In Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, the aliens chose to transmit their signal at «hydrogen times pi» — which is around 4462 MHz.
I lived in a lavvo from august 2015 to April 2016, and it was the most awesome year ever (including in terms of sleep). I had a nice setup with a platform covered with sheep skins, and two sleeping bags (it reached -15C…
I never used an ad blocker. I think ads are a symptom of our time, and although I understand that not everyone would (or should) follow this idea, I will neither ignore or treat a symptom but rather watch it closely as…
But even though the arguments supporting free will at the ontological level is unconvincing, free will in the phenomenological sense is not the same. I am of the hard determinist camp but I'm pessimistic about if we're…
NRK (Norwegian state broadcaster) published an article this summer with some more images [0], including of some public figures in Oslo at the time like Henrik Ibsen. [0]…
When I was about 7 years old I played HoMM 1 and later HoMM 2 with my dad. I didn't have a computer at my mother's house (parents are separated) so I started drawing the different game screens on large A3 and A2 sheets…
Musicbee is such a great music player/library program. A pity it's not open source and available on Linux.
I just had a look at their example (BWV 775) and the first thing I noted was this: Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense (there's no reason to not use the thumb there, especially as the following interval is a…
Here's an example to get you started. Compile and run with ./progname | tee /dev/tty | aplay you can also pipe it into other programs like xxd: ./progname | xxd | tee /dev/tty | aplay #include <stdio.h> #include…
I tried two searches in Norwegian ("norsk ordbok" [norwegian dictionary] and "stortinget" [the parliament]), and they both returned many extreme or "alternative" websites. It was especially striking that the neo-nazi…
I'm not convinced that the Sun's expansion will be the demise of intelligent life on this planet. If there is a civilization of intelligent beings here ten million years in the future, let alone 100 or 1000, I'm tempted…
Christopher Nupen has made an outstanding documentary about Viennese Radicalism portrayed in particular through Wittgenstein and Shoenberg. I can't recommend it enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRI_ZSh6iF4
That's awesome. I recently ran [ELKS](https://github.com/jbruchon/elks) (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) on a Toshiba T1200 laptop from 1987 with an 8086 processor. Booting into a unix-like system from a floppy with…
In Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, the aliens chose to transmit their signal at «hydrogen times pi» — which is around 4462 MHz.
I lived in a lavvo from august 2015 to April 2016, and it was the most awesome year ever (including in terms of sleep). I had a nice setup with a platform covered with sheep skins, and two sleeping bags (it reached -15C…
I never used an ad blocker. I think ads are a symptom of our time, and although I understand that not everyone would (or should) follow this idea, I will neither ignore or treat a symptom but rather watch it closely as…
But even though the arguments supporting free will at the ontological level is unconvincing, free will in the phenomenological sense is not the same. I am of the hard determinist camp but I'm pessimistic about if we're…
NRK (Norwegian state broadcaster) published an article this summer with some more images [0], including of some public figures in Oslo at the time like Henrik Ibsen. [0]…
When I was about 7 years old I played HoMM 1 and later HoMM 2 with my dad. I didn't have a computer at my mother's house (parents are separated) so I started drawing the different game screens on large A3 and A2 sheets…
Musicbee is such a great music player/library program. A pity it's not open source and available on Linux.
I just had a look at their example (BWV 775) and the first thing I noted was this: Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense (there's no reason to not use the thumb there, especially as the following interval is a…
Here's an example to get you started. Compile and run with ./progname | tee /dev/tty | aplay you can also pipe it into other programs like xxd: ./progname | xxd | tee /dev/tty | aplay #include <stdio.h> #include…
I tried two searches in Norwegian ("norsk ordbok" [norwegian dictionary] and "stortinget" [the parliament]), and they both returned many extreme or "alternative" websites. It was especially striking that the neo-nazi…
I'm not convinced that the Sun's expansion will be the demise of intelligent life on this planet. If there is a civilization of intelligent beings here ten million years in the future, let alone 100 or 1000, I'm tempted…
Christopher Nupen has made an outstanding documentary about Viennese Radicalism portrayed in particular through Wittgenstein and Shoenberg. I can't recommend it enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRI_ZSh6iF4
That's awesome. I recently ran [ELKS](https://github.com/jbruchon/elks) (Embedded Linux Kernel Subset) on a Toshiba T1200 laptop from 1987 with an 8086 processor. Booting into a unix-like system from a floppy with…