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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Thanks for posting. It's so good to see this sort of stuff on Hacker News - so good to see other programmers who care about trees and the natural world. I just found out about a giant redwood in a Victorian park very close to where I g
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
"the most famous"
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Also, haven't seen anyone mention this yet, but the most famous K is Josef K, of the 'The Trial'. Presumably that's why you chose it. But... you're hoisting a flag of dark cynicism. Reading your blog post, you have
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Contains a couple of pop narrative cliches that always turn out to be gaudy exaggerations for journalistic effect: "he came from art, he is driven by beauty! he stunned the mathematical world!", it's bollocks really, and he&#
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Bollocks, honestly. When I was 23, I had a girlfriend turning 20. At her birthday party, her friends were talking earnestly about how "depressing" [sic] it was to turn 20. Then one of them pointed at me and said with obvious conso
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1669/the-art-of-po... "I made an interesting discovery about myself when I first worked for a film company. I had to write brief summaries of novels and plays to give
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Went through the entire article expecting imminently to get to the paragraph where you perceive that Crap Towns was a mistake because it makes fun of the poor, and that the reason it couldn't be published now is that poverty in the UK
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Went through the entire article expecting imminently to get to the paragraph where the author perceives that Crap Towns was a mistake because it makes fun of the poor, and that the reason it couldn't be published now is that poverty in
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by _rpxpx 1y ago
Agreed. This sort of article does convey a lot about the mental world of the tech bro. Apart from the surprise at the hospitality of "normal people" it has the glassy sheen of purely procedural mind. I mean, one is not exactly swe
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
Could be good to assist the disabled and elderly. Interested to see testing. Marketed like this as consumer product for enjoying nature, grotesque. So much wrong with garbage like this.
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
There are lots of examples, you've just decided not to see them. Just for a start, here's an account by Ralph Abraham of the impact of psychedelics on mathematics. http://www.ralph-abraham.org/articles/MS%2312
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
“When I began to navigate psychospace with LSD, I realized that before we were conscious, seemingly self-propelled human beings, many tapes and corridors had been created in our minds and reflexes which were not of our own making. These pat
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
I wish he'd taught her about brevity.
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
fantastic - thanks for posting
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
yes, maybe that was unfair. I thought it contained good points, I just don't like that style of writing. But I'm glad that people like that are thinking along these lines.
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
Easy to find oneself plaintively nodding along with this, but actually the free/open-source subculture has not been commodified. RMS is, I know, not exactly sexy, but he is actually hip. Someone somewhere I remember said that the icons
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Center for Archaic Networks(archaicnetworks.com)
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
OK, this is "sex in the city" bloggery, but it does contain some very good & important points which HN readers should attend to. Specifically to my mind: the importance of CHANCE and NOT-KNOWING to the value of experience, and
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by _rpxpx 2y ago
love "fondle slabs". I've been going with "slave phones"
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
also the masterpiece perhaps of such artwork: https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
Great article - thanks for posting. Recommend checking out The Unlimited Dream Company. Must be the greatest ever work of psychedelic literature.
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
He has a nice little feature in The Happy Mutant Handbook: https://archive.org/details/h_20220529/page/144/mode/2up
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
it's an LSD reference
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
Embarrassing garbage. Just a lot of bragging about being at Oxford. He obviously didn't learn much there. EA was not "taught" by the Oxford philosophy department (I did a doctorate there). That department is enormous and ethi
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by _rpxpx 3y ago
Agreed. I bought Washing Machine on the day it was released, during my secondary school lunch break. I remember the NME review claiming The Diamond Sea as the best thing SY had ever done. I agreed with that when I got it home, and still do.