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Koyaanisqatsi and Sunless by Chris Marker are movies I come back to and rediscover over and over. Sunless can be watched on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdusEgrbhgA

So are they trying to find particles in the fluid with a flow of 0?

Most paper contain acid. The acid breaks down the paper. Pages become very fragile after some time(100 to 200 years?). Paperback uses cheap paper that contain acid. Paperback books…

Distribution of knowledge is the only way forward. There where probably only a few people that had key knowledge to these technologies. Once they disappeared, so did the technology…

"That's a broader theme. Watching TV is considered more childish than reading a book, even though TV content requires a lot more kinds of creative work in order to exist." While TV…

So many epic scenes in that movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySdtZWDCwI

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Funny thing about steam engines is that we think about them as a thing of the past. But in reality steam engines just scaled up and turned into steam turbines, which are a backbone…

Kids in school are also trained on stock images https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/8tgxs...

Microsoft Excel is very similar to this kind of deployment and is used _extensively_.

Wouldn't a tower have thicker walls? Medieval towers have walls that are several meters thick

It's kind of sad how greedy corporations destroys how I enjoy and want to use technology (TV, telephone calls, printers, web search...). I used to have a printers, but they all tur…

I look up words all the time. Etymology is fun. I use several languages though, so I often get confused about nuances and subtleties.

Bach didn't like the piano when it was first introduced. He was used to organs and harpsichord, where keys are kind of on or off. A piano is velocity sensitive and play style is qu…

the synth outputs sound. Synths are complex beasts. Modular synth are a both "sound" and control voltages. The control voltage turn on or off a filter or oscillator etc. But you ca…

Modular synths are very similar to analog computers. You can even patch an analog computer into the modular synth

I love the movie. And I enjoyed the book many years later. But they are completely different. The book has an atmosphere of 1950 dry, dusty, empty suburbia and deals a lot with the…

Listening to interviews and reading Donald Knuth has profound effect on my mental state. It's like diving into another dimension which have concerns that are orthogonal to my daily…

That was like reading a quote from "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "American Psycho".

Unix/ Linux man pages are really hard to understand because of this