Like 1984, Black Mirror isn't a dystopia because of technology, but because it's... | Hacker News

On Apple's VR headset: "Like 1984, Black Mirror isn't a dystopia because of technology, but because it's in England. If you leave I expect everything's fine. Also solves being converted into Cybermen for the 100th time."

Sukeroku - Wikipedia

The graphic motif is based on the symbolic purple Hachimaki, red and white coloring, and crest from the costume of "Sukeroku," one of the "Kabuki Juhachiban". Sukeroku's chic appearance fascinated people and he was called "the most handsome man in Edo". (uniqlo)

Sinilink PCIe Computer Remote (XY-WPCE) Configuration for Tasmota

remote control power switch I'd like to flash

ADA12F电容触摸ic封装脚位和功能描述图-阿达电子-阿达电子

Tank Mouse touch pad

wxPython 4.2.0 builds with Python 3.11 but can't find wx._core · Issue #2297 · wxWidgets/Phoenix

consarn it

explain this css font-size: min(max(1em, 1.3vw), 1.3em);

The scientific reason kimchi is best made in earthenware onggi - The Washington Post

Let's make fizzy kimchi!

FastChat

Various LLMs

OSDev.org • View topic - VGA colors in 80x25 text mode?

This is some bullshit. Text palette registers 0-7 map to VGA palette registers 0-7, with the exception of register 6 which maps to VGA palette register 20. Registers 8-16 map to registers 56-64.

Apple Keyboard - ArchWiki

Everywhere: Oh, you can use setxkbmap to swap alt and super keys

Dark corner of Arch wiki: Oh, unless you're using an Apple keyboard in which case you need to set a sysctl and update the initramfs!

A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry

poem from jess

Wistman's Wood - Wikipedia

Places to visit in the UK -- this one in Dartmoor

▶︎ King Salami and the Cumberland 3

The guy from the sushi place up the road plays in this band. I discovered this via my hairdresser, Canadian Steve, who is also in a band.

Tessera - Wikipedia

A tessara is a tile in a mosaic. Tessarea is the plural. Same root for tessellation.

Cwtch - Wikipedia

At a bar last night I discovered this was pronounced "kutch".

Ogleshield – Neal's Yard Dairy

Cheese, or weapon to fight gnomes

spark-joy/README.md at master · sw-yx/spark-joy

Some dude on HN made an entire list of colour palette generators.

Poline — esoteric color palette generator

""poline" is an enigmatic color palette generator, that harnesses the mystical witchcraft of polar coordinates. Its methodology, defying conventional color science, is steeped in the esoteric knowledge of the early 20th century"

(hn)

Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight | Hacker News

Farro - Wikipedia

> Farro refers to the grains of three wheat species, which are sold dried and cooked in water until soft.

My mother has become temporarily obsessed with farro.

Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs

I learnt that pulse width modulation produces flicker -- imagine a 50% duty cycle of half on, half off -- whereas the more general pulse density modulation does not -- imagine the same amount of total on/off time, but divided more finely.

Perfect roast potatoes recipe - BBC Food

AAA+++ would gorge on again

Theodoros Kolokotronis - Wikipedia

This dude liberated Nafplio (from the Ottoman Empire) and then was imprisoned in Palamidi Fortress *in the city he liberated* (and now the capital of Greece, for a while) for being a traitor by the new (and 17-year-old) Bavarian King Otto of Greece! Shit sucks.

To be clear, he was extremely anti-Bavaria and a proponent of an independent Greece. He was only freed due to public outcry.

What a life.

Kolokotronis in the prison of Nafplio (1833) | Paul Vrellis Museum - Μουσείο Παύλου Βρέλλη

I went into this guy's prison cell! It looked ghastly, with almost no light. More like solitary confinement, really.

site - A bike ride in Ναύπλιο, Πελοπόννησος, Δυτική Ελλάδα και Ιόνιο

gps route nafplio - mycenae - nafplio

ναυπλιο βορεια - A bike ride in Ναύπλιο, Πελοπόννησος, Δυτική Ελλάδα και Ιόνιο

gps route

ΚΑΜΠΟΣ ΑΡΓΟΛΙΔΑΣ - A bike ride in Ναύπλιο, Πελοπόννησος, Δυτική Ελλάδα και Ιόνιο

gps route nafplio - mycenae - argos - myloi - nafplio

ΝΑΥ[ΛΙΟ ΜΥΛΟΙ ΚΙΟΣ ΝΑΥΠΛΙΟ - A bike ride in Ναύπλιο, Πελοπόννησος, Δυτική Ελλάδα και Ιόνιο

gps route nafplio - myloi - argos - nafplio

Thesis - Ktima Bairaktaris | Buy All Greek Wine Online

The “welcome drink” wine at amymone & adiandi

Forward-Forward Algorithm, an Alternative to Backpropagation for Neural Networks | Hacker News

てふぬと | CoeFont

CoeFont turns people's voices into 'fonts' for use with anything, in this case the vtuber てふぬと (in a happy mood)

てふぬと【喜】 | CoeFont

CoeFont turns people's voices into 'fonts' for use with anything, in this case the vtuber てふぬと.

The CRPG Addict: Dark Heart of Uukrul

RPG Codex Retrospective Interview: Ian Boswell and Martin Buis on The Dark Heart of Uukrul :: rpg codex > doesn't scale to your level

The "authentic self" is relatively new -- Hans-Georg Moeller on Authenticity v/s Sincerity in Art - YouTube

Via David / curtain lurkers

It's an odd thesis IMO because when was authenticity taken seriously?

NoMachine - Free Remote Desktop for Everybody

Recommended remote desktop for linux (hn)

Anti Ligature Clothing | Tear Resistant & Fire Retardant

If you're at serious risk of suicide and are confined to a psychiatric hospital or prison, you can be put in clothing which is extremely difficult to rip or tear so you can't use it to harm yourself.

The Lotos-eaters by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poetry Foundation

Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.

The Kalevala

Wearisome the maiden growing,
Her existence sad and hopeless,
Thus alone to live for ages
In the infinite expanses

(this is how it STARTS :D )

CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerns"

Argues for a bootstrap-like reusable css rather than a css zen garden-like reusable HTML, but indirectly also sort of explains css pre processors like less to me, because they’re very useful for the zen garden approach but not so useful for the bootstrap approach.

Butter Soy Sauce Pasta with Japanese Mushrooms

Simple recipe using the butter + soy sauce combo. Turned out really nice -- comfortingly salty and creamy.

Also, it's hardly a recipe -- just mix the melted butter with some soy sauce in the pan, blend to emulsify, and add some pasta water to taste. Oh, and cook pasta for the last minute or so in the pan to get it nice and glazed.

Housing in Tokyo Is Far Cheaper and More Spacious Than You Think | Hacker News

Interesting discussion of various housing costs. London a depressing outlier.

Video Games Are Giving Up On The Idea We Can Save The World

“Emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.” – Mark Fisher

This quote from the comments reified the vague feelings of unease I have at the doom and gloom around climate change. If you truly believe that nothing can be done, then you will do nothing.

2D signed distance functions

iq is great -- beautifully illustrated example SDFs for many shapes, each linking to a Youtube video explaining the maths.

Things That Help People Make New Friends

Proximity, unplanned interactions, and privacy (i.e. one-on-one moments).

Systemantics - Wikipedia

system failure is an intrinsic feature of systems

Debian: how to install packages from a newer distribution

Add the repository, create a pin for all packages to the old repo, add a pin for the package of interest

Amiga C/C++ Compile, Debug & Profile - Visual Studio Marketplace

Really awesome VS Code extension which lets you scrub back and forward along a trace of Amiga demo execution to see DMA, all registers, copper list activity, etc. One of the few things that would get me to use VS Code... if it weren't also Windows-only!

Why Marcel Duchamp Played Chess with a Naked Eve Babitz | Artsy

Where I ended up after reading about the Magnus v Hans chess cheating scandal on HN.

ghidraninja/game-and-watch-backup: Relatively easy to use scripts for backing up (and restoring) the original Game & Watch firmware.

zelda game and watch modding