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by marttt 5y ago
I have experienced something similar in my general learning patterns -- and, being 35+, I don't think this has always been like that. Might well be that information overload etc has actually amplified this kind of impulsive learning sp
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by marttt 5y ago
I've been thinking about starting with Computer Science Unplugged when our kids reach that age: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/ My idea is to keep children off screen addiction for as long as possible, whilst stil
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by marttt 5y ago
For me, http://teddit.net remained accessible. I had forgotten the address, but dug it out via HN because of the current issue. Great UI; see the ~300 comments on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
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by marttt 5y ago
The NC10 was/is a great machine. Considering the dimensions, it had a remarkably good keyboard. I also liked the "fanless mode". It felt quite sturdy, and, iirc, you could open the screen all the way down, to 180 degrees. The
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by marttt 5y ago
Some more great musings on actually using low-level hardware (inspired by Nils M. Holm's work and setup): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292613
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The 1000x480 resolution seems interesting. Maybe this machine would make a good single-purpose device for writing. Also, somewhat related: Former Debian maintainer Joey Hess famously used a Dell Mini 9 for all his coding [1, 2]. I wonder if
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by marttt 5y ago
Possibly, yes. I do recall some changes in my eating preferences, or metabolism.
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While not (directly) a thinking game, I have always thought that playing basketball and handball in my youth taught me how to lose in dignity. Lose without blaming the referee or the other team. It's probably somewhat easier to accept
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by marttt 5y ago
I tried "polyphasic sleep" about 10 years ago, and while I was mentally sharp at night (a huge surprise, as I had considered myself a definite morning person before), I also started to gain weight.
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by marttt 5y ago
Rob Pike has published several great papers about sam , the Plan 9 text editor he wrote. 1. General overview of the editor; maybe scroll to the "Implementation" section here: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_e
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by marttt 5y ago
Agreed. I suppose someone losing his dad at 22 is, by and large, an anomaly in the welfare society. My dad died when I was 26. We had a really good, warm relationship, though: driving in his car, sitting side by side, not talking a single w
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by marttt 5y ago
"A Confession" by Leo Tolstoy [1]. An autobiographical story of Tolstoy's "search for meaning" when he was, I believe, around the same age. A masterpiece in around 80 pages. From a more practical angle, I wish I had
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by marttt 5y ago
The central parts involving the Zone were filmed in and around Tallinn, Estonia [1, 2]. EDIT: Ugh, looks like some people may have died because of the lengthy filming sessions near a chemical plant. Wikipedia quotes one of the crew members
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by marttt 5y ago
Same article, posted a few hours earlier, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29773407
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Steven Strogatz: Too Much Coupling (2013)(ranprieur.com)
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by marttt 5y ago
Regarding the importance of communication vs "hard skills", I often think of a quote by Nassim Taleb: "You cannot possibly trust two classes of people: educators who are better at explaining than understanding because they’re
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Fonts, a Fuzzy Fringefest(datagubbe.se)
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by marttt 5y ago
+1 for René Guenon. I would point out his book "Crisis of the Modern World". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Gu%C3%A9non
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by marttt 5y ago
Do you think you have also gained something from that loneliness? Better abilities for introspection, for example, or some particular thinking patterns that other people seem to lack?
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Ha, great parallel, thanks for pointing to this, but I think not. More likely, since I've had literary ambitions myself, I was really curios to find out what exactly keeps me immersed in this book. Technically, how does the author ac
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by marttt 5y ago
"My Struggle" series by Karl Ove Knausgård [1]. The whole series is 3600 pages in six books, and I read four of them this year. Why on earth am I reading ridiculously detailed reports on some Norwegian guy's personal life, I
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On moreutils, “general-purpose new Unix tools” and tiny Haskell functions(joeyh.name)
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by marttt 5y ago
Ah, the OBTF or "One big text file" meme was making rounds 10-15 years ago. I ditched mine out of curiosity for other systems -- but I'm still surprised how well it actually worked. Calendar, links, drafts of stuff I wrote --
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by marttt 5y ago
The .p, .i etc shorthand makes roff source more readable IMO. The idea of Aftertext is still interesting, though.
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by marttt 5y ago
Reminds me of game designer Jason Rohrer who developed his games on an old laptop that the previous owner wanted to throw away. A link from 2010: https://usesthis.com/interviews/jason.rohrer/
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by marttt 5y ago
The creators have revealed that the script of "Disco Elysium" consisted of roughly 980 000 words, and the 2020 rework "The Final Cut" was apparently even more massive, roughly 1.2 million words [1]. Its lead designer Rob
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by marttt 5y ago
When I first clicked it, I was greeted with this: https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2016/hn.png#youtubedown Edit: I can confirm that this jwz's script works. Very handy for me. Thanks again!
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by marttt 5y ago
lol, took me a moment to "get" this. Omitting the hash symbol got me to the actual script: https://www.jwz.org/hacks/youtubedown Many thanks!
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by marttt 5y ago
Thanks! I'm not frowning upon Python, I just have an ancient computer with a really minimal Linux system. For that reason I'm avoiding Python, but I definitely need Perl for a few other tasks. Also, yes, I happen to be one of thos
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by marttt 5y ago
Is there a command line yt-dl alternative (for youtube to mp3 conversions) that doesn't require Python? Something utilizing basic Unix tools, C or Perl would be perfect. I did find a simple Perl script [1], apparently written in 2020,

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