 I've started to look into adding some UTF-8 encoded letters to my text editor(Left), some accented Latin letters, some Greek symbols.. The first thing I did was implement variable code length glyphs, since UTF-8 encoding has characters that span multiple bytes, those would need to be merged into a single sprite. Works pretty nice to add specific characters. A week into January, people have given up on their new year resolutions and I got the gym all to myself again. Creating may be something we are only able to do, not something we can describe or understand. For this reason, technology must always play a secondary role to the creation we wish to embody in our preserved records and our preserved documents. It would be better to lose everything we have recorded, and all of our technology, than to suffer even the slightest diminution in our ability to create. https://web.archive.org/web/20010716003132/http://www.archivebuilders.com/aba010.html
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  @neauoire i'm with leon. Sometimes the mere existence of something is a requisite. A wound string for the bass is otherwise difficult to emulate. It's a bit like living on a boat. A culture needs a lot of oil here, thread there, bubble gum... Ah, you know. My freind Oren used to tease me as I idolized the primacy of poetry (oral!). He said, creative! Have a child! @neauoire i should add, i try to transform things of my own so that the digital bits don't just rot away. Magnetic tape. Paper, copper, constructs, conspiracy theories. I have a gramaphone that can be used to make very shitty recordings on old cds. My goal at the time was to make only one recording at live gigs and give it away. Scratches on plastic that almost no one could play. Fleeting Whispers. The Inadequacy of Most Proposed Digital Preservation Approaches
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@neauoire how i wished documents like that were quotable. This is very much relevante to what i am writing a paper on right now… 🤷♂️  @neauoire according to Alej who was up until recently the digital archivist for the state we live in, there's some cool work out of Yale right now to make VMs emulation more accessible to (potentially non-technical) practitioners. Here's an old post about some of it that I found. https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2014/08/emulation-as-a-service-eaas-at-yale-university-library/ And he saw, in the surface of the water, his purely accidental head, with ears like muffins, the left one crushed and the right a trifle underdone, and he saw his purely accidental body, a potpourri of pots and pegs and flotsam, and somewhat barrel- chested, in that his chest was a barrel, though narrower in the middle; Mymosh the Selfbegotten took great delight in his person.   @neauoire that's in The Cyberiad? I had completely forgotten. Gonna put it on my list to read again this year. I recovered an old library -sale hardback years ago, and I love it.
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Oh shit! Oh wow! Someone online wrote some documentation about this, it's.. it's.. your own website
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  No strings? No problems! MacLisp got Implode/Explode! 💥 http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/01/info/maclisp-commands.info.html Implemented these two extremely cursed operators to transform a symbol into a list of numbers and back, on SECD. https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/lispkit/tree/master/item/examples/capitalize.lisp The foul weather gear locker was always went from condensation, added a little vent so the cold air could fall out. *touching* @crc on the retroforth page, both glossary and concise link to the same page, is there a different glossary that's more consise? Implementing an opcode specified in a barely readable pdf of a document scanned at a 30° angle. :bloat: @neauoire ah yes the “bored grad student scanning in a xerox of a document” category of academic computer science docs   'Well it's jolly unsafe and it shouldn't be allowed!' Jelly of Dawn Threader's companionway hatch. :eyes_fast: Completed the new black lifelines! Hopefully they'll last a while, looks nice a hell.  @neauoire UHMPWE is difficult to solution dye, although black has been possible from the start. The rest has been dipped in dye, which doesn't stick to the fibers well. Our blue rope was just dirty white after a season. There's some progress recently: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0032386123002033 @neauoire I used to do these massive custom rope contracts a few years ago. Go though thousands and thousands of feet of Amsteel blue a contract. The samthane coating on it was pretty durable but eventually I’d look like a Smurf. |
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Super, on peu écrire en français maintenant ! :)