Gregory's Server
I've always wanted to try implementing a segment display, where each bit in a byte is a segment being turn on or off.
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The book I'm reading talks about a word I hadn't come across before: "usufruct"(use the fruit) The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance.
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 @neauoire apparently different property systems distinguish the right to use, the right to benefits from, the right to modify, and the right to destroy. And maybe others as well ! So I think a farmer might have the right to use and modify a pasture, but not the right to destroy the pasture, because the community has an interest in farming continuing after the current farmer had passed on. Elinor Ostrom touches on some of this in Governing the Commons iirc. Someone just "Oh, hell, I'm just too lazy to write my own programming language" at me. I always thought that THAT was the lazy option, it seems to be infinitely more work to learn some insane build toolchain, navigate vestigial compiler flags, jump through the hoops of using and learning some framework so that after weeks of sifting through documentation you can build some half working thing that will have to be maintained across the temperament of some maintainer somewhere. How's that lazy
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 @neauoire using someone else's language for sure feels like gur path of least resistance compared to writing one's own, i don't think it's quite lazziness, but i recon some of gur early bumps in gur road are enough to deter allot of folks, especially in gur case of people wanting to use [LIBRARYGOESHERE] in their projects.  @neauoire but ughhh.... Then you'll need to learn the assembly/binary for the target architecture...? And if you use llvm to handle that you'll still need that ir building blocks and write them in c or something... Often to me if I needed to use a lightweight script I just use some lua and call it a day  @neauoire That’s akin to inventing a speaking language with all the grammatical rules to go with it! Plus letters, slang, getting a keyboard (virtual & physical) designed & made, etcetera. Both take up far more resources & time than people realize. Just as it is more efficient (time & energy wise) to use an established language to communicate, so it is more efficient to use an established programming language. It has been more than 10 years since I last had a job. If each of our cells is remade over the course of 7 years, then not a single cell of my body has known what working was like, I have a faint memory of hating the whole thing, but physically I've never worked.
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 @neauoire I don't want to be intrusive and I know this might be a bit ignorant, but I'm genuine when I ask how have you been subsisting? I've been freelancing for some years and I've had some rough times. Do you mean job as in fixed/9-to-5? Do you guys get your income from your products? Crowd funding? or freelancing/remote projects? Rekka and I just finished our submission to #fantôme zine. We went for playful/meta/clever. I hope you like what we've cooked up 👻  GIMP's default shortcuts: - B, for the Pen tool What even the fuck
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@neauoire@merveilles.town Pinsel and Bleistift :blobcatgooglyfingerguns:  Just stumbled on the most fascinating little graphics drawing bug from accidentally recording position offsets instead of absolute positions for the vertices of a stroke. I can see myself playing with this for hours.
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@neauoire this reminds me of @golan Yellowtail work. http://www.flong.com/archive/projects/yellowtail/index.html It's raining today, wasn't sure what to do so I went ahead and finished the #uxn implementation of minesweeper.rom(3.2kb). Then I thought maybe adding theme support might be fun, and yes, I should have had it from the beginning. @neauoire i haven’t played minesweeper in years, but these suddenly, really made me want to again We're packing to trek across the forest, beyond the sign that reads "It's not the bears that you should be worried about in this area, it's the wolves." "Do you have the tambourine?"
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 @neauoire I'm imagining y'all walkin through the forest sounding like Dick Van Dyke at the beginning of Mary Poppins. 😂 Total spending for the months of June and July: 33$ - a bag of onions  Added the WAIT operation to Adelie, so you can automate switching slides, it's ideal for creating little animation sequences, transitions between slides, etc..  @neauoire maybe add footer too? wih timestamp? modifying way to control presetation (letters and numbers only for security ;p )
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  @neauoire my homepage is basically a "now" XD so don't need a dedicated "now" page Green skills are the knowledge and abilities needed to develop and support a sustainable and resource-efficient society, such as permaculture gardening, ecological construction, maintenance, recycling and renovation. 🌱 It has been more than two months since we've resupplied, I'm surprised we still find things to eat on this boat. We're soon going to have nothing but rice, sprouted legumes and picked carrots to eat. Neither of us is ready to head south tho, so we'll stretch our stores for as long as we can.
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  @neauoire I assume the Cortes Market is too small to be useful right now (? or maybe just expensive) but IIRC you aren't terribly far from the town of Campbell River which seems to have... Save-On, RCS, Walmart, and a few local shops! Sounds like a prime place to restock and head further north to yet-quieter anchorages! :) Treated myself with the writing of a little rom that can parse #uxntal macros and output a pre-processed .tal file. That means that I can assemble a project with macros through drifblim, which is kindda neat. docs: http://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/drifblim.html @neauoire You write that you have 2 choices of using the rom, but there is actually 3: compiling the rom to the target architecture by hand! Interesting story here: https://youtu.be/EY6q5dv_B-o?t=38m38s "It used to be that programming was practically an inalienable right for users. Include a language with the system, situated in a friendly spot. "
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@neauoire "And what's a kid going to do with Visual Basic? Build a modal dialog? Forget coding for XBox. Requires registration in the XBox" Ok so funny thing about this sentence, with an xbox one and $15 to sign up for the indie developer program, I'm pretty sure one *can* write visual basic programs for xbox. I don't know if anyone ever did, but UWP was weird like this. I don't think that's in conflict with the author's point at all, though.  @neauoire the article is from 2003, but today we have excellent and accessible programming languages for children: Scratch for example https://scratch.mit.edu/ or installing python is not complicated. Or I started out scripting computercraft in Lua. @eli_oat I've added a new command that might be interesting to you, interactive fiction-wise. `STOP` it will ignore all normal slide controls for that slide, so if you have LINKs, it will force the visitor to use the LINK to go to the next slide, using the arrow keys or clicking will not advance to the next slide. You can now specify fancy procedural patterns to Adelie 🐧 "How can the ship be sinking? The bow of the ship is higher in the air than it’s ever been before!"   it’s dry where I am! It’s completely normal for a boat to go up and down a bit, you’re over-reacting This ship is so big and well-designed that no one could possibly sink it no matter how many holes they drill! Well maybe there’s some flooding in the lower decks, but I’m rich enough it won’t affect me up here in 1st class |
@neauoire if there ended up being tools using this as their interface, i think it'd be super useful in gur case of using a machine made from salvaged parts, if you can't get your hands on an lcd + ascosciated parts and don't have / can't power a monitor (or dont have video generation circuitry), you could build a basic terminal as a grid of 7 segment displays.
you could even wire gur LCDs yourself and put a basic stencil over it to make one from scratch.
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I remember playing with 7-segment displays in HyperCard way back in the day.
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@neauoire two questions: what is that language&environment and why it's cdef89ab45670123 and not 0123456789abcdef?