 We'll be spending the next few weeks stocking up for the summer. Beyond Texada Island, we won't be able to resupply much, so we carry food for about 4-6 months aboard. We don't use refrigeration at all, so the way we manage to eat fresh greens is by sprouting, which is a habit that we've kept up for a few years now. Each day we have a cup of sprouted legumes ready to cook with. Dried legumes keep for a long time, and sprouting them reduces our usage of fuel to cook them. Made a cozy rack for our solar oven. #theBoatyard
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 Counting the days 'til casting off. The weather is getting nicer, everyone's working outside on getting their ship ready for the end of may.
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I've ported the little Note Pad application last week, and it turned out to be a lot more practical than I expected. I have it open all day long and by the day's end its 8 pages are full of snippets and things I've collected. I admire the minimalism of the original one, but lacking shortcuts for jumping between words and the lack of shift+mouse selection was annoying, so I've added those. https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/tree/main/item/gui/notepad/notepad.tal  @neauoire @tendigits someone made a patch to fix the weird OSX issue with sprintf  Parallel self-modifying programming has all sorts of fun non-deterministic effects. In this case, the color to paint is written in memory instead of being kept safely on the stack. You can see the different states of the threads. The task is too much for one :uxn:? Ask a friend for help. It's crazy how good the stack architecture maps on parallelism. Also, it's crazy how self-modification throws a wrench in parallelism.
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 @neauoire Yep, there's a good reason highly parallel code tends to prefer pure functions and read-only data.    "Overview" chapter of some books, illustrated with picture of an angry anthropomorphic tree with arms labelled "branch misproduction" wacking an anthropomorphic robotic moon with a heavy pipe labelled "pipeline error". Do you ever work on stuff and then stop yourself like shit, no ๐ YOU'RE ๐ NOT ๐ MAKING ๐ SMALLTALK
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@neauoire do it do it .ake smalltalk (I'm saying this cause I was planning on implementing smalltalk (or a similar oldschool OOP language) myself @rezmason Stumbled on this interesting reversible cellular automata today, I think you might like: The nice weather is coming back and we're nearly ready to cast off. We have to resupply for the summer, and haul out to check that everything under the waterline is in good shape - then, we're heading north. We've done an awful lot of changes to the ship this winter, we're excited to go put these experiments to the test. We've collected details notes on the various modifications these past few months here: Each time I implement form logic, I learn a few new tricks, I've always been a bit scared of handling negative length selection(when selection-to, is before the selection-from). Turns out there's not much to it beyond making helper functions that returns the range and flips thing when they're negative.  Went ahead and implemented both-ways selection in Left after learning to do it with Note Pad.  @neauoire I had this computer setup for a while. Those 9845s cost as much as a house when they were new but if you work for the company that makes them it's easier.
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 @neauoire ok, what's #solarprotocol (the hashtag shows it part of lots of cool sounding things, but not exactly what it is ๐ )? |
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My friend had a homework for a course she is taking. She is a very nice web designer. So, her homework was to make a demo landing page and she asked me for an interesting idea. From the list of ideas I provided, she choosed lactofermentation and took info from your wiki and grimgrains website.
@neauoire I'd be interested to know more about your food storage - I'm a bit surprised you can carry six months' food.
Have you tried a solar cooker to reduce fuel use?
@neauoire in my everyone sprouting uses quite a bit of water. How much fresh water do you carry? Do you recycle the soaking/rinsing water?