Email is often fingered as a key factor in the lamentable perpetual accessibility characterizing modern American communication. But it isn’t. It allows you to respond when you’re ready to do so. In fact, sometimes not responding to email in a timely fashion can give the impression that you’re already busy doing other things. Which helps create the space that introverts need.
Anyone who knows me, knows how much this, and the rest of this article, resonates with me.
Also, this part is perfect:
For introverts like myself, it takes energy to engage with other people. Doing so requires thoughtfulness. It’s tiring. Expending energy, for us, isn’t energizing. Please note: we’re not talking about shyness, some character flaw. The problem isn’t with the introvert — it’s with the demands you make on the introvert. An introvert can’t force an extrovert to sit quietly in a room and read a book, but extroverts (and the stigmas they’ve inadvertently created) can impose social demands with ease.
Exactly. Try being an introvert married to an extrovert as I am.
( via Boing Boing)
July 2011
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MacBook Airs using SSDs from both Toshiba and Samsung | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
I think this is the relevant part of this whole samsung/toshiba SSD thing;
Does it matter in real life? It would seem like the answer is “no”.
(via streakmachine)
Dutch journalist dude just now
In case you’re wondering how y’all’s shenanigans are being explained in other countries.
(via haguenite)
That’s how a lot of us view it too. I’m doing my best to screw my eyes shut, cover my ears, and shout LALALALALALALLA so I don’t go into Terminal Panic Mode.
(via traitorous)
^^^^That. Because honestly? There’s not a lot we can do. The people blocking any efforts at compromise do not give a fuck what we think, and all the letters/emails/faxes in the world aren’t going to change that.
(via lost-in-norn-iron)
Both sides have this wrong.
To those on the right, this is not the time to do this. If you didn’t like how the money was being spent, the time to make your voice heard was in the budget process. When you passed the budget, you knew that the US was going to have to raise the debt limit. If all of a sudden you got religion and want to change the budget after the fact, you’ll have your chance in a couple of months.
To those on the left, why aren’t you calling the right out on this? Why are you letting them pretend that “debt limit” time is the right time to change the budget and playing along with them ?
Ola (via youmightfindyourself)
I really like this quote. The more I read it, the more I wish I had heard it, or something very like it, back in 2001.
(via spytap)
Top 10 reasons why you are bitching about the scroll direction in Lion:
- You’re retarded.
- You’re bored and an attention whore.
- You’re single and haven’t been laid in over a year.
- You needed something to blog about while waiting for Lion to download.
- You’re a PC user that just switched to a Mac.
- You just hate scrolling, period.
- You’re old and you hate change.
- You don’t own a Magic Trackpad.
- You work for Adobe and realized nothing you created works on Lion anymore.
- And the number one reason you would be bitching about the scroll direction in Lion is because you’re Eric Schmidt and you wish you thought of if first.
doesn’t take long to get used to, but it takes about 2 weeks for it to become “natural” (you never try to scroll the old way first). the best way to do this is total immersion - reverse the scroll on every machine you have — versions for Leopard and Snow Leopard and Windows.
Life’s Too Short to Go With the Flow
By: Ricky Gervais
Posted: 7/12/11 09:46 PM ET, Huffington Post
So it’s 10 years since The Office launched into the world.
And 50 since I did.
How the fuck did that happen?
The 20 year-old on…
From what I understand, in the name of de-duplication (if multiple users upload the same file, only one copy will be kept), Dropbox will store only one copy of any 4MB chunk that has the same SHA256 hash.
This is a recipe for disaster. Mathematically, once you hit 32 characters, you start running the risk of hash collisions (two DIFFERENT files with the same hash). The math is = there are 256^32 possible files containing 32 bytes of binary data (encrypted, binary data, etc), which happens to be the number of unique hashes that SHA256 can produce = 2^256 (try it - they are the same 78 digit number).
So, once you hit length 33, you are guaranteed that there will be a potential collision with another file with the same length (not to mention collisions with files of a different length) — and Dropbox will only store one of your files. This means that either “Dropbox kept your version of the file and when the other person downloads the file, they will see your file” or “Dropbox kept their file and you get to see the other person’s file (but your file - or piece of your file - is lost forever)”. I don’t like either scenario.
Now, this is just mathematics at this point. Whether you will see this actually happen in Dropbox depends on how lucky you are. At the 33-byte level, it is very unlikely that two files will have the same hash, BUT MATHEMATICALLY POSSIBLE. However, at the 4MB chunk level (iso files, videos, lossless MP3s, etc), for any given 4MB chunk, there are 131,071 other chunks with the exact same hash. Boggles the mind.
So, you’ve got to ask yourself one question - do you feel lucky? The more files you upload, and the larger the files are, the larger the odds against you. Eventually, you will lose files. Some of the other topics in the Dropbox forums that talk about data loss may already be victims.
This past weekend me and my wife were out looking around in an home electronics store, something we do from time to time just to see if anything interesting has come out on the market. Reading about something is one thing while seeing it in reality is a whole different ball-game. Specially when it…
“In short, Representative Paul has produced a very creative plan that has two enormously helpful outcomes. The first one is that the destruction of the Fed’s $1.6 trillion in bond holdings immediately gives us plenty of borrowing capacity under the current debt ceiling. The second benefit is that it will substantially reduce the government’s interest burden over the coming decades. This is a proposal that deserves serious consideration, even from people who may not like its source.”
I’m very curious to see how this idea is received.
