After about the first night or so it’s amazing how you get used to sleeping on a boat. The rocking motion and creaking sounds of the lines just become the comforting background rather than the thing that keeps waking you up.
Reminds me of a holiday where the B&B was right above the platforms of Lancaster station. The noise of trains quickly became the background. So much so that when there was engineering works in the last night it was eerily quiet and hard to sleep.
I just made a command-line typo: 'locat' in place of 'locate'.
Ubuntu's command-not-found package offered me 'lolcat' as a higher-ranked preference than what I actually intended.
The Internet has won.
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A few years ago I was on Scarlet (the yacht of @Sarah Brown and @Zoë O'Connell ) and noticed mid morning that I didn't have the bloating sensation I was used to having some time after breakfast. The reason for this, of course, is that Scarlet runs on lactose-free milk. Evidently I was slightly lactose intolerant, started buying lactose-free milk at home, and everything was better.
It shouldn't have been only today that I extrapolated this experience to cover a large takeaway banana milkshake.
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Observant viewers will note the presence of hydrofoils. Each one of those is an INTERPLANETARY SEAPLANE!
Also, not a single expendable launch in this game.
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I guess the takeaway from the xz backdoor situation is:
If you’re an open-source project maintainer, and somebody starts getting on your case for not doing enough free work for them, you reply “big Jia Tan energy there” and then block them forever.
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A new post on misleading Covid charts & why Covid really is low right now, and why we should be glad of it.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/hospitals-...
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Given the news of the xz backdoor, may I recommend this seminal paper from Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award lecture showing how a compiler with no backdoors in the source code can nevertheless propagate a backdoor.
Reflections on trusting trust | the morning paper
blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/09/re…
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on this Trans Day of Visibilty, remember that you are valid, you matter, and you’re trans if you say you are
if you’re not cis, this day is for you
and remember that on this, the most holiest of trans days, TDoV and The Matrix’s 25th anniversary…
she is risen 😉
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Is anyone on Mastodon knowledgeable about Tironian notes? I've got tentative readings of two headings in a 9th c. Text from the Loire Valley, which mix Tironian notes and Latin charaters. But there are 13,000 T. Notes in Schmitz, many of which look very similar. Thanks!!
@histodons @litteracarolina @medievodons @chaprot #bookhistodons @mssprovenance
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Sure! Be forewarned, the MS is very hard to read (which is why it remained for us to decipher.)
Line 1: the start seems to be "Versus in baptisterio" but after that -- "Petri" something maybe. Extremely hard to read. The last character that looks like some Carolingian miniscule A's -- "abstergentis"? "delati"?
Line 14: we read "De petra manante"
We = me + Mike Fontaine (Cornell) + Rachel Fickes (Middlebury library.)
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Christians: This Friday we celebrate!
Non Christians: Cool! What’s the occasion?
Christians: Our god died. Tortured to death quite horribly, in fact.
Non Christians: You celebrate that?
Christians: There are sound theological reasons.
Non Christians: Bit weird, but ok.
Christians: We call it “Good Friday”
Non Christians: …
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In fact the word good stood for "holy", not the modern meaning:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Fri…
And of course christians don't celebrate good friday, but commemorate it. It's like say that jews people celebrate Holocaust_memorial_days.
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Completely agree!
The use of eth in Anglian and Brythonic names seems to imply a soft 'th' sound, whereas the use of thorn seems to imply a harder one; and my understanding is that the same is true in modern Icelandic (Seyðisfjörður, Egilsstaðir vs Þórsmörk, for example).
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I see GamerGate is in the news because it’s coming up to the tenth anniversary. Ten years ago, I was in the middle of a nervous breakdown caused by transphobic harassment from TERfs organised on social media. They were using the same tactics that, months later, would be the hallmark of GamerGate.
And yet the surviving narrative is that this sort of organised, “culture war” harassment originated with GG.
It didn’t. They did it to trans women, and probably others, first, and we raised the alarm, and nobody thought it mattered enough to do anything.
And then they came for the rest of you.
They keep doing this. We keep raising the alarm. We keep being ignored.
Maybe one day people will learn.
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Henry the goose spent many years in a love triangle with two swans, helping raise their children.By Yvette Tan (BBC News)
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I'm looking for work again, after the most recent temporary thing came to an end. (Arguably I did it all too quickly!).
Apart from the challenge of persuading myself that I'm actually good enough to do _any_ described job, I find I haven't a clue what job titles mean these days. Cambridge University hides everything under a "Computer Officer" blanket, and I know I'm a system administrator (who does networks and other stuff too), but the job market is full of "Thing Analyst" and "Site Reliability Engineer" and "DevOps" and I haven't a clear idea what boxes if any I fit into.
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I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.
You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
gist.github.com/OrionReed/4c37…
3D DOM viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM topographically. - DOM3D.jsGist
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Star Trek Prodigy is silly.
"You want us to jump? I do not think that option is logically sound"
"In outer space, there is no sound"
"Your rebuttal is correct, but nonsense"
Etymology is so cool.
The term "microblog" comes from micro + blog, ie small blog.
Then, "blog" is a shortened form of "Web log". And a "log" comes from "log book", which is a book used to record events on a journey.
So get this, the "log" in log book is because you would use the book to record the progress and speed of a ship by using a reel attached to a chip log... So called because it's made of wood... ie a log.
So a microblog is a small record of your journey.
I think that's very poetic that this very post is a direct descendent of mariners from 400 years ago.
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I had to sign up to a private dentist (no NHS in the area). One thing I always notice the few times I've had to go private for things is that you don't get lectured.
With the NHS it's like waiting for the NordVPN bit in a YouTube video, except you can't skip it.
You need to lose weight, stop drinking, eat better, exercise, wash behind your ears, phone your mother, come more often, not come as often, get more sleep, work less, just be happier, find some "me" time, stay informed but worry less, get out more, close the door (were you born in a barn?).
I wonder if there's been any papers on contrasting primary care providers who moan at their patients and those who don't. I can't help wondering if it's counterproductive.
It's made me much happier to book checkups knowing that we both start on the basis that I'm trying.
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"they find that basically nonbinary people do whatever the heck they like"
damn right lol
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@Sesquipedality It's an interesting exercise in attempting to express the reasoning in accessible language. To me it seems a little patronising but it's been a long time since I was 14 so I'm a poor judge of that... and was never very typically 14 anyway.
Problematic how?
You know goats have those excellent rectangular pupils in their eyes? Well apparently they give the goat an excellent field of vision to detect predators. They also swivel in their sockets to ensure that the pupil remains parallel to the ground.
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in reply to Simon Tatham • • •Nice. Just rode through the eclipse out here.
I recently added the 'did you mean' thing to JANOS just minimizing the Levenshtein distance from built-in commands. But Ubuntu goes too far I think in finding suggestions. LOL
Actually added a strlev() function to my not-so-standard C library. I exposed that in our PHP-like scripting. Maybe it'll find a use there. Maybe should slip it in some Java class so applications might use it? Well, it is a simple calculation.
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in reply to Bruce Cloutier • • •@bscloutier on the other hand, sometimes command-not-found doesn't go far _enough_. It doesn't know shell builtins – so if I typo the 'cd' command, it'll offer me ~10 possibilities I didn't want from packages I've never heard of, and *not* the thing I almost certainly meant!
Or if the misspelling _exists_, it won't offer you options at all. Leave one s off the end of 'less', and it'll tell you that 'les' can be found by installing atm-tools, but not that you 99% surely meant 'less' instead!
Bruce Cloutier
in reply to Simon Tatham • • •I would check out the Ubuntu code out of curiosity but it is probably messy and poorly commented. I shouldn't make that assumption but open source hasn't impressed me yet.
In an OS though this might be the only use of a little AI. Don't know. I debated filling the command line after the error with the corrected command to be optionally then executed.
Our customers are not experienced at this level so this is an attempt to help them learn. Not so much for dealing with typos.
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