Links

what a time to be alive

Venus Theory on creator envy, and the importance of making ‘your own circle’. Make your own particular thing that you have in mind.

Another AI writing tool to try

Lots on parenting and time. On choices to have kids, on free time, life satisfaction, population growth, ageing, and bunch of other random jumbles of life advice.

interesting little daily note/photo prompts.

The subject selection baffled me. The 1890 group was all people from military, I don’t think that was the case for more recent cohort.

and formatted $200k

Cool music projects. Also had some fun with [lil beat maker]
(https://muted.io/lil-beat-maker/)!

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Can we reduce resource use and emissions more rapidly than increases caused by growing affluence? History does not think so.

The utility derived from planning, having, and remembering a vacation. Wonderful stuff.

Glad that they weren’t actually currently doing this - the original dorm setup description caused some mild panic.

HN thread and twitter replies with some more options or things to try.

Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel or DDNS

Don’t cut corners. Don’t blindly use other people’s configs, learn to read the help pages to look things up.

pattern looping and tape machine madness. “The length of the delay was controlled by physical distance between the two tape machines”.

For making some music in a similiar style (loops of varying lengths), they suggest either using tape, or disable grid in DAW and just use time for loops.

James Blinn teaches how to model shapes with polynomials

surprising(?) amount of biased claims in there. “I have had great luck with phone x”, some hating on google for login screens, etc.

From hn

tldr no idea

How rain gauges work

animate frames between two images

from thread on Mr Beast

Simpler image variation than stability-ai one, from another random deep learning company.

A quick look at their website and making a text-to-pokemon model looked interesting.

who is paying for all these gpus

3d model generation (or animation of, at least) from single reference image and a pose

Less interested in the mouse input that useful vim tips in HN

everyone loses 10 years to something, somewhere along the line

That’s a fallacy. You didn’t so much “lose” 10 years, it just took 10 years to come to an understanding about a meaningful part of your life. And maybe you really needed all that time to arrive there.

Whatever your goal is, try to stop having 0% days.
You don’t need to have 100% days, Just avoid having 0% days.

the downsides of places optimising for tourism and photography, rather than for being lived in. The problem of everyone wanting a particular special experience.

By the late Saul Kripke.

On mining and building

Still don’t love the obsession with “tearing down the economic system that rejects it”. Funny that something talking about maintenance doesn’t think that existing systems could be improved…

forgot how good discogs was