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The pieces look like they retain the shapes I cut them in when stacked. I started cutting them as pie slices, but then tried a few as parallel chops, and they get stacked in those shapes.
Also interesting is the shadows of leaves that stay consistent on the scene as the pile grows, but they don't appear on the splitting area itself.
Lots of engine noise too, I guess that's the ambience in this person's back yard! Probably true for lots of us.
Very simple and beautiful! I planted a couple too.
I wish I could zoom in further to get closeups of trees and names and the mountains.
All the same it's very nice!
My favorite writing implement these days is a black Milwaukee Inkzall ultra fine pen, bought in 4 packs at Home Depot.
I have three primary things I write on, mostly todos for home yard or office, groceries and hardware or tools to buy, and bands and songs to listen to, and the occasional song lyric.
The first is a mini clipboard made from a 3" x 4" piece of cedar shingle and a mini binder clip holding a 4x6 craft paper card folded in half, giving me four sides to write on. On the back side I keep a one-year calendar printed on standard letter paper and folded down to fit where I keep track of my band gigs.
The next one is a standard wire-bound 4x6 note book, mostly for work todos using sort of a bullet-journaling type of progress system.
The third at this point is a regular letter sized clipboard holding scrap one-side-blank printer paper, mostly for meetings.
Then I frequently take pictures of any of these pages so I have a dated copy on my phone.
They also all get added to with typical 3x3 sticky notes in mostly neon colors.
Finally I also do lots of writing in Obsidian, notes in source files with Sublime Text, and sometimes even the StickyNotes Windows app.
My philosophy about this over the last few years is that its better to write something down anywhere on whatever system, even on multiple systems, rather than to try to adhere to one format all the time.
Simone Giertz had a different approach, she built a bench for her and her dog with stairs so it could come and go as it wanted to.
I built a chair for dogs that always want to sit next to you (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU)
According to the CSS of the page, the font is "IBM VGA 9x16".
No idea about the color scheme but it's nice.
Unrelated to any of this, this font reminds of an old Turbo Pascal program I wrote years ago (decades now) to extract a VGA font from the computer's ROM and use the character bitmaps in my own graphics programs. Nice memory I would not have had if not for your question, so thank you!
Kovcheg is very nice if you like a cappella.
I clicked because it had an interesting design and thought it would be metal! XD
But its a Russian men's singing group and they're very good.
A complementary resource for learning about tube amps is the YouTube channel Fazio Electric. Colleen Fazio does a nice job of repairing old amps and explaining various aspects of their construction, history, and significance. Plus she has a very calming voice and is probably one of the loveliest amp repair technicians out there.
It's the German version!
I found a couple fun ones near the ones you posted:
https://radio.garden/visit/ris-orangis/QP41kyYR Volubilis Radio, Ris-Orangis France
seems to play some later 60ish stuff
groovy theme, trombone solo
string section, horn section, rock instruments, sitar, harpsichord, quite a setup!
no vocals so far on the last couple of tracks, spy movie theme song stuff
https://radio.garden/visit/yamoussoukro/2hK0VL6B Radio MEDIA+CI Yamoussoukro 90.2 FM Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
african rhythms, african and french lyrics, mellower than some of the dance beat stations
nice guitars and vocals
lots of fun bouncing around all of the neighboring stations!
It was not obvious to me that I needed to click the New button first. I clicked around everywhere else and tried typing and no go. Then after clicking New and getting a text area, it made sense and I said "well of course".
So maybe not too many other people had this problem, but perhaps the top line could say "Click New, then just write." =)
And/or start the page off with a note that describes the basic process:
"click new, write, and click Publish to finish the note, then click Save to save it to index.html on your system"
When I went back to edit a note, Publish didn't work for me.
Trying this in Vivaldi, I didn't try on another browser yet.
Third sentence needs some correction:
"MonsterWriter assists students write exceptional academic papers"
should be
"MonsterWriter assists students to write exceptional academic papers"
or "helps students write..."
They also seem to like wine drinkers who haven't had sex well enough too! Sample size one.
It would be helpful to have some examples that show the prompts needed to develop simple shapes, then how to iterate to add improvements. A video of you using it to create something specific would be great.
I first tried "a work table with a roof" which gave me a reasonable model but with a flat roof, then I tried "a work table with a pitched roof" which gave me a very unlikely and unworkable model with the halves of the roof disconnected and not contacting the vertical supports. Then I tried the "Adam Pro" option and it came out looking more like an Adirondack chair than a table, but not one you could sit in! =)
I would like to know what to write instead to get a more useful model. Very cool project though!
I thought this might be about the saying I've heard a bunch recently, "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast."
I've mostly heard it in the context of building and construction videos where they are approaching a new skill or technique and have to remind themselves to slow down.
Going slowly and being careful leads to fewer mistakes, which will be a "smoother" process and ends up taking less time, whereas going too fast and making mistakes means work has to be redone and ultimately takes longer.
On rereading it, I see some parallels: When one is trying to go too fast, and is possibly becoming impatient with their progress, their mental queue fills up and processing suffers. If one accepts a slower pace, one's natural single-tasking capability will work better, and they will make better progress as a result.
And maybe its just my selection bias working hard to confirm that he actually is talking about what I want him to say!
You prefer doing the right thing over the wrong thing, unless the wrong thing is correct in this context!
He says something similar at the end of the article:
"These four verbs aren’t a productivity system or a self-help formula. Some days I forget one. Other days, one takes over. But when I return to them, they gently reorient me."
You may be overreacting with words like "machine" and "tyranny" to an idea simply suggested as a useful and helpful goal.
actually the content is there, it's just showing as white on white - when I select with the mouse I can see things - but my guess is that its still not displaying correctly
I get the bubbles page too after a minute or so, but the main page is just white with two black lines on it.
When I move my mouse around it, I get a click pointer and can see the links show up in the status area, but nothing is displayed. on latest version of Vivaldi
I found that if I remove the number lines or position the display straight on to an axis, that the crackling drops considerably.
Same for me, when the code is not correct, the music is much slower and very crackly. Once the code gives the correct solution, the music speeds up and the crackles go away.
Also agreed, very fun!
FreeDOS can also be put on a USB stick so you are not necessarily limited to the size of a floppy disk.
I love the idea of it, but I would get bothered working with such a tiny screen. I understand that bigger screens lead to more things going on and greater distractions, but I want to see my writing with some structure, paragraphs, margins, indentation. Some of those tiny screens with their tiny text, it looks comparable to typing through a keyhole! But I would still love to try one.
It's nice that Nim the Language is getting well enough known that it needs to be specifically differentiated from something!
Neat! I created a nice looking logo for my band!
Ha, funny! I did something very similar when we moved from old NEC APCs with 8" floppies to brand new IBM PC XTs and ATs! The consultants wanted something like $200 per disk to convert them. I was able to rig up a serial cable and a tiny Turbo Pascal program to send files from one machine to another. A couple cheap cable ends from Radio Shack and some spare phone wire from the basement was all it needed!
The serial printer port trick is very clever too. I don't think my transfer was as fast as 9600. Good job!
My first few programming jobs were in dBASE, the last of which saw the use of dBASE go on for 15 years or so. It was a weird language but still capable of quite a lot. I learned some assembly language with the help of Peter Norton and had a few neat little addons for my dBASE code.
I tried to transition my company to Borland dBASE 5 when it came out but there was too much to try to upgrade all at once. I was really excited about a lot of the language improvements, and the fact that it was now coming from a real language company, but it was too much too late. A few years later my company moved to different software altogether and dBASE was just a (mostly) fond memory.
My most productive use of it was with the Topaz library for Turbo Pascal from Software Science. They provided a much more powerful UI capability than one could get from "@ 1,1 say ..." with drop down lists and moveable windows etc. It was still all character mode DOS stuff, but we had the whole menagerie running in Windows for Workgroups for a good while. Those were fun days.
It would be a great way to show a few calls as an example of the API, then have a link to the auto-generated doc.
I would call it "an easy way to create a very full featured README" because it's not easier than just loading a snippet or template in ones text editor, but it does offer a very easy way to add specific sections and to customize them.
The "Get Started" button goes right to the editor with three panes: list of sections to include, plain text editor for the current section, and rendered preview. There's no sign up, and the results can be downloaded directly. Very nicely done little app.
I felt the default sections were missing something, so I easily created this:
## Dad Jokes
- Q: did you hear about the two antennae who met on a roof top and fell in love?
- A: well the wedding was okay, but the reception was Great!
Wow, such beautiful work! Imaginative designs and great expressions! The frogs and tadpoles have their own character, and other animals as well.
I'm surprised I haven't heard of this guy before. I'm a big fan of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau in general, but not deeply studied.
Thank you for posting this!
I love this! The hardware and the presentation are very nicely done.
To do a similar job though, I run NirSoft PingInfoView which allows you to put in a list of hosts and shows an ongoing display of who is responding or not and all kinds of stats about the connection. (Windows only)