Thomas Peter Berntsen

Entrepreneurship, systems thinking, software, mindtech, greentech, social sciences, ethics, design, making, IoT, data & AI, activism, ACEs. 🖖

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@SwiftOnSecurity The “Turing tarpit” of Brainfuck might be it. https://t.co/sP96RwGJU9

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@boneGPT @Austen I mean, look at the beauty of this thing!

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@boneGPT @Austen That sounds like an upcoming read. 😊 Along those lines, “The Making of Prince of Persia” is phenomenal. https://t.co/I0FtPjp3Xi 

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@Austen “'The Taking Of K-129': How The CIA Stole A Sunken Soviet Sub Off The Ocean Floor” quickly became a page turner for me. Such a wildly fascinating story. https://t.co/pRLcfOCPd9

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@davydog187 @github Agreed. This is a counterintuitive UX and has been for quite a while, and it makes it horribly easy to make a grave mistake. It needs to be redesigned.

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@davefarley77 The shell.

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@kelseyhightower Expanding on that, it’s up to each financial institution you choose to engage with to do the work to interpret your creditworthiness based on recent payslips, an inventory of assets and proof of employment.

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@kelseyhightower This is very interesting. In Denmark, a credit score is not a concept that exists outside of your relationship with your bank, and something that is confidential. Although I think I understand that U.S. concept, I must say that it’s kind of unnerving.

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@JamesNK Awesome; good to see you’re making inroads into the compound data structure debugging richness of dict-leaning languages such as Python, Ruby and friends. Makes it just a bit easier to justify using .Net for one-off scripting, PoCs, etc.

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@davefarley77 Sleep.

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@antirez @GergelyOrosz Agreed, they are truly great reads!

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@emin_rzayev_ @catalinmpit Nope. 😊 Time and focus might be structural challenges, but the subject matter can definitely be learnt. Also, there will be a significant need for software, product, and cyber specialists in the next 20-30 years, so it’s a career waiting to happen. 🤓

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@ianmiell “Learning the Bash Shell” and “UNIX in a nutshell” helped me along for sure.

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@GergelyOrosz Yup, got it after googling state machines and DAGs in Python a few years back.

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@burgessdryan It can be a challenge for sure. I’ve been most successful when coaching client teams in the value of docs from a systemic perspective, meaning providing a framework for understanding its value for fellow devs, archs, and customers, among others.

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@CubicleApril Several of the ones on your list plus Karabiner, Audio Hijack (and any other audio app from @RogueAmoeba, really), Postico and BetterDisplay.

[Steven Johnson @stevenbjohnson]

My conversation with David Byrne for the @TEDTalks Interview got me thinking about the practice of leaving "little beginnings" around your workspace, and making a deliberate effort to revisit them.
https://t.co/g1Kj8g3aqf

[tania 🪆 @boywaif]

I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Last year, a group of geeks convened on Discord in response to a Twitter thread about California’s woes with the vaccine rollout. They very quickly found themselves running a critical piece of national public health infrastructure.

Here is our story:

https://t.co/QTE7dRuJbW

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

The small city of Lugo in northern Spain has a special secret.

It is the *only* place in the world to have a complete set of intact Roman walls. They were built 2,000 years ago and surround the entire old town.

But how did they survive? That's where it gets interesting...