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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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MaryAnnJohanson, to random
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A real war photographer seems to agree with what I said about #CivilWarMovie, that “its pretense of ‘objectivity’ is unfair to the journalist protagonists the film thinks it’s championing.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/20/civil-war-garland-movie-war-photojournalism-wrong/

RogerBW,
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@MaryAnnJohanson You could say…
[dons sunglasses]
a real journalist is "biast"?

shimminbeg, to random
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@DarkestKale I have been off sick today and I was not kidding about the Avestan.

Will they have any idea whether anything in this handout is plausible? No. Ah, but will the use of semi-authentic linguistics and analysis substantially influence the nature of the scenario? Also no. Nevertheless.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale But you will know that it's right.

leonerd, to random
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I have a .profile that sets up PATH and some other environment variables. It applies fine when I start a new ssh login. But it doesn't appear to take effect for my X session, so window manager etc.. can't see the extra PATH entries.

What's the solution here? How do I ensure X desktop (XFCE in my case) actually sees it?

RogerBW,
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@leonerd Call me brutalist but my .xsession has a line source ~/.bash_profile in it for this very reason.

RogerBW,
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@leonerd Yeah, the last line in the .xsession invokes my preferred window manager When I started using X, that was the way one did it..

RogerBW, to random
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Thanks to @nyrath, The Lunacy of Artemis:
https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

RogerBW, to books
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Thorn, Fred Saberhagen https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/Thorn__Fred_Saberhagen.html

RogerBW,
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@GoblinQuester Yeah. It's not zero sum: we can have stories now with far-out ideas and real humans living in an altered world.

RogerBW,
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@GoblinQuester I fear a lot of it (across multiple hobbies) comes down to sone variant of: I have learned about this stuff, that gives me status here, and the more people care about something else the less status I have.

simontatham, to random
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How is it supposed to work, when you get one of those emails whose body reads 'Sender Name would like to recall the message, "Subject Line"'?

I assume some mail system like Exchange is supposed to find the matching previous message and delete both. And my normal Unix mail system doesn't.

But how does it decide on the matching message? I can't find any header that unambiguously identifies it. No 'Recalled-message-id:' or similar. How does a system supporting this feature make it work?

RogerBW,
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@simontatham @cawhitworth It is a goal to keep interop with real SMTP to a minimum. Oh, you had a tough time, so sad, but if you just used Exchange…

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW, (edited )
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@DarkestKale @shimminbeg For me this weekend:
Saturday: get it working in Perl
Sunday: rewrite it in Crystal and add the extra features that would have been dog-slow in Perl

LikeItOrLumpIt, to random
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Hubs sitting inside our screened lair.

RogerBW,
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@LikeItOrLumpIt Ooh, lovely!

shimminbeg, to random
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Undoubtedly also an artefact of being middle aged, but I feel like music in cafes and restaurants is excessively loud. Conversion is hard work, and so is concentration. Curious if there's an actual reason for the volume or it's just individual manager choice etc. Does anyone know?

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@shimminbeg It makes the place feel "lively", which according to the marketing people is always a good thing.

RogerBW,
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@shimminbeg @DarkestKale Some player will have!
For me loud music means the disco, club, party sort of atmosphere and that has never appealed to me. Since I am discriminating in my choice of friends I'd rather hear what they have to say. On my own I'm more likely to be in a park.

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@Kendoyle @shimminbeg Oh, furnishings and shapes. Parallel walls, right angles, clear open spaces, and hard wall coverings (paper or brick rather than curtains, flock, or shelves of books), can make the difference between a pub that's pleasant and a Brewdog. But that's a matter of amplifying everyone's conversation too, not just the background music.

GuerillaGrue, to random
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I know this is going to be an opinion that a lot of people disagree with, but hear me out:

If you're going to "game-ify" your service... make it optional.

I'm not talking "you can just ignore it" optional. I'm not talking "just don't take it seriously" optional.

No. Let me disable it.

I want to use DuoLingo and NOT know what my ranking is or who my stuff is being compared to or what my score is? Let me.

I want to disable achievements on my Xbox or Steam? Let me.

It's not that hard.

1/2

RogerBW,
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@GuerillaGrue yucata.de (board gaming site) does this. You can go up "ranks" of board game achievement by winning enough games… or you can declare yourself a "hermit" and not participate in the ranking system. It's very freeing! I think about 10% of the users choose to do it. Meanwhile, BoardGameArena has given you three new badges. Be excited!

RogerBW,
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@GuerillaGrue I do it myself - yeah, I could just ignore the "gained a new rank" or "winning streak" popups, as I do on BGA, but if they aren't there that's a bit less pointless stress in my life.

RogerBW, to raku
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The Weekly Challenge 269: The Bitwise Elements https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/05/The_Weekly_Challenge_269__The_Bitwise_Elements.html

nyrath, to random
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New book on worldbuilding.

Author says: "Architect of Worlds is what happens when the guy who wrote three different solar system/planetary generation systems for GURPS is told he doesn't have a word count and spends 7 years tracking every paper on exoplanet systems he can find."

https://www.adastragames.com/products/architect-of-worlds

RogerBW,
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@nyrath Pre-order, doesn't tell you whether what you're buying is print or PDF, and the publisher doesn't even have the basic manners to put the author's name on the cover unless you happen to know that "Zeigler" is a name, and even then it's squashed down next to the larger print telling you who the publisher is. I really want this book because I really like Jon's work, but oh boy I wish he'd picked a different publisher.

RogerBW,
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@DamonWakes @nyrath I don't believe so; it doesn't appear on his publications list at https://wordpress.sharrukinspalace.com/about-me/ .

BigJackBrass, to random
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You've come a long way, baby.

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "Well, they would say that, wouldn't they?"

RogerBW,
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@BigJackBrass "If your personal income is less than £20,000 a year, you need no longer boil your tap water."

InternetEh, to random
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It's nuts in Star Trek that they postulate nobody would know how to cook anymore bc of replicators. True cooking perverts would love the opportunity to have a kitchen where you could get any quantity of any ingredient instantly, AND (maybe more impressive) any cooking implement.

I could use a huge wok or waffle iron or food processor without worrying about where to put it. Just chuck it back in the replicator with the dishes when you're done

New levels of food perversion unlocked

RogerBW,
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@InternetEh And every version you make, you scan it in, so people can eat that whenever they want to without you having to cook it again. So you can spend your cooking time on experimenting and making it better.

DarkestKale, to random
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Good morning folks

RogerBW,
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@blind_mapmaker @DarkestKale Yeah, I think D&D 3e and later makes this very obvious with its steady escalation of foe parameters so that you're facing basically the same difficulty of fight for you even as your abilities increase.
I agree, absolute power level doesn't matter. What makes for interesting games IMO is a bit of ability to affect the world and stakes that make it worth the risk. (Which is why a Kids With Bikes game is playable even if you say "there will be no death or serious injury".)

RogerBW,
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@DarkestKale https://songwhip.com/the-beatles/im-so-tired

RogerBW,
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@blind_mapmaker @DarkestKale For me interesting games in the long term come from doing different things, not from doing the same things with bigger numbers.

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