Don't most people have their own base level of happiness? Some people are just always happier than others, regardless of circumstances. It's a personality trait.
For me it is a state of mind.
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auselen commented on People Who Hunt Down Old TVs bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/tmendez
I think some younger people might have never really seen a CRT. And they're positively rare now. I encountered a CRT TV in the hospital waiting room recently and was a bit startled to see one. So for those only passingly familiar, if you get the opportunity, spend a bit of time experimenting with it visually. Jiggle your eyes, look away suddenly, and then back, and try oblique angles. Maybe you'll see what they mean about "you just can't recreate that glow".
It's hard to describe but the image is completely ephemeral. All display technologies involve sleight-of-hand that exploits visual illusion and persistence of vision to some degree, but the CRT is maybe the most illusory of the major technologies. It's almost entirely due to persistence of vision. With colour TV and fast phosphors the majority of the light energy is released within a few milliseconds of the spot being hit by the beam. If you had eyes that worked at electronic speeds, you would see a single point drawing the raster pattern while varying in brightness.
A bit of TEMPEST trivia: The instantaneous luminosity of a CRT is all you need to reconstruct the image. Even if it's reflected off a wall or through a translucent curtain. You need high bandwidth, at least a few megahertz, but a photodiode is all that's necessary. The resulting signal even has the horizontal and vertical blanking periods right where they should be. Only minor processing (even by old school analog standards) is required to produce something that can be piped right into another CRT to recreate the image. I'd bet it could be done entirely in DSP these days.
I might miss visual aspects of CRTs, but I mean most of them had a coil sound or some kind of cracking sound. May be as TVs, screens for gaming consoles they were fun, but as monitors I don’t miss the heat burning my face.
auselen commented on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020) benkuhn.net/attention/... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
Reaching 40+ and having a full set of family, I think there is one more subtle resources that people don’t talk about until it’s too late (for me it’s now) —— not your time, your energy, your attention, but your mental strength to use the above resources.
Right now, I’m not really out of time or energy or attention, but I just don’t feel the interest to pursuit any intellectual hobbies that I used to pursuit. Occasionally I went back to them but quickly dropped after maybe a day. I used to work on hobbies every day, but nowadays? Maybe once per month.
Anyway, my advice is to NOT get a kid or even married if you have some strong intellectual interests. Family and kids are going to replace them as a new life style. It is not a worse one, neither a better one, just a different one. But you might never ever in this life get to drill deep into what you loved because you are going to lose the love — but not entirely, so you still regret.
> I’m not really out of time or energy or attention
Similar…
I think it is because you intuitively learn that you need to have some buffer of energy for crises.
I get that some families are lucky but these are the ages that health problems and losses starts to show up. Even more for your parents. Every year it is something…
auselen commented on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death energyvanguard.com/blog/t... · Posted by u/almuhalil
Mandatory if you have water troughs/tanks for animals such as goats or horses. Also a very good idea to encourage swallow nesting. Many an evening I watch a dozen or so swallows on our property dipping and diving in a sort or aerial mosquito feeding dance. Swallows are very cool btw. HTH, RF.
African or European swallow?
auselen commented on Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser learn-c.org/... · Posted by u/Buttons840
funny how much the tools you first get comfortable with shape everything after. even today, setting up a simple clean c environment is way harder than it should be for beginners. tutorials like this help, but eventually pointing people toward gcc or clang early on makes a huge difference long term.
I totally see what you mean but after 30 years of experience, I couldn’t put it that way. Even the simplest editor and a command line was enough for the “hello world!”.
auselen commented on Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser learn-c.org/... · Posted by u/Buttons840
As great as this looks, I think it should heavily emphasize moving on to using GCC (or maybe LLVM).
I learned C in the mid nineties using a copy of Visual C++ 1.0 that a friend had gotten from his father (and probably he got it from work). It was the only compiler I knew of and once I was ready to move beyond toy programs, I was seriously hampered by the fact that this compiler couldn't produce text mode executables (any call to printf opened its own new window that definitely wasn't cmd.exe) and it couldn't set the graphics mode for blitting pixels. It was heavily oriented around this new fangled MFC thing but I was a teenager so I wanted to program games not business apps or whatever. That meant I wanted text mode or graphics mode.
My high school CS class had Borland C++ and I could set mode 0x13 with that in DOS. But I had no way of obtaining this compiler as a kid. And it probably didn't work on Windows 95 anyway.
Anyways, it wasn't until the early 2000s that I finally learned about GCC, a free as in beer and freedom compiler and the simplicity of it would have been amazing for learning.. If only I had known.
Probably same years… whenever we got a new computer I was removing OS shipped and installing a previous MS OS. Win3.1? Nah I want DOS, win95 nah… I want 3.1. That’s where my tools were.
Funny thing I still use win10.
"The women, aged between 18 and 38, were sitting in a circle eating hummus and bread sticks on Thursday evening as part of a “welcome meeting” for Youth Demand, which calls itself a non-violent protest group."
Eating hummus and bread sticks.
You dip bread sticks to hummus, if anyone is having hard time to visualize this…
TX for this! My older kid and I are learning Rust with Rustlings, but this will help me add a physical element to it (even though it's simulated), eventually we may get an esp32. Younger kid loves doing Microsoft microbit, he will definitely be interested in this.
BBC micro:bit?
auselen commented on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” jmspae.se/write-ups/kebab... · Posted by u/TeMPOraL
Pardon my ignorance, but I always wonder how these money laundering kebab places work. We have some in my city too and they always leave me puzzled. If nobody eats there, how do they launder money? I'm probably daft/naieve but can't figure out the mechanics of money laundering when the business doesn't actually move any product.
I think there is some exaggeration
> obviously aimed at the money laundering business
Places also provide facade to some social networks. They can keep relatives having a job, can act like a store front for doing whatever deal.
I accept they don’t survive by just serving food, but some of it basically just bad business or some guys to have a legit place for other activities.