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@movq Oh, this is lovely! I reckon this is some type of falcon. But I cannot find out which one. Might be also a buzzard, though. No idea actually.
It's very crazy, for several months I only very rarely hear birds chirping when walking through the woods. It seems they're also very exhausted by the heat and drought. That was definitely not this bad the last years. However, I heard a woodpecker hammering today and then even got to see him a few minutes later. Nice great spotted woodpecker in 22.
Super red apples on a tree in the evening light
Those apples look bloody awesome. Unfortunately, there's no red ribbon on the tree. But I spotted a bunch of other trees with said lanyard. Gotta check them out closer tomorrow.
@abucci Nice! I ran across dc a long time ago, but I don't think I ever used it. Completely forgot about this classic.
@movq Because you're an engineer and love problem solving!
@abucci @prologic Haha, classic. Btw. I used good old bc to quickly convert between bases. obase=2 changes to binary output format, so then you just enter the number in decimal and out you get the presentation in base two. Inverse can be done with ibase=2. Super handy. There's just one catch with changing the input base, the new base of course has to be passed in the previously used input base. :-)
Thank you very much @ionores, @prologic and @abucci! No, this lense flare was just unavoidable, the sun was hammering into the lense. I tried to create shade with my hand, but that didn't work out with the angles. It looks cool, though. :-)
@thecanine Yes, I thought so. But even if you do something else, your synapses are firing in the background. This passive part of the creativity process can also be partially included in my opinion.
Today's yield: one slow worm, one mole (unfortunately dead), five deer and a myriad of slugs. Nothing of that will be shown, though.
Setting sun in the background
@prologic Oh yeah, they blend in nicely. A camouflaging success. At first I thought there were even three. The darker bark of the bush in the foreground on the left fooled me.
@thecanine Wow, that's a very long process. Only looking at the result I would have never guessed it. Makes it look soooo much easier. But it nicely illustrates that even the smallest and simplest things are often in fact everything else than quick wins. Thanks for outlining the history. I enjoyed reading the details.
@stigatle Ta, the same to you. What a super cool sunrise. I'm guessing oil rig-related, @movq.
@movq Wooooaaaahhh, the sky is on fire! Very nice.
@thecanine Saving another pixel column or row will be pretty much impossible, I agree. On the other hand, you proved me wrong in the past a couple of times already. ;-) I'm wondering, how many hours did you experiment with an 8x8 canvas to finally come to this solution?
Bwahahaahahaaa, I love you, @movq and @mckinley! :'-D
I'm wondering how that happend. :-?
@thecanine @prologic Surprisingly, this is still recognizable as a dog! I'm baffled. Well done, mate.
@kt84 Two nice fellers! :-)
@xuu Time to change the batteries.
@off_grid_living Hm, that's bad. :-( Are these voles, coming from below the ground? Or do these mice attack from the surface and dig down?
@movq 28°C down here. :-( It's supposed to slowly cool off to 20°C again by Thursday. Danger of forest fire is surprisingly just 1/5, tomorrow 2/5 and grass land fire level is 3/5.
@prologic Nice! :-)
Ah, thanks for the explanation, @justamoment! I first thought the eye was just a regular knot of the tree. But at close inspection you're absolutely right, that's carved. I never noticed these prominent mouth stripes on real whales before. I reckon it's a baleen whale or something along those lines.
@movq I had to look up Fallobst myself, sorry to disappoint you. ;-) Holy moly, that looks bloody amazing! :-O
It certainly is legal, if the tree has a red ribbon, making it public domain. They introduced these ribbons a few years ago. Other areas use other colors to signal the same. I reckon the most common reason is owners getting too old to farm on their own, so they can put these lanyards on (or probably tell the townhall to do so). This way everybody is invited to pick fruit considerately and it does not go to waste completely. Before the red ribbons you could see tons of fruit decaying on the ground in masses. Now that of course still happens but is greatly reduced.
Gathered some more today and pressed nine liters of apple juice. I definitely have to build an apple grinder. I don't trust these al-cheapo versions you find online everwhere.
Once again it paid off to always be prepared when going into nature. This time the bags brought home the bacon. Well, apples. We ran across windfalls and picked up a bunch. Soon to be processed into apple juice and jelly.
Picking up windfall
@abucci Lovely, you could get to like this place, eh? ;-)
@prologic Hmm, what are your girls saying? The whale is swimming vertically. But I can't really tell if it's diving down or up. Judgin from the side fin it's probably even jumping out of the water, but I'm no marine expert by any means.
@jason Don't wanna mess with timezones? Unix timestamp is your friend.
@prologic Ha, very nice view! This tree carving looks like a whale. Oh, and there's also a turtle on the bottom.
About half an hour ago it looked like the sunset would be getting really great. But, I was wrong. Nothing spectacular, kinda nice though in person.
Flying bird trying to catch up to the sun and escape the night
@movq That picture frame is quite a few meters wide and tall. Next time I'll be there I try to pull of a few measurements and get some better pictures.
@movq Oh rain, I envy you! Luckily, temperatures are in the lower 20ies°C for a few days now. But they're supposed to climb again. Meh.
@off_grid_living Mate, very nice colors in your tidied garden! I really like seeing this finally come together. I hope the weather is cooperating.
@akoizumi Bwahahahaha, this is hilarious! :'-D
@mckinley Sick! :-D Luckily, I only once had to write XSLT and that was not targeted to any browser. I'm very glad that this time is over.
@prologic I reckon there needs to be a manually crafted mapping in place. This two column table of broken to normalized feed URL could be maintained somewhere where people could enter new entries. Maybe some approval process would be necessary as well. In the beginning a simple CSV file in the search engine repo should do.
Just got attacked by a mozzie and closed in for the deadly self-defense. Before that I discovered a tick in my armpit which also got assassinated.
Even before that we witnessed lots of sparks being thrown around when a bunch of sheep sheepwalked into an electric fence. This small firework was vividly visible in the almost pitch-dark. And even more before that the few hundred sheep were driven down to another pasture by a tractor and two sheepdogs. That was super great to watch, absolutely fascinating to see the dogs work in a beautifully coordinated manner. They held the flock together perfectly and ran around at close to the speed of sound. At least.
Prior to that we did watch the sunset in style at a location around here I've been to only twice in my life. The walk was very much needed after this week.
Sunset
@jason Nearly every day I see some mention URLs that are off. It happens regularly with mine and the most recent example is https://twtxt.net/conv/7g3ezoa :-) Especially yarnd is causing some trouble in this field as it appears to me.
@akoizumi Oh cool, that might come in handy some day, I'm sure. Ta!
@prologic There are so many wrong mentions out there, you probably want be able to nornalize them all to the correct canonical form.
@eaplmx Oh dear! :-D I've actually never seen that before.
@prologic Which truck do you mean? The one in 11.jpg was just driving down the road and in this photo a car is overtaking it. Remember, right lane traffic over here. :-)
The linked photos over at bodenkalk.at show the forest liming via a truck from the ground. Here they blow magnesium calcium carbonate (or something like that, I'm no chemist) into acid woods to raise the pH level. Healthy mineral soil should have at least 4.5 on the pH scale. What the heck, I somehow don't find any English sources about forest liming. There's just a German wikipedia article about it and tons of other German articles and research papers. I can't believe that this is only a German thing.
When I passed the dirt bike park I saw a mum and dad each standing on top of the hills and their eyes glued onto their phones. Their young child could do whatever it wanted to. What a super-weird scene.
Coincidentally, I caught up with a mate in the forest and we went 30-45 minutes together before he parted way to head home. I continued up the local mountain and then came across a section where they had limed the forest with a blower on a Unimog. All this lime stickin on the trees looks quite strange. I'd love to see this liming action live. Probably loud as hell, but I imagine it to be a great spectacle with all this power of the blower. The other week they already limed other parts of the forest with a helicopter.
The heat and drought make for an early autumn here. Lots of leaves are already on the ground. I caught a tick crawling up leg and ground it between my rocks I carry for such occasions in my pocket. I still need to get myself a lighter, just to be extra sure. Yes I wanted to do that for several months now.
Sunset
The sunset was terrific to watch from the summit. On the way home a bunch of bats circled around me for quite some time, which was really beautiful. It was pitch-black when I finally unlocked the door.
@movq I've watched that the other day, too. Highly recommended. :-)
@movq Does it also have a bunch of turing complete sub languages? :-)
@movq Haha, no! :-D Just came across this, even though we both don't stream, it fits just perfectly.
Only the driving portion was stressful, chilling in the grass and then back home in the boat in the garden was actually very relaxed. :-)
@mckinley Lol, did it take them three major versions to get is-odd right?
@prologic There's a wee bit more destruction than on your previous two photos. But it still looks quaint to me.
Plan A: Go to Esslingen with the canoe. That was foiled by blocked off streets for a bicycle race. It was impossible to get anywhere where we could enter the river Neckar.
Plan B: Lake Max-Eyth in Stuttgart. On the way we encountered plenty of other blocked off raods from the bicycle race and one particular traffic light let only four cars pass at most. It took us 15 minutes alone on that crossing. Then all the myriads of road works, man. It once again proofed that only insane people go to Stuttgart by car. Two bloody hours later at the destination the green-blue algea put its spoke in our wheels. Definitely avoid skin contact with that water. Downwind it smelled horribly.
So then for plan C we hiked a little bit down the riverside (the lake is next to the river) to find a shady place where we could picknick. We finally found a spot among a tree and spent some nice hours.
Yeah, super preparation on our end. But who would think of a bicycle race in the first place?
Heavy rain just started! \o/
Heavy rain just started! \\o/
@movq I'm glad for the declining temperatures. Cool view. It's about time for autumn to finally come.
We need that much water over here, too, @stigatle. Ground water is super low. I read somewhere the other day that we're facing the severest drought in a hundred years or so. Yes, @prologic, the clouds were looking very nice.
Today was supposed to rain the whole day, but not a single drop up to this point. Maybe in an hour the weather front will be here. Hopefully!
I can't make it to the call later.
@prologic You must have picked the best spots, it doesn't look too bad on your photos. ;-)
Thunderstorm and rain missed us here once again. :-( It slightly cooled off this evening, but we still had about 24°C. In the forest it was okay, but when the wind picked up, it threw hot air on us. Just felt like a massive hair dryer. On top of the montain we saw lightning and rain in the distance. And there was constant growling of thunder far away.
Rain missed us
@eaplmx There's basically one mate with whom I communicate in encrypted e-mails. The subject must of course some random garbage. But all other people don't care about it. Sadly.
@prologic Uuuhhh, very nice! I'd love to be at this place right now. :-)
@movq What!? Maybe you should send a bug report…
@movq Hahaha, this is great! :-D
@prologic The wording is a bit weird: "The James Webb Space Telescope does not send its data as complete pictures but rather column of numbers representing brightnesss values." Now we're wondering what the authors thought how images are transmitted in general. (Or what the uncited source actually meant.)
When sweeping leaves three quarters of an hour in the hot afternoon sun I successfully got myself a blister on each hand. Not the best decision today. Went to bed for a siesta and then quickly walked to the dairy farm. I missed the first, very best part of the sunset and only got the second and third phases.
Sunset
@abucci No doubt, everybody can do what they want, it's their channel after all. I'm fully with you there. All I say is that "subscribe, bell, like, comment" every time is rediculously silly in my opinion.
@movq Perfect! Now only 02 and 03 are left. ;-)
@movq Haha, Moonlight reminds me of Rammstein. ;-)
@prologic Tell your kids to inspect two, three and four. :-)
@prologic @abucci This also makes me mad. I doubt that there is a single person out there who did just that because of those monkeys telling them each and every time. Preferrably multiple times a video. They know their audience. It's one of the dumbest out there. I once saw a video where YouTubers got asked whether they actually do smash the bell and wack the like button themselves when being told. No surprise, none of them ever did.
Luckily, there are still a few channels out there who are not aggressively promoting this shit. They are rare, but they exist. I either skip forward, stop the video or just don't watch these videos anymore if it gets too overboard.
My mate and I went on a hike. 25°C are quite hot. Being a Sunday and with all the sunshine there were tons of people out there.
Apples on a tree
Not sure what's the deal with the red "sold" label on that tiny tree in the forest.
Who spots the frog?
@prologic That's why you only store what's really, really, really required. Not a single bit more. In that case: For the poll a title and its options. And for a vote the name and selected options. That's it. Strictly speaking there's no need to store the submit timestamps. Okay, some form of IDs are also necessary I reckon, but that's it in its purest form. I wouldn't even go with comments. If you actually want to build a distributed system, a can of worms is going to open. How're you gonna handle collection of votes from somewhere else and all that jazz.
For my needs a central system with the obove stated requirements would completely do it.
@mckinley Whoa, crazy! I have to try this. :-)
@xuu Just to be extra sure! :-D
@abucci It's rare, but you might want to reset the stream (if it supports it) or do whatever else later on, so automatically closing would defeat that. On the other hand I never close stdin/out/err. I was under the impression that this is not needed. Rereading I see that it's pipe.
@darch I agree, use a well-established library. Usually the standard library already gets you covered for this day and age. Doing it yourself (except for educational purposes) will fail miserably.
@abucci Being a software guy myself I can easily relate to that. And to be fair, most of the time it's software to rightly blame.
@abucci This oily fractal is looking very nice!
@darch Ah right! If I'm not mistaken that was part of @prologic's Doom experiment thingy. And then we drifted to your OpenGL animations. :-)
@abucci Always a waste of time when debugging software leads to a hardware issue eventually. Glad you finally solved it. :-)