Around the same age, I remember first hearing about the expanse of the sun, and being afraid of experiencing it.
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The harbor area here was dead silent for a while, empty streets. But things are back to normal now that the tsunami warning has been lifted.
I read a remark somewhere, maybe on HN, that a nation's output of sci-fi seems to correlate with whether or not they are in a boom. Does this ring true to you guys?
I'm not deeply into sci-fi (I wish I read more) but I think it could be true. America had their famous boom after WWII of course, and the Chinese have had every reason to be optimistic for the past decades.
I also wonder if there's a correlation with output of historical fiction. Reaching back into the past.
“The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
But with no repeated characters!
Although since characters are words, I guess that “room for interpretation” affords some combinatorial leniency, which you can’t get when spelling latin words.
I’m in Taipei now, not every intersection looks like this. But I remember seeing it at Chiang-Kai Shek Memorial Hall station (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek_Memorial_Hall_...). On the Taipei MRT map you’ll see that both the red and green lines make a change in their trajectory here, allowing them to go parallel.
I think the technique the OP described is “necessary, but not sufficient” for these types of transfers.
> For the last 10 years I have been able to draw around 1.517 stations from different European cities, motivated by the curiosity of understanding how engineers were able to fit underground stations comprising 4 or 5 lines under Place de la République in Paris or the Puerta del Sol in Madrid.
> A pen, a notebook, a bit of spatial vision and the willingness to navigate all the staircases, corridors, platforms and mezzanines are enough […]
That is crazy, and eye-opening.
> It breaks my heart that a project I did for fun, on the side, and out of pure love and dedication to the source material ended up costing me so much — emotionally and financially. For me, the chilling effect is palpably real. I’ve felt irrationally skittish about publishing almost anything since this happened.
I feel sad for the author.
But Villeneuve did explicitly intend this as a two-parter, and I've held on to the hope that it was all intentional and that his decisions will serve the films as a whole experience.
Moving to a foreign country with an unfamiliar culture and language, and establishing a new life there, is a chore. Probably even more so if you don't have a spouse or something who's familiar there:
Learn the language, the culture, establish or reestablish your daily habits, find new friends and ways to socialise, perhaps new hobbies if the old ones aren't available. Find out where and what to shop and how to cook, when the stuff you know is gone. Turn your house into a comfortable home, etc.
If you're older you might not feel that you'll get to see much of the payoff.
I also imagine it gets harder to find people who are open to new friendships, as you get older.
I usually suffer from the same. Some periods I do bother bulleting, as reminders for thoughts to expand on later in the day. But I never do, and then only the bullets remain - as a kind of headstone for unwritten thoughts. Still, they are better than nothing.
I haven’t taken the time to go though these diaries after he passed, but I did take a peek since I never really knew what he wrote.
The little I saw was so surprisingly mundane, like you describe.
I can’t quote it now, being thousands of miles away, but I remember something about my mom making a tasty soup.
I found it endearing but also forgiving, since I’ve struggled with journaling myself. Your post reminded me now that it’s okay to note the mundane.
>The only word I didn't really recognize was "fouten".
It might be easiest to map it to the word "fault" in English.
P. gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596915 (49 comments)
Cause of Alzheimer’s: gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18984054 (12 comments)
Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer’s disease brains: Evidence for causation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18989630 (1 comment)
In terms of actual products, the first chips with RISC-V cores were announced back in April:
But personally I agree, better to spell it out. We can't all lay claim to the term "nordic".
>Original idea for this code was inspired by hub-ctrl.c by Niibe Yutaka: https://www.gniibe.org/development/ac-power-control-by-USB-h...
I suppose that would be legal.