Just finished reading The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. Such an amazing book! The book is well-known for its reflections on gender/sex because Gethenians are ambisexual, I thought that was less critical to the story than I first expected. Genly Ai is also obviously misoginist,
I ⛺ in Angel Island for a couple nights, here's my experience. The goods: Amazing view: I could see the Bay Bridge and Tiburon from my campground Mt. Livermore: Very short hike and more amazing views, you can go 360 and see GG bridge, the SF skyline and the whole SF
Warning: Spoilers I think perhaps Ted Chiang is my new favorite sci-fi writer. His stories are deep, thoughtful and play with philosophical concepts usually with a fantastic premise. I don't know what are Ted Chiang's influences but I got a strong Borgian parallels from his stories. For instance, in "
Just throwing out there a very simple example of how to get tiling maps working on the Game Boy Advance using Tiled. Code can be found here: https://github.com/victoroliv2/simple-tiled-gba I used Tiled to design a very basic map: I wrote a Python script that parses the generated
I've always wanted to make a GBA game and finally had such an opportunity when I had to brush up my low-level C programming skills and doing such a game looked like the perfect challenge. Luckily, there is a great SDK for writing GBA games in C, no ARM assembly
LINK TO PAPER In this paper, G. A. Smith and A. Frank discuss the chances and evidence that an industrial civilization might have arisen on planet Earth before humans. Summary Relevance to the Drake equation If industrial civilizations has arisen more than once on planet Earth that would mean the
Another chapter on my self-hosted adventures! In this post I'm going to describe how to transfer photos from an iPhone to a Linux box automatically and how to visualize the files. How to get the files? The first issue I had was how to reliably transfer photos from the phone
Has the experience of being human (i.e. the human condition) changed in profound ways in the last century? What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 I believe so, a song made me