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I found out today that I am user 6082. I have been using github since the rubyconf (railsconf? I can't remember) where it was announced. I loved octocat. I was a git fanatic. It ha…

Mu is awesome, one of my favorites. I especially like the "Mu and More" and "Mu and Much More" decks that have other games you can play in the box. It is a bit fiddly customizing t…

Give it a try: https://fex-emu.com/

Thanks for helping to run my favorite library on earth.

It appears that Hamas struck a deeper blow on October 7th than we realized. Perhaps Israel's humanity was the primary target. It's like watching a family member destroy everything …

My very favorite map projection is the AuthaGraph map: http://www.authagraph.com It is a novel (I would say amazing) map projection that manages to retain proportional landmass siz…

This reminds me a little of [Scuttlebutt]( https://scuttlebutt.nz ) (positive it has been posted on HN before). But I think these little projects are awesome, even if they have a l…

If you love hard-science dinosaur books, I cannot recommend Abby Howard's "Earth Before Us" series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/257878-earth-before-us They are so so SO good, …

Aren't the solvents pretty nasty chemicals? I wonder how they deal with the sodium hydroxide + sodium sulfate saturated with lignin and hemicellulose... maybe it can be turned into…

Or you could just use fossil...

My town has about 500 people, but the really active community is about 50-100 that will show up at the various things we do. I am 30 minutes from grocery stores, and 3 hours from b…

Please come to Vermont, there is a lot of undeveloped land, ample water, and we need people.

I love the feeling I get when I recycle or repurpose something that would have been trash into something useful. Especially if it becomes even more beautiful from its past patina. …

Not sure if the wild milkweed out here in VT is the "big ugly broad-leaf one", but I think they are amazing plants. And I love the alien-looking pods with the almost fractal arrang…

It's a paradox, expertise will tell you which one to pick (know when to quit | never give up). Tom Sachs called principals like these "Paradox Bullets". The movie: https://vimeo.co…

Thank you so so so much for posting this! I had no idea it existed, and I am so happy that it does. I also discovered that my home state has ZERO listed green burial sites, which i…

Also recommend the Kalevala if you are curious about such things. It's very interesting.

I'll just leave this here: https://fpr.vermont.gov/recreation/activities/camping/primit... There are many, and nobody goes there.

I think consciousness is the combination of attention (ability to pick focus), imagination (simulate possible universe states), and reflection (compare what happened to what was im…

blah blah (which I did in 1988) blah blah (which I completed in 1992). He has no collaborators. He gives no credit to others. He just relentlessly names things after himself, takes…

My snarky take is: Assembly theory is testable, this one isn't.

yeah... you can't unring this bell.

Life creates novelty. Humans are a member of that category, but all life is producing novelty. More information: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9

There is a spectrum between conscious and unconscious. You could say that under general anesthesia you are a 0/10 on the conscious scale, asleep is 1 or 2, just woken from sleep is…

It should support the work of lee cronin and sarah walker (Assembly Theory), a novel way to identify compounds that are indicators of life by virtue of their complexity (so we don'…