NOW FOUND! HUGE RELIEF. JUST BEFORE POTENTIALLY THE WORLDS BIGGEST BOLLOCKING EVER!
MANY THANKS TO ALL KIND TOOTERS WHO SWUNG IN TO ACTION TO SPREAD THE WORD.
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Katy needed a washi tape dispenser. She was using an old aluminium foil box as a makeshift one, but she didn't like it.
An hour with OpenSCAD later and I've designed us a simple custom one that fits our use case exactly. I just need to get it printed.
God, that was satisfying.
Fun question: #OrgMode tables don't support cells that span multiple columns/rows, do they?
Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns instead of pivot-table-get-body).
#Haskell's type system would've caught this. 🙃
C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.
By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.
The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.
@Kazinator I feel that that would have been much more useful information.
nil is about the least useful failure state there is.
Okay, so this keeps happening. Up 'till now I've been able to fix it with a thorough cleaning, but no such luck this time.
Suggestions?
So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?
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Possibly related: github.com/tbanel/orgaggregate , could always use an easier interface =)
GitHub - tbanel/orgaggregate: Aggregate tables in Org mode
Aggregate tables in Org mode. Contribute to tbanel/orgaggregate development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@Sacha Chua This looks like it could solve my problem but I've already started down the rabbit hole.
haha, no worries, I'm sure your adventure will help you learn interesting things!
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#cfw got an org-table import/export functionality. Just select the org-table and run M-x cfw-org-load. Analyse, sort, edit, filter your table in CFW. Then update the original org-table by M-x cfw-org-save.If there was no original org-table (the table was created from scratch or from other source like CSV), the cfw-org-save places the exported table into the kill-ring. This way org pivottables can be generated from CFW.
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If your business model does not enable you to pay your workforce a living wage, your business should fail. End of story.
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We increasingly hear about China travellers who use #deltachat successfully where Whatsapp and Signal fail to work. Recently a family onboarded including a 85 old mother, to prepare for China travel. Everbody succeeded, no troubles!
#deltachat is all about resiliency and "just works" user experiences. Despite ongoing and prospective network blocking attempts, our apps manage to mitigate and remain working everywhere. Meanwhile we are preparing some next level resiliency/security features ;)
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are you saying that delta chat has been blocked in china but is able to employ mitigations that have succeeded where signal's haven't? is onboarding to deltachat easier than onboarding to the use of a vpn or proxy as is standard for users in heavily censored networks?
@hipsterelectron no, we are not aware of specific Chinese blocking attempts currently. The blocking attempts we mentioned happen with a different country, and another one is currently gearing up (more about the latter probably next week).
So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.
I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.
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To be fair C-u *is* a numerical argument so you're not really meant to differentiate (it means the number 4). 😅
@Alessio Vanni Yeah, it's just very magic number-ey.
Ah well, such is the way it is with legacy code sometimes. No way to change it without breaking about a billion other things.
Nintendo in my email today: We have updated our terms of service. If you agree, do literally nothing. If you disagree, please jump through the hoops necessary to delete your account.
How is this legal?
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Salt Lake City unveils new flags to circumvent the legislature’s bill banning “non-sanctioned” flags: fox13now.com/news/politics/slc… #utpol #Utah
Salt Lake City unveils new flags to circumvent Utah's flag law
Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled a series of flags that appear to circumvent a new law that goes into effect banning "non-sanctioned" flags.Ben Winslow (FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU))
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I like using org tables with org-babel like so:
#+NAME: test
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
#+begin src emacs-lisp :var test=test
(mapcar
'(lambda (r)
(mapcar '(lambda (x) (* x x)) r)) test)
#+RESULTS:
| 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 9 | 36 |
@hajovonta You are correct. The ridiculous thing was that I had literally just looked it up. My brain does strange things sometimes.
...and my phone isn't charging properly.
Super.
Okay, the problem seems to have been the charger. Still annoying, but less problematic.
With a whole bunch of folks leaving MS Word and similar as of late, seems like the right time to post this again, but I put together a little resource to help explain *why* it's so important to ditch Word and similar.
[edit: I'm aware of some readability issues on some systems, and am working to fix. See note below.]
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Thanks to everyone who's pointed out that the page is very difficult to read on some systems; I have not had that happen on any of the laptops and/or phones that I have access to, so I wasn't able to notice that earlier, and I apologize for the accessibility issues that creates.
I'm not, unfortunately, a professional webdev, and have found it a little challenging to make a plain HTML page that works everywhere.
Someone in DMs very kindly suggested a fix, and I'll look at applying that ASAP.
I *think* it should be fixed? On my laptop and phone, it looks identical to how it used to, but it now doesn't fix the zoom level in CSS, such that hopefully it should work well in more browsers and on more devices.
Thanks again to everyone who let me know about the problem, and for the kind person who suggested a fix in DMs.
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I *can't* be the only one that sees it. #FountainPens #ExMormon
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Just learned about interned vs. uninterned symbols. Feels like this would be a big piece of this puzzle.
So, I absolutely can't afford to start yet another hobby, but I really want to get into book binding.
Dane's law: There is not a hobby in existence that has any kind of an upper limit on how much money you can spend in it.
Fountain pens? Sure, there's the Platinum Preppy and Pilot Varsity, but also Momtblanc and Visconti!
Amateur Radio? Sure there's your $30 Baofeng, but also your $20,000 kilowatt at-home HF shack!
Drones? Sure, there's your $20 supermarket drone, but also tens of thousands of dollars super high performance FPV racing drones
Computing? $35 raspi vs at-home supercomputing cluster, just for giggles!
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So, I've finally settled on a technique to keep shimmer inks from clogging my #FountainPens and it's working well, but it's not exactly condusive to writing in #teeline which is what I use 90% of the time these days.
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@paradoxmo I'm currently using a TWSBI Diamond 580. As for the technique, I was basically just making a rookie mistake:
It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.I'll try this approach in the future.
Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.
It always amuses me whenever I think about the fact that I got one of my favourite #FountainPens for free with a bottle of ink. It's even more amusing that I've never inked that pen up with that ink.
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@Kate McDonald It's a bit of a pain to work with because I only use it with a dip pen* and have to juggle that with a UV flashlight. That aside, it works really well. Completely invisible under normal lighting conditions and shows up really well under UV.
* Because I feel that cleaning it out of a regular pen would be a pain.
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@Kate McDonald Here's a post about it I made in January.
Okay, I feel like a spy now. I have invisible ink! #FountainPens
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So, with this past #Inkvent calendar, I've found myself in possession of a bunch of shimmering inks. Problem is that they tend to clog my #FountainPens. Are there any inexpensive pens that handle shimmering inks well?
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It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.
I'll try this approach in the future.
Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.
@redbanjer 🪕🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽 Yeah, dip pens were my go-to solution. It's just annoying to have to keep mixing up the ink in the bottle in addition to continually dipping the pen.
PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Edit: typo
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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.
ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org
Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.
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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II
Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:
1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command
2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)
3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal
edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one
This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".
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are you certain? It could last I checked!
[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt
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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:
Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt
Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.
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