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@mckinley Oh, you meant removed from Reddit. Nevermind.
@tkanos Nice idea, the generator code is missing, though.
@prologic Hmm, I don't use cgo in said project, so I would be surprised if that then has an effect. I will try that next time, though.
@prologic I've seen that, too. It's soooo brilliant, I just completely watched it again. :-)
@mckinley Hahaha, great talk, even though I didn't follow everything he said.
@prologic Yeah, but it only works for truly statically linked executables. Two weeks ago I had the problem that I build a simple service with the regular go build -o myservice and copied it to my server. It didn't start though, the libc versions didn't line up. So then I had to search around and use go build -o myservice -tags netgo -ldflags '-extldflags "-static"'. (Generally even more flags are required.) And the best part is that the exact command line differs with each Go version. I hope they finally provide a simple -static flag.
@mckinley @prologic I went to the dairy farm where they have a 24/7 milk vending machine. You insert a coin and press a button to fill up your empty bottle you brought along.
Milk vending machine at the local dairy farm
I thought if "to tap beer" is a term, I could use it for milk as well. Let me know what you native speakers around the world call it. Or maybe it was just not enough context.
The last two times I tapped milk I thought: that's never a whole liter, so much air left in the bottle. Just now the bottle overflowed. Couldn't see in the pitch dark.
@abucci @akoizumi It's just impossible to use most of the web without an ad blocker. It's super irritating if I'm at a mate who is not using one. I immediately get eye cancer.
Finally, everything seems to be fixed now.
Meh, after a server upgrade and reboot a bunch of my Python scripts don't work anymore. I know of at least two.
@mckinley Cool, I will see what I can do. :-)
@movq Very nice! I go for buzzard then. Falcons are smaller I'd say, more in the range of the ravens.
@justamoment Oh, interesting. Never had that happen before. The fix is quite easy then, could be worse.
When reaching home a bat flew past me and direct in front of the house a hedgehog walked over the street onto the grass verge. And in the forest we encountered a deer. Can't complain at all. :-)
Looking into the sunset on Mt. Hohenstaufen
@mckinley Currently, I don't have the code online anywhere. It's suuuuper ugly and full of bugs. I might write a proper article on my video setup and workflow on the weekend.
@justamoment :-D So what's the deal with this form then? Was the site hacked or did you add this in a moment of absent-mindedness? Any investigation results?
@akoizumi I find it hard to read white text on green and black background. Also centering everything looks odd to me.
@stigatle Wooooooooaaaaahhh, this is sick! Truly beautiful.
@movq I guess so. Congratulations mate! :-D
@justamoment Just subscribe and see what wonderful news e-mails you will receive.
Btw, I had a mammoth photo moment like you, @movq. ;-) I was happily turning the food mill for a minute after a refill and wondered why basically nothing was dripping out into the pot. It also seemed like the mash wanted to stick to the sidewall only and didn't hit the the 1 mm holed sieve at the bottom. You all already guessed it, I was turning in the wrong direction and scraping off everything from the sieve. Immediately after realizing the very next thought was: yep, mammoth. :-D
@movq Absolutely, I love apple products¹!
¹: if they don't start with a lowercase "i"
(Disclaimer: didn't read the original post.) I was thinking about that each day since you brought this up, @prologic. Very interesting. I fail to answer your question. But I have the feeling that it's just a matter of some kind of a filter bubble (for the lack of a better term).
While some people go totally overboard with their microservices (so did I once in the past, it was a valuable lesson, though), I can't believe that there isn't the same (or quite close) level of problems and new tooling for monolithitic systems out there. The problems and thus solutions are different, but I'm sure, they exist in a comparable manner. On the other hand, microservices are hyped as the very best latest shit and savior for a very long time now. So I would imagine that there are waaay more microservice architectures out there than monolithic ones these days. Hence, just by the difference in magnitudes, one has to come across microservice solutions much more than monolith helpers. I don't have any numbers to back this up, it's just a gut feeling. My theory could be complete rubbish.
In a way, microservices are just one of the key concepts from the Unix philosophy in my opinion. Just called differently. Once I realized that, µservices suddenly made much more sense to me. Once again, most things are just reinventions of old concepts and now called differently. "Raider heißt jetzt Twix, sonst ändert sich nix."
And as with everything, overcoloring is always bad, no matter in which direction you go. Just gotta have to hit the sweet spot, or somewhere close enough in that area.
@movq That sounds very interesting, I should get myself a copy I reckon.
Made eight liters apple sauce this afternoon. Camera lense got fogged up, sorry.
Bucket full of 8l fresh apple sauce
And just collected a few kilos of new windfall for tomorrow's production.
@movq Yep, buzzards are larger in general. Can't really make out the size from the photos. I tried to use the roofing tiles as a reference, but they probably come in tons of different sizes anyways.
@prologic I bet it's going to be awful. :-( Ta, @movq, glad you like them! I carefully balanced the camera on self-timer in the belly strap of my backpack (no idea what you call this for real). It was suuuuper dodgy, let me tell you. Didn't want to repeat that for 28. ;-) Will check out Silent Spring later, thanks!
@movq Holy crap! :-( I don't get a popup in the middle of my face, but there's one on the side.
@prologic Whoops, my brain automatically inserted "day" in your message.
@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?