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Being able to drawn more than 1-bit pictures in #uxn is pretty nice. The program draws so little power, that even on a grey day like today, I can draw for hours at a time.
30 minutes of Gimp, or 2 hours of Oekaki, the choice is easy.
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Marvin Minsky, Tracy Kidder, E. M. Forster, Ellen Ullman, ... Personal challenge for 2024, read books that don't include the word "machine" in the title.
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 OK: We'll start heading south in a few days. We haven't been able to get rid of garbage since May, we have been stuffing all plastics into this jug, it's so dense now that it looks like it's about to burst. It'll be nice to get rid of that Not being able to trace guide-lines from outside the canvas' bounds was getting kind of a pain, added canvas viewport.
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Write the assembler to assemble itself, then assemble the text-editor to write the assembly of the sprite editor, then design the sprites for the drawing program, then.. One of the cool things with 2-bit illustration that I noticed. If I save the drawing at twice the resolution(1024x640) that I'm drawing it in(512x320), downsizing it from the jpg to a tga and re-importing it is nearly lossless, I see maybe one or two confused pixels of loss during the compression from a 80% jpg. It means that I can always recover my work from a jpg at 200% resolution if I loose the chr source file.  @neauoire I wonder if you'd have even better luck using like PNG-8 instead of JPG. Possibly smaller files, too!  @neauoire PNG has a 2-bit format (and PyPNG supports it), but presumably the interest in JPG is because social media sites will convert it to JPG anyway? Friends of ours are sailing north to bring us mail and should reach us tomorrow, we haven't gotten our mail since early spring. :blobhaj_reach:  "Il n’y a rien de vraiment beau que ce qui ne peut servir à rien ; tout ce qui est utile est laid ; car c’est l’expression de quelque besoin ; et ceux de l’homme sont ignobles et dégoûtants, comme sa pauvre et infirme nature. - L’endroit le plus utile d’une maison, ce sont les latrines. " Théophile Gautier The Strange Loop talk is a month away. *scrambles through a pile of scribbles on paper* "okay, so, what have I got" "computing is fucked, but with a positive twist" "eeesh" I've got loads of cool slides tho. Here's one of Kuno(the machine stops), that says "never leave the machine" to talk about assembly and typeless languages.  Because the Danes already had a strong DIY-culture for small wind turbines generating electricity on farms, they started building windmills to heat their houses. Some chose the indirect path, converting wind generated electricity into heat using electric heating appliances. Others, however, developed mechanical windmills that produced heat directly. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-mechanical-windmill/
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 @neauoire just going to put this here.. a refrigerator with no moving parts, uses no electricity, and requires only a heat source to operate.. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/sep/21/scienceofclimatechange.climatechange  @neauoire Danish leftism is hugely underrated. From Norreboro to Nord Vest in KPH, nearly everyone lives in an anarchist or communist co-op. The only other neighborhood in Europe that compares is Exarchia in Greece, in my experience at least. I'm always lagging about 3 paradigms behind, in anything. By the time, I'm all caught up, it's moved on to something else. If I was 4 paradigms behind, then I'd be right back in sync with the rest of the world..
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 @neauoire Funnily enough, I consider you at least a paradigm ahead of me, and I still feel wildly out of sync with the world. @neauoire This is shaping up so well! Are the gray bits that aren’t black toggleable? Like could it just be black and white? Whenever I draw lips on a character, they suddenly age 10 years at once. And, also look annoyed af  |
