me think about agreements. Why do we form agreements? In a way, I suppose it's giving me space to go on a somewhat controlled and documented deep dive into my thoughts.
Mind maps help me realize things. I use a conference room whiteboard rather than an app.
Starting with asking a question as the root node like "Goals?" and then putting goals around that, and then from those goals, things I'd need to do to accomplish them. "Obligations?" and writing out various people/places/things I have obligations to, and then next what it means to fulfill those obligations.
Being able to look at it all on the whiteboard and pace around a bit seems to be very useful for me. This type of thing helps me sort things out and frequently I have realizations during it that make things more clear.
I mostly do project planning in outlines, but sometimes I will break out the whiteboard. Sometimes those are mind maps and will make me see missing pieces; frequently, I suppose they're diagrams and may not count.
Stop looking at it as competing with others and compete with yourself instead?
It sounds, to me, like the voice synthesisers that come on the OS, and I can't tell any actual difference? All of them sound fake and generated and if I focus on it to think about why, the parts that always seem wrong to me are the space connecting the words, word to word there seems to be no connection in the inflection, such that there is no consistent flow in it. Maybe I don't have the right words to describe this.
I made this simple webapp and documented the process so I could share how I build webapps in Perl.
The whole process I wrote up here: https://modfoss.com/building-house-new-wire.html and all of the code is on GitHub here: https://github.com/symkat/HouseNewsWire/
Thanks for looking, I hope this is also useful for others. =)
Probably https://remarkable.com/
I find that I do some pretty cool stuff and then totally forget how I did it a year or 5 years later, mostly with coding. The open source projects I documented and explained are things I myself google to help me set them up in the future, so a way of codifying my knowledge has been to try to write about it and put that in public.
I set up development environments for myself a lot, so I wrote an article about how I do it https://modfoss.com/creating-my-development-environment.html and then put the code on GitHub as well https://github.com/symkat/modfoss_devel So if I don't do it for a while, I'll have a starting point and me-from-the-past explaining what I did and why.
https://github.com/greehost has most of the code, it's hosting http://greehost.org/en/design/components/ currently.
I'm working on the user panel now, but most of the "Run a builder of some sort, move assets to locations to serve" for static stuff is done; containers for application hosting itself hasn't been started yet.
The difference over something like AOL is that IRC is more open. Anyone can run an IRC server, so there was a lot of niche irc networks.
https://freenode.net/ is a popular IRC server for various open source communities.
Still seems relevant.
I make a spreadsheet called 'Budget YYYY', typically some time between October and December I make the next year's version, and then these for each month.
The control panel tracks income, where it goes, what was budgeted and what was actually spent.
The Credit Card Balance sheets I use twice a month to get all balances, prompt me to review all statements, and mark all of that off. It’s self-contained and doesn’t impact the rest of the budget.
Income this period gets money added in when I get it.
For spending, I track a couple of categories:
- Yearly / Bi-Annual Bills: Anything that happens not monthly. Domain registrations, car insurance, etc.
- Variable recurring bills: things that I have to pay, but don’t know how much they will be. Electric bill, water bill, etc. I rough-estimate these, and the longer I’ve lived at a place the more accurate I get.
- Static Recurring Bills: Things that are the same every month. Rent, subscription services,
- Grocery Expenses: Anything related to grocery shopping for food / household supplies.
- Restaurants: I explicitly break restaurants out into its own category to better let me see how much money I spend eating out, this is new this year.
- Travel Expenses: When I travel for work, I track things here, and then track the reimbursement.
- Other: Random spending money.
Then for savings I have boxes for:
Savings Account Deposits: I keep a number of savings account set aside for specific purposes, I record deposits into them here.
Savings Account Withdrawls: If I’m using extra money this month for something, I add it as income, and then debt it as a savings account withdrawl. For example, Christmas I made a withdrawal for money from savings, then added it as income, then recording the items bought under “Other”.
Are you sure?
100% of riders, for all rides they take, would choose to use a car if they could not use ride sharing?
Absolutely none would walk, ride a bike, take a bus, take a train, choose not to go?
I have a hard time believing that it's purely a "car I have access to or a ride share," 100% of the time. So I believe some amount of rides are happening that would not have people driving.
Of the drivers for ride sharing, there is some amount of time between trips that they are simply waiting for the next customer. This is time they wouldn't be on the road if they were not driving, and time the person who is using the ride sharing wouldn't be on the road either. So, I also believe that drivers must be on the road more often than the sum of the time they've kept other people from driving.
If drivers are on the road more with ride sharing, and if less than 100% of people using the ride sharing service would choose a method of transport other than a car, I cannot see how ride sharing wouldn't strictly require an increase in traffic?
1 - $5 linode/digital ocean machines at different locations (CA, TX, NJ, London, wherever you want the things)
These machines would run probably Nginx serving static up static content. They'd get this data pushed to them over something like rsync/scp from a central place.
It would answer for the same domains, with the same content at each location.
2 - DNS Route53 / GeoDNS / Round-Robin
Servers in all those locations are cool, but we want to get users close to them. I think Route53 does GeoIP DNS - routing users to the geographically closer machine.
3 - $10/$20 Linode at a central location for build/deploy.
I'd probably look at Drone.io as the thing to take gitrepos and then build the website. This could handle JAM stack stuff pretty easily. Once it has the artifacts created, you ship them off to the linodes in step one to be served.
This is kind of the broad view of where I would start for technologies to help with that kind of thing. Then comes a lot of glue and programs to make it easier to use.
The form submission stuff they made seems pretty cool. You could make something that scans the artifacts looking for forms with a given data attribute, and when you find them build a data model to match and stuff in a POST address. Making that would be really fun.
I hope this helps, I also dig this kind of stuff =)
The thought side of a crime, or the intent is mens rea, while the action of that crime is actus rea.
Normally in a crime both factor into the decision. For instance, should you murder somebody you committed the act of murder. What you intended or thought about before or during is the intent side or the mens rea part. Planned and murdered is a different charge than accidentally killed somebody.
So suppose we say the bar for murder is mens rea of "acting knowingly", and the act of the victim dying by your direction action.
But, manslaughter is mens rea of "acting with negligence", and the act of the victim dying by your direction action.
These are in effect two different crimes. The difference between them is what your intention was. If you want certain classes of murder you have to prove premeditated intent, because it's a part of the crime.
Now, strict liability says, "Mens rea does not matter here, it is not a part of the definition of this crime." What you thought or intended is simply not a part of what the court is there to consider.
The court is only there to consider is the action was done by you, and if so, you are guilty.
Edit: The handicap and small child, as far as I understand are not protected from being prosecuted in a strict liability charge in a court, but are simply less likely to make their way to a court.
In criminal law, strict liability is generally limited to minor offenses. Criminal law classifies strict liability as one of five possible mentes reae (mental states) that a defendant may have in pursuit of the crime. The other four are "acting knowingly," "acting purposely," "acting with recklessness," and "acting with negligence." The mens rea of strict liability typically results in more lenient punishments than the other four mentes reae. Typically in criminal law, the defendant's awareness of what he is doing would not negate a strict liability mens rea (for example, being in possession of drugs will typically result in criminal liability, regardless of whether the defendant knows that he is in possession of the drugs)."
"In the social sciences, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods, or services of a communal nature do not pay for them.[1] Free riders are a problem because while not paying for the good, they may continue to access it. Thus, the good may be under-produced, overused or degraded"[0]