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Defederated mastodon.top altogether, until they deal with their fucking spam problem
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@neauoire I just blocked that server. I have no interest in scantily clad young ladies. Or men, at this point ;)
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  @neauoire people from cities or towns near cities don't realize how hard is to stop hearing cars. The constant humming is everywhere... yeah, I loathe cities. The smell, the concrete.. it's so aggressive and unnatural. The text editor I use is not smart enough to locate and understand function definitions yet, so I waste a bunch of time going up and down between the definition and where I'm calling the routines. Until today I had no way to scroll to a definition without moving the cursor. Which meant that each time I jumped to a definition, I had to jump back. Each day I'd run this through my head "Would I spend more time implementing a scroll-to for markers, than the amount of time I save..?"  @neauoire Do you have a sort of mental threshold of "if I have to do this task X times it's worth automating"? It's obviously dependent on how hard it is to automate, but it'd be interesting to hear where your cutoff is. Yesterday, I was going on about how I wanted this round-about way of having quick access to definitions without scrolling, sort of like an IDE. Talking about it gave me the motivation to stop procrastinating on this and just implement the darn thing. Left is now able to locate symbol definitions and its methods and members, and draw them inline. Medley Interlisp has a cute 1-bit bitmap editor, thanks for the head's up @screwtape You all know the old joke about the man who was searching for his lost watch under the lamppost. His friend came up to him and said, "What are you doing?"  Went walking by the oceanside and someone was flying a really nice kite, with a long tail. We sat there to watch it for a while, I never really cared for kites, but I was entranced, I could have sat there to watch that thing fly for hours.
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@neauoire in the right context it’s incredibly soothing, like how people describe fishing. I once quit my job and drove with my future spouse to the Atlantic coast and hung around and flew kites for a few days, so it’s kind of a core emotional memory for me admittedly. I wasn't satisfied with sexels(a terminal bitmap drawing scheme) as it didn't map well with the 8x16 grid. So I've made a little format inspired from it. The representation of the pixels in this image in the text editor is all textual, except for the escape code(0x1b).
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   @neauoire This doesn't help me at all in my search for a sixel editor, but TIL that the editor for Mad Max Fury Road, it called Margaret Sixel.  @neauoire The fun part of search engine'ering. Probably similar to how I found the "old sun machine" in https://mastodon.sdf.org/@eiZen/109813574723462278 Sixel, short for "six pixels", is a bitmap graphics format supported by terminals and printers from DEC. It consists of a pattern six pixels high and one wide, resulting in 64 possible patterns. Each possible pattern is assigned an ASCII character, making the sixels easy to transmit on 7-bit serial links. @neauoire have you seen the things notcurses can pull off these days with sixels? https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses Found a pile of 10 books on raytracing in the marina bin.. THERE ARE OTHER NERDS IN HERE?! Wrote a little companion rom that does live evaluation of #uxn, so I can evaluate parts of a program to see its size and run length. Very worthwhile use of 6.4kb  @neauoire I appreciate even that phrasing — "very worthwhile use of <amount of memory>”. Sadly rare and not a way we tend to qualify modern development.  The sun is finally returning, it has been a long crappy winter. We're eager to finishing up the remaining projects and casting off to head north. 
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  Strapped the paintball CO2 tank, and keg to the wall so when we go sailing, everything stays put. I'm not too much into gadgets, but this is my favourite one. It's a spring hammer to make leading holes. If you're doing a lot of metal working, this gizmo is near indispensable.
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@neauoire Neat! On a related note, i do recall finding a very cool fastening tool, called a wire clamp: https://youtu.be/mRc7ZDRcgrQ I don't see many people talking about it in the DIY space, but I do find it elegant A plumbing sort of day aboard Pino, also.. making lots of holes in stainless steel. |
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Phoenicians ships had no lights, so where is the problem?
@neauoire people have been having funky beverages on ships long before big light bulbs. No problem I say