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Things fall apart (to come back together)

duopixel — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:52:03 +0000

Article URL: https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/things_fall_apart_to_come_back_together.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514693

Points: 1

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New comment by duopixel in "What are dreams for?"

duopixel — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:22:23 +0000

I used to feel the same when I thought dreams were utterly meaningless, then I had a series of undeniably meaningful dreams and I became not only interested but proactively curious (ie have you seen this character in other dreams? Was anything important happening in your life when this dream happened? How did this event in the dream make you feel, if anything?).

So now I have a question for you: what is your personal stance on dreams?

New comment by duopixel in "Bike Lane Sweepers (2021)"

duopixel — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:07:15 +0000

I bike in Mexico. I usually get a flat patched with the bike mechanic for $1 USD and they do it in less than 5 minutes. They check the tire throughly to find the source of the puncture. More often than not they pull out a piece of metal debris from the tire (like small pieces of wire or nails). If the roads are cleaned, it will be a person with a broom doing it, which is why metal debris stays on the shoulder of the road instead of being suctioned by a mechanical cleaner.

Would good tires still save me from these punctures?

New comment by duopixel in "Divide your life into semesters, even when you’re not in school"

duopixel — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:20:40 +0000

We have become so detached from nature so much we have forgotten seasons exist, we can naturally divide the year in four (or two) by being attentive to the season, and you can add a little flair by being poetic about it (say saving during the fall, frugality in the winter, sexuality in the spring, enjoying the fullness of life in the summer. Life is not academia, it is poetry!

New comment by duopixel in "The new science of meditation"

duopixel — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 10:33:39 +0000

The Tao Te Ching itself is the best introduction to philosophical Taoism (the religion is something else). Perhaps certain passages can be obscure, but they reveal their meaning in time.

Take a look for yourself https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html

New comment by duopixel in "Ask HN: Where have you found community outside of work?"

duopixel — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:14:46 +0000

Regular gym goer for 20+ years here. It eventually becomes difficult not going to the gym, on days I can’t exercise I feel restless, like a dog that hasn’t gone out for his walk.

Food, I eat between 4K and 5k calories per day and I’m close to 10% body fat. I love eating.

Re: boring. Lift heavy, it’s supposed to be challenging. It should require focus and concentration. Don’t use machines, those are boring.

I would never go if it were exclusively for aesthetic, strength, or health benefits. For me it lifts my mood like nothing else, anytime I feel like not going I know it is my I unexercised mind telling me stories, once I start moving weight it’s like changing a radio station in my head and the negative affect fades away.

New comment by duopixel in "Punctuation Matters: How to use the en dash, em dash and hyphen"

duopixel — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 13:32:31 +0000

Quoting Erik Spiekermann “Typography is like air. We only notice it when it's bad”

Existential thoughts on creative writing and AI

duopixel — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 23:02:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blank-page.notion.site/Existential-thoughts-on-creative-writing-and-AI-c68f187c816d49f18e19337da230a3b8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34649056

Points: 2

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New comment by duopixel in "Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?"

duopixel — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:59:32 +0000

Agreed. Attempting to repress negativity is blocking an exhaust valve, what needs to be addressed is the emotional state that causes negativity.

New comment by duopixel in "Norm Macdonald's story about the first time he met Bob Dylan"

duopixel — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 23:22:00 +0000

I'll go forward and offer my own interpretation: highly creative people experience the process of creation as something that comes _through_ them, not _from_ them, that's why Bob Dylan calls them "stenographers". I think most people have experienced some glimpse of this when you lose yourself in flow, wether you are dancing, coding, or writing. Norm doesn't understand that calling the author of his favorite passage a stenographer is actually praise, because he means it comes from a higher source than the ego. One week later he understands the koan and tells Dylan, who laughs.

New comment by duopixel in "Donations make up a quarter of my income"

duopixel — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:02:39 +0000

This reminds me of a dream from 2019: https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/08-01-2019_work_log_t...

I'll just remove the link, thanks for letting me know.

Donations make up a quarter of my income

duopixel — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:23:55 +0000

Article URL: https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/donations.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28526231

Points: 77

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New comment by duopixel in "Mastering the Basics of Icon Design"

duopixel — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:10:10 +0000

If you found it interesting you may like a free web game I created two years ago... https://boolean.method.ac

New comment by duopixel in "NASA mission to Venus in 1978 may have detected phosphine, a gas related to life"

duopixel — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 15:13:27 +0000

See Cloud Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sphere)

New comment by duopixel in "Ordering burritos from my SPARC (1992)"

duopixel — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 01:45:39 +0000

Nice to meet you, now you know one :)

Tacos de lengua are quite popular in Mexico, probably catering to the Mexican-American community over there.

New comment by duopixel in "Why do we assume extraterrestrials might want to visit us?"

duopixel — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 14:24:59 +0000

> When weighing the risks involved in interactions with less-developed cultures such as ours, these advanced civilizations may choose to refrain from contact.

I think establishing communication with a more advanced civilization would be deeply disrupting to our culture. We would ascribe their cultural practices to their advancement, and get a bunch of people doing "alien cargo culting". Imagine they were strict vegetarians, or peaceful and kind meat eaters for that matter. It would completely disrupt our own evolution by injecting foreign memes into our culture.

You can also reverse the situation and suppose we are able to visit an alien planet where we find a rudimentary civilization which has customs that appear exotic to us. What would the experts recommend? The cynic would say we would go at war with them to take over their planet, but being realistic it is much more advantageous to study them without interfering. I think the evolution of conscious life in different conditions than our own planet must be of tremendous interest to other conscious life.

New comment by duopixel in "Advice from a 104-year-old PhD student [video]"

duopixel — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:53:18 +0000

> I have to think that he knows this

He exclaims out loud "I don't know!" (in Spanish) before humoring with his own speculations about his longevity.

But attributing it entirely to hitting the genetic lottery would also be a mistake: the genetic potential can be easily squandered by allowing your mind, heart and body to decay at an accelerated rate. It is obvious this is a happy and lucid human being who still finds plenty of reasons to stick around.

New comment by duopixel in "Post PC"

duopixel — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 23:22:59 +0000

I hope that some day Apple revives the idea of the PowerBook Duo (https://lowendmac.com/2007/apples-first-subnotebooks-powerbo...) in which you could dock your phone to something akin a brainless iMac: a screen, mouse and keyboard. Your main computer is always your phone, which you can slide into different form factors (tables, laptops, desktop PCs).

New comment by duopixel in "Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression"

duopixel — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:00:11 +0000

When I work for myself, I nap at the slightest sensation of drowsiness. I’m not productive nor efficient while sleepy. Yet I’ve wasted so many hours in mindless stupor for my employers (especially after lunch) because napping on the clock is taboo.

New comment by duopixel in "The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think"

duopixel — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:42:36 +0000

Actually, resource rich countries tend to have worse developmental outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse