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 saw a good short video about tea that explained something key about commodity production. in china, they said, tea is loose leaf and local, you may have a personal relationship with the tea grower. in the west, tea is usually ground up and uniform. the latter is not "more efficient", but turns tea into something that is better suited for commodity production: something uniform, anonymous, easily exchanged read and reviewed low tech magazine's "heating people, not spaces" https://alexw.nyc/blog/2024-02-01-lowtech.html redesigned my website (no more build script, just raw html) https://alexw.nyc/ Introductory post: https://alexw.nyc/blog/2024-01-06.html  @aw nice! don’t want to lead you into another endless hole, but have you thought about Server Side Includes? Under used low tech IMO! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes#Examples You could have an include with the HTML until the title tag, then write out the title after that. Continue with another include until <article> begins. End with an include that goes from </article> to the end of the the document (footer etc). we have controller on uxn5 probably have written more js in the last few days than I ever have in my life prior lol  @aw very nice! I'm hoping we can hook in @remko's wasm core and see what sort of speedup we get :)  Any NY/east coast folks going to strange loop? I’ll be taking a train from nyc and it’d be fun if anyone is able to join! Wrote briefly about building web services with closed signups
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branch for dusk OS featuring a sort of llvm-like assembly layer was merged today. very good and cool there has been renewed interest in activitypub, some folks may be interested in the work I did with https://github.com/alexwennerberg/gourami Thinking about the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse "To a forth programmer, if a problem is worth doing on a computer at all, it is worth doing on a computer well" (starting forth) really enjoying experimenting with forth via http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/uf/uf.html Slack is valued at $27 billion. Imagine if that much $ was spent on open communication protocols instead. People have legitimate criticisms of FOSS, but relative to the amount of money and engineer energy spent on FOSS vs big tech, FOSS is orders of magnitude more effective. The problem is there exist only relatively weak and broke institutions building software explicitly for a holistic vision of the public good.  |
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kohei saito says the same can be said about coal. capitalism's interest in coal being not primarily its productive capability, but rather its nature being well-suited to commodity production and exchange (in a way that, say, watermills are not -- they are rooted, without cost, and unexchangeable)