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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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RogerBW, to books
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Smoke and Mirrors, Elly Griffiths 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

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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?

jess, to random
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Yesterday I said I'd lost 6kg.

Turns out I've lost 8kg.

Damn...

RogerBW,
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@jess Clearly you should go to Eurovision every month!

BigJackBrass, to random
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The crocodile declined to be interviewed about the award, releasing a statement that they wished to put the matter behind them and move on with their life.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass If that's how easy it is, I'll pop down the zoo tonight.

RogerBW, to books
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Ravenwood, Nathan Lowell https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Ravenwood__Nathan_Lowell.html

Lana, to random
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The back fell off. Some of them are made so the back doesn't fall off at all.

RogerBW,
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@Lana "Ah, sir didn't get the premium panels-don't-fall-off model? Ha ha, also ha."

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

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale @kangaroo5383 @BigJackBrass Some years ago, a group of enthusiastic Esperantists raised their children with Esperanto as their primary language.
They were very shocked when the children, talking to each other, changed it.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @shimminbeg @DarkestKale Mia fagoto estas angiloplena?

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.

LikeItOrLumpIt, to random
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Going to try and make 'friends' with the scary, scary woods behind my house by picking up a screened in tent thingy to spend some time in. We'll see....

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt If you can't find animal repellent, just slather yourself in garlic butter…

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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