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Re:Time to Upgrade Your Monitor (2020) on Thursday May 05, 2022 @04:30AM (#31270953)
Just adjusted my 2014 MacBook Pro using the recommended Fontsmoothingadjuster app - makes a big difference!
Try "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake for more on fungi
That sounds like a fairly basic tenet of bioregional thinking.
Plus one for this.
Re:The gradual extinction of softness on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:39AM (#29185437)
Thank you.
Re:Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:41AM (#28454270)
I don't understand - according to the paper you cite, cloth masks were less effective than surgical masks, (which would be expected) but not useless.
Re:Questions about Trees (2020) on Saturday August 28, 2021 @04:10AM (#28336449)
Yes, the work of Suzanne Simard (https://suzannesimard.com/) and others should also be factored in - although I wonder if the models exist for this yet.
Re:Why we're blind to the color blue on Saturday July 17, 2021 @07:07AM (#27864993)
John Scalzi authored at least one episode in the first season, and I think another in the second.
Re:Ask HN: Show me some most beautiful fonts on Thursday May 27, 2021 @04:01AM (#27300483)
Most definitely not free but gorgeous: Athelas https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/athelas

Scala and Scala Sans already mentioned upthread

Quadraat Sans: https://www.typeby.com/fonts/quadraat-sans

Re:Ursula Le Guin Books on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:04AM (#27095009)
Le Guin is a writer who, for me at least, really understands and likes people. Perhaps that relates to her deep knowledge of anthropology, mentioned by others. She also deeply respected indigenous cultures. The two are combined in "Always Coming Home". And if you want a fascinating, multi-perspectival take on racism and slavery, the "story suite" "Five Ways to Forgiveness" is masterful. And of course, the "Earthsea" novels are incredible, and have the best-written dragons I've read. She is just fantastic.
Re:Ursula Le Guin’s Writing Was Shaped by Anthropology (2018) on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:03AM (#22421521)
If you want to get a sense of her mature utopian and anthropological thinking, then read "Always Coming Home". It's not a conventional novel but more of a series of observations on a post-apocalyptic society in California. The framing device is of an anthropological investigator from another time/place interviewing people in the society or hearing their stories and poetry (she also wrote good poetry). It even has accompanying music which she collaborated on with Todd Barton.
Re:Pinboard at the Stanford Internet Observatory on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @04:20AM (#21003313)
An excellent summary of a highly complex situation.
Re:Top Scores: Video Game Music on Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:01AM (#19476091)
And Robyn Miller also scored the beautifully atmospheric music for Riven. Austin Wintory's work on the three parts of the Banner Saga is quite an achievement.
Re:‘The Left Hand of Darkness' at Fifty on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:54AM (#19387759)
Through childhood association, my favourite is the first three Earthsea books, but probably her greatest writing is in her post-apocalyptic semi-utopia Always Coming Home, and maybe her most moving writing is in the 'story suite' Five Ways to Forgiveness (originally Four Ways...) on societies dealing with racism and slavery. Needless to say, her short stories are marvellous too.
Re:The slow death of the electric guitar on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:51AM (#14635444)
Check out Jacob Collier too. Incredibly talented mult-instrumentalist and singer.
Re:Turing Drawings on Friday November 08, 2013 @06:51AM (#6695593)
Re:Find Your Color Scheme on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @11:18AM (#5786733)
http://colorizer.org/ is another nice tool in this area.