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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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MFDOOMALLCAPS, to Eurovision
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Does anyone know why the Netherlands were disqualified from

RogerBW,
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@MFDOOMALLCAPS Beyond what's on Wikipedia plus links?

BigJackBrass, to random
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I have just seen a modern version of a traditional instrument described as "folkternative" and I'm sure that civilisations have been toppled over less.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass I go with Leslie Fish's old definition: it's a folk instrument if you can grab it up and run away with it when the police raid comes in.

BP_Gregory, to random
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Microsoft Word crashing during a uni seminar on how to use Word is the most Word thing that could have possibly happened

RogerBW,
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@BP_Gregory "And that's why your finger reflexes need to hit ctrl-S at the end of each seentence."

RogerBW, to books
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Reliquary, Martha Wells https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Reliquary__Martha_Wells.html

Alice, (edited ) to random
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I was just reminded of around twenty years ago when this guy who I knew on LiveJournal took extreme creative liberty and used the head from my LiveJournal profile pic and Photoshopped an image of me and sent it to me as a "gift" and I was just like "uhhhhhhhhhh...thank you?"

RogerBW,
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@Alice Sharp and rusty?

BigJackBrass, to movies
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'“By mistake Roger would actually make a good picture every once in a while,” Jack Nicholson said of his frequent collaborator. “But I was never in it.”'

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/12/roger-corman-hollywood-mentor-and-king-of-the-b-movie-dies-aged-98

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Maybe he didn't make great pictures, but by gum he made good cheap pictures.

RogerBW, to raku
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The Weekly Challenge 268: If the Game is Magic, Where's My Number? https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/The_Weekly_Challenge_268__If_the_Game_is_Magic__Where_s_My_Number_.html

BigJackBrass, to random
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Cover up the obviously bird part of this picture and suddenly it's a shoggoth 😶

https://universeodon.com/@JonBowie/112422828442412660

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "That eye winked at me. Third one on the left."

thcrt, to random
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me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.

RogerBW,
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@thcrt It turns electricity, clean water and coders' lives into profit. There may be some incidental computing function

RogerBW,
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@timthelion @thcrt Well, yeah, not so much actual profit as profit-lite, which enhances the IPO price and lets the founders and VCs get their billions.

RogerBW, to books
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Killer's Payoff, Ed McBain https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Killer_s_Payoff__Ed_McBain.html

atomicbird, to random
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The StackOverflow controversy reminds me of the CDDB/Gracenote situation from, geez, 25 or so years ago. There was no AI, but CDDB:

  • Built a CD recognition database using the work of unpaid volunteers
  • Shared this freely-- for a while
  • Decided that their open-source pledge had been in error
  • Switched to incompatible data formats
  • Sold out to a new owner and started charging for access
  • Filed patents and sued competitors

It's currently property of Nielsen Holdings.

RogerBW,
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@atomicbird Similarly IMDb, built on volunteer work, which until 2017 used to have all their data for download (promised in perpetuity), and now offer only a limited subset (e.g. you can't construct someone's full list of credits, only films in which they had a major role). They first tried to make even this a requester-pays S3 bucket, then backed down.

MaryAnnJohanson, to DoctorWho
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The new episodes are being called Season One. What? https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0gglvqn/doctor-who?seriesId=m001z8c2

RogerBW,
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@MaryAnnJohanson I guess this is now the third iteration, Doctor Who (2024)?

shimminbeg, to random
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The old scenario-writing problem of deciding what playable objectives a cult has between "read tome" and "welcome our new extradimensional overlords". What are they doing that's suspicious and why do they think that's something useful to do?

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg For me, "how can that cross the PCs' path".

revk, to StarTrek
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To be honest, there is no way a starship captain directs the ship using "degrees mark degrees". It would not be precise enough, for a start, and no way that it would make sense.

It would be like steering a car by constantly having to say "set course 243 degrees" and the like, rather than simply setting the sat nav.

It is one of the strangest features of I have tolerated.

RogerBW,
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@revk Yes, well, Gene was an Air Force man not a Navy man, and that was how you flew a plane. (Even to some extent now, though you'd more usually feed a set of waypoints to the FMS and it would calculate the right bearing to fly on including wind correction.)

BigJackBrass, to music
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Inevitably, the part about skipping today and taking a rest from the Cliff Edwards Project can be safely ignored.

A popular Irving Berlin number this time, covered by all manner of people over the years including Cliff on the "Shakin' the Blues Away" LP.

Ukulele songsheet for "Everybody Step" by Irving Berlin (1921). Lyrics and chord diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Ooh. You cause me to realise that I could add an auto-transposer to my songbook page generator. (Then I generate 12 songbook pages and choose the one that seems easiest to play, I guess.)

Alice, to random
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I'm notorious for being average.

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt @Alice Better than "Ann is mean", at which point you have to ask whether it's arithmetic, geometric, harmonic…

BigJackBrass, to random
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I never get a simple appointment reminder from my dentist, I get a "gentle reminder"… which sounds so calmly threatening that I'm convinced that missing an appointment will result in a gentleman called Big Dave coming round to ensure I'll never need the services of a dentist again.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "Word of advice. My bruvver doesn't like it when you don't floss."

BigJackBrass, to random
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Tea break this morning involved a spot of plinking and strumming on my Ohana O'Nino sopranissimo. I've settled on CDAF tuning for this one, which sounds good and has also improved the intonation (always a problem with fretted instruments of this size). Pretty happy with it.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass Standard tea-mug for scale?

AllyRdr, to random
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Time to give Babylon Berlin a watch.

I'm told this is actually a German Weimar set, noir style thriller, and not as I first thought, about a space station in the German capital

RogerBW,
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@AllyRdr "The first Hauptbahnhof Babylon was destroyed by communist saboteurs. And the second, and the third. We don't know what happened to the fourth."

RogerBW, to books
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Mage-Commander, Glynn Stewart #Books #ScienceFiction #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Mage_Commander__Glynn_Stewart.html

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale Oh wow, it's 1990s retro month!

worthlessbums, to random
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when the dice gods bless you

RogerBW,
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@worthlessbums "Why is this ship class called 'Flaming Datum'?"

RogerBW, (edited )
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@worthlessbums "So you strap in here. Spread your arms, you've got to fit this jump fuel bladder on your lap."

RogerBW,
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@worthlessbums Dude, I just ripped off the 1-2-3 install discs from work.
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