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Still mixed feelings on DALL-E, the book is good though. Useful some well-explained concepts.

from hn.

cabinsitting in a national forest

some interesting extra ideas, on top of those from the DALL-E prompt book - tricks like “in a circle” to get something logo-style that is sufficiently centred.

Also smart:

Finally, I did a bunch of Google reverse image searches for it. You know, just to be sure.

On wanting to be wanted, and the mismatch between “ideal mate” checklists vs actual selections

Apparently probably not

more awesome web apps

clean electricity vs animal welfare tradeoffs

report found that breaching lower Snake River dams is “essential” to helping protect and recover threatened_ salmon populations."

• Gifts increase in value when given away
• Most platforms now don’t sell music, either subscriptions or ads

How I started letting go of my anxiety: slowly and reluctantly. I relaxed more when I noticed that I felt better. And then I kept letting go, more and more and more

The most useful skill you can acquire as a human is the ability to help other people feel safe.
If you don’t feel safe, your anxiety will bleed through.

The Pyramid of Giza needed a lot of copper, for picks and chisels for working stone.

Will ectoplasmic green skies be alarming enough to make people take climate more seriously? Undecided.
Some interesting overviews on how eyes work though.

On portraits, and some on photography in general. On storytelling with photos, that every picture has some story.

Funny that kids sometimes didn’t want photos of themselves, when people get older they complain that they look old.

also means letting people know the bad parts

I remember some stat of number of listens people would do of happy songs (200ish) vs sad songs (800ish)

Beautiful beautiful phrase

I think you drastically over-estimate how “fulfilling” something like therapy is.
Day in and day out you will see people you desperately wish to help, who if they listened to 20% of what you offered would see their lives change immensely, only to watch them repeat the same behavior without change day in and day out.

Had heard of ET game, didn’t know about the games that came before it.

Focus on short-term survival, how not to die of exposure

Generally speaking, you can only live 3 minutes without air or if you have massive bleeding.
You can only live 3 hours without shelter in a cold, wet, and windy setting.
Finally, you’ll only have 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food.
Of course, these numbers can vary wildly, but it’s still a good framework to help us organize your work and our needs.

Still unsure on the particular zone/diet hype. The “Power 9” from the NIH publication was interesting though:

1. Move naturally. Live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it.
2. Purpose. Ikigai/plan de vida/“why I wake up in the morning.”
3. Routines to shed stress
4. 80% Rule. Hara hachi bu — stop eating when stomach is 80% full. People in the Blue Zones eat their smallest meal by early evening then no more for the rest of the day
5. Plant slant. Beans, including fava, black, soy, and lentils, are the cornerstone of most centenarian diets. Meat — mostly pork—is eaten on average only 5 times per month. Serving sizes are 3 to 4 oz, about the size of a deck of cards.
6. Moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers. The trick is to drink 1 to 2 glasses per day, with friends and/or with food.
7. Belong. 258 of 263 centenarians interviewed belonged to some faith-based community. Denomination does not seem to matter. Research shows 4 to 14 years of life expectancy increase from weekly faith attendance!
8. Loved ones first
9. Right tribe. Okinawans created moais — groups of 5 friends that committed to each other for life. Smoking, obesity, happiness, and even loneliness are contagious. Social networks of long-lived people have favorably shaped their health behaviors.

The link

The list:

1. Hyde - The Gift
2. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow
3. Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential
4. Rene Girard - Violence and the Sacred
5. Susan Sontag - On Photography
6. Peter Kingsley - Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
7. Jessie L. Weston - From Ritual to Romance
8. Henry Louis Gates - The Signifying Monkey
9. Robert Graves - The White Goddess
10. Camille Paglia - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
11. Mircea Eliade - Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
12. F.M. Caswell - The Slave Girls of Baghdad

peoples of people pointing at your pointer

Still curious about it

your todo list actually has infinitely more items on it, and you are going to die before it’s finished.

Worry about hard things before impossible ones

Do the work. That’s all the productivity advice you need, and the only useful productivity advice you’re ever going to get.

When you do the work, everything else optimizes itself.

Recommended from Friedberg when talking about fertilisers

Book rec on MR said “it has the added benefit of being quite short”. Which was funny from the director of all 5.5 hours of The Mahabharata (1989).

bit clickbaity

Quite a few microbes have abandoned the human gut, as humans have lost 57 of the 100 or so branches, or clades, of microbes currently found in chimps or bonobos and at least one other nonhuman primate, Moeller reported on 11 June at Microbe 2022, the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. Moeller was also able to estimate when some of the human gut microbes disappeared. A few were lost thousands of years ago, and some have disappeared more recently, with city dwellers having lost the most, Moeller reported.

Check back on his blog in a year

Some suggestions:

• read more
• read slower, understand better
• write in books, apparently. I am still unconvinced

"For the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won.

Opening paragraph was such a clear overview of them

Compressors and limiters are used to reduce dynamic range — the span between
the softest and loudest sounds. Using compression can make your tracks sound
more polished by controlling maximum levels and maintaining higher average
loudness.

I have often read that opening line - “what are compressors?” always leads to “what is dynamic range?” and “why do this? loudness?”

good read

As always, let your ears be the final judge. If it sounds good, it is good.

hosting from home is still a bit of a worry, curious what attack vectors are like when running server on android.

1. Is that sandboxed?
2. Do regular linux exploits work?
3. Could you just use wifi hotspots to keep them local?
4. Battery swell issue. Use acc or battery charge limit. Both require root

via hn

Great movie. The music, the androids, the city, the aesthetic.

this is cool - saves local markdown files!
can maybe sync local files between devices?

roadmap

testing

I don’t tnink I agree with this reasoning

Plenty of layering and shit before

was the sound change because target devices changed?
targeting earbuds or laptop speakers
then things need to sound louder