Gregory's Server
We're back in Desolation Sound, no more sailing for a while please. I only want to enjoy a tiny bit of summer before it's over.
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@akkartik I enjoyed your post on your 2024 development habits, goals and durable programming! Thank you for writing it. I was wondering, what's the trick to see the posts in chronological order on your site?  (I don't know if I came up with this, or I'm remembering someone else writing this a while back. But either way I'm sitting here giggling at this) A friend of ours gave us a memory game, where you flip two tiles of the same image, and each image is a famous paperback from the 60-70s. Rek and I have been trying to read them all this summer. It makes for somewhat eclectic readings in comparison to my usual reading. @neauoire Whoa, this sounds awesome! Is it something they custom-made, or something on the market? 😮  But as in every manifestation, she continued to tinker with her handwriting, slanting it to the right or to the left, shaping it roundly or steeply, loosely or stingily — as though she were asking, “Is this Nancy? Or that? Or that? Which is me?” (Once Mrs. Riggs, her English teacher, had returned a theme with a scribbled comment: “Good. But why written in three styles of script?” To which Nancy had replied: “Because I’m not grown-up enough to be one person with one kind of signature.”) @neauoire that’s why I have like 5 styles of handwriting for different parts of my life / personalities.  Title: Morning at Tsuchiura (1931) Artist: Hasui Kawase https://www.japan-experience.com/all-about-japan/tsukuba/attractions-excursions/tsuchiura #ShinHanga #Art #HasuiKawase #Summer #Showa #Tsuchiura #LakeKasumigaura #Ibaraki #Japan  So I did a bit of digging and found that the mentioned island (材木島/Zaimokujima or Timber Island) is at coordinates 38.33004, 141.06947. Now you can find it on the map. However, the arc has collapsed since then and no longer exists. Here's an old picture where it can still be seen, dated by the Tohoku University Archives to be from the 1910s or 1920s. if you've struggled to program music using uxn/varvara, this file might help you to get started: https://git.phial.org/d6/nxu/raw/branch/main/music.tal it deals with some of the common pitfalls around timing and de-sync. it still won't be easy but at least it might be easier? 😅 Can projects fitting with the #permacomputing concept be something else than low level?
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 @raphael yeah, the technical permacomputing work has less to do with writing software, and more to do with finding ways to do without. :permacomputing: the Sea programming language. it's exactly like C but instead of calling it undefined behavior, they say "you will drown".  C is neither high level nor low level, it is C level.  @typeswitch It's only regarded as a high-level language when the moon is closer to the earth. We encounter meteorological phenomena on the water that if a movie was to use them in their matte paintings, spectators would look at these and say they're not at all realistic. Mountains with perfectly 90 degrees angles, clouds that shoot straight up like a skyscrapper, a fogbank that looks like a head of hair to a mountain.
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 Something out of left field: Our 32-foot sailboat, Wrack, will be in the western Med' within a couple of weeks. I'm toying with the idea that artists, scientists and others might utilise her next year as a mobile, floating platform for creative/research projects or as a retreat. Any interest? I'd remain aboard as skipper to navigate and maintain the boat, as well as mentor occasionally. There would be accommodation for 2-3 guests.
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 @ccohanlon Wouldn't I love it? But I don't think it would be possible for me. I hope some people will have the occasion to enjoy it. Woke up with guitar riff in my head, unable to remember what it's from, an echo from the distant past, it tastes like scrapped knees at the skatepark, playing Perfect Dark 64 in Sam's attic and smoking Drum. "Stickin' In My Eye" by NOFX tfw still don't have any PDF readers which can handle the 12,000 page ARM reference manual
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 @drewdevault Is it the same doc as in this report? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1485 (reported by @nekohayo ) If yes then the perf is half fixed as the second half of the patch has been in review for a couple of month. This should help in Okular, Evince and Paper. And anything using poppler. Otherwise it would be interesting to get our hands on it. @drewdevault Let's just hope its more readable than the x86 one. I honestly don't know what creature the manual is designed to be read by but they certainly aren't human.  |
@neauoire Im glad you’re safe.
@neauoire How many years have you been living aboard now? Feeling a bit tired of it yet or just a passing thing?