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by ompogUe 2y ago
If I recall correctly from the original Blue Zones book, the main difference in diet they noted in Loma Linda was the high amounts of nuts in their diet
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Not sure about "malnutrition", per se, but one issue is that if a vegan woman gets pregnant, and hasn't take care of her b12 needs, the embryo starts getting brain damage at 6 weeks. That can mean just two weeks after missing
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Yes, I remember Live Picture! It was slick. I actually spent more time in that and Fractal Design Painter, than Photoshop back then.
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Not sure if you worked with it in the early '90's, but on a Mac w/4MB of RAM, it took ~5-10 minutes to undo a Guassian Blur. The pain was real. The way to go back then was the SGI Indigo w/96MB. It worked best for me in
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by ompogUe 2y ago
There's a whole genre from then called "Miami Bass". See also Detroit/Chicago House. All full of 808 goodness. In the Deep South, at least, go to Sonic drive-in any night of the week and there'd be low-rider pick-up
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Rodin left his plaster casts to the museum and authorized them to make up 12 copies of each (they've already made all 12 of The Thinker). If that was the intention of the artist, my opinion would be more towards they break the molds an
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Had a yo-yo buff a couple of years ago showing me youtube videos, and he literally said "the yo-yo scene takes it's fashion cues from skateboard culture", so full circle?
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Still not sure if I get it. I have several "hourly" contract jobs, so it's 10 hours a day/4 days a week, instead of 8 hours/5 days a week? I'd think I'd burnout quicker with the longer hours
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by ompogUe 2y ago
Can't see behind the paywall, but can say that having lived in Newfoundland, that they announce every spring that it is going to be another record-breaking year for "iceberg tourism".
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by ompogUe 3y ago
fingers crossed that could work. but a when harper came in he gutted the nrc, so hopefully these things don't push us there again
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by ompogUe 3y ago
(Visual) artist, here. In art school they (responsibly, I thought) told us "it's very difficult to survive as an artist", so: a.) Go to grad school and become a teacher b.) and/or, Become good at writing grants c.) and&#
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by ompogUe 3y ago
I thought this would be a throwback to Cory Doctorow's open-source cola (drink) recipe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola_(drink)
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by ompogUe 3y ago
SourceForge, Slashdot and Freshmeat all seemed to go downhill hand-in-hand to me. Bought and monetized and sold and bought and sold and monetized.
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Remember talking to some "commune hippies" in the '80's, and part of their meta-physics was that the souls of the dead are reincarnated as sunshine. Always thought it was interesting, if anything.
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by ompogUe 3y ago
(This ~is~ a link to a separate story about VV, if you want to read it, but there are some lovely sentiments and meaty conversations in the above HN comments)
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by ompogUe 3y ago
+1
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Oh No! So Saddened! Found The Peace War at an airport book rack in the late '80's. Then, found True Names at a library sale in the early '90's and fell in love. "Zones of Thought" was a really smart idea once
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Got to play with the N64 at the "soft" launch at SIGGRAPH '96. It was pretty mind-blowing. But even more mind-blowing was the SGI booth where they had an Onyx running a VR demo where the user was building downtown New Orleans
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Fun Fact: Love that they ref Battle Chess, the apocryphal source of "just add a duck" to get around micro-managers who need to make a change to feel like they've done something: https://blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F
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by ompogUe 3y ago
While we will eventually have an open standards protocol, it will likely be the market that decides. Having worked with the W3C's Web3D working group, I see it the same as how web browser features are often added/sponsored by one
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Yes, you are correct, it doesn't make the work a failure. However, with my practice and my intentions, I personally do think I have failed if I need a statement to explain the piece. In addition to contemporary audiences, I like to thi
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by ompogUe 3y ago
This! Many, many times I have talked to artists or read their statements, and seen that they are totally out of touch with how to actually communicate with their art . If you tell me your intentions for a piece, what you are trying to co
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Most places where pot's legalized are getting more tax revenue, and liquor tax revenue is often declining. Seems some folks don't yet know that a) it was originally criminalized for political, not safety reasons, and b) LOTs of pe
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by ompogUe 3y ago
One of those "obvious, common sense" truths getting proven by experiment. I've known a couple of alcoholics who mainly kept drinking to keep away nightmares.
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Not sure if it's that I'm an old timer who's been thinking about MR platforms for decades or not (has it been 17 years since Rainbow's End won the Hugo?), but the idea of wanting screen-based apps in your view isn't
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Me too! It was at it's "best before" date, with 50% off the price, so, why not? Wow!
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by ompogUe 3y ago
I'll second that! WFMU is the best! Broadcasting since forever across the river from Manhattan. Yoko Ono and Matt Groening are known listeners. "Bad Animals" is my favorite. For funk and hiphop, look at https://www
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Well, colors can be both pretty and informative. Had to take Color Theory to get my BFA. We learned things like the "speed" of colors: yellow is the "fastest" and purple is the "slowest". Only a little yellow i
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by ompogUe 3y ago
Pretty low bar. Some people in senior development positions shouldn't/couldn't/wouldn't show you their Github work even if they wanted to.
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by ompogUe 3y ago
See zeldman's 2006 article about when "web 2.0" turned into business speak. It was cringeworthy then. Not sure why ppl think this is some new insight: Slashdot was "web 2.0" well before "web 1.0" was a thi

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