I often take my friends to the walkway where they filmed the Imperial capital scenes in Andor.
The Barbican is Coruscant.
Readit Newselectrosphere commented on On loyalty to your employer (2018) medium.com/hackernoon/on-... · Posted by u/Peroni
Honestly - leave the whale, jungles, and over-touristed Tokyo-ites alone.
Travel lightly, get a feel for different environments and cultures, then take that perspective to your hometown.
Travel is frosting. The cake can be building a meaningful life that involves community, maybe family, and possibly meaningful work.
I worked remotely from Tenerife last year. I was there two months, at first it was great, everything new and novel. But it wears off and towards the end of my stay I longed for home, community and my usual routine.
The best balance is occaisonal "pattern interrupts" like travel abroad (or within your own country). You do not necessarily need big sweeping vacations or "experiences". A bike ride in a forest for a few days with a friend you have not seen for months can give you that mental refreshment.
electrosphere commented on How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015) thelogicaloptimist.com/in... · Posted by u/rzk
Mine is a bowl of old fashion oats, frozen mixed fruit (I like a blueberry/blackberry mix), and maybe some non-fat plain greek yogurt and/or a glass a of plain soy milk.
Alternatively, a couple of scrambled eggs with a piece of toast and a bananna is fairly healthy.
A fried egg on an English muffin also isn't a terrible way to start the day.
Target ~400 cals, Try and get some protein and fiber in there. Watch out for saturated fats and high sodium (see the DASH diet for tips). If you are diabetic or risk diabetes, check out the glycemic index and shoot for low GI foods.
That'd be my advice (I'm not a doctor, what I'm suggesting could be 1000% wrong.)
I used a CGM recently. I tried breakfast as oatmeal with blueberries and mixed in with peanut butter. It spikes my blood sugar outside the "normal range". I treat oatmeal as once a week treat to avoid food boredom.
The oatmeal was a "big bowl" variety from a packet. I heard rolled oats might be better but it's a hassle to cook.
Most days breakfast is scrambled eggs (3 eggs), spinach, cheese. Sometimes I add tuna or avocado for variety. That keeps things stable.
electrosphere commented on Librarians are dangerous bradmontague.substack.com... · Posted by u/mooreds
Just a comment that the library has become my "third space" these days.
I am sooo grateful my local University library is open for public visitors. I visit every weekend and enjoy fast internet, a pleasant and quiet environment and can plug my laptop into one of many large desktop monitors here.
Fantastic shot!
I was in Tenerife in November 2024. I did some basic astrophotography one night with my Pixel 6 phone and a steady hand.
I managed to photograph M31, the Andromeda Galaxy for the very first time. It just appears as a faint oval smudge... but I was in awe.
Locating it was a challenge (I was flipping between a 2D star chart and my photos) so I was very happy to finally capture it. A few days later I discovered the Stellarium app which makes locating things much easier.
electrosphere commented on 3dfx: So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (2023) abortretry.fail/p/so-powe... · Posted by u/kristianp
Just to add my experience to the pile: when I went to college I was able to convince my parents to get me a custom PC from a company called GamePC. Among the specs in 1998:
400Mhz Pentium 2
128MB
Nvidia Riva TNT
3DFX Voodoo2
CDRW (4x4x24 I think)
Syquest SparQ (Awesome, but had major issues)
Internal Zip Drive
Halfway through my freshman year I decided to swap the motherboard and CPU for a crazy motherboard/CPU combo. There was a brief moment where Intel Celerons didn't really prevent you from using them in a dual CPU setup, so I had two 366mhz Celerons overclocked to ~433mhz (sometimes up to 533mhz, but that was less stable) and started playing around with OSs like Linux and BeOS to actually take advantage of them.
edit: corrected the amount of memory
/end reminiscing about a simpler time
I had something similar!
300Mhz PII - it came in a black cartridge thing.
NVidia RIVA TNT which used the AGP bus on the Intel LX440 mobo.
A whopping 128Mb of RAM and 8Gb HDD.
I recall using a program called WinSplit to split the Nvidia driver over several floppy discs on my bosses Win3.1 machine in the office. I didn't have internet at home and really wanted to play Jedi Knight and Battlezone.
We're just 5 years away from...
- AGI/ASI
- Fusion Energy
- Linux overtaking Windows
2025 - Year of the Linux Desktop
electrosphere commented on Recreating Dune II for the Amiga spillhistorie.no/recreati... · Posted by u/binarycrusader
Woah, I would have loved a A1200 version back in 1993.
I loved this game, and remember having to swap several discs to play it before I eventually bought a HDD (a whopping 545Mb beast).
It was only recently that I saw the DOS intro on YouTube and realised the Amiga had been short-changed.
electrosphere commented on How to avoid a BSOD on your 2B dollar spacecraft clarkwakeland.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/linebeck
> And apparently the astronaut !touchscreen! GUI is written in Javascript (not a joke).
why would that be mistaken for a joke?
I believe it's because in JavaScript some values or expressions are "truthy" or "falsey" depending on how they are evaluated.
Photos of it plus Trinitrons in my CRT buying guide: https://opticalgarbage.com/wiki/index.php/Gaming/CRTBuyingGu...