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by duopixel 18d ago
History is full of half-baked products that were better executed by a competitor later. While I agree that manually balancing the text of manual is probably not the best use of time, it's this obsessive mindset that creates great produ
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Things fall apart (to come back together)(method.ac)
1 points by duopixel 3y ago|0 comments
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by duopixel 3y ago
I used to feel the same when I thought dreams were utterly meaningless, then I had a series of undeniably meaningful dreams and I became not only interested but proactively curious (ie have you seen this character in other dreams? Was anyth
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by duopixel 3y ago
I bike in Mexico. I usually get a flat patched with the bike mechanic for $1 USD and they do it in less than 5 minutes. They check the tire throughly to find the source of the puncture. More often than not they pull out a piece of metal deb
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by duopixel 3y ago
We have become so detached from nature so much we have forgotten seasons exist, we can naturally divide the year in four (or two) by being attentive to the season, and you can add a little flair by being poetic about it (say saving during t
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by duopixel 3y ago
The Tao Te Ching itself is the best introduction to philosophical Taoism (the religion is something else). Perhaps certain passages can be obscure, but they reveal their meaning in time. Take a look for yourself https://terebess
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by duopixel 3y ago
Regular gym goer for 20+ years here. It eventually becomes difficult not going to the gym, on days I can’t exercise I feel restless, like a dog that hasn’t gone out for his walk. Food, I eat between 4K and 5k calories per day and I’m clos
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by duopixel 4y ago
Quoting Erik Spiekermann “Typography is like air. We only notice it when it's bad”
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Existential thoughts on creative writing and AI(blank-page.notion.site)
2 points by duopixel 4y ago|0 comments
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by duopixel 5y ago
Agreed. Attempting to repress negativity is blocking an exhaust valve, what needs to be addressed is the emotional state that causes negativity.
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by duopixel 5y ago
I'll go forward and offer my own interpretation: highly creative people experience the process of creation as something that comes _through_ them, not _from_ them, that's why Bob Dylan calls them "stenographers". I thin
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by duopixel 5y ago
This reminds me of a dream from 2019: https://method.ac/writing/work_journal/08-01-2019_work_log_t... I'll just remove the link, thanks for letting me know.
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Donations make up a quarter of my income(method.ac)
77 points by duopixel 5y ago|17 comments
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by duopixel 5y ago
If you found it interesting you may like a free web game I created two years ago... https://boolean.method.ac
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by duopixel 5y ago
See Cloud Nine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sphere)
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by duopixel 6y ago
Nice to meet you, now you know one :) Tacos de lengua are quite popular in Mexico, probably catering to the Mexican-American community over there.
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by duopixel 6y ago
> When weighing the risks involved in interactions with less-developed cultures such as ours, these advanced civilizations may choose to refrain from contact. I think establishing communication with a more advanced civilization would be
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by duopixel 6y ago
> I have to think that he knows this He exclaims out loud "I don't know!" (in Spanish) before humoring with his own speculations about his longevity. But attributing it entirely to hitting the genetic lottery would also be
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by duopixel 6y ago
I hope that some day Apple revives the idea of the PowerBook Duo ( https://lowendmac.com/2007/apples-first-subnotebooks-powerbo... ) in which you could dock your phone to something akin a brainless iMac: a screen, mouse
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by duopixel 6y ago
When I work for myself, I nap at the slightest sensation of drowsiness. I’m not productive nor efficient while sleepy. Yet I’ve wasted so many hours in mindless stupor for my employers (especially after lunch) because napping on the clock i
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by duopixel 6y ago
Actually, resource rich countries tend to have worse developmental outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse
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by duopixel 6y ago
It seems every article on Neanderthals has to be prefaced with a story of how we believed that they were brute club-wielding cave dwellers, but this discovery has changed the way we think about them... Can't journalists find a differen
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by duopixel 6y ago
The earliest Homo Sapiens remains are from ~200kya while the earliest (crude) Homo Sapiens paintings are from ~75kya. Lascaux, Chauvet, Altamira et al are ~20kya.
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by duopixel 6y ago
This is perhaps the most effective thing to do, and yet we don't do it because deep down we want people to respect our choice to refuse to drink.
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by duopixel 6y ago
Check out the FAST Component explorer to see it in action: https://explore.fast.design/ Looks very flexible but the presentation and default design is horrible.
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by duopixel 6y ago
> breaking the data out by age is most welcome. Suicide at 80 has a very different meaning than suicide at 18. I find it frustrating they cluster suicides ages 14 to 59, why!?
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by duopixel 6y ago
This resonates a lot with the ancient wisdom of the Tao Te Ching: https://www.taoistic.com/taoquotes/taoquotes-05-non-action.h...
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by duopixel 6y ago
More than 1000 upvotes on a piece of false information[1], on a website where people are well educated and informed. HN fell to fake news. I don't mean this in a judgmental way, when I saw this posted I thought "that doesn't
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by duopixel 6y ago
MacFormat, a UK based magazine with a CD full of shareware and demos, would unexplainingly appear every month at a magazine shop in my hometown of Puebla, Mexico, at around ‘94-98. Without a doubt I would have a different career should I ha
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by duopixel 6y ago
Aside, but I find it fascinating that the inventor of Modafinil, Michel Jouvet[1], was also a dream researcher and even wrote a novel on dreams. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Jouvet

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