Named after my first AD&D character, ca 1991.
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Last Notes npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus @npub18g0…0a9e 's book just mentioned at carol willing's #pyOhio keynote "single best book I read in the last 5 years" npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I tried [FFShare](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.caydey.ffshare/ ) but had trouble getting it to work consistently. It has not been updated since December 2024 so it is probably a fallow project at this point. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus It was ca. 1990 and I was around 15 years old. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I'm having a hard time guessing why it was a good idea for fxch to mark invalid operand stack locations as used. Presumably it didn't really matter much, because you'd soon be visiting Mr. Error Handler in most cases. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Falling asleep the other night I was thinking about derivatives. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Where in the world are the early reviews of the #Prusa3d #bondTech INDX toolchanger? I know to take such reviews with a tablespoon of salt, but I'm really surprised there aren't a raft of youtube videos out there from folks who got shipped early units by Prusa specifically so there would be video reviews out at the same time the thing went in the store. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baldwin#GamerGate Possibly claimed to coin the term GamerGate & popularized misinfo about Zoë Quinn npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I know, the p of p-adics have to be primes .. but today I learned that you might refer to the composite adic numbers as "g-adics," these were investigated by Gauss, and in 10-adic numbers there are 4 square roots of 1: https://arxiv.org/html/2510.11559v1#S3 npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus > One Mayan inscription suggest that the Long Count was the truncation to the last 5 “digits” of an even longer count, and that a Long Count value such as 9.15.13.6.9 was in fact 13.13.13.13.13.13.13.13.9.15.13.6.9 in this Even Longer Count (why 13 everywhere? I don’t know!). npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus This makes me think back: Around 2005 I wanted to drive XY displays with my PC and realized I had a DAC that was already driving at MHz rates: my VGA card. Of course, the blanking interval would always jerk the coordinates down to (0,0). So among my tricks was setting unreasonable video modes with the most horizontal pixels the CRTC would allow and as few lines as needed for the game's display. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus ARM CPUs literally have a ["big if true" register](https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0406/c/Application-Level-Architecture/Application-Level-Programmers--Model/Execution-state-registers/Endianness-mapping-register--ENDIANSTATE ) npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus @npub1nf4…nqe4 re https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/tiny-musical-intervals/ npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus fwiw When I wrote it I had in mind the phrase "wacky tabacky" that I was riffing on. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Hi! A couple of thoughts from someone who is fascinated with musical tuning but in a fairly superficial way. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus wacky takis npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I know this is a weird request but if you know of any queer-themed barbershop songs that I can buy sheet music to, please send them my way in the next 24 hours npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I've tried & failed to write a commandline program to upload to a codeberg repo via the /contents/ API... I just get a "500" response. And I've failed to find any examples of anyone else doing this. If I could just upload to a public repo without bothering with having a git repo locally that gets me most of what I would want from a gist replacement except possibly embedding. but it just doesn't quite work... npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Hey, what are we using as a replacement for github's gist functionality? Ideally it'd be something long lived with embed functionality. History, multiple files & comments are less important to me. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Aurora photos from last night. Near Wildwood Lake State Wildlife Management Area north of Lincoln Nebraska. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I had a brain idea so I made a picture of it. #pride npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus a stl file without a photo of it printed should be ineligible for such a contest. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Now you can witness one of the first quickdraw calls from MicroPython on mac... 🎉 ⬛ npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus asyncio is working on mac micropython! npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Are there any folks with vintage Mac programming experience who'd like to collaborate on figuring out what's next with Micropython on Mac? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus oh my yay, it now works well enough to save and edit a file, then import and run that file. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus yup. putting in a nasty hack so that pointers can be found at multiple-of-2 addresses makes it work a LOT better. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I thought I had m68k GC collection working, but I don't. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Whee! Now we can import files from the filesystem, as well as reading and writing files. Still haven't wrapped my head around how folders work, still can't enumerate files .. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus I hope to use adafruit_editor (simplistic python full-screen editor) as the editor for .py files. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus OK, well, it was much easier to hack out part of RetroConsole that was pulling in locale-sensitive routines. Now a "full features" build is under 400kB on disk and uses about 1MB when first opened (with a 100kB heap) npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Trying to be excited about the opportunity to write my own terminal emulator for m68k mac... and failing. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus "retro console" pulls in a substantal amount of code, maybe from libstdc++? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus the basic 'hello world' produces a ~750kB file when the main object file is just 872 bytes. The "retro console" object files are only about 32kB., so I guess it's coming from retro68 including a lot of stuff as "standard library". Is it supposed to be that chonky? Can it ... not ?<code> 740 -rw-r--r-- 1 jepler jepler 755712 Jun 25 18:04 HelloWorld.code.bin<br></code> npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus It looks like the failure to start under system7 is just an artifact of a too-big executable file, caused by enabling micropython language & stdlib features willy nilly. Which prompts the question: why is the executable file already around 1MB !? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Darn, I think all the easy parts of the micropython mac m68k port are done. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Build updated at https://emergent.unpythonic.net/files/sandbox/micropython.dsk npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Micropython on m68k mac? why not! It's reached the point of sorta working. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus Yayay! today my PR to build #microPython with gcc's "undefined behavior" sanitizer landed (which also means micropython is free of detected undefined behavior problems! (except for one class of warning we deliberately silenced)) npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus From the arxiv paper: npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus more pico-mac stuffs on adafruit fruit jam with rp2350 npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus looks like TE AMPLIMITE .050 series. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus hey @npub1vv8…6fhk I know you want to be respectful of my mailbox .. but the checkbox here seems to have gone missing -- I'm at https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=45 and it affects firefox 133.0.3 on Linux & chromium 131.0.6778.108 on Linux; firefox 133.0.3 on android & chrome 131.0.6778.200 on android. npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus does some feature in the current stop the decoupling layer from sliding around in X and Y as the next layer prints on top of it? or are you relying on friction to hold it there? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus What happens when you die? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus In the video during the launch of #NASA #EuropaClipper you could see a silvery material wrapped around the rocket. The material wasn't still but moved around. Sometimes it seemed rhythmic, other times it looked like it was wind-blown. What's going on here and why did it look like that? npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus look honestly I'd pay good money to be "haunted" by such a person for 24 hours. But it won't happen, "we've always done it this way". npub1t92ss09zhn0t0347d82mxzlrrxmpecc5xanv0seyns0l9qumh7ssyh32jg Stylus My dear friend Binah is lead plantiff in a lawsuit against Aetna for denying her gender affirming facial surgery mandated under the ACA. The lawsuit, filed this week, seeks class action status.
