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For every von Neumann you probably have thousands if not millions of crack pots with ideas not worth wasting time on. So I understand the scepticism

Using the camera as a scanner has a long history in satellite cameras and other aerial photography

"Opening a window or a door costs nothing."

Central ventilation system at my job can handle open windows. So that is prohibited :-(

Side point, but clothing industry are some of the biggest pollutors in the world

I think TV series are bigger than films now. They have established characters and story line spanned over several shorter episodes with cliffhangers and recaps etc. Once you get into a series you follow it for several seasons. It's a preferred way to tell stories.

I usually prefer films over TV series because I find just these tropes tiring. I find TV series have quite inefficient story telling and spend most of its time trying to get me hooked to watch the next episode.

Interview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt

www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/

Lowercase E is unusual in the text. Is it a special teletype font?

Insects comprise a total weight to about 1 billion tons.(1) Which is roughly the same as the weight of all people and farm animals on Earth combined. (1) https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article...

The video I posted is an excerpt for this over 2 hour video.(1) It is an amazing view into the mindset of a musical genius. He is extremely good at explaining how he thinks and how he explores the world of music. There is some audio issue with the video, but it is worth watching.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xXiDMndQU

Musician Stanley Jordan program solar system in APL and Python with visuals in Blender to make a musical calendar

Insane g-force in the spin up.

Reminds me of Gerald Bull who wanted to launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

The creators publication frequency is also an important factor. If you don't put out content at least once per week you fall off the recommended and lose a lot of views. Once your content is shallow, simple and without reflection, you are trapped in a hamster wheel of click bait vapidness.

So its an office job? I know people who makes this exact music described in the article and it's part of their daily work to earn a living as music producers. Other musicians play weddings for example. It's not fake. But you don't put your serious artist name on a track like for a chill muzak stream. Music is a product that fills many categories and I salute the ones that can find ways to earn a living doing with their passion. Some of the time you do a routine and other time you follow your dream

I must go and get my hearing checked

About a week both to start working and weening off

I think I suffer from this. My theory: There are muscles in the ear canal that try to modulate the sound and those muscles tense up and cause issues. I also have sore muscles that get a lot better from use of magnesium supplements and the tinnitus also get slightly better from this use. (It get a lot worse if I stop taking it)

I was thinking the same. Technical perfection and artistic perfection on a Venn diagram are two not entirely overlapping circles

Orchestral music composition and performance is quite different from painting and writing. When you are dependent on a large amounts of other highly skilled people to create and perform it makes it really hard to live out in nowhere.

These days internet and digital production can ease a lot of the rural isolation. But for many (most?) people it is essential to be in and around the art scene to be able to create and maintain focus and motivation to work on their art. Especially when starting a career it is important to meet and see other artists and art.

For me its also physical. My legs get more tired waking a few hundred meters in a museum than just walking kilometers outside.

Moray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1) Good times on a 386 in beginning of the 90th.

(1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www....

Bureaucracy on a certain level can almost be described as an artificial living organism. It starts to behave in certain ways that nobody can control.

If GDPR is at all questionable, Microsoft is not able to push this to EU countries. The risk for a business to get in GDPR trouble is to high.

I heard that ships have cleaner fuel so their exhaust don't block as much solar radiation.[1]

[1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ea/d2ea0...!

Airships, virtual reality, flying cars, space hotels... What other tech tropes are there ?

"In 1839, in exchange for lifetime pensions, the French government bought their photography technique and it became the first publicly available photo-taking system. This availability played a huge role in the development of photography as a social phenomenon."

Maybe we need more of this approach to certain inventions and breakthroughs

The curve figures he show in video at 14:03 looks like the curve of memristors.

When most online content becomes AI generated and unverifiable we will get into trouble. We can easily navigate in a world where we can distinguish between fact and fiction. With AI we can generate fiction that is indistinguishable from the way we present fact and it can generate references in all sorts media.

When we take fiction as fact we enter into the sphere of religion.

Museums like this can be a little overwhelming. There is so much to take in. I often lose focus and just skim over to see it all. But I know the most interesting bits are in the details. Do any of you have a nice strategy for getting the most out of a visit ?

You can read more about it here: https://cookieplmonster.github.io/about/

I watched a few videos about variable speed of light. I know nothing about this but it is fun to ponder different explanations for Dark Matter, Dark Energy etc.