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RogerBW

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#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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LikeItOrLumpIt, to random
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If anyone is interested, I just posted hot clips of me opening a Dinty Moore Beef Stew™️ on OnlyCans.

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt "Oh no, I'm going to have to eat this… all by myself…"

Faintdreams, to books
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#Books #BookReccs #BookReccomendation #Mystery #Romance

Looking for modern (so 2000's onwards or at least no older than mid 1990's) Mystery / Romance that DOES NOT involve murder.

Does such a thing exist?

Reccs please !

I assume that Mystery / Romance as a hybrid genre already exists but am not sure... 🤷🏿‍♀️

I know that ' Romance & ' as a genre is a far spanning horizon...

RogerBW,
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@Faintdreams Hmm, tricky. I think mystery tends to gravitate towards murder, or at least plausible murder, because of its shockingness.
Romances probably tend to happen in mystery stories more than mysteries tend to happen in romance stories. (van Dine was complaining that "There must be no love interest" in 1928.)

dakkar, to random

Random thought… let's say I find an open source application for Android or iOS. It has prebuilt packages in the relevant store.
How do I check that the packages have been built from the source I can see?
I think I can install Android Studio (or whatever), compile the whole thing, and compare the apk I get to the apk on my phone (already messy because extracting it from my phone is not always trivial, plus I can't do a simple binary diff because the store apk is signed…)
What about iOS?

RogerBW,
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@dakkar If you use F-Droid, you know that they did this already.

RogerBW,
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@dakkar The flow for F-Droid packages is: author sends F-Droid the build recipe, F-Droid builds the package from that recipe, that's what gets uploaded.

shimminbeg, to random
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If someone offers you funding to research the military potential of N, the morally correct response is to spend the grant money on a team of assassins to take out those funders.

If we keep doing this long enough perhaps we can stop all this pointless military research and spend money on things that are good and useful.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale "Crushed in his Scrooge McDuck-tub of gold coins. A sad accident."

BigJackBrass, to random
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“He’s not very melodramatic, and I like his acting style. He says a lot with his expressions and with his face rather than in other ways. He just keeps it very calm.”

  • Actor Finn Little describing, apparently seriously, his "The Surfer" co-star Nicolas Cage.
RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass The impression I get is that you have to convince him that this is a serious film. Do that, as in Pig, and he can be amazing. But if he thinks it's a Ghost Rider or a Renfield he'll phone it in with the Cage Rage

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass I've read interviews with Scott Derrickson, who directed the 2008 remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. He also talks about how much he cares about the original story. I assume there's a lot of coded blinking going on.

RogerBW, to books
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Smoke and Mirrors, Elly Griffiths #Books #Mystery #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Smoke_and_Mirrors__Elly_Griffiths.html

mms, to random
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ok, I'll be adding a proper usefriendly comic archive to the site soon.
With HTML, and back/nav!

RogerBW,
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@mms - Half the tools you (or at least I) want to use, like qiv or Gnu IMP, don't support webp anyway.

BigJackBrass, to random
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It would be very easy to go overboard with this whole sticker printing thing.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass For the Sisters of Mercy fans among us: "and his itty bitty sopranissimo".

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass

I like Cal and his dog Napalm
I like Ike and his itty-bitty A-bomb
Everybody got one, I want mine
You can order it up on Channel Nine

https://genius.com/The-sisters-of-mercy-doctor-jeep-lyrics

BigJackBrass, to random
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Just enough time on my tea break to cut out a couple of the test stickers I printed yesterday and slap them on one of my ukulele cases, mainly to test for durability.

No sign of smudging as I applied them, although I've yet to test the water resistance. I'm certainly happy with the appearance: they don't look out of place with the professionally printed stickers already on the case (but my goodness that orange is bright!).

Photograph of a black rectangular instrument case with a rigid black carrying handle and chrome fixtures. A variety of colourful stickers decorate the surface.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass Trying to get a redbubble thingy together in my copious free time.

Sandra, to random

Of all the stuff that a DM does, the most important one is to be the keeper of the secrets. To know (or have a way to find out) the off-screen canon game state. Like, the characters have a treasure chest that they haven’t opened. It’s your job as DM to know what’s in there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/dm-secret-knowledge

RogerBW,
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@Sandra This was why I never got on with World of Darkness, where every book was explicitly "this is just the view of one faction and may not be objectively true, what is truth man?".

RogerBW,
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@Sandra Part of my GMing style is to internalise the deep lore and then work out what that would mean down on the small scale where the PCs are, and then as the campaign goes along the PCs will gradually get closer to the truth. If I don't have firm footing, it feels as though that's all flailing around and nothing really matters. Maybe a god did it? Who cares?

RogerBW,
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@Sandra And RPGs thrive by leaning into cliché. (I mean, not without limit, but it's enough fun to be part of the story that the quality of the story itself can slump a bit and the game overall is still fun.)

RogerBW, to books
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Queen's Advantage, Jessie Mihalik #Books #Romance #ScienceFiction #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Queen_s_Advantage__Jessie_Mihalik.html

BigJackBrass, to RPG
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Still feeling a little unnerved that the party appeared to make some progress in our Cthulhu Eternal investigation last night. We may be on the wrong track, I suppose, but the usual Whartson Hall method is to rope a red herring and ride it erratically into the sunset, whereas @RogerBW seems to have put his finger on a highly plausible possibility (given weight by the traditional Lovecraftian investigation marker: it prompted a handout from the GM).

#RPG

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass You're unnerved?

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass I know a couple of players who reliably go through clue webs like a flaming chainsaw, so I'm a bit surprised when I'm the one to do it.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass 😇

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale At least you have the distances and low population densities so that they make some sense. As opposed to "out of town shopping centre is now the only place to shop" UK.

zyd, to random
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Learning SQL and building a DB, and I'm primarily interested in searching text, am I better off with SQLite or Postgresql? The app will be entirely local so my first thought was SQLite, however Postgres seems to have better support for different search mechanisms (like trigram): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27179479

Thoughts and/or advice welcome.

RogerBW, (edited )
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@zyd Postgres is definitely more powerful, but it comes with all the overhead of a permanent database server process, TCP/IP access, configuring cleanup, and so on. There are lots of jobs SQLite can't do, but when I'm writing something it can, that's what I tend to use.

futurebird, to random
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When I pick up a wild ant such as this Camponotus pennsylvanicus minor worker I’m always anxious that I return her to her colony. I followed her after letting her go. She ran the full length of a football field then suddenly up a pole. Waiting there another ant of the same species. They fussed over each other. Grooming and feeding each other for several minutes. Then they tucked into a nook in the fence and went to sleep! I guess they won’t be taking me to their main nest today.

The sister she ran to find after the strange experience of running over my hand for a bit. They are feeding each other which ants do when nervous.

RogerBW,
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@futurebird "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

LikeItOrLumpIt, to random
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Should I post a pic of the site of my scary woods screen lair or wait until it's set up? I bet there's bugs out there............

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt Before and after?

kangaroo5383, to random
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Finally something worse than “looking for 10yrs of SwiftUI experience”

RogerBW,
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@zvavybir @shimminbeg @DarkestKale @kangaroo5383 @BigJackBrass The incident I'm thinkng of may have been an early one. It's mentioned in Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages but I don't have the exact citation.

worthlessbums, to random
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when the dice gods bless you

RogerBW,
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@worthlessbums doooo ittttt. [brains]

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