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New comment by StillLrning123 in "Gifaanisqatsi: A Random Koyaanisqatsi Generator"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 07:55:50 +0000

Koyaanisqatsi and Sunless by Chris Marker are movies I come back to and rediscover over and over.

Sunless can be watched on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdusEgrbhgA

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:04:14 +0000

So are they trying to find particles in the fluid with a flow of 0?

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Digital books wear out faster than physical books"

StillLrning123 — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:49:34 +0000

Most paper contain acid. The acid breaks down the paper. Pages become very fragile after some time(100 to 200 years?). Paperback uses cheap paper that contain acid. Paperback books will not last forever. More expensive acid free paper is often used by artists. Acid free paper is made plant fibers, but often not wood. It could be cotton. This will have a much longer life span. This paper is too expensive for most books

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies"

StillLrning123 — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 05:54:35 +0000

Distribution of knowledge is the only way forward. There where probably only a few people that had key knowledge to these technologies. Once they disappeared, so did the technology.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "What it takes to make a game by yourself"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 06:48:02 +0000

"That's a broader theme. Watching TV is considered more childish than reading a book, even though TV content requires a lot more kinds of creative work in order to exist." While TV shows are more involved and complex to make, that does not automatically give the TV show depth, reflection, nuance etc. A TV show is often quite the opposite; a banal story full of platitudes.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Jean-Luc Godard has died"

StillLrning123 — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 10:46:41 +0000

So many epic scenes in that movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySdtZWDCwI

New comment by StillLrning123 in "DBOS: A database-oriented operating system"

StillLrning123 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 04:51:38 +0000

Funny thing about steam engines is that we think about them as a thing of the past. But in reality steam engines just scaled up and turned into steam turbines, which are a backbone of society

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Ask HN: DALL-E was trained on watermarked stock images?"

StillLrning123 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 04:57:28 +0000

Kids in school are also trained on stock images

https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/8tgxs...

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)"

StillLrning123 — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 05:35:06 +0000

Microsoft Excel is very similar to this kind of deployment and is used _extensively_.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa"

StillLrning123 — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 10:47:49 +0000

Wouldn't a tower have thicker walls? Medieval towers have walls that are several meters thick

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Some Epson printers are programmed to stop working after a certain amount of use"

StillLrning123 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 05:47:12 +0000

It's kind of sad how greedy corporations destroys how I enjoy and want to use technology (TV, telephone calls, printers, web search...).

I used to have a printers, but they all turned out to be unreliable and frustrating to use, so I just stopped buying them. Luckily my work and local library has a printer, so I can print documents the couple of times a year I really need one.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Why I built a dictionary app"

StillLrning123 — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 05:30:59 +0000

I look up words all the time. Etymology is fun. I use several languages though, so I often get confused about nuances and subtleties.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Design lessons from guitar pedals"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:48:29 +0000

Bach didn't like the piano when it was first introduced. He was used to organs and harpsichord, where keys are kind of on or off. A piano is velocity sensitive and play style is quite different. He went on to work with piano developers to make the piano a better instrument.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Design lessons from guitar pedals"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:35:07 +0000

the synth outputs sound. Synths are complex beasts. Modular synth are a both "sound" and control voltages. The control voltage turn on or off a filter or oscillator etc. But you can also reverse the order so you "listen" to the control voltage that is controlled by the "sound". It basically an analog computer

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Design lessons from guitar pedals"

StillLrning123 — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:22:03 +0000

Modular synths are very similar to analog computers. You can even patch an analog computer into the modular synth

New comment by StillLrning123 in "‘Blade Runner’ at 40"

StillLrning123 — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:22:57 +0000

I love the movie. And I enjoyed the book many years later. But they are completely different. The book has an atmosphere of 1950 dry, dusty, empty suburbia and deals a lot with the status of owning real pets and what real really means.

The movie is literary much darker and takes place in a claustrophobic decaying chaos of a enormous city. I has the slow pace of a 1940th film noir and while the theme of what real really entails is central, it just one part in the whole vision.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)"

StillLrning123 — Tue, 24 May 2022 05:03:06 +0000

Listening to interviews and reading Donald Knuth has profound effect on my mental state. It's like diving into another dimension which have concerns that are orthogonal to my daily business. It's an immense pleasure for me to rediscover this mental state from time to time. And this is to me Donald Knuth greatest achievement: To let us look into his thinking process and putting words to guide us through it.

New comment by StillLrning123 in "Netflix lays off about 150 employees"

StillLrning123 — Wed, 18 May 2022 04:28:13 +0000

That was like reading a quote from "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "American Psycho".

New comment by StillLrning123 in "I collect and read old computer manuals"

StillLrning123 — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:47:38 +0000

Unix/ Linux man pages are really hard to understand because of this