20190707

Sun 07 Jul 2019 08:42:24 AM EDT Slept from midnight to eight. Woke briefly around two. High of eighty-two and partly sunny today. Watched Godzilla. Goals: - Make something Done. https://www.metafilter.com/181481/Fasten-then-zip-You-Fasten-zip https://www.tor.com/2019/06/13/babylon-5-is-the-greatest-most-terrible-sf-series/ > This convincing world-building is achieved not just through the beauty of the production design, but also through its storytelling format which, for all B5’s pretensions of being a “novel for television”, is actually a hybrid of arc-focused serialization and stand-alone episodes. This was a format that American television was experimenting with a lot at the time, but what makes Babylon 5 unique is that it does not separate the two narrative approaches into neat, tidy bins like, say, The X-Files did with its “mythology” and “monster-of-the-week” episodes, which can essentially be watched independently of each other to create two very different television shows starring the same characters. In Babylon 5, lore-heavy episodes often have frivolous B-plots and seemingly inane stand-alone adventures can affect the course of the series in unexpected ways. https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish > Sunfish is a simple, but strong chess engine, written in Python, mostly for teaching purposes. Without tables and its simple interface, it takes up just 111 lines of code! This Page Is Anonymous https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20220048 http://voidnull.sdf.org/ Hmm, Firefox "warOnCloseOtherTabs" seems to be broken. https://arslan.io/2019/07/03/how-to-write-idempotent-bash-scripts/ Nothing surprising here, but it's lately a topic of interest for me. Watched the original Godzilla. Really a solid movie. The romance subplot feels a little gratuitous. Sometimes, when the whites of his eyes show, Godzilla looks like Cookie Monster. Thematically, it feels like all the Godzilla sequels that followed should have been about how Serizawa was right, each movie showing humanity ending the world piece by piece with the Oxygen Destroyer. Half-hour walk in the afternoon. Hot, but not unbearable. Saw numerous little white butterflies, a dragonfly, and three crows. Oh, and a woodchuck. https://www.metafilter.com/181120/The-dark-forest-is-full-of-life https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1 > In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. > When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems like we’re the only ones here. After all, if other forms of life existed, wouldn’t they show themselves? Since they haven’t, we assume there’s no one else out there. > Liu invites us to think about this a different way. > Imagine a dark forest at night. It’s deathly quiet. Nothing moves. Nothing stirs. This could lead one to assume that the forest is devoid of life. But of course, it’s not. The dark forest is full of life. It’s quiet because night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent. > Is our universe an empty forest or a dark one? If it’s a dark forest, then only Earth is foolish enough to ping the heavens and announce its presence. The rest of the universe already knows the real reason why the forest stays dark. It’s only a matter of time before the Earth learns as well. > This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest. > In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream. Played with D&D adventure stuff. Watched some Fruits Basket on Crunchroll. Servings: grains 5/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: cucumber, Mandarin, Banana, carrots, coffee Lunch: egg and tomato sandwich Afternoon snack: Mandarin Dinner: Chinese 118/70

< ^ txt