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And coffee.
You can say you prefer tea, but when people notice you don't want any alcohol, they get upset and want to know what's wrong with me. Which is surprising because it's basically poison.
Is there any truth to this or am I stuck in my head?
I'm passionate about writing small, close to OS utilities for myself and writing high performance C++ programs. Particularly, extracting almost demoscene level of performance from computers seemingly lacking said performance. My Ph.D. thesis puts this passion to practical use, by developing a scientific application which uses every ooze of performance it can get from a system. The end result is "You shouldn't be able…
My little corner of the Internet now contains a streaming music site: Now Wave Radio. I realized I was relying more and more on algorithms and “cold” connections to music and discovery. So reaching back into bands and sounds of some of my ‘80s New Wave favorites, started on a journey of new band discovery and connection via music blogs, Bandcamp, Allmusic, and yes - even iTunes/Music.
Some months, frission experiences, band connections, and even close friend contributions later, we’re having a blast running the station, developing a web presence, exploring app development, discovering music, and making friends. I found sites like Soma FM with a similar mission, met band members while recently visiting a music festival and going back out to local performances and even left my 25+ year corporate world employment to join a local art collective/radio station in my hometown of Seattle to learn about broadcasting technology and IT in a completely different and supportive environment.
I encourage you to find your passion and hobbies and make a place for them. Great things can and will follow!
This is interesting to me, because I've grown up in a time where I have (largely) not had the opportunity to see what the internet was like in the earlier days. It's only recently that I've come to realize: the internet used to be very different. Anyways. I'm currently interested in healthcare, specifically medicine. I think that it would be satisfying to treat patients and potentially save their life, and then to re…
I wonder what a field guide to the old internet would look like. Here are some things I might include if I was writing such a guide: All-time top stories on reddit in 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060415194256/http://reddit.com... reddit was originally a bit of a niche site for a tech audience, kinda like Hacker News. However, techies used over-represented on the internet anyways. "The internet used to be a lot…
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Water can now boil itself - i.e. energy released from hydrogen atoms in water by converting them to a state where the electron is closer to the nucleus is enough (200x burning molecular hydrogen) to boil water at way more than break even. Hundreds of kW are being generated by machines smaller than a domestic washing machine. There are over a dozen experimental results that demonstrate this is real. https://brilliantl…
Another take from wikipedia: "In 1999, the Nobel prize winning physicist Philip Warren Anderson said he is "sure that it's a fraud",[12] and in the same year another Nobel prize winning physicist, Steven Chu, called it "extremely unlikely".[23] The following year, a 2000 patent based on its hydrino-related technology[24][25] was later withdrawn by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) due to contradic…
Fables. For the past year or so I’ve been writing a book of fables. I originally began the effort inspired by the book The Little Prince. Over time, I’ve begun reading book after book of fables. I love finding different ones—from the classics like Aesop to Buddhist koans, Persian, Indian, Chinese, Arabian fables. The format is just so fun and I think the philosophical lessons can be really powerful. I think of it as…
Great! Maybe you can help me out. Some 10 years ago i went to an exhibition in portugal showing old woodcut illustrations of fables. These were released as a book which i held in my hands once but cannot find anymore. I thought the name was montaigne but probably my mind is playing tricks on me.
Montaigne is not a Portuguese-sounding word or name, seems more French to me, but "montagem" is a Portuguese word meaning "montage" which sounds generally like what are describing, a montage of fables.
I am passionate about not working and finally doing some hobbies and being a lazy slob at least once a year. At 42 years old I am nowhere near close any of that though and I am slowly losing hope and despairing. But it's the world we're living in, nobody is giving you money for existing so what can you do. I am severely burned out and me switching jobs in the last several years didn't help because I don't want to wor…
I don't see a way out other than to grind away for the next 20 years before retiring early. That's not what I want - I'd rather enjoy the time I have now. I'm just too fearful of a massive decline in lifestyle options if I change to a lower paid role, and don't even have the confidence that any job exists which would be a meaningful improvement.
I've been working on building out a community, and if reading any of this has resonated with you, we have a home here to join if you're longing for that sense of community as well: https://discord.gg/enUkwSZABU