“To Chicago and Back” is a travelogue book by the Bulgarian author Aleko Konstantinov describing his trip to the exposition. Very famous in Bulgaria, introducing America to us. Probably why the most Bulgarian immigrants still live in Chicago (based on the number of restaurants). There’s a bust of the author inside UChicago.

I personally love walking the grounds when I visit, imagining what it must’ve been.

Yeah, I expected the photo of the cover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(Pink_Floyd_album)

There’s not even a need for armed men on horseback. The lord/patron is your protector against overly draconian laws where just about everything is punishable by death. Lose the patron and next time you e.g. look at the neighbors’ wife, you get to be shorter by a head for entertainment of the folks with a patron. Some of these patron’d folk might have killed somebody last week for which they get to spent time with a priest working on the salvation of their soul and no further punishment.

Source: Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer

For rethinking the Luddite movement I recommend the book Blood in the Machine (I think I learned about it here on HN)

And written the same day she wrote Jolene

Looking at the first example [1] looks like there is high pass, low pass, and two more “cuts”

[1] https://github.com/AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation/b...

And, I noticed yesterday, old.reddit.com now requires login. Which renders a blank page on my phone. Check and mate.

I've read this on here previously but still can't reproduce it, neither from home nor mobile IP (this is in Germany).

Are they slowly rolling this out? Did you connect via VPN? I suppose they might finally feel ready to close the doors...

It was announced here https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/logging_in...

It's definitely being A/B-tested

No VPN just home, in California

I don’t know about the brain but it’s good for the final results in my experience coding, writing and composing (orchestral music). The results are better and it takes less time if I start with pen and paper before “committing” to the computer. One of my favorite authors Jennifer Egan also writes fiction on paper (non-fiction articles still on the computer). More thoughts: https://www.phpied.com/starting-in-the-analog-domain/

Is the burden of proof on me, the developer? Do I need to prove in perpetuity that I didn’t get a job or a free flight to talk at a conference because of my free software? (Which had a flaw that hurt someone)

I have no clue.

But I do think that this is a much better start than letting companies ignore the impact to software consumers or having open source devs be on the hook for volunteer work.