“When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.” 君子之交，其淡如水。执象而求，咫尺千里。问余何适，廓儿忘言。华枝春满，天心月圆。
我已堕入无边的黑暗 只靠自生的光亮四处摸索
Call me Chihiro I watched a show, Call me chihiro. This reminds me of the opening sentence of Moby Dick, Call me Ishmael. I like it. Chihiro’s ex-boss opened a shop of tropical fish. Chihiro thought he’s kind of her father. When I was in Singapore, somehow I’d like to visit Spain, Mexico or Argentina. I love that kind of passionate songs, dances, lives and spanish language. There is some happiness deep down there. ...
This Vlak1 lamp is a beauty. Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. -― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? ―- Orhan Pamuk, Snow Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space. ― Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence ...
“In modernist art, obscurity can be a conscious strategy. It is one of the ways in which the artwork can avoid being consumed too easily. Poems need to thicken their textures and scramble their syntax if they are not to slip down too easily, which is the fate of the commodity. Everyday language is no longer a medium of truth. It has grown stale and threadbare, and only by wreaking violence on it can you force it to yield something of value. Literary modernism sends language on a spree, but that’s because it is so distrustful of it. Jameson has some comments here on Benjamin’s idea of an ur-language, an original speech in which things speak their own names. Then comes the Fall, in which the bond between word and thing is broken. Words become arbitrary signs of things, and language degenerates into a Babel of tongues. ...
Here are some quotes from Alex Rosenberg. Is there a God? No. What is the nature of reality? What physics says it is. What is the purpose of the universe? There is none. What is the meaning of life? Ditto. Why am I here? Just dumb luck. Does prayer work? Of course not. Is there a soul? Is it immortal? Are you kidding? Is there free will? Not a chance! ...
“It’s not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.” – Sandor Marai, Embers “The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.” ...
Sometimes you just want to hear these flipping sound. Here is the code for both Flip 7-segment digits and FlipDot. FlipDigits FlipDots Another interesting thing is LED display of tixy.land. Rust FFI and cbindgen: integrating embedded rust code in C. Distinguishing an interpreter from a compiler, Jan 26, 2023. This leads to the excellent course, UCB CS294-113: Virtual machine and managed runtimes.
Patrick Yang is a technical director at WCH. 南京沁恒 Here are some links. openwch github RISC-V based microcontrollers. CH32V003 32bit 48MHz 16KB flash, it is less than $0.5 for example. Arduino-wch58x. Another CH32V project. Flipping dots Kicad panelizing tool KiKit. This 3D printing uses UTR-8100 transparent amterial, from PCBWay.
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