mrsvanwinkle

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by mrsvanwinkle 3mo ago
then you are one of my favorite people ever. that one made me laugh so much. also the whole Eystein thing was genius. here, mad, hilarious nonsensical Kimbote lampoons replacing a "painting of an object" with the "real obje
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by mrsvanwinkle 3mo ago
i have more to write on this, but it is also auto-biographical. the fact is it was thanks to sleuthing over the Sonny Boy settei materials ( https://github.com/sonnyboysettei/official ), ultimately making the connection
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by mrsvanwinkle 3mo ago
a pleasure! like i said, my first reading echoes yours and most others. my second reading echoes Nabokov's derisive snort towards the first. all the same, both deal with the dual -ity of objective/subjective, both within the
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
i had a second reading, and i am convinced it is the greatest work of Art. a lot of people, myself included, bit the ruse that Kinbote was some parody of a mad man and ignored everything but the poem. but the notes have the most beautiful v
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
your name is all the most beautiful sounds in the world in a single word
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
if it helps, i did keto fasting for weight loss monitored using a blood ketone meter, ate close to zero calories of korean konjac jelly and zero sugar drinks. and the drastic mental health benefit was a welcome surprise for me. even my phys
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
wait, you just gave me an extreme epiphany about my significantly worse right eye myopia. the divergence definitely snowballed from the "use it or lose it" thing and me not wearing my glasses as much as possible
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
Hey SAME! but pre-K, trained at home by cousin who used to be a lefty as well.
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
i like Infinite Jest, but among the "derivatives" of Nabokov's Pale Fire (the "original" postmodern novel + parody of academic hogwash with protos in Nabokov's earlier works; possible earlier proto in Poe'
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
have you tried putting a loaded wep next to it?
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
noticed how spam has that utility for many elderly (which further incentivizes the abuse)
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
I technically have both in one laptop with an AMD iGPU and an RTX GPU. Most of my problems with archlinux is running a 240Hz HDR monitor on dGPU, where the NVIDIA firmware glitches into buffer out of memory errors not reading the CDID prope
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
plus 1 for Minix. that's how Linus learned OS, from Tanenbaum, and how their public monolithic vs microkernel rift began. iirc xv6 while monolithic also allows for a microkernel implementation (maybe not the ideal way to learn about mi
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
Two example scenarios described by Kurzweil in Singularity is Near: super intelligence augmenting human intelligence via direct brain interface (humans vs AI goes back to intelligence vs intelligence as usual), or, we get to live like very
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
The description of the (aftermath of the) picnic in the novel was absolutely beautifully haunting and that verse alone to me made the movie feel like superfluous variations of the theme.
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
This is Homer's "You are here forever" where Homer covers some letters with Maggie's pictures to spell "Do it for her". Except this dystopia uses the family pictures to spell "You are here forever"
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
Extremely insightful re: capacity to care for others.. though the trend of "NIMBY" and "petite-bougie" ideology (a more modern term being "temporarily embarrassed billionaires") and pretty much the guiltless pr
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
I am simply so happy for them. I used to have insomnia and in a music filesharing hub mostly Euros are awake around midnight Singapore time, so had so many online Euro friends mostly from Poland, Finland, Sweden, and especially Romania. It
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
already laughing from parent comment this is well done
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
awesome to see a VS Ramachandran rec on HN. normally it's the rare secondary rec after someone mentions Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks.
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
that's what the screenshot says. They rooted Instructure servers.
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
which reminds me of building breadboard RF sensors (using fixed caps with variable for calibrating parasitic capacitance) and since these are just oscillators you can calibrate a beat frequency (heterodyne mix) in audible range that has the
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
This is the third time in the same week I observed an HHGG quote going whoosh in an age where reading books is long dead as the tech industry twitches to dying anytime soon from the moment Jeff sold godelescherbach online
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
I was almost too sure I had never heard of Julian Baggini and I almost celebrated the first in history when neither the Onion nor the Simpsons nor Idiocracy predicted the future by assumed funniness of assumed impossibility of unfathomable
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
otoh i.m surprised the accelerometer was already available since 1927. since microcontrollers only the hardcore eecs kids build pid controllers from opamps for fun (only do hn on phone hard to link to that maker article of a fully analog se
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by mrsvanwinkle 4mo ago
Please ignore my notif to onboard you on my misadventure of clicking the "555 Timer turns 55" frontpage news only to read through the end of your comment convinced I have to read it again to resolve this uncanny alt world where th
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by mrsvanwinkle 5mo ago
Beat me to it tho was gonna mention instead the exchanging of pieces of leaves part (engineering students in my uni just before 2020 were humanities averse/have compartmentalized knowledge and not well-read, 2 professors passionate abo
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by mrsvanwinkle 5mo ago
my mother's dementia diagnosis this year started as severe ADHD symptoms 4 years ago. but many years before that she enjoyed her retirement and pension as her last boss was abusive, and she was a bit traumatized by this that merely sug
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by mrsvanwinkle 5mo ago
Making me consider to finally try again. Had shied away from making curries after a disaster of a first. Followed measurements accurately from some random celebrated chef's chicken tikka masala recipe (this is supposed to be elementary
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by mrsvanwinkle 5mo ago
Love your username if only because it reminded me of that grad algo class and Prof, some hilariously awkward dude who invented some quantum alkhwarizmi, started ... "There was this guy ... Named Al Khwarizmi. Al..Khwarizmi Alkhwarizmi

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