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It's so nice to run into other hardcore long distance sailors with tricked out vessels.
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Interactive fiction is an ideal candidate for rewriting systems, I'm hoping to make use of the homoiconicity of the language to allow the world to be reprogrammed from within. The atoms of the world will be rewrite rules. Brandalism on point. Shell Oil ad sponsoring British Cycling, defaced meticulously to look as if it authentically reads: "WE'VE TEAMED UP WITH BRITISH CYCLING TO HELP US FAST TRACK THE APOCALYPSE."
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  @neauoire I love making kindling. Chopping wood? Also fun. But little kindling pieces are more satisfying to me.
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  @neauoire I wondered if you would visit it. I also wondered how it looked after the fire. Now I know
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@neauoire It's very nice to see you getting closer to the physical intuition and beauty of rewriting. I feel like that's the real insight behind these systems. When you write in them, you're closer to a physicist (or, perhaps, a chemist) than a programmer. Things bounce off of other things, collide, expand, contract.. Modal may be used to build things that look functional, but at some point, you'll need to think like a physicist, or a mechanical engineer. I could make a "string theory" pun.. 
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No one else was sailing that day, we were the only fools out there. Unfortunately, the only spot available in Port McNeil was only partially shielded from the wind waves, so we got our asses kicked all night at the dock too. Now we are ready to relax. We also did a really stupid thing on this transit. Furling the jib is really difficult in high winds, even when facing into it, so sometimes we roll it in wrong. Rolling it wrong means that the wind can catch in it. You can gauge how far north you are by the reaction people give you when you answer them that you don't eat fish. We sailed to a small fishing town that claims to have the world's largest burl, so we have got to go check this out. π± Exploring how to make a little interactive fiction engine entirely using rewrite rules.
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 Galway Blazer II, an unconventional junk-rigged schooner designed by English naval architect Angus Primrose and built at Souterβs, in Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1967, for a much-decorated wartime submarine commander, Bill King, who intended to sail her alone around the world. Total Modal: A category of rewrite rules that must always have more terms in the left-hand side, than on the right-hand side. When found to be the only type of rules in a program, it makes up for a non-turing complete program that will always terminate. For example, where "swap" is the fuel: <> (swap ?x ?y) (?y ?x) Up before every sunrise, not much time to take the computer out of the chart table, drifting in many fjords through countless snow-covered mountains, taking too many photos. A modern take on the traditional Chinese trading junk: the 48.5-foot Kβung Fu-Tse, designed by the late Thomas Colvin and built of aluminium. Colvin lived aboard the junk with his family and from 1973 to 1989, sailed her more than 75.000 sea miles.   @ccohanlon I love your aquatic vessel build posts. Just really freakin love them. I always save the schematic view and mildly daydream about building similar things for the next few days. Thank you for that joy. Sailing through the thick diesel plume and violent wake of a cruise ship. An hour after it has passed, the air still burns our lungs, and a 10m high yellow fog covers the strait from coast to coast. Fuck the cruise ships industry and everyone aboard.
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  @neauoire If it were diesel that would be bad enough. It's a demonic sludge called bunker fuel, which is basically one small step away from tar and has to be heated in order to be pumped from the tanks to the engines. Nothing in that plume is good to breathe. |
@neauoire All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.
@neauoire Talk solar to me