In Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, the aliens chose to transmit their signal at «hydrogen times pi» — which is around 4462 MHz.

I lived in a lavvo from august 2015 to April 2016, and it was the most awesome year ever (including in terms of sleep). I had a nice setup with a platform covered with sheep skins, and two sleeping bags (it reached -15C that winter in southern Norway).

Back when I was younger (10-14) I slept outside more than half of the days of the summer. In the barn, under trees, in trees, far into the forest, often accompanied by my horse, dog and cat. The feeling of waking up outside is so nice. In the forest, the first birds in the morning waking you up, finding new places and exploring. I had capes, some of wool, one of reindeer skin, and that's all you need to be comfortable during the night. I used to ride my horse far into the forest and we would just stay there until the next day. Playing flute, doing woodworking or reading while the horse was grazing.

That period from 10-14 sounds mindblowing! Magic. I'm guessing your folks had a summer house in Norway or something - I love that you had that freedom.

I never used an ad blocker. I think ads are a symptom of our time, and although I understand that not everyone would (or should) follow this idea, I will neither ignore or treat a symptom but rather watch it closely as one should with enemies. Most people on this planet is not using ad blockers so there's an inequality issue, and hiding the effects (ads) of a problem will further stop us from taking systematic action.

Reminds you to keep your anger hot. Better than what I'm going to do, which is block ads with extreme prejudice until the one day when google/apple/mozilla flips the switch and adblockers don't work anymore.

But even though the arguments supporting free will at the ontological level is unconvincing, free will in the phenomenological sense is not the same.

I am of the hard determinist camp but I'm pessimistic about if we're ever going to be able to predict chaotic systems. Even if someone could predict what I'm about to do, this information would be fundamentally out of reach for me since getting this information would influence the outcome (also, maybe the predicting machine itself would causally perturb me enough to not be able to make meaningful predictions).

NRK (Norwegian state broadcaster) published an article this summer with some more images [0], including of some public figures in Oslo at the time like Henrik Ibsen.

[0] https://www.nrk.no/kultur/xl/carl-stormer_-studenten-som-sni...

Everyone ought to click through to this one if nothing else for the images where they've overlaid the photos on present-day Oslo.

When I was about 7 years old I played HoMM 1 and later HoMM 2 with my dad. I didn't have a computer at my mother's house (parents are separated) so I started drawing the different game screens on large A3 and A2 sheets of paper to show it to my schoolmates.

We made character sheets, spell books, skill sheets and an ever expanding world map consisting of over a hundred A4 sheets. We basically invented a DnD-like role play where I was the game master, and it all started with me trying to emulate HoMM.

This epic campaign went on for over six years and had over 30 players, and several other kids made campaigns of their own that became popular as well (there was a "car-world" inspired by Need for Speed, a "Harry Potter-world" that was a strange mix between fantasy and high-tech, and several others).

Musicbee is such a great music player/library program. A pity it's not open source and available on Linux.

Absolutely! You can still run older version of Musicbee under WINE and it works without much issues. Now a days I use Guayadeque player and quite happy with it.

I just had a look at their example (BWV 775) and the first thing I noted was this: Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense (there's no reason to not use the thumb there, especially as the following interval is a seventh).

I hope the internet won't become flooded with sheet music that has bad auto-generated fingering, because it's something that you really trust. If I encounter some strange fingering I trust that the composer knew something that I don't that I maybe should work hard to apply to my own technique, obviously this will damage your technique if it's nonsensical.

> Second finger on the Bb in bar 8 makes no sense

It seems all the more illogical as very similar patterns occur in bar 2, 6, and 10, and the thumb is used every time there.

(Not a pianist myself)

Here's an example to get you started. Compile and run with ./progname | tee /dev/tty | aplay

you can also pipe it into other programs like xxd: ./progname | xxd | tee /dev/tty | aplay

#include <stdio.h>

#include <math.h>

int main()

{

  int t;

  for ( t=0; ; t++ ) putchar( t*((t>>7|t>>13)&73&t>>6) );  
}

I tried two searches in Norwegian ("norsk ordbok" [norwegian dictionary] and "stortinget" [the parliament]), and they both returned many extreme or "alternative" websites. It was especially striking that the neo-nazi group Vigrid's website was the top hit for both searches. Maybe these sites just have less modern web design?

Yeah this is actually a bit of a concern of mine.

As very much a friend of Voltaire's, I don't think it's my place to police people's opinions no matter how disagreeable, but I also don't want my search engine to become branded as the search engine of choice for nazis because it's decent at cataloguing extremist sites.