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I use F4 and have a dedicated button for it nestled amongst my other modifier buttons.

Procmail isn't quite as dead as the article claims. I still use it with OpenSMTP on OpenBSD and am happy with it.

https://github.com/BuGlessRB/procmail/releases/tag/v3.24

What is your evidence for shorter lives promoting long-term thinking?

I'm looking at it in the other direction; that long-term thinking might result in shorter lives.

I don't argue for a second that our birthrate isn't dropping; it is. But we either haven't dropped it enough, or it's being offset by higher consumption. The overshoot day is now the 1st of August [1]. Until we push that back out to to a sustainable level, we haven't done enough.

To achieve that, I can only see a few classes of solution. We could reduce our per-capita consumption, our lifespan, or our number.

I'm assuming that the overshoot day is roughly correct. The details of exactly how much our birthrate has dropped or by how much our consumption has increased isn't important to know that there is a massive discrepancy between where we are and what is sustainable. Doing anything that increases that discrepancy is probably going to make it worse.

[1] https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/

I'm very uneasy about us collectively seeking longer lifespans. Earth is already supporting more people than is sustainable. Living longer robs someone else of an opportunity to live, or a shorter life. Over many generations we may be able to lower our birthrate to compensate, but I worry about happens in the meantime.

I really must make one of these. My favourite game is Kaboom! which is completely unplayable without a paddle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

Actually, I take it back. As I said earlier, I mostly use vintage imperical hand tools. I've just been looking into modern metric tools and I'm finding that they're actually imperial, as in they come in sizes like 0.25"/3.2mm. So long as they're not rounding them to whole millimeters, they'll have the same ratio as the imperical tools.

I guess you can use whatever number system you care for.

Thank you for making me think about this.

Sorry, I didn't express that well. I guess in that specific case I would use a ruler.

Normally I would take measurements from my pre-existing pieces instead of the ruler. It's more accurate because it accommodates for any slight inaccuracies.

What's wrong with 9.5 mm?

As a number, well nothing. I'm not saying there are anything wrong with the numbers, I'm saying that with a standard set of imperial or metric tools, you're more likely to find your imperial tools working with with you.

And what's going to happen when you divide by three, not two?

Well dividing by three will be 1/4". That's another common imperial size. But to answer the point I think you were trying to make, there are sometimes cases where it isn't natural — like dividing 3/4 by 5. In those cases you need to measure or pull out of divider. Your problems don't all disappear when using imperial but I find that more often the perfect dimension happens to be that of a commonly size tool.

Don't see anything natural in one compared to the other.

I think you're arguing from the perspective of pure numbers verses the practicality of making something with tools that I own. If I was using CAD, it metric or imperial would make zero difference.

Dividing it by two gives you 3/8 rather than 9.5mm. Dividing it by 4 gives you 3/16 rather than 4.75mm. Both 3/8 and 3/16 are common sizes. You can drill holes cut grooves this size. You can use your 3/8 chisel to quickly find the centerline.

It's not like you can't do any of this with the metric system, but you'll either need to measure things more, or round things. Often rounding is fine, but to me it feels like a compromise that is born out of the measuring system; a compromise that isn't needed when using the imperial system.

You can skew the ruler so that it measures 102cm and mark off 34cm and 68cm. :)

I think that both metric and imperial systems are good for woodworking but I think you need to adapt the way you think of measurements depending on which you choose.

I like that using imperial you have a hierarchy of measures: wholes, halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths. It's clear and precise. You know that if you needing to measure 16ths or 32ths things are getting weird.

With metric you have similar measures but the hierarchy isn't strongly defined: 100s of mm, 10s of mm, then maybe 5s of mm, and 2s of mms.

As far as dividing a meter into equal thirds, you wouldn't use a ruler to do that, or at least I wouldn't.

I like that you can fairly easily use the metric system to measure something that was that was made with imperial measures. You can't really say the same for the opposite without a bunch of estimates and holding unmemorable numbers.

What I do wonder is whether there is beauty in the ratios you naturally get from using imperial measures when furniture making or designing building façades.

I've been slowing learning the imperial measurement system and I would say that it's now natural to me in a very limited sense.

I grew up in Australia using the metric system. As a child, it was (and probably still is) common to throw around estimates in inches or yards, but anything precise was expressed in in mm or meters. So I've always had a sense of how big and inch or two is but like the presenter, for anything bigger I'd need to perform a quick conversions back to my natural metric measurements to understand what was meant.

I'm also a woodworker and use many vintage tools, produced before the world adopted metric. I decided long ago that I would these tools as they were designed to be used and not try to mess with metric, too.

At the time, I had no intuition at all about fractions of an inch. I didn't even know that 8ths and 16ths where how they were divided. I literally had no idea. I needed to pull out my maths brain to tell you whether 7/8 or 5/16 was bigger.

I used imperial measurements almost exclusively while woodworking in my shed. This was possible because I don't need to communicate measures to anyone other than myself. I also don't often need to take measurements of odd things that don't fall nicely onto an imperial ruler.

I'm now comfortable using inches for measuring things up to maybe 100" — I wonder if 100 is only an obvious stopping point because of my metric upbringing — I still have no concept of a mile or yard before converting to metric.

But I do still do use metric when I need a precise measure of something that can't be expressed easily in inches. So I'd use 12" rather than 304mm, but I'd use 300mm rather than 11 and whatever inches.

Also, it's made easier due to a lot of hangover in stock wood dimensions. It still comes in thicknesses that are more naturally expressed in inches, for example 19mm (3/4"), 25mm (1").

I've been working this way for about 10 years and can now think in inches without any conversion. I doubt I could flip all units of measure to imperial without changing the world I live in and the people I work with.

I wonder if this could be used to launder money for a cost of $1 per month. :)

I'm bored with the tech stuff but nobody has ever offered me any other kind of work.

I recommend doing the work that you want (alongside your regular responsibilities) and if you're good at it the offers will follow. If you're not, you'll develop experience.

It's documented in Underground[1] that Spafford was the target of some crackers, eager to get info on the latest security vulrabilities; information that was difficult to obtain in the 80s. They intended to break into his computer and take it.

It's a wonderful book all about the hacking scene of 80s and early 90s. It covers a young Julian Assange, but that's not why you should read it.

1. https://underground-book.net/

Today I learnt that salt raises the boiling temperature of water. I knew it lowered the freezing point but I never considered it might also change the boiling point.

I have arrow keys but don't use them. I tend to use ctrl-f and ctrl-b otherwise I have fn and h, j, f and l mapped to arrows. I've been using it this way for years and it works for me.

I don't have or want a Google or Apple account. I use a de-googled android phone running Lineage with MicroG. I'm glad for Unified Push because it means i can now get instant message notifications for supported apps, without which I would need to rely on SMS which can take up to 15 minutes to appear.

I am not willing to compromise my ideals. It there were no unified push, I would just live with delayed notifications of SMS, but this is better.

edit: corrected that I would have no notifications, not delayed notifications without unifid push.

Thanks. That clears it up a lot. I'll probably start hacking something in the next few days and see where it takes me. I've created an issue where you can track or discuss it further.

https://github.com/jonhiggs/jcb/issues/19

I'm a bit at a loss on how to install it !

If there is a release for your os/arch, then download the binary and put it in /usr/local/bin/jcb (you may need to chmod +x it). Otherwise you'll need to get golang and run "make build" which will get you a ./jcb binary.

Is it intuitive to create transaction in advance to simulate a budget ?

You raise some interesting points that I need to think more about. I've just been making placeholder transactions to pad out the budget while I don't know exactly what the months transactions will be. It makes it hard to know where you stand midway through the month. At the end of the month you can see exactly how much you spent, but you can't see how much you budgeted once you delete the placeholder.

I really like Coopers. It tastes great and is the only brand that isn't almost as expensive as regular beer. I'm resentful of how much profit there must since there isn't alcohol excise to pay.

As someone with moderate face-blindness, it would be true for me.

I chose a pedal based on the sound it produces not how it feels to use. I like the feel of the full buttons, but my board doesn't have any. Until now I've never even thought about it. So no, it's not at all a dealbreaker for me. If it were, it would severely limit my choices.

Me neither. Firefox 97.2.0 on android.

There is a lot more technical information at http://ddramdisk.store/.

It's slower than RAM, runs at around full pcie 4x speed of 7GB/s but it upports way more capacity than most boards would allow.

qcad is great. I've been using it for at least 15 years. I use it to plan my woodworking projects. The keyboard controls and 2d nature make it super fast to try out ideas and to become clear how the joinery will come together. I tried freecad a few times but I've always gone back to qcad.

I pretty much only use hand tools and I construct things using traditional joinary. It is challenging on a lot of levels. Finding a design that works, the joints you choose, the order you alter each piece of wood and the skill in which you weild your tools.

It's hard. There are so many ways to get it wrong and it's obvious when you have. It's usually a fixable when you or cheap enough to do again, so it there is low pressure except from yourself to be good.

The basic skills are highly transferable so it makes sense to invest in yourself.

I find this combination suites my personality. I've been doing it for 7 years and love it just as much as when I started. Probably more.

I have many. Mostly woodworking, restoring old bicycles and playing guitar (delta and chicago blues).

That's great but I'm getting tripped up when I delete a word with ctrl-w and correct it. Even if I get it correct, it marks as incorrect.