MRS. HOGESON [crying Old Lady Tears] I’m on a fixed income! And if you can’t help me I don’t know what I’ll do! BOB PARR: [Stands up, looks around the cubicle farm. The coast is clear.] Alright. Listen closely. I would like to help you, but I can’t. [Hands her a pen and notepad] BOB…
Category: Mood
Status
Gran brutta malattia la misodemia
Status
Never underestimate the most valuable goods you have: people you care’n’love, people caring and loving you, their and your good health. So go home and embrace your beloved.
Mood
Il 7% è già tanto…
Inaugurata la terza “velostazione”. Metà dei ragazzi usa i mezzi pubblici mentre pedalando si muovono solo in 3.200. Su “La Repubblica” si lamentano che “Al Politecnico solo il 7 per cento degli studenti arriva in aula in bicicletta“. Solo? Così tanti, direi! Il giornalista evidentemente non ha idea da dove arrivino gli studenti del Politecnico.…
Mood
Parf Edhellen: an elvish dictionary
Yesterday I mistranslated “mellon” as “sick” (well, actually “malaticcio” in italian) instead as “friend”. I was so ashamed I had to find it, so I found this:
Mood
Wetware programmer
I’ve been assistant lecturer for courses Structural Design at Politecnico di Milano since 2004. Therefore I often used to pun that I’m actually a wetware programmer. In fact I do really help students learn something, that is, “programming” their brain. Now reading «World’s First Bioprocessor Uses 16 Human Brain Organoids, Consumes Less Power» I learn…
Mood
Nice yet…
Recently I installed an unofficial Linux desktop application for WhatsApp. Yes, I know I should ask people to use free-as-in-freedom instant messaging based on XMPP or Matrix but far too many non technical people can’t be really convinced. I used the nice user interface of Gnome Software. Nice app, yet… it is a little memory…
Mood
It’s worth
Xz may had had a huge trust-related security issue but its performance is still very desiderable: paolo@DietPi:~/Scaricati$ wget –mirror it.aleteia.org paolo@DietPi:~/Scaricati$ du -sch it.aleteia.org/; time tar -acf ~/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz it.aleteia.org/; du -h ~/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz<br>37G it.aleteia.org/<br>37G totale real 614m8,594s<br>user 469m26,287s<br>sys 15m33,329s<br>1,6G /home/paolo/archivio/data/Documenti/it.aleteia.org.tar.xz This humble Raspberry Pi 3 may be aging and slow but it’s still useful.
Mood, Proprietary software
Stupid choices
Pretty stupid choices, at least the first. Ok the second is debatable, but the first is just stupid unless you just want to lock-in your user-base.
Ethics, Mood
ἀν + ἀρχός
Più passa il tempo più mi vien voglia di studiare il greco. Per esempio, Il greco antico è davvero una lingua affascinante. Peccato voglia prima imparare il CInese Mandarino, il Francese e il Russo…. 😀 😁