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signalToNose··on Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
For me it’s Bach: Erbarme dich, mein Gott.

In this version: https://youtu.be/BBeXF_lnj_M?si=kPTUsAB19_RyECO5

signalToNose··on Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)
Now I’m curious about MongoDb
signalToNose··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
The holes in the contact on the cable should be up when plugging into the laptop
signalToNose··on How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?
There is an excellent YouTube channel that explains the V2 rocket in detail. Almost down to the last screw. Highly recommend. https://youtube.com/@RocketPlanet?si=DdgyQ8HFnswrZgZr
signalToNose··on Goodbye non-KISS appliances
BSH is fully owned by Bosch since 2014
signalToNose··on Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
And that dodecahedron would be a challenge to 3d print
signalToNose··on I Found David Lynch's Lost 'Dune II' Script
131 Cubic Feet = 0.00148380032 Olympic Size Swimming Pool
signalToNose··on Ask HN: What are you reading these days?
The long good-bye by Ramond Chandler. I enjoy every sentence. He was a master at his craft and capture me with the language and the story telling.
signalToNose··on EPA plans to limit or eliminate salmon-killing tire chemical found in Alaska
Micro plastic from tires is one of the biggest sources of micro plastic. And its quite toxic too. We need less cars in urban environments
signalToNose··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
Why put pandemic in quotes?
signalToNose··on Sony and other music labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing old records
Look up events like the Bronze Age collapse, where a handful people disappeared and took a whole civilization with them. If knowledge and access is more distributed we can avoid similar loss in the future
signalToNose··on Cool, but obscure X11 tools (2019)
WMY2K seems a little obsolete
signalToNose··on Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
Light is affected by gravity. But since astrophysics consider the universe to be equal all over it’s often not calculated
signalToNose··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
The Madonna video Ray of light is filmed in one of the few stations that still have the old font
signalToNose··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
Stockholm subway had a nice font. Digital version is called esseltube. https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esseltub
signalToNose··on A shocking number of birds are in trouble
I remember reading about the number of birds killed by cats. It was a staggering numbers: “We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

signalToNose··on When the Neighbors Don’t Like Your 10-Foot-Tall Transformer Statues
Housing as investment kind of sucks. When all human activity and needs are measured in money it’s a short way away from dystopia
signalToNose··on A 1914 silent film considered lost was rescued from a vault
I see it as cultural Darwinism. Remember Sturgeons law. 90% of everything is crap. Culture is mostly like casual conversation and ephemeral
signalToNose··on Is history written by the winners?
Didn’t they just release a lot of military ufo videos. Most of them already debunked by several YouTubeers
signalToNose··on Ditherpunk – The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering (2021)
It’s kind of interesting that Louis Steinberg does not have a Wikipedia page
signalToNose··on Retro Computer Museum
There are also some awesome replicas of early computer built by Konrad Zuse in the German museum of technology.
signalToNose··on Heavy particles don’t explain gravitational lensing oddities
Variable speed of light must be considered
signalToNose··on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years
The knowledge a person can acquire and bring to next generation is key here. The more organized, free and widespread this knowledge is, the higher the probability it will survive.

Knowledge has been an is still treated as secret and exclusive. If the 2-3 people with this knowledge dies, we have to rediscover it.

This is the bottleneck human kind faces time and time again

signalToNose··on The Joy of Computer History Books
Are there any good books about Digital Equipment Corporation?
signalToNose··on Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”
This is very close to the plot in 2001: a space odyssey. The astronauts talk behind HALs back and he kills them
signalToNose··on The art of the shadow: How painters have gotten it wrong for centuries
I think these artists work in kind of similar way that a renderer work. They would fill in different areas of the painting an move on to the next. Almost painting by numbers style. Therefor you get idiosyncrasies and disjointed artifacts
signalToNose··on Vint Cerf helped create the Internet on the back of an envelope
We missed an opportunity when we didn’t call it “cerfing the net”
signalToNose··on What is spacetime made of?
Site down?
signalToNose··on Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world
But the UI has all joy and ease of Emacs
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