go version -m $go_binary to find out which things ended up in the built binary, sweet.
https://cdn.hornbach.de/data/shop/D04/001/780/491/286/174/DV_8_6571532_01_4c_DE_20171213194716.jpg
When I first tried it out, I broke the wooden lever. Dang it! Luckily, I haven't finished it yet. Maybe I didn't open the door all the way and it got hung up on the door lintel which is of course tons stronger. Now I'm glueing my lever back together and add a support piece over the break line.
Even though it didn't go to plan, it was good fun being in the woodshop again.
I read the README and it says "asciifield renders a starfield in your terminal, much like the good old screensaver". This now makes perfectly sense. But before seeing it in action I couldn't make out what a starfield would be. I thought maybe it is a view from earth into the (local) sky to see some constellations, like Great Bear (the only one I recognize). I didn't get the screensaver reference, even though I immediately remembered that I have seen it a few times back in the days, once the demo started. I doubt that I used it a lot. So it mostly boils down to lack of educational requirements on my end. ;-)
Something along "spaceship pilot's view of flying into a starfield" would have helped me for sure. Others probably might have no trouble with the current concise description. :-) I'm surely not the best person when it comes to retro things. I joined the computing world quite late.
What tools or commands do you use?
Also, what's up with yarns? The link in @prologic's message doesn't show up in the "conversation view" in yarns (my first link). Yarns needs more love. :-)
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Nice progress, the demo video is cool and promising. With that visual impression I now know what this program actually does (flying into a cluster of stars). Couldn't imagine that before.
But on a wee bit more (not much) serious note, you could probably rig something up with yt-dlp. Build a web interface or something.
Porting asciifield to DOS would give you a chance to document this endeavor in a (series of) LaTeX document(s). ;-)
I also love PDFs that were set with LaTeX. They just look so good. My last LaTeX use was with the beamer document class several years ago for a bunch of presentations I gave at work. I wrote a forest recreation planning software that generated LaTeX code for the personalized custodian timetables, that was in use even after my handcrafted LaTeX documents. But these days I also don't have any use cases anymore. On second thought, that very last thing must have been in fact my CV for job applications.
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[ "$actual" = "$expected" ] in my shell script did actually report inequality. Printing both variables with echo "'$expected'" and also piping them through sha1sum like echo -n "$expected" | sha1sum (even tried without the -n flag) clearly showed that they were the same. In the end, set -x saved my day. actual contained captured stdout of a process with proper newlines, but I had used expected="foo\\nbar", hence the comparison saw a literal backslash-n and no newline…
[ "$actual" = "$expected" ] in my shell script did actually report inequality. Printing both variables with echo "'$expected'" and also piping them through sha1sum like echo -n "$expected" | sha1sum (even tried without the -n flag) clearly showed that they were the same. In the end, set -x saved my day. actual contained captured stdout of a process with proper newlines, but I had used expected="foo\nbar", hence the comparison saw a literal backslash-n and no newline…
Highly recommended, @prologic, in case you haven't used that either. :-)
Highly recommended, @prologic, in case you haven't used that either. :-)
My workmate was also a bit caught in this disaster when coming home from vacaction and got her train ride rescheduled the day after in the morning. Pretty crazy reports from over there.
[](https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-08-17/01.jpg)
These are some truly amazing shots, mate. Very impressive, well done! They do not compare to mine. So many other levels. Even a UFO in 6387. ;-)
I read something similar the other day for BaWü. Muuuuuch more recorded lightnings this summer than in previous years. Not as crazy over here, though. Your numbers clearly win by far, that's for sure.
Reminds me of a guided tour in the computer museum at University of Stuttgart when Clemens Krause told us that back in the days, the operators could hear what the machine is doing. For example they recognized by ear that the end of the tape is about to be reached soon, so they then could walk over and prepare a tape change or the like. Pretty awesome. :-)
Big camps like this one (Diözesanlager) are always tons more stressfull than smaller camps with just our own group (Stammeslager). There are plenty of things cast in stone that you cannot control and have to work with (or try to work around). The kids loved it, though. Thus it's still a big success in the end.
Kind of. Unfortunately, the scouts are connected to the church. At least over here, not sure about other parts of the world, but I reckon it's very common. The local group or tribe (Stamm) is connected to a church parish. Scouts use the church's premises for their weekly group meetings of all their sections (Stufen) to play games, do crafts and such. Also the leader meetings (Leiterrunden) often take place there. Especially if the weather is not suited for outdoor activities. In return of using the rooms the church asks for participation in services and such. However, it heavily depends on the local group how much church things actually happen. In our case it's rather not so much.
To participate in the scout movement, you don't have to be catholic, in fact anybody is welcome. I'm even an atheist, like some others, too. Since I'm just a volunteer and not a leader, it's extremely easy for me to just skip all the church things. Which I do. In the camp there was also a church service, but I did not attend it. Although they're kind of weird, I interpret §5 and 8 of the scout laws to cover my case actually pretty well. ;-) But again, it really depends on the local group and also the scout organization. The DPSG is generally quite liberal on that regard.
To finish it off, the tribes or local groups of the [DPSG (Deutsche Pfadfinderschaft St. Georg)](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Pfadfinderschaft_Sankt_Georg) – where we're a member of – are grouped to a district (Bezirk) and districts then are combined into the dioceses of the Catholic Church which happens to be Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart for me. Plenty of scouts from Ro-St came together for ten days: https://rostwaerts.de/
Besides their general sloth in camp, bad time management (they were almost always late, although it improved a wee bit over time) and enourmous amount of rubbish they produced, it was a really good time with 'em. Super kind, funny and they had great attitude. They were singing and dancing a lot, I enjoyed that. Once they prepared a Sabbath meal and a breakfast for everybody. I forgot all the names but it was all very, very tasty. One was very similar to our braided sweet yeast bread. Communicating in English worked out very well. Plenty new friendships were made.
Also in terms of food they were fairly uncomplicated. Most of our kitchen worries beforehand were for no reason. Except for one day (chilli con/sin carne) the whole camp was vegetarian, even vegan sometime, which simplified cooking in general. First we were told by the camp organizers that our guests won't eat any meat at all, but then we heard that some of them would love to have some meat, too. A bit later the numbers grew and after the final check with their trip leader everybody but two were looking forward to get some meat. So we had to reorder more beef last minute, which luckily worked out.
Our district's subcamp with three tribes in the diocesan camp with about 1,200 people total was at the very end of the campground. So it was a fairly quiet spot at night and only few people passed through, which helped to keep the mud levels a bit lower than at other spots. On the other hand, the nearest toilet, shower and water gathering station was about 4-5 minutes from us. On the positive side, we never had any issues with toilet smell. That was pretty bad at our neighbors right next to it. Twice a day we had to bring our sorted waste to the garbage place and pick up the food for the next day at the exact opposite end of the campground. It took 15 minutes with our handcarts on these rutted roads to reach that. Also, the central food distribution office only commissioned packets for groups of at least 50 people. We were close to a 100 scouts in our district with our international guests from Isreal, but got all the groceries for us and another tribe with only 25 folks. So we always had to divide everything which also cost a lot of time, especially if you have to open up packaged goods and refill them in appropriate containers. All in all, this fairly simple task cost one and a half hours roundtrip including waiting times.
Before camp we had our remaining white tents cleaned and waterproofed. A few years back we did the same with a first batch. However, day two at constant rain and water was dripping down inside these tents. Turns out, they only washed it, but didn't waterproof it. So, in a rescue mission our material maintainer brought us all the rest of the (small) tents from our material store.
A strong wind gust got under our only half closed dining area made of three yurts and ripped a strong steel T-peg right in half and snapped two wooden yurt poles like matches. It appears there was a manifacturing defect in the peg, though. The beer table and ale bench shelves in our kitchen tents were thrown over. Luckily, everybody except three kitchen staff (who just went to rest a bit) were visiting a hydroelectric power plant, so there were no injuries. Even glass bottles for oil and vinegar, packed DSLR and laptops survived the rough trip to the ground, too. It was just a huge mess and chaos.
Another novum this time: No trip to the hospital was needed. We usually end up at least once with some injury.
Since I was part of the kitchen team, I didn't really attend the regular program. I only had one and a half days off at the weekend, when more volunteers paid us a short visit and joined the regular kitchen crew. We would have been 12 people, which would have been too many, so a few all-time kitcheners were allowed to rest. The first day I attended all our tribe-internal workshops: a botany lesson (forgot most of it by now, unfortunately, but was really cool), a woggle workshop, a gaming session and such. The other day I visited the power plant but had to return early to clean up the mess and replace pegs with longer and even stronger ones.
We dedicated one yurt for the fireplace, otherwise we could not have enjoyed the campfire. That was an extremely awesome experience. Just staring at the fire is super relaxing and the pattering of the rain on the yurt cloth is also very calming. Sitting around the fire in the rain, but not getting wet at all is just great.
All in all, it was a good camp, the kids certainly liked it a ton. Leaders and volunteers were super exhausted, though.
Only two or three tents could be packed up dry a day before departure, the second dry and hot day in the camp. The first hot day without any rain was on Monday when we arrived (and technically the day before, when our advance guard put up most of the tents. At tear down day we of course got more rain, so the day after we had to put up everything back at home to let it dry. Luckily, the sun was beating on us. Now it's all tidied up again and stored away for the next camp to come. Except for the tents to be waterproofed. In hindsight the good thing was that we could not properly clean everything at the campground, so we redid all the dishes and kitchen utensils back at home the day before yesterday. Now they're stored in absolute mint condition like they never had been before.
Immerhin war der gestrige Nachmittag dann mit strahlendem Sonnenschein entgegen aller Ankündigungen komplett trocken. Das hat uns beim Laden des Matrials für das Sommerlager enorm in die Hände gespielt. Ich hab trotzdem das Gefühl, dass wir im Lager selbst absaufen werden, es ist weiterhin flüssiger Sonnenschein angekündigt. Der Voraustrupp meinte schon, Gummistiefel wären ne feine Sache. Wir werden sehen. :-)
Sunset
Bag hanging on the folding cotExcuse the bad lighting and camera work.
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Nice colors again this evening:
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Wir haben Spaß mit ASPICE. Das bringt dann das V-Modell mit in die agile Entwicklung. Funktioniert bestimmt ganz großartig. In der konkreten Umsetzung bei uns sind dann irgendwelche Schrottprogramme verpflichtend vorgeschrieben, die nur auf Windows laufen. Wir kotzen alle im Strahl. Aktuell ziehen sich die Lizenzbeschaffungen aber noch hin.
Not sure if hats are prevalent these days again. I just wear a cowboy hat for very practical reasons. Couldn't care less about fashion. ;-) As a bonus, the hat looks nice, I think.
Yep, certainly don't want to trade temps with 'em.
> "Das eine war ein Wildschwein und das andere war offensichtlich eine Raubkatze, eine Löwin. Die beiden Herren haben auch ein Handyvideo aufgenommen und auch erfahrene Polizisten mussten bestätigen, es handelt sich wahrscheinlich um eine Löwin", so Keip weiter. — https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2023/07/brandenburg-berlin-kleinmachnow-loewin-wildtier-entlaufen.html
Da stellt sich dann die Frage, auf welchen Bereich sich deren Erfahrung erstreckt. Grundlegende Zoologie ja schon mal nicht.
Colorful skyMore wild colors in the sky.
Shaddow of a large hatSo I had to take a photo. Just too funny. Going up the mountain we smelled freshly baked bread. What an overpowering scent. The bread baking boys must have been firing the wood-burning oven at the summit shortly before we arrived. On the way down we ran into extremely cute lambs. Super adorable. If only I could have petted them.
Very pretty sheepEven further down the mountain we came across a caterpillar. It totally looked like a flute wiper. Unfortunately, it walked too quickly for my camera's shutter speed and the fading light.
Some of the blackberries were already good to eat. Most of them, however, were still sour. Even though they heavily wacked them down last year for the forest liming, these blackberry bushes are three meters tall and about 40 meters in length. In a few weeks this strip in the forest will be heaven, I reckon.
Finally, we saw two deer on a meadow. Plenty of good encounters today. Just too much wind noise on the videos, sorry!
Shaddow of a large hatSo I had to take a photo. Just too funny. Going up the mountain we smelled freshly baked bread. What an overpowering scent. The bread baking boys must have been firing the wood-burning oven at the summit shortly before we arrived. On the way down we ran into extremely cute lambs. Super adorable. If only I could have petted them.
Very pretty sheepEven further down the mountain we came across a caterpillar. It totally looked like a flute wiper. Unfortunately, it walked too quickly for my camera's shutter speed and the fading light.
Some of the blackberries were already good to eat. Most of them, however, were still sour. Even though they heavily wacked them down last year for the forest liming, these blackberry bushes are three meters tall and about 40 meters in length. In a few weeks this strip in the forest will be heaven, I reckon.
Finally, we saw two deer on a meadow. Plenty of good encounters today. Just too much wind noise on the videos, sorry!
* https://www.youtube.com/@StefanGotteswinter/videos Machining tiny parts
* https://www.youtube.com/@ThisOldTony/videos Machining and engineering
* https://www.youtube.com/@urituchmanpigeon/videos Building cool stuff
* https://www.youtube.com/@torbjornahman/videos Blacksmithing
* https://www.youtube.com/@Matthiaswandel/videos Woodworking and engineering
* https://www.youtube.com/@matthiasrandomstuff2221/videos All sorts of engineering
* https://www.youtube.com/@SVSeeker/videos Building a steel sailing vessel and sailing
* https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectBrupeg/videos Restoring a steel trawler
* https://www.youtube.com/@SampsonBoatCo/videos Rebuilding a wooden sailing yacht*
Yeah, listening to all these owl calls on YouTube I was surprised that they were so short. All those years I thought hoots are much, much longer. Learning something new very day. :-)
I can hear tawny owls every now and then, at least I was told that this is the specific hooting of them. Only half a year ago I actually got to see one of them for the first time taking off a tree.
That reminds me of a funny story last month: I was working with doors and windows open in the morning and I thought several times, I received an incoming call. But I couldn't see anything of that sort. The headset was laying on the desk and it was ringing very quietly. Took me a few seconds to realize that this was the call of an owl. :-D I hadn't realized before that the ringtone must have been modelled after an owl call. :-)
Today, it was cloudy and after lunch I had a two to three hours long nap. After getting up again the sun was out, too, so I decided to only go for a walk in the evening. At 20:00 it was still very muggy. But it was good to be outdoors again. Didn't see too many animals, they probably didn't like the heat either.
BumblebeeIf you look closely in 09 and 10, there are two raptorial birds that were hooting in the distance. I couldn't see the one in 09, just heard him and then saw something light falling down the tree, so I just made a bunch of photos on the off chance. I'm not 100% positive, it was already too dark when I returned, but I might have seen a racoon just a couple of meters ahead of me running out of a hedge and climbing up the allotment gardener fence right quick in a hurry.
asciiworld-sat-track in action with the ISS¹: now makes up for the heat during the day