l33tbro

> Trying to visualize the floor plan of this house is like trying to rotate seven cubes individually in my mind’s eye

So many gems on this site.

Some say it's more like approaching poetry than prose with his work. There is certainly causality and narrative development in his writing, but he often uses his magisterial command of language to impart a cosmic dimension to the simplest of instances or utterances.

For now.

Think it's pretty reasonable to assume these things become integrated with childhood over time in the same way other screens have.

Of course some notes you write down become outdated (as author mentions), but other ideas you write down are almost timeless.

I'd be screwed without Notes. It's a repository of so many abstract thoughts that I have no place thinking about all day. There's simply too much going on.

Having things written down in shorthand like a prompt is so handy when I have some time to go back and browse the gallery of good and bad ideas.

More lost than found myself here (like many others I suspect).

But heard through the grapevine back in 2010 or so. Joined and have lurked here everyday more or less since and always find something interesting. Kind of a homepage really.

Had I know I'd be here 13 years later I wouldn't have made such an ironic username lol.

Have you tried the Manta sleep mask? Expensive but never slips, does the black out thing, and is super comfortable and very breathable in hot weather. Improved my sleep significantly.

Took me a while to work out Osmo, but I finally understand how to get an amazing finish with it every time (using a spatula of all things!).

I've found regurgitating cliches and mirroring others to be really helpful. Really helps knowing I'd be fine and fit in if everything around me cratered.

Eating like shit has also really impacted the way I look at the world and gave me a much deeper appreciation for everything good in my life. Nothing like deep burger regret to put into perspective what's important.

Oh yeah and I've become a pick-up artist. Not really intelligence, per se, but I did pay $9000 in seminars and it's been a wild ride of self-discovery. I love being humbled by how great some of my competitors are at it, and it relaxes me knowing that it's something I can improve on yet never really care about being exceptional at.

Finally, I spend a lot of time observing sociopaths. When you actually dig into the lives of the people so many of us look up to, there's a lot of things in their lives that are either undesirable, or not any more figured out than most of us have it. So it helps in a weird way to go to the apex predators of our species who engage without the burden of moral artifacts.

It's kind of weird. This technology is designed for the human to give the machine a prompt. What I like about your approach is that you're almost using it to create the inverse: the machine supplying a slightly fuzzy idea that could prompt you to take your research in new and unexpected directions.

It's certainly handy for summarising the existing corpus that we are unfamiliar with (though take acuracy with a grain of salt).

Proposing new theories I'd be extremely skeptical of. It's just not what this thing is made to do.

I agree. My point was that democracy has little to do with which nations the US chooses to defend. Moreover, 'peace' is essentially the continuity of economic imperialism and the maintenance of its hegemony - regardless of how inequitable that may be for everyone else.

While this is an undergraduate take, it doesn't discount it from being true.

Preserving democracy?

Ah yes, those fine captains of industry from the Military Industrial Complex. Deeply enmeshed in the fabric of Washington policy and always acting for the benefits of freedom and democracy.

"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes." - Smedley Butler

You are projecting a bunch, like a lot of Israeli people I talk to about this. I never attacked you.

Israel is, and will always be, internationally on the nose for what happened in that region and after the war. Even to people like me who are sympathetic to the historical persecution, brute forcing yourself onto a land you feel your people have a spiritual connection to and forming an ethnic state is regrettable.

I love Jewish people. I've met lots of amazing Israelis and understand the a fair bit about issues, but settling in that region was fucking silly and always going to yield this unending conflict and the dismay of the world.

Anyway, I don't have the inclination to engage in heated online discussions. I may read if you reply but will not respond.

Israel isn't an apartheid state?

Wonder if the same thing happened to Afrikaners?

> why the rush to completely rule out vaccines?

Are you kidding? The vaccines are the most politicised issue of the last 10 years. With the left and right wing media bating their respective audiences with dehumanising terms like 'antivaxxers' and 'face-diaper people', our society became incredibly tribalised on this issue.

Whether the vaccines are or are not to blame, good luck getting any social consensus. This is akin to religion now.

Overcast really destroys everything else I've used for listening to a podcast. Simple and intuitive UI, customizable streaming/download settings, quickly add any podcast - and that's at the free level. I would never go back to Apple or even Spotify.

I rarely get enthusiastic about apps, but it's awesome when one clearly demonstrates a team having gone 'how can we get this right'?

You can't control the parameters of computational photography.

Shutter and ISO are subtle and predictable variants that you know exactly what tweaking them will do. Computational photography is a black box.

I bought the Manta sleep mask this year instead of going the curtains motorised route. Far cheaper and it has been just as effective in getting a great night sleep. It is really well designed. Very-breathable material with soft foam near the eyes and doesn't ever feel too tight.

A little pricey for what it is, but it is really a no-brainer when you think of how crucial restful sleep is.

Pretty decent profile:

https://lithub.com/i-found-a-rare-copy-of-june-allison-gibbo...

Why would a property developer finish a new build with hardwood, stone, brass, etc when they can double their volume and return by building towers of cheaply-clad flammable doggy crates?

It's a misallocation of incentives for what gets built these days.

There's also a huge survivorship bias with old buildings that nobody ever seems to talk about, but that's a whole other thread...

I love what Grant Petty and his team at Blackmagic Design are doing. Creating cutting-edge, feature-rich, 10k cinema cameras at a fraction of the price of the industry giants.

Because I find gamifying connection sad.

I'm not sure how I'm making an assumption. They admit they were unable to form emotional connections prior to this convoluted methodology they've developed.

This is kind of sad. It just feels like OP has built this enormous apparatus over some emotional void they've picked up in their development. Making friends just isn't that hard for the vast majority of people.

If you're having to use reverse engineering and problem solving to form emotional connections, then you might want to spend the time in therapy and working through what caused you to be emotionally stunted.

I like to try and get a sense each day of what is happening in our dystopia.

I start with mainstream news first thing in the morning to see the prevailing narrative / propaganda people are being fed.

From there I go to broadsheet left and non-loony right-wing sources to find alternative perspectives.

I enjoy critical thinking amd take everything pretty lightly, so I don't really get too upset about stuff. Life and relationships are far more important.

> But just imagine calling Picasso "the mercurial Spaniard" when talking to a friend. Even one sentence of this would raise eyebrows in conversation.

Why does everything have to be "optimized" with Paul? I'll take verbose misfires any day over rigid plain-speak.

Is quoting a stoic on HN the same as playing 'Stairway to Heaven' in a guitar shop?

I do love this quote of course (and all things Aurelius).

Forget nuance, what I would have given for one meaningful moment from my largely aloof old man. You are lucky to have that relationship in ways you'll never know.

Either way, sorry to hear about his condition.

> RootMyTV

This will go well in Australia.