considering how much Finland loves rally racing …
cerement
joined 1 year ago
- Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) – the background for
- Naomi Klein, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists (2018) – published in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and María in 2017
took me a LONG time to recover from high school cafeteria’s Friday tuna casseroles (complete with canned peas)
(doesn’t help that most HVAC installers in the US are of a relatively conservative bent, no problems trash-talking heat pumps while they try to up-sell you on the latest forced-air system)
part of the multifaced aspects of fungi – cordyceps is both the zombie fungus and a performance enhancing drug
(when part of the image getting pushed on us is: degrowth = austerity)
- with the year being 365.24219 days you don’t get a lot of factors to work with (365 ⇒ 1, 5, 73, 365)
- there have been various proposals for perennial calendars – in a perennial calendar, months always start on the same day, have the same number of days, no worries about “last Thursday of the month” calculations for holidays
- if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
- fiscal quarters are always the same length and you get an extra day during the winter holidays
- the easiest being something like a 13 month calendar (each month being exactly 4 weeks, 28 days) = 364 days + 1 year day + 1 leap day – this gets a lot of flack from religious groups because they don’t like the extra days messing with a 7 day week cycle
- this keeps the 365 day year and uses the same calculations for adding in leap days
- leap week calendars get around that by doing a 364 day year and then adding in a whole leap week to bring things back into alignment (you can do this yourself using ISO week dates and looking for week 53)
- calculations for leap years are a bit more elaborate and don’t fit as easily into a simple mnemonic
- if you deal with the year as 364 days + filler, you get more factors to work with (364 ⇒ 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 14, 26, 28, 52, 91, 182, 364)
- at the full-featured end, VSCode (OSS Code, VSCodium) has pretty much captured the market
- for a while, Atom was a popular competitor until MS closed it down, you might have some luck with its successors: Zed or Pulsar
- mid-range, Kate and Geany have their fans
- deluxe text editors, join the Emacs / vim holy wars
- plain text editors, give up on extensions, plugins, etc. and just edit text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15540059
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/32260463
Rio album cover - Patrick Nagel (1982)
- From Muddy Colours
"It’s easy to dismiss the technical prowess of Nagel’s work, as his style is easily replicated digitally nowadays. But keep in mind that all of his images were actual paintings, typically acrylic paint on stretched canvas. In total, he left behind a body of work of more than 400 paintings. But more importantly, he created a style that truly defined, and influenced an entire decade. The ‘Nagel’ style is now synonymous with the look of the ’80’s’.
Patrick Nagel died tragically at the young age of 38. During a 15-minute celebrity “Aeroba-thon” to raise funds for the American Heart Association, he suffered a fatal heart attack due to a congenital heart defect that went un-identified his entire life."
(vintage Apple geekery) Apple Monitor Call, Peek, Poke
image from Labor Archives and Research Center, San Francisco State University
Workers’ Memorial Day – “an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured, or made unwell by their work.”
open source, files on Codeberg
this was a big learning experience, first time doing a proper PCB instead of using yet another Pro Micro equivalent – this would not have been possible without Noah Kiser’s tutorials on Youtube, all the work that went into QMK and Vial, and the ease of JLC’s assembly service (no way I was ever going to solder an RP2040)
shocked and giddy with how easy the whole process was – plugged in the fresh PCB and it went straight into bootloader mode – uploaded the *.uf2 and it worked first time!
- symmetric split-ergo style layout (6 × 3 + 3)
- katana stagger
- personally find this works really nicely and keeps the feel of an ortho or columnar board
- fits into Minivan case (12.75u × 4u)
- attempt to use as many existing mounting holes as possible (6/7)
- main issue was maintaining symmetric layout with two mounting points in bottom row
- personally find the resulting odd gap to be uncomfortable
- if I do an update, I would remove the awkward spacing and slide the whole bottom row to the left a smidge (resulting in an uncomfortably-asymmetric symmetric layout)
- learning to use JLC’s PCB assembly instead of a Pro Micro equivalent
- providing a proper Vial firmware
Trump works the fry station, holds a drive-thru news conference at McDonald’s