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

kbeckmann/game-and-watch-retro-go: Emulator collection for Nintendo® Game & Watch™

zelda game and watch modding

Savoury Muffins Recipe | Australia's Best Recipes

Yes please.

Zelda Secret Sound Effect - Flat

secret found

SAITEMISS

cases for katja

Shared state and routing in Vue.js | by Michał Męciński | codeburst

Routing in SPAs where the route transitions are driven by the shared store, as opposed to the less-flexible model taken by vue-router which links routes to components.

ferrucc.io | Building friend catchers

"""
Friendcatchers are part of this. Friendcatchers are small, contained lists, essays or apps that solve resonant (emotional, relevant), tractable, underserved problems.

One way of doing it is writing in depth specialised guides. The beginners guides to everything have already been written. What’s missing is more advanced content. This sort of content tends to stand out and be highly appreciated in places like Reddit and Hacker news.

Another way of doing it is by sharing polarising, unconventional ideas you have. These ideas will repulse those that are close minded towards your ideas and attract more people like you.
"""
Via HN

Stańczyk (painting) - Wikipedia

Famous Polish painting parodied with Waluigi

[2204.10532] End-to-end symbolic regression with transformers

From the London Machine Learning meetup today. They predict the function that will fit a set of values using a transformer architecture. It approaches state of the art (which are GA-based approaches) but is much faster than them.

Some interesting discussion of the typical approach which is to evolve a "skeleton", which is the formula without any constants, and then fit constants to it. They don't use a skeleton and achieve better results, but only within the domain for which the model was trained

GAs tend to over-fit, so this being immune from that results in simpler formulae.

CARAMELLA | Hirashima/ヒラシマ

Japanese furniture manufacturer

Imaginative designs of obsessive quality — Hem

Furniture via Katja

noo.ma | Best quality contemporary furniture handmade in Europe

Furniture via Katja

The Ten Commandments for Detective Fiction (1929): A Brief History and Update – Elizabeth Spann Craig

These are pretty good, apart from the weird Chinese one. Was this supposed to be anti-mysterious-Orient?

[Guide] How to unlock the bootloader on Nokia Android Phones for free

The Horse of the Invisible

Madame Sara

The Problem of Cell 13

A Complete Guide To Caring For Rubber Plants and Answers to Why Yours Might Be Dying • Vintage Revivals

Very comprehensive rubber plant troubleshooting. I have learnt that I was giving mine too much sun AND underwatering it! Poor little guy.