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@movq WTF, I didn't know the thing with the semicolon. That's absolutely terrible design! I'm not against using all the language features per se. Admittedly, it's hard for new people, but it often ends up in much more elegant code. Well, depending on the exact feature, that is.
@movq Yeah, lots of things to go wrong there.
@movq No way! This was some kind of crib in the forest.
@movq Wow, these are some incredible shots, mate!
@prologic The jumping one? Totally pure luck. Never got this in a hundred years if I meant to.
@movq True. Unfortunately.
@movq Sounds a bit like Ada. I probably need to have a deeper look into Rust. One thing I really don't get, is why they decided to make the last statement an implicit return. I really hate this.
@lyxal Is there some part of the seagull's foot missing?
@lyxal :-D Selling little used tyre cheaply.
@movq @prologic I could also imagine, that playing them todays is nearly not as much fun as it had been at the day.
@prologic Really nice sunrise! I only optimized the thumbnails, but nothing on the large ones.
@lyxal Very scenic! I love it.
Dear friends, it's slow worm weather again! https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2021-07-21/ Luckily, I still decided last-minute to take another path and went back a few meters. In the turn I saw the this beautiful creature absorbing the rest of the day's heat.
@movq Yes, it's the long-term goal to have it completely in Rust one day. Piece by piece C++ gets ripped out and replaced by Rust. It's still a long way to go. But the end result will be better I reckon. Newsboat is the active maintained fork and successor to Newsbeuter.
@movq Yes, to me it appears, that Rust haven't finally settled yet. But I don't use Rust actively, just from what I see in Newsboat's development.
@jlj Oh well, at least you had good fun! That's what really counts. :-)
@will The invention of telegraphy and trains required a unique interpretation of time. Local times of bigger cities were used to standardize the time around the area. Later they invented more systematic time zones, so you didn't have so many of them being just a couple of minutes apart. This was all in the middle to end of the 19th century.
@jlj Nice! Did you build a sand castle?
@ionores It headed for the purple field. ;-)
@prologic The company you're going to start some day. :-)
@jlj This sounds brilliant, enjoy your holiday! :-)
@movq Is it actually better somewhere else in the Milky Way?
@prologic @antonio @jlj Yeah, nice writeup. What does the company actually do? Sounds like just a regular cloud to me, which is not self-hosting.
@adi Never tried to recover the "backup". It's an all-time classic.
@movq Oh ja! Und wie immer sieht das gesetzte Ergebnis auch einfach hervorragend aus.
@movq There you go, I didn't take pictures of the mechanism when I built this prototype, but I just took it apart and caught up on that. I didn't remember, that I also edited a quick video on how it works. ;-) Definitely a second washer plate is needed on the other side of the coupler nut in the slide to stop the nut from digging into the plywood. So at the moment backlash is quite bad when reversing. https://lyse.isobeef.org/x-y-table-prototype/
@movq These boots and hat are most likely part of a scavenger hunt. There was a sign "Räuber\nPlatz" (sic) (bandit site) and children had painted stick figures on pieces of cloth along the way. They were quite ugly, so I didn't take photos of them. Hmm, not sure, which other pieces of clothes you mean. I can't remember any.
@movq These boots and hat are most likely part of a scavenger hunt. There was a sign "Räuber\\nPlatz" (sic) (bandit site) and children had painted stick figures on pieces of cloth along the way. They were quite ugly, so I didn't take photos of them. Hmm, not sure, which other pieces of clothes you mean. I can't remember any.
@movq Ha, good old GTA2, that was fun! I tried it in Wine a few years back, but sadly this didn't really work. No idea, what the woman says. I don't hear any voices in 1.ogg at all.
It must have rained cats and dogs, there were streams in the woods everywhere. My mate also told me that the neighboring village's fire brigade responded earlier that day to put flood protection measures in place, the river was in danger of overflowing. Luckily the water level didn't raise enough. It rained a bit, but I completely missed that heavy stuff, weird. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2021-07-09/
Crap, I just accidentally killed my twtxt client and thus lost all the read statuses in this session, since they're persisted only when exiting gracefully. Something I have to work on.
@anth @prologic People with special characters in their language are at advantage here. ;-)
@movq Ah, that sounds like a small engineering project for the hobby shop. You could build yourself a small X/Y table like on a milling machine. In fact, on axis is enough and the size could be quite small. I built one myself, let me dig up the photos later.
@movq Very nice! :-) Which distribution are you using?
@movq Congrats! Did you reinstall from scratch once or always upgrade from one release to the next?
@movq Brilliant idea, I didn't even know, that such reverse mounts exists or are even possible! You need a quite small tripod for this kind of thing, so you can position it on the same table surface, right?
@movq Yeah, I should give it a try. I know in the neighboring town there was a photo shop at least last year. Not sure, if it still exists.
@prologic Very rarely to never did I discover new cool projects on GitHub. There are cases, where I look through people's projects, but that would work the very same if they'd hosted themselves. The thing is, that the initial contact was always made somewhere else, blogs, articles, docs, twts, that sort of thing.
@movq I have to admit, I never sent a patch via e-mail. At least not in the sense of proper patches. I have mailed fixed code when I helped out non-IT mates with their coding.
@prologic @ionores @anth I've always hosted my code myself. Not counting the early days on SourceForge some millennia ago. I'm using GitHub just to collaborate in other people's projects.
@movq Oh no! :-( I have some crap in my camera optics. Not a bug, but some sort of fluff which ruins most zoomed shots. It somehow moved from the left into the middle as you all already have witnessed in the last months.
@movq Holy crap, this is crazy! Very nice shots.
@anth Haha, great! Were you able to reproduce this test input? :-)
@prologic No, not really. As kids we built bows and arrows of course, but those apparatuses lacked precision quite a lot. I've used much more professional equipment at most five times in my life. But it was always great fun.
@markwylde Great! This is probably not deployed on prologic's server yet, because I don't see anything spinning.
@prologic A simple indication 'Uploading…' would be enough for me. ;-)
@prologic Cool! Tested out the web interface and just wanted to mention, that some kind of feedback when uploading would be quite nice. After selecting the file, 'nothing happened', so I thought for a moment, oh well, it's just not implemented yet. A couple of seconds later, suddenly, the file appeared in the list.
@movq Actually, this perfectly fits their strategy of making things worse every time. }:->
@movq Ah, I was wondering, whether they were sped up. But I came to the conclusion, that people are just typing really rapidly. If you exactly know what's happening, then the time lapse is absolutely fine. But without the context, it's pretty hard. A small narration would be perfect to follow along. But yeah, this is quite the opposite then and the slow motion will just never end.
@prologic Nice! I'm curious how long does it take you to aim, so what's the time span between lifting the bow and releasing the arrow?
@movq Very cool, I've already seen some of them, but there have been certainly new ones. I find it quite difficult to really follow along what's going on. They're all way too fast for me. I have to watch some of them several times, because it's happening everything so quickly. I learnt, that there's scrot, which I'm going to check out now. Maybe it can replace my own script.
@movq Sure. But I reckon the mental picture of nomads is often a bit too romantic. On the other hand, stepping down a bit from our super high standards is certainly not too bad.
@movq When I went by some days ago, just a single spruce was laying accurately in one piece on the grass. Now, they've cut down and chopped up several trees. Not sure, why they managed to spell the second danger properly, but not the first one.
@movq Sounds like this approach would work.
@darch The German train company stopped all their night sleepers in December 2016. :-(
@ionores Cute! What a strange sound it makes, though. ;-)
Went on a quick evening hike in the rain and thunder in the distance with a few mates. Now we're having bautiful lightning and heavy rain. I really enjoy watching this spectacle of nature. Fire brigade sirens wail in the distance.
@movq Oh yeah, absolutely.
Rode my bike through woods and saw a brown hare. It's a pitty, that I haven't brought my camera along. And a large spruce flattened the forest recreation week's food tent. Luckily this event happens in the middle of summer, so there was no tent yet.
@ionores @movq Thanks, holding up so far. I just bumped it twice yesterday. ;-) Yep, this is just a hobby, that's why it took me around three months. But I just worked on it occasionally, there had been weeks where I didn't do anything. I definitely should have waited a few more days before putting it in this room, the boiled linseed oil still smells awefully.
@movq Hahaha, on the first trial, great! :-D I agree, smartphones won't go away any time soon, but they still suck at nearly everything, probably get even worse.
@movq I was lucky to shelter under some trees which protected my camera from the rain, so capturing the rainbow was very convenient.
@movq I fully agree, mobiles are just terrible to use. In every way for any task. It fully sucks. I don't get it either, why everyone loves them so much.
@movq I remember those times when iPods were a thing and my best mate wanted to transfer audio files to that device. Amarok offered special support for that, I couldn't believe that this was necessary. It was an eyeopener, just don't use this Apple shit.
@movq Hahahaha, how many attempts were needed to guess the password? :-D
@movq Luckily, this week is supposed to be cooler, with 26°C being the hottest today. This means I will have the courage to go out in the woods again.