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Cake day: December 16th, 2024

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  • The fourth … appendage on the left hand is being used like a thumb, and doesn’t have any indication of knuckle even though it’d be the most bent finger if it was one. I’d say we can see four fingers on the right hand, while the left is in an indeterminate slop state where it’s only partially a comic/Disney three-finger hand, with one extra slop appendage that’s not clearly either thumb or finger.



  • Part of the answer here is also integrated design. To be able to be repaired a thing has to be designed for that, and to have identifiable parts that can be adjusted or replaced in isolation, and non-destructive disassembly.

    If you have to destroy one part to adjust another, it’s not really repairable. If several functions/components are all one thing then you can’t really replace just the one.

    To use a bike as an example, you can exchange wires, brake pads, seats and most other things in isolation, especially the things that are expected to wear out and need replacement. But you’re not going to replace part of your bar tape or frame, because they’re essentially one whole thing.

    (Ok, you could probably weld a steel frame if you really wanted to, but I think the intent is readable.)





  • Step one is making sure your union has the collective bargaining power it needs to get a good wage and benefits for everyone. Some striking may be involved, so the strike coffers should be robust as well.

    Beyond that, wealth taxes and exit taxes on those who want to flee to tax havens with no wealth taxes. Public ownership of some stuff like utilities.

    So more or less joining a union if you’re not already a member and voting no further right than social democrat.

    Mitigations like spending less might also be a good idea or even required, like wearing dust masks in polluted areas, but just like how the dust mask doesn’t make the pollution go away, spending less individually doesn’t really tackle the fundamental problem of distribution and wealth extraction.

    We need actual politics for that.







  • We could probably stand to have some organisation standards in repo roots, but I tend to agree that dotfiles aren’t the way to go there. The project root is similar to ~/.config and the like: When you’re there you should not be subjected to further hidden levels. Those config files are a significant part of the project.

    State files however, like all the stuff in .git, lockfiles and the like are generally¹ fine to hide away. Those are side effects of running other tools, not ordinary editable configuration. Same goes for cache—and both cache and runtime files should likely go in the ordinary XDG dirs rather than be something every project has to set up a gitignore for.

    If anything I’m more frustrated with the C projects that just plop every source file in the root directory.

    ¹ Just don’t make it too easy to sneak unexpected crap in there. We don’t need to make the next Jia Tan’s job easier.




  • Sundials haven’t been relevant for a long time. We use network time these days, calibrated against UTC (and possibly represented as Unix time).

    Personally I’d likely think it was neat to switch to metric time (ten hours per nychthemeron), or kiloseconds (87.6 in a nychthemeron), or even swatch @beat (1000 per nychthemeron).

    Somewhat related, the English word for døgn (nychthemeron) is such a mouthful.





  • Sun films have been available commercially for a long while. Choose how much sunlight you want reflected (generally more in bedrooms that you generally want dark and cool, less in rooms where you want a view), and either get a professional to apply or do it yourself—it just takes a bit of soap water and effort.

    Generally better to have the sun rejection happen on the outside of the window, so as little as possible energy gets absorbed.