amar-laksh

The strangest thing I took away from this was the singer James Blunt having an extremely minor hand (or lack of a gun) in preventing escalation towards WW3

I saw your blog post a couple of days ago, This looks really promising!

Rented games, rented music, rented health, rented lives but hey at least you got your own misery!

As the lyrics of a contemporary classic goes, "20,000 years of this... 7 more to go."

No, I didn't make it ! I just saw it recently and found it beautiful. You should thank this magnificent chap: http://cnlohr.net

An aside:

This is one of the most hopeful take I've seen on the promise of VR, from a highly technical person:

[My Year in VRChat] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVWlgh8QP5s

Color me eternally cynical towards all business propaganda but this seems way too off for the following reasons:

1. You can't film people without having them sign releases.

2. The first person just opens the box up as if the tape was already removed.

3. The first person was just standing with their hands in their pants while Gabe was doing his dialogue.

Tbh, maybe I am thinking too much but it's kinda sad that we can't believe in things like this any more.

Apparently, HN might be violating GDPR according to the website

There you go: https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words?...

This is brilliant! (Especially after the rotating puzzle post yesterday, exactly what I needed!) Thank you! (I managed to get 14 at 8 seconds but damn this is pretty hard)

feedback: Sometimes the shapes get too occluded by it's own body. Not sure bug or a feature. Also could be fun to increasing or decreasing difficulty curve depending on performance

You might like the game Twelve Minutes, your comment reminds me of it: https://twelveminutesgame.com/

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I am guessing this is probably using Open Food Facts database. Anyways, always happy to share OS things: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

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Hi, I just dabbled with conceptarium. It looks really neat! Thanks for making this! (Also, you sir, have gained a new blog reader!)

Recently had a throwaway thought while reading The Dawn of Everything.

The formation of cultural norms fundamentally sit on the idea of recollection of the distant past and not of that which has just happened in front of you.

Example: The reason for wearing ties is part of the western cultural code not because each person distinctly and has first-hand witnessed how it started, it's just being shaped by historical precedent.

So what happens, over time, to cultural norms when the recollection can be made in first-person, distinct ways? (Think the internet, VR)

Try the dawn of everything by david graeber. It does show the vibrant nature of the historic and pre-historic world.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-eve...

That sentence has one of the highest amount of citations I've seen on Wikipedia.

Exactly my point in posting it. Thank you for finally putting into words what I was thinking while reading extreme reactions in the comments.

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I've found talking to myself out loud while coding kinda helps with that.

https://www.improvethenews.org/ This is pretty handy. Started by physicist Max Tegmark, it uses classifiers to show news based on different settings you can adjust (Political stance, depth, shelf-life etc.)

Thank you so much for the term! This is exactly what I was looking for in order to start a deep dive that hopefully will help with Déformation professionnelle! :D

It's so telling that most of the comments here are either: cautionary tales or negative effects. I sure feel young and naive in this audience.

I do that too! That's part of the reason I was wondering what it does to our brains long-term

I really wanna know how many people (somehow)instinctively read it coronavirus?

Agreed, My bad.

Got tired of having to pause/resume media while watching food, made a script to automatically pause/resume media if I'm not focusing on the screen. https://github.com/amar-laksh/focusTV (the code was not great but it works)

There ya go: https://github.com/daniel-thompson/wasp-os

Ever tried to send a push notification to your phone? How hard can it be? - At least locally, KDE Connect(https://kdeconnect.kde.org/) got you covered.

I went ahead and created a very simple yet effective excel sheet based on the blog. https://github.com/amar-laksh/FBM/blob/master/FBM.xlsx

Sure! I was about to code one myself in Rust as practice but then realised this path just requires minimal dependencies and a one liner haha.