zhynn

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by zhynn 16d ago
You are thinking of the NoClip documentary! It is fantastic and well worth your time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLSgaYPKA0&list=PL-THgg8Qnv...
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by zhynn 22d ago
The closest thing I have is this: https://tenbolts.org/cgi-bin/repo/wiki?name=Dreams
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by zhynn 1mo ago
I love Fossil, I have been using it for all of my projects for the last couple years. Things that I love include: 1. batteries included single-file functionality (fossil binary + sqlite file and I have everything!) 2. Hosting them
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by zhynn 5mo ago
I found out today that I am user 6082. I have been using github since the rubyconf (railsconf? I can't remember) where it was announced. I loved octocat. I was a git fanatic. It has been extremely disappointing. I am using fossil no
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by zhynn 8mo ago
Mu is awesome, one of my favorites. I especially like the "Mu and More" and "Mu and Much More" decks that have other games you can play in the box. It is a bit fiddly customizing the decks for the different games, but
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by zhynn 10mo ago
Give it a try: https://fex-emu.com/
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by zhynn 1y ago
Thanks for helping to run my favorite library on earth.
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by zhynn 1y ago
It appears that Hamas struck a deeper blow on October 7th than we realized. Perhaps Israel's humanity was the primary target. It's like watching a family member destroy everything in a fit of grief and rage. Surely there is a wise
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by zhynn 1y ago
My very favorite map projection is the AuthaGraph map: http://www.authagraph.com It is a novel (I would say amazing) map projection that manages to retain proportional landmass size by using an "ioso-area-mapping" tech
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by zhynn 1y ago
This reminds me a little of [Scuttlebutt]( https://scuttlebutt.nz ) (positive it has been posted on HN before). But I think these little projects are awesome, even if they have a limited audience. Go forth!
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by zhynn 1y ago
If you love hard-science dinosaur books, I cannot recommend Abby Howard's "Earth Before Us" series: https://www.goodreads.com/series/257878-earth-before-us They are so so SO good, they have so much care
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by zhynn 1y ago
Aren't the solvents pretty nasty chemicals? I wonder how they deal with the sodium hydroxide + sodium sulfate saturated with lignin and hemicellulose... maybe it can be turned into a soap or glue? That sounds like a rough biproduct t
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by zhynn 2y ago
Or you could just use fossil...
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by zhynn 2y ago
My town has about 500 people, but the really active community is about 50-100 that will show up at the various things we do. I am 30 minutes from grocery stores, and 3 hours from boston or montreal. I have fiber internet because the reside
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by zhynn 2y ago
Please come to Vermont, there is a lot of undeveloped land, ample water, and we need people.
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by zhynn 2y ago
I love the feeling I get when I recycle or repurpose something that would have been trash into something useful. Especially if it becomes even more beautiful from its past patina. This can go too far and put you in a cycle of spending all o
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by zhynn 2y ago
Not sure if the wild milkweed out here in VT is the "big ugly broad-leaf one", but I think they are amazing plants. And I love the alien-looking pods with the almost fractal arrangement of fluff seeds inside. The flowers are inte
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by zhynn 2y ago
It's a paradox, expertise will tell you which one to pick (know when to quit | never give up). Tom Sachs called principals like these "Paradox Bullets". The movie: https://vimeo.com/293569057
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by zhynn 2y ago
Thank you so so so much for posting this! I had no idea it existed, and I am so happy that it does. I also discovered that my home state has ZERO listed green burial sites, which is shocking to me because... I live in VT. I would have gue
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by zhynn 2y ago
Also recommend the Kalevala if you are curious about such things. It's very interesting.
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by zhynn 2y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://fpr.vermont.gov/recreation/activities/camping/primit... There are many, and nobody goes there.
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by zhynn 2y ago
I think consciousness is the combination of attention (ability to pick focus), imagination (simulate possible universe states), and reflection (compare what happened to what was imagined to happen and update imagination accordingly). Attent
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by zhynn 3y ago
blah blah (which I did in 1988) blah blah (which I completed in 1992). He has no collaborators. He gives no credit to others. He just relentlessly names things after himself, takes singular credit for everything, and name-drops other famo
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by zhynn 3y ago
My snarky take is: Assembly theory is testable, this one isn't.
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by zhynn 3y ago
yeah... you can't unring this bell.
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by zhynn 3y ago
Life creates novelty. Humans are a member of that category, but all life is producing novelty. More information: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06600-9
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by zhynn 3y ago
There is a spectrum between conscious and unconscious. You could say that under general anesthesia you are a 0/10 on the conscious scale, asleep is 1 or 2, just woken from sleep is maybe 3.... and up to a well rested, well fed, health
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by zhynn 3y ago
It should support the work of lee cronin and sarah walker (Assembly Theory), a novel way to identify compounds that are indicators of life by virtue of their complexity (so we don't need to make any dogmatic assumptions about what life
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by zhynn 3y ago
Totally agree! And my advice is to find something in the 30hp zone. The yard tractors are not as generally useful from a mechanical advantage standpoint. Tractors aren't just "tillers and mowers". Along with levers and pul
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by zhynn 3y ago
I'll just leave this here, it's a fascinating bit of citizen science: http://achemicalhunger.com/

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