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by hypertexthero 2y ago
They can’t. Need to have the day job and try to do something in the night, or vice versa. We need a basic income. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=basic+income
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Also worth thinking about whether you want to be in the bridge of a ship with lots of other people on board, prefer working in a different deck like Engineering, or flying your own light shuttle craft about! From a commencement speech by
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
And this interview at Slashdot: > Please, don’t spend your late teens or early twenties in front of your computer at a startup. If you’re a young person, I think the very best thing you could do is get together with a group of friends an
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Finally learning piano and drums after playing guitars for years. Thinking of own musical voice for first song, EP, and album. Made this chords poster to help: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/ Working on a default home
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Measuring a Piece of Paper [video](youtube.com)
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Thanks for the links! I’d love a display that let me pick the color or picture showing on the screen when it is off, or maybe it’s the wrong question and power-efficient things with solar panels directing sun energy to batteries that keep t
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
I remember those silver-gray displays in old calculators fondly, and love the word “transflective”! Thanks for the Daylight Computer link!
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. I imagine a black back on the screen improves contrast when it is on, as well. Guess I’ll throw a nice colored cloth over the screen when it is off for now :)
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Ask HN: Can we make a computer screen light in color when turned off?
3 points by hypertexthero 2y ago|13 comments
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Ask HN: Is it possible to work and play at the same time?
6 points by hypertexthero 2y ago|9 comments
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Something you know is there, but you can't explain(apenwarr.ca)
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Is there a video game that is particularly complementary to one of the Culture novels?
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Is the original this one? https://archive.org/details/HandTools1944/page/n87/mode/2up
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Excellent, thank you! Setting this up on a PC and Mac to transfer files back and forth. There’s an XKCD for this, too: https://xkcd.com/949/
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
One of the linked music examples, “occultation” by Pure Code, is beautiful ambient music.
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Friends are family you can choose, I’ve heard, and I agree!
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Got around 82 by cheating a bit and looking at some old pages on my site. My favorite recent discovery is <details> - a native show/hide/spoiler toggle: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Yes! And lowercase letters are easier to read than ALL CAPITALIZED LETTERS IN A HORIZONTAL LINE OF TEXT. Justified text is the same thing, but vertically. Your eye reaches the end of the line, and the next one is likely slightly longer or s
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Good list, though here comes my Hacker News-style pesky comment: Justified text on a screen is a feature that makes my eyes and brain hurt. Ragged text is much easier to read. Uneven and beautiful, like a plant whose details you rest your e
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants(algorithmicbotany.org)
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
See also James Somers’ essay I Should Have Loved Biology: https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ …and Feynman’s criticism of rote memorization in education systems: https://enlightenedidiot.net&#
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
> And the new factor comes into being, when one sees, when the mind realises totally that the observer is the observed, when that realisation takes place there is a release of energy which is new, which will go beyond 'what is'
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
This is all way above my understanding, but: Recently I’ve been playing Arma Reforger with friends online on a dedicated server, and when driving vehicles the collision physics are off, especially when driving fast, making the whole scene “
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Wonderful story and amazing work, but yes, please define any acronyms the first time they appear in any piece of writing! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ :-D
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Heretical thoughts about science and society (2005)(edge.org)
37 points by hypertexthero 2y ago|35 comments
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Trust: Long time to build, short time to destroy(adactio.com)
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Permission to Land(lettersofnote.com)
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
This was the second multiplayer game I ever played, when visiting a friend’s house, on his dad’s computer. The first, on the same computer, was a DOS version of Spacewar! If I remember right, we’d reach a boss and the game would freeze, so
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Looks like you can enable zooming with the maximum-scale property: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=5.0"> Found this info here, and will try it out: http
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by hypertexthero 2y ago
Zooming in far enough does require horizontal scrolling. Still, I find it preferable to messing with font sizes as I hate reading on the phone and want to spend as little time as possible looking at the small screen, so I usually zoom in to

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