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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

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

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

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.

"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.

So many epic scenes in that movie.

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

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

Kids in school are also trained on stock images

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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