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@prologic Thanks! Yeah, probably no winter anymore. But you'll never know what April has in petto.
Went into the woods for two hours and tried to take photos of birds. That didn't really work out. Too far away and quickly moving, branches in the way, which is messing with the autofocus. The fading light does the rest. I saw easily ten woodpeckers on one tree on a paddock, but they're super shy. Especially the green ones. It's impossible to sneak in. They fly off when I'm falling below 40-50 meters. The great spotted woodpecker in 12 was the last one on that tree and a second later it was gone, too. Gotta try harder next time.
Trees on a meadow with the sun in their backs
Cool, cool, cool, @stigatle! It's coming together. I reckon a wee bit of padding in the window wouldn't hurt. :-)
@stigatle I also prefer to host my own code myself. My mates and I have a server and there we run GitLab. But I only use GitLab because it is there. It would totally suffice me to use the filesystem for a bare git repo. I don't need all this fancy UI that GitLab or any other web UI brings. For bringing it to the public, making the git repo available over a webserver would be enough for me.
It depends on the project, its dependencies and the toolchain required to build it. But generally, compiling from source is fine with me, if I have all the tools on my system anyways. If somebody offered a Debian package, that would certainly be appreciated. These days, I rarely try out new software, though.
@jlj I see, interesting! So how many people did receive their new certificates in this public ceremony? Must have been a bunch if they also offer private ones. How long did it take? Is it just handing over paperworks with a short chat or is there also some sort of accompanying program?
@stigatle Oh yes. With some sunshine it would have been even nicer, but then the paths would also have been even more jammed with people. So overcast was totally alright. :-)
My mate and I went up our backyard mountain again. It only took us 45-50 minutes, but I was totally exhausted at the summit. Heaps of people were enjoying nature, too. Public holiday and vacation gets them out. Also, the summit restaurant drew a hell lot of folks. The rain front in the distance looked quite threatful, but we managed to escape. Only got light spit.
Frog spawn in a puddle
Yesterday evening I had a feeling that my camera battery didn't charge properly. I didn't check, but sure enough, I was right. The battery indicator shows either a complete or only half a bar. I was down to one after taking the second photo. Oh well. Sun was hidden anyways. I had to visit the horror site and investigate a bit. I saw a forest mouse, the cam had already long failed me, though. Smell of freshly cut grass was in the air when I was returning. But back in town yucky rubber odor killed the nature experience quickly.
Some blue stuff that I do not know the name of, but it looks very cool
Thank you, @prologic! Hahahahaha! :-D In spoken German (at least here in the South) the word "bis" (to) is very often elimited in ranges. I think I heard that also in English. But maybe it's limited to integers and not being used when fractions are involved. I don't know. Interesting observation.
@prologic Correct, that's a concrete pump. The concrete mixer delivers the concrete mix in a funnel on the end of the pump. The concrete then gets pumped through the pipes and hoses and exits at the nozzle, hopefully in a concrete form. :-) These concrete pump trucks come in very handy if large quantities of concrete have to be put at higher elevations or where otherwise the reach of a regular concrete mixer is exceeded. The cheaper, but slower alternative is to use a concrete buckets on a crane. In order for the concrete pump to be able to pump it, the concrete must be much more liquid than usual. Special additives are added to the so called slump to make it suitable for pump use.
Jesse Muller has some nice videos on concrete mixers, pumps and buckets when he builds his house with insulated concrete forms, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwW0iqmm3J8
Oh no, @carsten! Sorry to hear that. :-(
Achievement unlocked, grats, @jlj! I have to admit I first thought that this was shopped. Very good question, @movq. As a real brit jlj now has to serve in the military. This looks like being welcomed by some general. Yeah, I have absolutely no clue. ;-) Looking forward to the resolution.
@movq Yeah. :-D But I managed to survive the workday.
We had a blackout this afternoon for half, three quarters of an hour. Shortly after the fire brigade responded. I thought maybe the new kindergarden construction has caused something.
When I later went on my hike I saw that there was heavy machinery clearing the local scout site's surrounding wood lands. Both a harvester and forwarder were very busy. A few hundred meters further, a bunch of power company vehicles were parked. I could see 4WD cherry picker tire tracks in the grass leading to the clearing. So I reckon they threw a tree in the overhead power lines.
Fourth last tree getting cut down
The scout site is looking really terrible now. Very sad to see all these trees cut down. :-( I witnessed the killing of the last few trees there. Still have to edit all the video clips.
In the summer holidays that site hosts a forest recreation week where kids can build huts in the forest. Well, this time, there is no forest anymore. The sun will unbearably beat down. No shade in sight. Experiencing this today, I'm happy to be not part of this cool event anymore. Keeping my good memories.
@prx @prologic I'm slowly working on a rewrite of tt, that does not require a bunch of monkey patched libraries. Everything will be better. At least once finished. Whenvever that will be.
This night I dreamed that I will call it a day in a few minutes and then my alarm clock rang. That's when the nightmare practically started when I woke up.
@prologic That's a cool concept! I'd love to have that at work, too.
When introducing generic functions you switched the parameter s to be the slice and not the element to search for. Maybe keep it consistent with the rest of the code samples and change s and x to xs and s. Or even better, use nicer names. :-)
Also, you might want to tell a few sentences about the ~. When I first encountered underlying types I was a bit puzzled.
Keep up the great Go talks!
Today was very sunny, but still extremely cold. Even below freezing in the night (-2°C this night again, too). With the sun we reached 6°C, but the wind was blowing good, so it didn't feel warm at all. I encountered a cool rainbow cloud again. That somehow is a real thing here lately. Also I managed to capture a few birds. Most of them aren't great, that's the best one I reckon:
Bird in a tree
And finally, the sunset made for a nice end of the day.
Once again, time to rotate my main feed. It now only contains this year.
@carsten Very nice! Are you on vacation again?
Thank you, @jlj, glad you like 'em! :-)
Best April weather today. A thunderstorm ran through this arvo and when we went into the woods, we got hit by some rain. Can't complain about the lovely smell of tree resin and rain.
Sun illuminating a forest in front of a dark sky
Today was very windy, but later in the day also sunny. The pleasant smell of resin awaited me in the forest. I drained my camera battery once again with over 300 shots. But lots of them turned out to be complete rubbish.
Sun shining through fresh green leaves on a tree
Went on a quick stroll today, but a little bit elsewhere than usual. Liquid sunshine hit us at one point, but it wasn't bad.
Sand and stuff on a weird, furry plant
@prologic Cool. Well, when I think of classic interfaces, then Reader, Writer, Seeker, Closer, Stringer, Formatter come to mind. Unless my definition of adverbs is completely off, these are nouns in my point of view. Granted, they end in er and start with a verb, but they're nouns. Adverbs are something different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverb Anyways, good writeup. :-)
@prologic @movq Thanks, mates! It was indeed cool to watch, but also a bit frightening. Quite violent. I reckon they were fighting over prey. I only saw it on the photos (3 & 4), one had a mouse or smomething in its beak. I'm speculating that the other might have thought that this meal belongs to itself as it was caught in its own territory or so. Thus, maybe by crashing into the rival the hope was that the prey is dropped on impact, so it can be stolen back by the rightful owner. Just guessing, I don't know. I really like red kites, they look super cool in my opinion. Their iconic v-shaped tail makes them unmistakable for others.
@prologic Nice! A few things (I can't fix them myself I reckon):
* Code blocks would benefit from proper indentation.
* Interfaces have adverbs as names? I reckon they're nouns instead.
* I don't get what convention ServeHTTP is breaking here.
* Typo in section "Live Coding Time": "its".
* Typo in section "Receivers Matter": "Pointer"*
A few bad shots of a red kite circling over the neighborhood. 02 is shortly after two kites had an areal combat. One high speed crashed into the other one twice from greater altitudes.
Lunch is served
Oh yeah, rain circle around the slightly cloudy sun. This is no lense flare.
Rain circle around the sun through the light clouds
@movq Interesting, indeed! It didn't occur to me that other places organize it differently. I reckon, most clubs aren't that huge anymore as they were back in the days. So this concept only works for collecting areas that aren't very large, hence, smaller towns and villages. The places currently listed here are not super big: https://www.du-willkommen.de/altpapiersammlung.html
Nice April weather today with rain, sun, rain, sun, rain, sun, even a bit of hail, sun, rain, etc. We got rainbows twice today. But not as good as yesterday.
Leaves in the evening sun
@stigatle What a great scenery! And quite an adventure you got yourselves into. :-)
Sun and rain in combination is always great. Added 13 and 14.
Rainbow
Today's hike was framed in light rain. And now it seems the sun is even coming out for a few minutes this evening. Quite some weird light, the sky turns tan.
Spring is there
@prologic I really liked it. One or the other section might feel a bit dated, because it is. But that doesn't hurt the overall experience at all. Currently, I'm continuing with the next one: https://www.defmacro.org/2006/06/19/fp.html So far I can recomment this one, too. Both are written in an entertaining style and I feel like I have a little bit better understanding of things than before. But some mental power is required to wrap my head around some sections I've noticed. It's no mind candy. :-) But that's good. I never worked with any real functional language before. All my FP experience is limited what other languages offer in that field.
@stigatle @prologic G'day, overcast with tiny amounts of rain every now and then here, too. A grey heron visited a neighbor:
Grey heron on roof ridge
Today, I'll finally have a look at Lisp. This nice introduction article waited in my browser tabs for many years I believe.
@movq No, to my knowledge it ends up at the same place when collected with the commercial wastepaper trucks, too. We get some money from the recycling company for bringing it to them. The price per ton varies with the resource price on the market and when it rains some rate is subtracted to account for higher weight due to the water. Even though it's quite some work, it's also a fun activity.
At least over here it's common that (larger) local clubs participate in these wastepaper collections. I reckon it originated in times where there were no commercial wastepaper trucks and municipalities had to organize something, so they asked their clubs to participate. I can't really remember, but I think when I was a kid, wastepaper was 100% collected by volunteers. Nowadays we also have the wastepaper recycling trucks for the „Blaue Tonne“ (blue bin). I think in the past we as the scouts had two to three collections a year, now it's only one.
This time was very bad timing. The blue bins were emptied the same week, so there was only half the material of regular collections. The volunteer run dates are planned by the town hall and apparently not synchronized with the recycling company's schedule.
@movq Oh, interesting. The axis are aligned again. Never thought about that before.
@carsten Yeah, everything has a flipside.
@movq It's going to be recycled. We brought to the local wastepaper recycling plant.
@movq Hahaha, that sums it up pretty well! No idea, these crocheted hearts just appeared out of nowhere. In January there was only one, however, it's gone in the meanwhile. Now we saw these four about 100 meters from where the first one was. They're kinda looking nice. If their goal is to spread some joy they certainly have accomplished their mission.
@stigatle A cool dog in a beautiful landscape. Awww.
Today was wastepaper collection with the scouts. We were fairly short on manpower, but luckily there was also quite little wastepaper to collect this time. My team found a paper mâché cow head at the beginning and we had to use it as a mascot on our truck. :-)
Cow head mascot on the wastepaper collection truck
Afterwards we welded a steel frame for a new sink in our material store. We just used spare tent poles that were laying around unused for years.
Welded up steel frame for the sink
That was an awesome project, sure, total overkill, but we had really good fun. Unfortunately, we ran out of time. We couldn't paint the thing as it was still way too hot.
@off_grid_living Cool, that looks nice! I also like the surrounding landscape a lot.
Spring is there with 18°C. We've seen a hare today. It must have been years when I saw the last one. The photo quality is horrible, but oh well. On the other hand, the firebug turned out heaps better than I could have hoped for.
Firebug
@prologic Ha, nice little worm. I've actually never seen a baby snake, not even a film or photo of one. Really cool!
@carsten Absolutely, I'm all for it! :-)
@movq Crap, I've been busted!
Ta, @movq! Yeah I'll try next time. ;-)
@mckinley That's exactly what I was feeling sometimes the last days.
Cobbled togther the world's ugliest embroidery frame and just started something. I'm pleasantly surprised that the old jeans is not shrinking when I extracted it from the frame, didn't move at all. The sign is just for fun, now I have to think about where to attach it.
Attention please
Too much contre-jour for this raven:
Raven taking off
@movq That's what my dad used when I grew up, too. I never drink coffee, tea only when I'm sick or go out on a longer hike in the cold. A microwave is all I need for hot chocolate. No maintenance issues so far either. :-)
@prologic @movq Ta! It wasn't super strong. We're lucky that we don't experience heavy storms like up in the North. That's quite rare. Top speeds were forecast to reach about 70-80 km/h if I remember correctly. It's now calm again.
Temperatures are riding a roller coaster: 14°C yesterday, 4°C today, 10°C tomorrow, 18°C on Monday (oh heck), then 11°C and 6°C. Let's see.
Hurray, we have storm and rain and sun. Some gusts nearly made it impossible to walk. Quite cool, we could really lean against them. All photos turned out to be rubbish, that one passes just barly:
Cloudy landscape
@movq Growling is rarely my cup of tea, but this is actually quite pleasant. Wow!
@movq That's good news! I agree, @prologic, a small band might be cool.
@movq I had access to one in the past and that was super awesome. The most surprising to me was that you could pretty clearly read stuff on a computer screen. Didn't do as many experiments as Matthias, though. And I reckon his one is also much more sensitive.
Last video recommendation for today, promised. Very exiting to see Tom handling a pilum or letting it being handled. Super fascinating: https://youtu.be/RLmNQLZgdew
@mckinley @prologic From the introduction:
> The web also allows sending arbitrary JavaScript to remote entities which is then executed and put in these cookies, we need this in XMPP too if it is to be taken seriously.
What the fuck!? O_o
Luckily, I then came across the publish date at the end (it's also right at the top, but nobody is gonna read these meta data). Phew, it's an April Fool's joke.
@stigatle Exactly. I'm not looking forward to apply it, but if I run into a situation some day, I'm a little bit prepared.
Of course, @movq, there needs to be space for all these lights and batteries!
I tried to throw one a couple of times as a kid, but it never returned, @prologic. Even though I theoretically knew which angle to use. Somewhere in my cabinet I have a legitimate handmade one from Straya. What about your boomerang skills? :-)
Turns out, that there are also non-returning boomerangs. And they're also found all over the world. I didn't know that.
@mckinley Didn't read it, but that just feels so wrong.
I have just taken a first aid course with the scouts. My last one was about five years ago, I reckon. I was pleasently surprised how much I still knew, at least when having the time to properly think about it and not being in an emergency situation. However, there was also heaps of stuff that I had forgotten over time. I feel confident for about half a year and then the oblivion sets in. The instructor did a very great job there, it was good fun and we all (re)learned a lot. I can highly recommend doing such a course regularly.
@movq How sweet! I haven't checked the planets for weeks. Will do again tonight. Oh look, our Aussie mates have a cameo with their boomerang. :-)
@xuu That's a nice visualization. Also, great first comment. :-D
@screem Interesting scenario, I like it!
@xuu Hahaha, must be a really great piece of software. Quickly, run away!
Got cold again the last days. Around -3°C at night and +3°C at day. Tomorrow is supposed to reach even 6°C. Colors in the sky:
Sunset
@prologic That's a good opportunity to remove your account. :-)
@movq That was my first thought as well. :-D @jlj Welcome to just Europe then!
@movq Never seen that one. Just checked and it's not available to me.
@bender Haha, right. ;-) But the thing is that you *could* do it.
@movq Oh, interesting, I somehow missed that part! That's crazy!
@ocdtrekkie It's not that it had never happened before that feature toggles were suddenly switched "by accident". That's what I'm thinking.
@ocdtrekkie At least partially. It's off by default. At least there's that.
Ha! Today I learned from that German Terra X video that our observable universe gets smaller and smaller as the universe expands and the rate of expansion also increases. Pretty cool and wild.
Since there was a discussion about aliens the other day, with the above information, my personal theory is that getting in touch with any other life forms also gets slimmer and slimmer over time. If it weren't already so extremely unlikely to begin with. I'm absolutely convinced that there are others out there somewhere. Tons of them. Because why wouldn't there? We're not special at all (except especially stupid). But with the enormous distances we'll never get in contact. Just too far apart. And now spaces separate even further.
Sunset
Bird on a roof