SubGenius

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by SubGenius 5mo ago
This list is missing Masayoshi Takanaka!
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by SubGenius 5mo ago
Marcovaldo, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves are my favorite. Baron in the Trees too. I'd definitely suggest starting with these. His short story work is beautiful.
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by SubGenius 10mo ago
Is this some kind of language wars engagement farming? The OP submitted a post earlier titled "Zig Looked Like the Future – Until We Tried Multithreading" from the same blog. What's going on? 0 - https://news.ycomb
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by SubGenius 11mo ago
I just finished rereading Lonesome Dove, again. Don't let the western theme fool you. It's quite possibly one of the best novels ever written. Every word, every character, every like of dialogue is crafted to perfection. It will l
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by SubGenius 11mo ago
Sad. The bassline on their song 'The One' is beautifully played.
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by SubGenius 1y ago
Great to see CF sponsoring Ladybird! One of the most important projects out there right now. I run vanilla arch/i3, so not super interested in Omarchy itself - but am curious to know how polished of a distro they can come up with. I ma
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by SubGenius 1y ago
I use a zsa moonlander and a Kensington trackball, separately. Just to be clear, I don't think ergo/split keyboards will necessarily help you type faster. They've been life-changing for me to help deal with nerve damage pain
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by SubGenius 1y ago
I've enjoyed quite a few very well narrated audiobooks on LibriVox. The Jane Austen novels voiced by Karen Savage are phenomenal.
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by SubGenius 1y ago
I like David Thorpe too. George Guidall and John Lee are probably my favorite narrators. Jonathan Cecil narrating the Jeeves books is wonderful. So is Stephen Fry, but he's pretty much amazing in anything.
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by SubGenius 1y ago
I'm building Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix. https://matrixbird.com
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by SubGenius 1y ago
Calvino is amazing. His short story collection Marcovaldo is just brilliant, it's my personal favorite. Cosmicomics is great too. Well actually, all his work. It would be worth learning the language to read Calvino in original Italian.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
This is a beautiful book - his best work in my opinion. I haven't (re)read it in a while so this is a good reminder. There is a great audiobook version too.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
Matrixbird - an experimental email powered by matrix. https://matrixbird.com
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by SubGenius 2y ago
I liked this quite a bit the first time I'd read it. A decade later, not as much. Narcissus and Goldmund is my favorite book by Hesse - it's beautifully crafted.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
If you want the Snow Crash version of Da Vinci Code, then you might like The Illuminatus Trilogy. Robert Anton Wilson is something else. Umberto Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum is a slightly different vibe, but very entertaining re
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by SubGenius 2y ago
There's an Iron Maiden song inspired by that show and features a voice clip from it. It's called The Prisoner.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
> ...when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death. That was Socrates, not Plato. Socrates was allowed to choose his own punishment too, so he wasn't exactly condemned to death right away. He also had the opportunity t
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by SubGenius 2y ago
Ukridge by PG Wodehouse. I hadn't really ventured out the Blandings/Jeeves/Psmith collections that much. Ukridge may be the funniest book I've ever read. He's also featured in another book 'Love Among the Chick
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by SubGenius 2y ago
Big fan of his work with Shakti/McLaughlin. RIP.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
I believe those words are said by the elder Zosima in one of the early chapters when he has several visitors. Not Alyosha - although it's been several years since I've reread the book.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
RIP to one of the greats.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
Amazing album, not only the music but the recording/mix is just right - considering it's over half a century old at this point. The long extended version of Whipping Post is something else!
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by SubGenius 2y ago
Sad news. He wrote some of my favorite Allman Brothers tunes. 'In Memory of Elizabeth Reed' is beautiful. 'Rambling Man' is another classic. RIP.
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by SubGenius 2y ago
> Other than The White Stripes, what popular bands have had clearly unskilled drummers? I want to joke and say Lars from Metallica but I'd be lying. He was a decent drummer in the first couple albums.
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by SubGenius 3y ago
I have a hotmail account from 2000. A wikipedia account from 2006! I don't remember when exactly Gmail was in early beta (2004?) but I did manage to register firstname@gmail.com and have used it since. Also have a super early HN accoun
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Every drummer, bassist and guitarist too! It's insane how so many of them later on went on to pioneer the fusion movement. Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tony Williams, Marcus Miller and so on!
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Both Damnation and Deliverance are classic Opeth albums! I've been trying to get back into the habit of listening to entire albums and have been mostly successful. Even when I search for a single track on Spotify I view the album first
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by SubGenius 3y ago
My dad had something called Typing Teacher on his Windows 3.1 machine. I was too young to use it as a serious tool though. Learning to type "just happened" as an accidental side effect to using the computer all day long. Same as y
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by SubGenius 3y ago
The Kinesis (and now the Moonlander) has really helped with the pain in my hands from severe nerve damage (from a coma) though. I understand it's not exactly RSI, so the mechanism is different. I agree with you about exercise. At this
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by SubGenius 3y ago
Sounds great, good luck! I'm hoping to get back to making music again after a few years away due to health/life reasons. I definitely know that euphoric feeling of jamming with an old bandmate after a long break. > Now we’re in

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