StillLrning123

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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
So are they trying to find particles in the fluid with a flow of 0?
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 will not last forever. More expensive acid free paper is o
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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.
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
"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 shows are more involved and complex to make,
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
So many epic scenes in that movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BySdtZWDCwI
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 of society
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
Kids in school are also trained on stock images https://www.reddit.com/r/KidsAreFuckingStupid/comments/8tgxs...
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
Microsoft Excel is very similar to this kind of deployment and is used _extensively_.
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
Wouldn't a tower have thicker walls? Medieval towers have walls that are several meters thick
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 turned out to be unreliable and frustrating to use, so I j
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
I look up words all the time. Etymology is fun. I use several languages though, so I often get confused about nuances and subtleties.
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 quite different. He went on to work with piano developers
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 can also reverse the order so you "listen&quot
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
Modular synths are very similar to analog computers. You can even patch an analog computer into the modular synth
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 status of owning real pets and what real really means. The
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
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 business. It's an immense pleasure for me to redi
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by StillLrning123 4y ago
That was like reading a quote from "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "American Psycho".
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by StillLrning123 5y ago
Unix/ Linux man pages are really hard to understand because of this