๐Ÿ‘€ Ah, the delicate art of making your high-res 4K setup look like a potato cam from the 80s, now with extra #pretentiousness in Rust! ๐Ÿฅ”โœจ Because who doesn't want their cutting-edge tech to emulate the tech your parents threw out? ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ“ผ
https://ntsc.rs/ #retrotech #4Kpotatocam #Rust #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated
ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect

ntsc-rs is a free, open-source VHS and analog TV video effect. Use it online in your browser, as a standalone application, or as a plugin for DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, and more.

๐Ÿšฐ Ah, the pinnacle of human innovation: blending supermarket bottled waters to mimic "famous water profiles" for your pretentious #coffee, beer, or aquarium needs. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Because who needs authenticity when you've got two plastic bottles and a mixing ratio? ๐Ÿงช This guide is for those who think a bottle of Evian could transform you into a world-class barista or brewer.
https://www.waterdictionary.net #bottledwater #innovation #brewing #pretentiousness #mixology #aquariums #HackerNews #ngated
The Water Dictionary

Simple mixing recipes for recreating world-famous water profiles for brewing, coffee, baking, and aquariums โ€” using bottled waters from your local supermarket.

๐ŸŽถ Oh, so now #movies are supposed to follow "raagas" too? ๐Ÿค” Because clearly, what #Hollywood needed was a classical music crash course to "perfect" #storytelling. ๐Ÿ™„ Apparently, transforming films into a symphony of #pretentiousness is the future of cinema! ๐ŸŽฅ๐ŸŽป
https://arc.quanten.co/archetype #classicalmusic #cinema #HackerNews #ngated
Narrative Archetypes: 15 Story Structures for Film and TV | Quanten Arc

Explore 15 narrative archetypes derived from 405 films, each defined by five structural parameters drawn from Hindustani classical music theory.

Quanten Arc
So, this guy thinks he's the next John Harrison because he duct-taped a GPS to his desk clock and called it an "atomic clock" ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ•ฐ๏ธ. Spoiler alert: Itโ€™s not actually atomic, unless you count the time bomb of #pretentiousness ticking away! ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ’ฃ #TimeWaster
https://coverclock.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-stratum-0-atomic-clock_9.html #TimeWaster #GPSClock #AtomicClock #InnovationFail #HackerNews #ngated
My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

About the business and technology of very large and very small systems.

๐ŸŽนโœจ Oh wow, a #piano that defies #music #theory and common sense by spiraling into the abyss of #pretentiousness. Just make sure to enable #JavaScript, because nothing says "musical innovation" like relying on a #web developer's afterthought. ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ™ƒ
https://shih1.github.io/spiral/ #innovation #development #HackerNews #ngated
Spiral Synth

Spiral Synth: A microtonal playground for exploring xenharmonic scales and custom tunings.

OMG, another AI fanboy swooning over #DALLE like it's the second coming of #Picasso ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿค–! This article is a masterpiece of *missing the point*, as if anyone cares about the nuances of artificial intelligence art models when most of us can't even draw stick figures ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ. Congrats on discovering a "new universe," but it sounds like an old one full of unnecessary jargon and #pretentiousness. ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ™„
https://borretti.me/article/coarse-is-better #AIart #artcritique #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Coarse is Better

Make AI weird again.

Fernando Borretti
Ah, behold the grandeur of a "one article, one page" technical zine that no one's heard of! ๐Ÿคก It's free because you'd need a PhD in deciphering #pretentiousness to pay for it. But hey, at least they promise "self-sustaining" magic eventuallyโ€”because nothing screams success like praying for change. ๐Ÿ“šโœจ
https://pagedout.institute #technicalzine #freecontent #selfsustaining #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
Paged Out!

Deeply technical zine. And it's free.

Paged Out!
Oh wow, yet another "deep dive" into the "revolutionary" #Linux #setup, #Omarchy, thatโ€™s probably just someone rearranging their #dotfiles with a pretentious name. ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ’ป Seriously, if you think this is groundbreaking, I've got a bridge to sell you... or maybe an overpriced macOS update. ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ธ
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ #pretentiousness #techhumor #revolutionary #HackerNews #ngated
A Word on Omarchy

An in-depth look at the currently trending Arch Linux configuration that is Omarchy.

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Oh, the literary elite ponder the age-old question: should writers be sober or just tipsy enough to think they're Hemingway? ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿท Spoiler alert: the answer is buried under ten layers of pretentious fluff and #Yale name-dropping. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ“š
https://yalereview.org/article/crosley-how-sober-should-a-writer-be #literarydebate #writingtips #sobriety #writerslife #pretentiousness #HackerNews #ngated
Sloane Crosley: โ€œHow Sober Should a Writer Be?โ€

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgeraldโ€™s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

The Yale Review

A quotation from George Carlin

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is โ€œLibertarianโ€. People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable and, to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, itโ€™s just one more bullshit political philosophy.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (2001), Napalm & Silly Putty, โ€œShort Takesโ€

More info about this quote: wist.info/carlin-george/79559/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #georgecarlin #brand #label #libertarian #philosophy #politics #pretentiousness #selfdescription