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There were hundreds of beautiful lion's mane jellyfish swimming all around the ship yesterday. They're hard to take a good picture of tho.
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The hardest part about making a drawing program is not getting constantly distracted by doodling in it when doing any change to it.. Rek is reading Markham's West With The Night, out loud, through the companionway, as we enter a thick fog bank. Rek sailed most of the way yesterday, so I could read the whole of Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles in one sitting.  Preparing Oquonie to be demoed at an event, since it makes use of a couple of special utilities during the assembly of the oversized rom, such as truncate(which turns out is not as commonly available as I thought?), I'm rewriting these little gizmos in uxn proper. One day I'll make it possible for drifblim to assemble oversized roms, but today is not that day. https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/oquonie/tree/main/item/tools/padder.tal Attention Golfers, #BGGP5 is starting a week from today!! Get your hex editors ready and update your firewall rules because this one is going to be a lot of fun! Keep it locked in on https://binary.golf, revisit old challenges, come chat in Discord, and we'll see you soon!
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 @neauoire yeah, I had so much fun with that in the 90s. There was a windows app that could add different actions kind of like an animated powerpoint. Then came the malware guys and then it was blocked in all virus scanners. Someone really needs to develop a lightweight VM container that we can stuff software in. Like, you know how you can buy DOS games on steam, and it just gives you dosbox preconfigured to play the game? That, but for all software on all OSes
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  @foone i'm not sure how useful this is outside of software as art ime the biggest use case for "i want to run ancient software" is when you have ancient hardware, and virtualization famously does not work very well for that   It is crazy to think of just how far glaciers used to extend in Southeast Alaska. There is a reason that the entrance to each glacier arm is bordered by a bar(a shallow rock and gravel bank). The bar marks the point of greatest advance of the glaciers during the last ice age. The glaciers pushed gravel and boulders, then receded, leaving the bar behind. @rek they're so important they even have a specific name and are studied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_moraine I wrote a polyglot program that is both a valid tga image, and a valid rom that will draw that same image.
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We're staying put today, the wind is too weak to bring us forward so we'll drop the dinghy and explore the coast. I wonder if we could install a bat house on the mast, we already have spiders to get us rid of tiny flies, but having a couple of permanent bat residents would be nice.  An ambigram program is one that when flipped backwards, is the same executable. |
@neauoire I had that same issue recently. I was not however motivated to jump in to get a better shot.
@neauoire whoah, i bet that was surreal.
@neauoire part of the beauty is in the motion, which makes it very hard to capture in a still photo I think. Kind of the same problem with taking photos of smoke, or milk swirling in coffee or tea.