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That summarizes ever grad student I've ever met

yeah, i was surrounded by people like this. i called them "nerds" because they were conformist, unquestioning, and seemed to be far more interested in D&D and various minutiae of these silly games. and nowadays, it's more about people talking about movies, i couldn't yawn more.

we got much bigger fish to fry and childhood is over. if you aren't already planning towards how you are going to weather the global war that is coming, are still living in a city, and prepared to be able to survive without electricity, you are not ready, and i'm not even close to ready yet with that. grateful to nostr for giving me a thing to get really good at building stuff so i can make enough money to buy the fences, sheep, chickens, repairs, build the stuff to teach myself how to do stone age chemistry, weapons production and use, and military strategy (really need to get a paper copy of The Art of War).

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Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

I've got a copy of it right here, the same copy I've had since I was 8 years old. Its my most prized book.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

it's a very important book, one of the most important ever written.

easy to get it free on the internet, probably can even get english and croatian and make a two column side-by-side so that i learn a bit of croat in the process.

yeah, ok, you convinced me, i need to get a laser printer, and some binder things to make books. there is SOOO many i could think of to have a hard copy that are free to download. only hard part is finding versions that haven't got awful OCR errors that weren't corrected. but i could probably even get claude to do that for me, if i can't find a clean copy of anything.

Comte de Sats Germain 1mo ago

Haha, you convinced yourself, I'm just happy yo have been present for it.

Hey, make its a trilinear translation, if you can get an llm to do the heavy lifting - Chinese, for referencing the original (Chinese is only difficult because of the characters - if an llm is taking care of that, then the grammar is a piece of cake), English in the middle, and Croat below.

I hope I don't jynx it by saying this, but I've been feeling like I need to learn Sumerian writing. Those sticks look useful for a dense but readable way to encode information, like it could sit right in the sweet spot between machines and humans.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1mo ago

yeah, babylonian numbers are also very interesting, base 60. more than the number of letters in most modern alphabets.