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

BigJackBrass, to music
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I might skip tomorrow, but this evening I had enough energy to tackle two more ukulele sheets:

"(Back Home Again in) Indiana" by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley (1917) is an old jazz standard and still played today, so perhaps it doesn't matter that I couldn't find Cliff's version online (I have the album it's on, but nobody seems to have YouTubed it).

Ukulele songsheet for "(Back Home Again in) Indiana" by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley (1917). Lyrics and chord diagrams, unfortunately too much for alt-text.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass How remarkable! A song of nostalgia for home that doesn't include the gal he left behind!

law_geek, to random
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Just remembered the literal deer in my headlights last night on the slip road onto the M11. Fortunately, it had paused at the side of the road & it wasn't a busy time of night. I hope it didn't try to cross the M11, though. There's been too much roadkill around lately.

RogerBW,
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@law_geek It's not uncommon to see a small deer (I think they may be muntjac) casually leaping into the road near High Wycombe. Don't see significant roadkill, though, so that's good.

BigJackBrass, to random
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Read an article this morning about a song, "…the longest-running Top 100 hit in UK chart history, [and which] has been named the biggest single not to reach UK No 1." Didn't ring a bell, so I clicked on the link and had a listen.

Not the slightest hint of recognition. Somehow this tune has been popular for over twenty years, yet I seem not to have even heard it playing on someone's radio at work. The article describes it as "…a much-chanted staple at boozy weddings, karaoke nights and cheesy club nights" which could explain why we've never crossed paths, but it interests me how one person's fundamental pop culture bedrock can be so entirely unknown to someone else. We tend to assume that everyone knows a particular thing, hence my recurring surprise when a Douglas Adams quote receives a blank look.

I guess I missed it initially because I was spending time in America. Since then, my attention must have been elsewhere.

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@BigJackBrass (having searched) Yup, never heard of the song or of the band. And it sounds like, well, a lot of early 2000s pop; for me at least there's nothing to lift it out of that mass and make it memorable.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale @BigJackBrass That was my first guess too, but apparently it's "Mr Brightside" by The Killers.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @DarkestKale I hear a moderate amount of new music but very little of it leaves enough of an impression for me to think I want to find out what it was and hear it again. (One that did recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLd9PcZW5PQ)

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass @DarkestKale Well, new to me. But I don't bother much with the radio these days, because so little of it is remarkable.

GoblinQuester, to random
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I find the social media algorithms quite interesting sometimes (mostly I find them annoying and intrusive). I seldom uses my Insta, but for some reason the my suggestions have been flooded by Babymetal reels, I mean I have nothing against them, and they are cool and so. But it is not really a music I listen too …

Have the spynet picked up that I read a lot of manga lately and intersected that with my music taste (goth and EBM) … and that was the best it could come up with?

RogerBW,
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@GoblinQuester …out of the limited set of things they are being paid to promote right now?

RogerBW, to books
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The Afterward, E. K. Johnston https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/The_Afterward__E__K__Johnston.html

jess, to random
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The other Mrs R is in bed, not feeling very well - possibly a reaction to the fish she ate last night - so I’m on my own in Copenhagen for a few hours while she sleeps it off.

There are three record shops in walking distance, I think…

…oh no.

RogerBW,
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@jess Remember your baggage allowance!

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale We don't have that filth here. We use ssh as Ylönen intended.

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale In a machine room at work:
Them: how can you test you can log in from outside?
Me: [phone]
Them: but ssh!
Me: [termux]
Them: But typing on a phone keyboard!
Me: [tiny folding keyboard]

riversidebryan, to random
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Haven't met my 'dumb old man questions' quota yet ...

Soooooo, now imma wondering whatsa Discord?

What does it do that isn't available on Mastodon or other Fediverse platforms? 🤔

RogerBW,
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@riversidebryan A second-rate IRC clone with centralised servers, no discoverable history, and massive data theft. (Inevitably, they're now scraping for "AI" as well.) "Join our Discord" = "we don't care about you enough to spin up a forum".

tsdh, to random
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Why do pictures and videos load extremely slow here?

I see a preview in a toot and click it to view it in total and it takes many seconds or minutes to load. Videos frequently get stuck at some point. Happens both with and the https://emacs.ch mastodon web UI. It doesn't seem to depend on my connection (which is good enough) or the instance the post originates from. At least I just had that issue with toots from hachyderm.io, mastodon.social, hostux.social...

RogerBW,
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@tsdh Also: images and videos need to be reprocessed for local storage, and sometimes that takes a while.

alicemcalicepants, to random
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Oh yeah, one of those restaurants where you grill stuff at your table is opening soon near me and I don't get it. I go to a restaurant and pay them so I don't have to cook for myself :pikaconfused:

RogerBW,
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@alicemcalicepants I liked the Mongolian barbecues that were trendy a few years ago, where you filled your bowl and they cooked it for you. Also teppanyaki / okonomiyaki, similar idea.

mms, to random
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I still can't imagine how "aggresive" music calms me. It's quite a new discovery as I always tried to stay away from the likes of Nirvana or Slipknot and instead focused on more "musical" bands.

Currently I get 110% productivity while listening to Nevermind. I think it shields from the outside? I don't get it but it makes focusing much easier.

RogerBW,
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@mms When I had a 90-minute drive to weekly RPG sessions I built appropriate playlists to get into the mood. The psychobilly one regularly cut 5-10 minutes off the trip.

cstross, to random
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5/8: When writing technical or scientific detail, how much is plausible vs imagined?

Correctly depicting the background details in an SF/F story makes the utterly imaginary conceit at the heart of the story more plausible—it gains believability by being presented in a realistic context. (The best present-setting SF should leave you unsure how much, if any of it is imaginary.)

RogerBW,
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@nyrath @Hcobb @cstross Or when someone grabs the device off your belt. Or just shouts nearby.

It must be thirty years ago that MS said "we will have voice-controlled computers" and my first reaction was to plan to walk into a computer lab and shout "echo y pipe format c colon". (This was when WIndows still ran on top of DOS; that would still work at the command prompt.)

FredKiesche, to random
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I’m sorry, what?

RogerBW,
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@FredKiesche Brainworm died of starvation? (I know it's obvious, but someone has to say it.)

BigJackBrass, to random
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BLOOD, INK OR WATER 😶

https://botsin.space/@NoveltyBot/112404888121600979

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "Use red ink for blood"—if you're a wimp.

afewbugs, to random
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The new Cybertruck is smaller than I expected

RogerBW,
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@afewbugs "It happens to a lot of guys."

RogerBW, to books
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Dark Minds, Michelle Diener #Books #Romance #ScienceFiction #BlogFiredrakeOrg https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Dark_Minds__Michelle_Diener.html

ndw, to random
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What’s the open source, not enshitified alternative to Sonos? I’ve sort of been hanging on, but that new app…blergh.

RogerBW,
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@ndw mpd + snapcast.

RogerBW,
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@msokolov @ndw Nor did I till recently, but it does a good job of multi-speaker syncing. Then the individual speaker can be an RPi, NUC, etc.

futurebird, to random
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“Fluent Python” is an excellent example of a “good programming language book” — it’s not cluttered with “enterprise examples” it’s focused on how python works and goes into detail on edge cases. This lets one write code with real confidence that you know everything it’s doing. It is also written with the aim to justify why python is the way that it is. Which I need or I get irritated.

If you like python you should probably have a pdf or buy a copy.

Now which book on Java is analogous?

RogerBW,
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@futurebird @grrrr_shark The book I always want is not "learn Language from knowing nothing" but "OK, you already know programming, how does Language do this particular stuff differently". I don't need to know what iterating over a list or storing a value in a hash is, I do want to know that your syntax for it is this, and how Language does it differently from all the rest (and why that's better).

RogerBW,
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@futurebird @grrrr_shark Yeah, if it's just "my boss told me we're using Language now" there will be no enthusiasm.

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