 The junk-food effect Every leaf and every grass blade on earth makes more and more sugars as CO2 levels keep rising, We are witnessing the greatest injection of carbohydrates into the biosphere in human history ― an injection that dilutes other nutrients in our food supply. @neauoire damn...seeing you guys post so much green awesomeness and living in a country that's turning closer and closer to a literal desert every year gets me envious... 🥵 Love this pic! Nice shot! We were told there was a tiny market on the other side of the island. We walked through spider-infested jungle for two hours, arrive at the store covered in mud from head to toes. We bought a small bag of potatoes for 13$, walked right back into the jungle. @neauoire I’m getting the impression that you’re in the canadian equivalent to my region. The trick is to carry a stick in front of you so you don't catch all the spider with your face, but it still only catches about 8 out of 10 spider webs. I've been dealing with a lot of #uxn spritesheets and image files lately. I wrote a little image-viewer that let's me look at chr and icn files quickly. Interesting :D Reminds me of the dithered images used to reduce the needed power/bandwidth on this solar-powered website, https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ :D @eli_oat It's nice to see you in the kiosk this morning! I love that you're also using it for your /now page. Every week, I figure out more of the missing blocks to have Hiversaires running on #uxn. I'm not there yet, but I found a scheme to create a single oversized rom containing all the assets of game and unpack them on load to make them usable. For games like Oquonie or Hiversaires, which have large assets, I'd like to still distribute a single .rom file, I'm not interested in having like 10 "disks" in a zip file sort of deal.
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  I don't know why anyone, other than me, would ever possibly need this, but in the case you're that person looking for a cli tool to generate #nesdev spritesheets from TGA files, well, it's your lucky day. https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/chr-format/tree/front/item/tgachr/tgachr.tal
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 @neauoire if there's any of those slide rules left I'd love a delivery once I'm in Vic! ^__^
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 @alderwick someone submitted this really neat patch to the uxn test rom, but for some reason I can't merge the diff, could you have a look?  @neauoire Got it sorted now 😊 The patch had all our tabs converted to spaces, so once I had converted it back I was able to apply it. The unix-jun72 project has scanned in a printout of 1st Edition UNIX from June 1972, and restored it to an incomplete but running system. Userland binaries and a C compiler have been recovered from other surviving DEC tapes. https://code.google.com/archive/p/unix-jun72/ via @akkartik   There's a lot of hand-waving at and against programming languages with reduced specs these days, things like: > A language or tool which prioritizes its own implementation or specification over the interface it presents to users will never be easy or enable its users to achieve simplicity as they must wrangle the remainder of complexity from the incomplete tool. Such a tool is at best superficially simple. Ergo, checkmate forth.
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 @neauoire this is a rich hickey quote right? he's a smart person but i find a lot of his arguments to be misleading and sort of self-serving to be honest @neauoire I'm guessing this author isn't counting the complexity of the language and run-time their preferred technology is built on. Building on 1M+ lines of highly tested language and standard library is a great way to make user code appear simple, but at the cost of pulling in a bunch of irrelevant generality, nice-to-have features, and astonishing security holes that your user code didn't want or need. Ergo, checkmate 1M+ line programming ecosystems. But I'm preaching to the choir, here. Did a big revamp of our little hiragana/katakana practice game. If you're learning #uxntal and want to see suggestions where your code can be optimized, try the uxnlin.rom src/docs: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxnlin We've been sprouting microgreens for food consistently for the past two years. We've tried all sorts of methods, cloths that rot, and stainless mesh over canning lids. But the soft canning lid eventually rusts and stains the sprouts black, which huh, not great.
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@neauoire Now that I'm doing tech documentation work it's so funny to see how you're applying similar principles but to a much more worthwhile form of knowledge sharing @neauoire i imagine you’re not too much into buying new things and i’m not too much into plugging products, but given the importance of sprouting in your lifestyle, you’d really appreciate a multi-tier sprouter. they don’t look as pretty as your jars. but you’ll get a higher and - if you organise it - perpetual yield. also since it’s acrylic, it’s boat friendly? mine is 8 years old and has been through 3 different climate zones. i’d want it with me to survive the apocalypse. Lol, people are awesome. @neauoire Yes, nice! It makes me think of Java's old slogan, "write once, run anywhere", which, of course, failed to be realized. |
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@neauoire "Biology grant makers said his proposals were too math-heavy; math grant makers said his proposals contained too much biology." https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511/