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Libb
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We don't lack easy to use distro... I never had to fiddle with the one I'm using and I'm not an expert, far from it ;)
This is a call to continue recognizing the importance of human-generated scientific writing.
And reading, too. One can hardly go without the other.
But is it really questioned? I mean, are we already throwing out our mere human brain (that spongy grayish thingy that's kinda floating between our ears) in exchange for a chip that will connect to our brand new & much smarter AI-brain—available through a reasonable monthly fee. Tax may apply. Please read EULA?
I hope we will be able to realize the importance of writing (and writing longhand and, once again, of reading) in thinking (by ourselves) but seeing how massively people are turning away from the written word, I doubt it.
Who knows, maybe something amazingly good will come out of such a shift away from writing, even though I don't see it taking this direction, obviously I may be wrong. I'm old. Heck, I even prefer using a pen(cil) to a keyboard. Talk about a living fossil :p
Most people are easy to manipulate, religious or not.
- Why do you think fake news are a thing? People are willing to believe whatever will suit their narrative without actually doing the (real/hard) work of cross-referencing and checking said news (edit: aka, without using their brains). More importantly without ever daring criticize their own beliefs—aka the 'we're right/we're the good guys' vs the 'they're the wrong/the bad guys' type of discourses that seem to prevail in our (manipulative and manipulated) societies.
- What could explain those almost instantaneous gathering of large crowds based on anger or fear? Most people are willing to use anything as a pretext to let their anger/fear free to express itself and wreck havoc (back to point 1)
People being religious just tells us the type of things they're more likely willing to believe in/act upon. But the gullibility is the same with or without religion (edit: and that is real major issue in everything that's going wrong nowadays), to me at least.
Obviously there will be backups, but I also don't want to lose anything on it as much as possible.
Don't rely on a USB stick for that, no matter the brand, at least based on my personal experience.
I started fencing, because I enjoy poking tall guys in the belly with my rapier.
the guy's belly is just really close to my eye level and also larger since the guy is bigger). I like how exposed, soft, fleshy, juicy and vulnerable a tall guy's belly looks and feels.
sometimes also jokingly push my rapier deeper into the guy's belly and twist it there 90°.
What do you think about that?
I think you insist a little too much on the enjoyment you feel and how fun you think it is... But it may also just be me not being able to appreciate your sense of humor to its full, I willingly admit that.
Reading your post, I'm surprised you don't know already for sure if it does indeed hurt, or not, to do what you 'jokingly' like to do to these men? I mean, were every single one of those tall dudes you 'jokingly' stabbed in the belly kind enough with your person to not let you experience by yourself what if feels like? How nice of them.
If I had to pick one, the Nobel. I don't care much about awards.
Wouldn't be surprised if it has a flux capacitor somewhere in there too
Wasn't the last (working) one destroyed in a train accident somewhere in the 80s? Not that I'm old enough to have first seen this movie back when it was released. Absolutely not.
Thx!
Would love to read a few pages out of his journal. Also, if you have not clicked the links embedded in the first post, this is worth reading too: https://news.wsu.edu/news/2024/10/28/endowment-supports-cataloging-of-worlds-longest-diary/
You can also buy (excellent) point & shoot film cameras, btw. or a rangefinder camera for a decent price (non-Leica branded, because Leica is expensive no matter what ;)
I hope you wont mind me reminding this: film is not simpler. It's as much work if not more as any other type of manual photography, digital or not. The difference, beside the lack of immediacy, being that you control the output and not some computer code... which means that you must assume the many mistakes that will happen too ;)
I learned photography on a film camera back in the late 70s. And to me B&W film have yet to be rivaled by anything digital. The real issue with film is that, depending where you live, it can be a pain to get it properly processed (of the few remaining places around here, too many simply can't be bothered to do it right). One could certainly process B&W at home but it would still be a pain to learn to do it properly. And don't even think about colors (a lot more complex and expensive) and then there would be the demanding task of scanning each negative or each print and then digitally clean it.
You say that most of what you write will end up digitally, do you do some sort of editing to improve the text or do you just copy it? (depending on what it is ofc)
I do. I consider all writing a draft and all re-writing an opportunity to edit it. And since I need to write drafts it's not like I was wasting my time with fancy extra steps ;)
Note that as far as my notes are concerned, I don't copy them digitally as I don't need a digital copy at all. They serve as an inspiration or a reference that I don't need to access on a computer at all, I access them through my (analog) setup.
It's a Zettelkasten (a fancy German word to say 'box of cards' that is both a note-taking and management system). All my notes are simply and directly moved from my DIY notebook to my references archives. Hence, if you checked the link in my first post, my notebook being both A5 and A6 sized (which is the size of my index cards). No rewriting is ever required.
Nowadays, Zettelkasten is considered digital by most younger users but the concept was formalized many years ago as an analog system and has been in existence as an analog system... for as long as people were able to write on slips of papers. Personally, I see zero interest in having mine digital so it stays analog, it works really well ;)
But this has made me think, how much do I need to have digitally anyway?
Which is an excellent question, imho :)
A great book.
Just so I know if may want to listen to your podcast (nothing personal, it's just that I don't listen to much podcasts ;)), is there any specific points you discuss in it?