Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, a space exploration/roguelite;
Fire & Fondness 2, a tricky puzzle game with very good production values.
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Dispatch from Flyover Country (via p1k3):
Many of our friends who grew up here now live in Brooklyn, where they are at work on “book-length narratives.” Another contingent has moved to the Bay Area and made a fortune there. Every year or so, these west-coasters travel back to Michigan and call us up for dinner or drinks, occasions they use to educate us on the inner workings of the tech industry. They refer to the companies they work for in the first person plural, a habit I have yet to acculturate to. Occasionally they lapse into the utopian, speaking of robotics ordinances and brain-computer interfaces and the mystical, labyrinthine channels of capital, conveying it all with the fervency of pioneers on a civilizing mission.
This year, I have moved to a new country two times. This sharply brings to attention the pain and cost of owning things. It is not just when carrying maximally filled suitcases across airports that things are bothersome. The more things you have, the bigger a home you need, and the more effort you need to spend on cleaning things and home.
He seemed educated and discreet. I invited him into the living room. Yet I was suspicious. “Is this,” I asked, “about insurance by any chance?”
He started to laugh. I looked him over. He seemed athletic; he was tanned. “No, no, please,” and he sat down. “I rather think I can be of some use to you, with the regiment. . . .”
“What regiment? Do you mean my regiment?”
He nodded in agreement. “But don’t be alarmed, please. I’m not carrying any order for you to report for duty.”
(originale italiano: Il reggimento parte all'alba).
The abc notation community needs to find a new mailing list, since Yahoo Groups is discontinuing support.
Step one: when to vote? And on what text? Which option to include in the poll? Let’s have a look at the current discussion-tree:
150 . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 11K) [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
151 r . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 14K) └─>discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP), was: Re: [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
152 . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 15K) ├─>
153 . Sep 08 To abc users gr ( 26K) │ └─>[abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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183 . Sep 11 To abc users gr ( 19K) │ │ │ │ │ └─>[abcusers] Time to move on?
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197 . Sep 12 To dev.music@fr ( 13K) │ │ │ │ │ │ └─>Re: [abcusers] Time to move on?
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203 . Sep 11 To abcusers@yah ( 12K) │ │ │ │ │ └*>RE: [abcusers] Time to move on?
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206 . Sep 11 To abcusers@yah ( 14K) │ │ │ │ ├─>Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording, 3rd Draft
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210 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 12K) │ │ │ └─>Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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213 . Sep 09 To dev.music@fr ( 18K) │ │ └─>Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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215 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 12K) │ │ └─>Question: Beginning the Poll Sept. 15 12:01am?, was: Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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217 . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 13K) │ ├*>Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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220 . Sep 09 To abcusers@yah ( 13K) │ │ └─>[abcusers] What does a future solution need?: About local copies of postings
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222 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 13K) │ │ └─>[abcusers] Re: What does a future solution need?: About local copies of postings
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229 . Sep 10 To dev.music@fr ( 14K) │ │ └─>Re: [abcusers] What does a future solution need?: About local copies of postings
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234 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah (4.5K) │ └─>CORRECTION Re: [abcusers] Proposed Poll Wording
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236 . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 18K) ├─>Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP), was: Re: [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
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246 . Sep 09 To abcusers@yah ( 26K) │ └─>Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP), was: Re: [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
247 . Sep 09 To abc users gr ( 30K) │ └─>
248 . Sep 08 To abcusers@yah ( 12K) ├*>Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP), was: Re: [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
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262 . Sep 09 To abcusers@yah ( 11K) │ │ │ └─>[abcusers] Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP)
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266 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 12K) │ │ │ ├─>Re: [abcusers] discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP)
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268 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 15K) │ │ │ └─>Re: [abcusers] Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP)
269 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah (1.1K) │ │ └─>Freelink? Re: discuss a poll about the personal preferences (PPP), was: Re: [abcusers] The great Mailing List migration debate
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273 . Sep 10 To dev.music@fr ( 18K) └─>
274 . Sep 10 To abcusers@yah ( 16K) └─>Of course we haven’t settled on everything yet, but apparently the poll will happen via a Google Form (or email message, if you prefer not to use Google).
Misc: Sono una creatura, The rules for keeping a journal that improves with age.
This is surreal. A year ago, somebody entering data on Open Street Map recorded a suburban building as being 212 stories. A backyard shed, apparently. It seems to have been an honest typo, later corrected. It happens. No big deal, right?
I have played two great little titles lately, both free software:
Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, a space exploration/roguelite;
Fire & Fondness 2, a tricky puzzle game with very good production values.
Art: Yoshikata Amano / Photoessay: Pilatus.
My ISP decided to act silly, result was no net for a week; I feel weird and productive.
Here’s a story of how I tried to remove a fake story marginally related to COVID-19 from Wikipedia, and, at least for now, achieved the opposite and contributed to its dissemination and perpetuation.
fawkes — image “cloaking” for personal privacy:
At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes to them that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking. You can then use these “cloaked” photos as you normally would, sharing them on social media, sending them to friends, printing them or displaying them on digital devices, the same way you would any other photo.
The difference, however, is that if and when someone tries to use these photos to build a facial recognition model, “cloaked” images will teach the model an highly distorted version of what makes you look like you. The cloak effect is not easily detectable, and will not cause errors in model training. However, when someone tries to identify you using an unaltered image of you (e.g. a photo taken in public), and tries to identify you, they will fail.
I strive to be grateful for my material possessions and not fall into the trap of consistent consumption. For the last several years I limit my purchases to consumables and replacing items that wore out for most of the year. Think of this has intermittent fasting for purchasing.
I have finished yet another statistics article which might be of interest to everyone who reads studies now and then: quick statistical power estimate.
Otherwise: A week with Grizzly.
Please Print (A Journaling Rant):
Yes. Print. On paper. Why? Because, unlike your app, paper has a proven track record for lasting thousands of years if the conditions are right.
After some labiorious days, I finally completed it: Who cares if I listen? A study of dodecaphonic music enjoyment.
Thanks to everyone who helped, it is an article I have wanted to write since a long time.
I am running a small experiment on present-day dodecaphonic music appreciation.
If you have a few minutes — three, no longer than that — please take the dodecaphonic survey.
As with every statistical inference, the bigger the sample, the higher the chance of finding a significant result. So consider sharing it with your classical-lovers friends and on social media!
I Thought Stage IV Cancer Was Bad Enough:
Rilke taught us not to seek the answers but to love the questions. Good advice. Now I’m stuck in my house muttering, “Stage IV cancer during a pandemic! Could it get any—oh, never mind.”
Libertà, un racconto di Giovanni Verga:
Non importa! Ora che si avevano le mani rosse di quel sangue, bisognava versare tutto il resto. Tutti! tutti i cappelli! - Non era più la fame, le bastonate, le soperchierie che facevano ribollire la collera. Era il sangue innocente.
I spilled milk on my laptop, I had to buy a new one.
After a little experimentation, I decided that if I wanted to draw linear features, there were three characters that were best to use:
! / _. Together, I could create rudimentary lines that roughly connected together in a pseudo-vector style, even if the typewriter grid itself is basically a raster.
Aisle started out as a game which would not need the usual meta-verbs… i.e. a game with only one turn. The initial idea was: How do I make a game with only one turn interesting?
SARS-C0V-2 musing:
cannocchiale.txt) is 31685 lines long. If my laptop dies, I am screwed. I am trying to think of a solution.Anesthetic art:
Miscellaneous:
Can crimes be discussed literally?
In American medicine it is routine to officially certify that a standard= of care was provided, that cannot possibly have been provided (e.g. some policies as to the timing of medication and tests can’t be carried on but given how many patients each nurse has to care for, but it’s less trouble to fudge it as long as something vaguely resembling the officially desired outcome happened). The system relies on widespread willingness to falsify records, and would (temporarily) grind to a halt if people were to simply refuse to lie.
Recently I was procrastinating by checking out an old handwritten music volume. It is a compilation of Harpsichord pieces, authored by famous musicians for a Venetian noble-woman, Maria Venier.
The score is unpublished, and probably unperformed since the 1750s. I picked a simple minuet by Baldassarre Galuppi, here is what it sounds like:
Venzone, an ASCII platform/adventure made by me.
Grab it while it is hot; if you like it, spread the word!
<brewton> San Diego is the world centre of taco gatekeeping.Recently I was looking for scientific articles on the differences between composing with a pen rather than a pencil (the latter becoming my writing instrument of choice after the former leaked on my suit).
The search returned empty handed, but one paper on “writing strategies and writers’ tool” was nontheless initriguing; let me share the findings with you.
First table displays the percentage of “frequent use” of writing tool X in different research areas. Keep in mind the article was published in 1993!
Then the author introduces a “writing strategies” variable; I find the descriptions of the different approaches to composing striking and amusing:
Finally, crosstabs of strategies/area and tools/strategies:
Writing strategies and writers' tools, Daniel Chandler - English Today April 1993 (I feel guilt in saying I got it via Sci-Hub)
more: catchpenny prints.
