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RogerBW

@RogerBW@emacs.ch

#Emacs, #Perl, #Rustlang, #PostScript, #Linux sysadmin, polyglot programming, #boardgames, #RPGs, too many #podcast s, 3d modelling and #3dprinting.
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Alice, to random
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My degree is in Geology, in the event you were wondering how fun I am to be around.

RogerBW,
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@Alice You rock. (Sorry.) (But not sorry enough not to post.)

swisslet, to random
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So, how would this work, Kemi? Employ someone in every public toilet to check genitalia?
Fucksake. Troll.

RogerBW,
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@swisslet No, give the mob permission to do it.

BigJackBrass, to random
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And win handily, I expect.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Anyone else having a K J Parker flashback?

RogerBW, to raku
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The Weekly Challenge 271: Sort the Maximum One #Perl #RakuLang #RustLang #Postscript #CrystalLang #PerlWeeklyChallenge #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/06/The_Weekly_Challenge_271__Sort_the_Maximum_One.html

RogerBW, to books
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The Blood Card, Elly Griffiths https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/The_Blood_Card__Elly_Griffiths.html

kaynSD, to random
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Once again I cause havoc for human resources departments hoping to throw office parties by being a lactose intolerant teetotaller.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @kaynSD "Steady on there, let's not go crazy. How about hookers and blow?"

rrwo, to random
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I have my own domains, and use a separate email address for every website that I sign up with.

A side-effect is that I'll start receiving spam to an address associated with a site I used 10+ years ago and forgot about.

I don't remember the exact site, and I'm not sure if it's worth reporting it to them. My experience with that is that site operators are hostile and insist they weren't hacked.

RogerBW,
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@rrwo Most people don't regard "being bought" as "being hacked", but to a customer it's the same thing.

benjohn, to random
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A couple of grim articles in BCC about UK homes that have been fitted with insulation under a grant scheme and are now inflicted with chronic mould.

I wonder what on Earth is going on here?

There's definitely a sense that the occupiers are getting the run around with no one taking responsibility or providing a central "we'll fix this" point.

What the science or best practice is here also seems very unclear. Does the product just not work? Does it work great, but not in some homes? Does it work great but the homes should have ventilation fitted, or some other remediation? Assuming this approach is deployable at scale then these questions must have very clear answers.

Or is this a cooked up scandal to try to prevent insulation schemes getting off the ground?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-65543897

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxwwr7vyrj0o

RogerBW,
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@benjohn Why not both?

Yeah, old houses were designed for air flow and randomly stopping that air flow will lead to problems.

But anything that's on the news now is election campaigning.

revk, to random
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Just spotted, ask “is your access provider listed?”

Err which one? We use, for various services, at least six! (Ok maybe five as I think BTW and TT both come in as Openreach).

RogerBW,
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@revk Encourages the small guys to stay small, BT and Virgin can put an intern on it and oh dear they got it wrong what a pity.

BigJackBrass, to random
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If you're wondering just how incompetent the police would have to be not to catch someone using a siege weapon, this is a British headline referring to the other sort of catapult. The sort used by Dennis the Menace. No, the other Dennis the Menace.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrr5l81954o

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass "Your father's catapult. An elegant weapon for a more civilised age."

RogerBW, to books
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The Terraformers, Annalee Newitz https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/The_Terraformers__Annalee_Newitz.html

shimminbeg, to random
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OK question for game friends.

How do games you play account for throwing a smoke bomb at the party's light source, if at all? This applies for other fog-type effects but it's the clearest example.

As far as I can tell, PF1 simply doesn't, but that's not a surprise given its vision/darkness/light/stealth/invisibility rules.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg Pretty sure GURPS is silent on the subject. How much smoke obscures your vision in various modes, sure, but not how much it will reduce an existing light source. (Of course a +0 light source is anything from a pleasant indoor room to blazing sunlight.)

shimminbeg, to random
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Actual podcast episode downloaded by me in this year of our lord 2024:

c7b6a3bc9ec8da9d1145669f2ad8c358.mp3

This is episode 11 of 130+ in the podcast so far.

Why are you doing this?

(I'd ask directly but they're not on here)

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg If you're really lucky they'll at least provide some ID3 tags, but a lot of the time that's just proprietary garbage out of their audio editor. I think this is all intended to push you to listening on a website player rather than at your convenience. (I admit I am paranoid, but I keep being right.)

RogerBW, to random
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Things which, growing up in the 1970s, I was led to believe would be more dangerous than they actually have been:

  • flooded gravel pits and quarries
  • quicksand
  • strangers offering me sweets
  • Martin Bormann

Things which ditto ditto less:

  • Nazis (other than Martin Bormann)
RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale Electrical substations haven't been a great hazard to me either, but that's because I didn't know where any were till I moved here at age 39 and found one at the end of the road.

RogerBW,
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@jyrgenn At least in UK and US media, he was a popular choice in drama because he was a bit younger than the rest and wasn't verified dead until 1973.

UnconventionalEmma, to random
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Do people really abandon that many suitcases? Don't they want to take their belongings home???

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240517/p2a/00m/0na/018000c

RogerBW,
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@UnconventionalEmma Hotel is right next door to a really good cheap luggage shop?

BigJackBrass, to random
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The staff certainly gave me a lot of trouble in Walmart.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass I saw someone a while ago claiming that "unvaxxed sperm is the new bitcoin", and I guess in the sense that it has no intrinsic value and you can get into a lot of trouble obtaining it…

RogerBW, to books
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Out Past the Stars, K. B. Wagers https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Out_Past_the_Stars__K__B__Wagers.html

worthlessbums, to random
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when the dice gods bless you

RogerBW,
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@worthlessbums Next PC group gotta have something to blow up after all.

RogerBW,
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@worthlessbums "I tripped and fell into a low berth", job done.

tkinias, to random
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Is something going on with the Internet Archive? It was down for me for a bit, and now it’s slow as molasses...

RogerBW,
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@tkinias It's been DDOSed for a day or so now.

BigJackBrass, to music
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"The counters of the music stores are loaded with this virulent poison, which, in the form of a malarious epidemic, is finding its way into the homes and brains of the youth to such an extent as to arouse one's suspicions of their sanity."

  • The Etude magazine, January 1900, describing ragtime in an article titled "Musical Impurity".

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Schönberg's early experiments in atonality would fit the time and the reaction…

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass Even when it isn't just "and that means they aren't buying my slightly older thing any more".

Speed-thrash was undergoing yet another renaissance as a new generation discovered it was a great way to make everyone over the age of twenty-five give ground in a hurry, hands over ears. Sam was very fond of speed-thrash. She was seventeen.
—Pat Cadigan, Synners (1991)

futurebird, to random
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I guess I just think that those questions children ask, that come from seemingly nowhere— that pure kind of curiosity: is really important, it’s precious. And I wish that it wasn’t so common for adults to stop asking questions like that. I spend a lot of time thinking about the sort of experiences that cause the endless stream of questions to dry up— (it is not because we suddenly have all the answers we need, though that is what some people seem to think it is)

RogerBW,
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@futurebird "It's not going to be on the test, and I am scored only on how many of you pass the test." (learning is just a box-ticking exercise)

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