Mine says 5150, hahahaha
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Finished two parge exams. So that is a massive relief!
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Or 5150 for us old people.
Well, about halfway through making the red stripe of my rainbow bead mat and have gotten confirmation that the randomized tritone looks good. Gave up on trying to have a single, continuous piece of fishing line holding the mat together as a row length of 137 beads introduces sufficient friction even with fishing line… also decided to make each stripe individually and knit the stripes together once they are all done since using a strand of fishing line cut for each row instead of having the mat constantly attached to the reel means I can’t tell which edge is which and making each stripe separately, while it means stringing an exact number of beads(I picked 137 beads for the length of each row) an additional 6 times and dealling with the tendency for things to get twisty as I do the second and third rows an additional 6 times, it means instead of having to make sure I’m adding the new row to the correct edge of the mat 84 times, I only have to make sure I’m joining the correct color of stripes 6 times.
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5150 is also a major watershed in history of computers and computing…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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I once rented an IBM PC 5150 to give a presentation. It was built like a tank! (I couldn’t afford to buy one at the time. I only used the ones in the computer lab.)
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Finished the red stripe of my rainbow bead mat last night and got through the hard part of making the orange stripe(making sure you have exactly 137 beads strung up is surprisingly hard, alternating between adding a new bead and double treading beads on that original string without tangles, doubling up on new beads, or double threading the wrong bead is tricky, and once you have two lines of string that alternates between a pair of side-by-side beads and a single bead, the whole thing wants to twist and rebel against lying flat until you have inserted another row of beads next to the single beads to stabilize things. Also, I’ve decided to make each stripe one row of beads narrower as this makes each stripe shape symmetric if cut lengthwise and ensures all 4 corners of the finished mat will be the same shape(the way I’m working, the working edges where I can add extra rows of beads are crenulated and a row can either end in a notch or in a bead that sticks out. If I stuck to my original plan, every stripe would have notched corners on its top edge and beads sticking out along its bottom edge and the completed mat would follow suit. By having one fewer rows per stripe, the odd numbered stripes will have notches in all four corners and even stripes beads sticking out in all four corners(which will mesh with the notches on adjacent stripes) and since I’m planning seven stripes, all four corners of the finished mat will be notched.
This also more than doubles the amount of beads I’ll have leftover for making a smaller piece of beadery.
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Got randomly contacted by someone on Instagram saying they’re looking for participants for two youtube shows, with a pay of 200€. Normally I’d hate the idea of being on camera but I’m like, screw it, yeah, I’ll do it for 1000 lei, why not. Easy money. XD
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Spent most of today writing some scripts to streamline my workflow across my devices. Unfortunately not anything I could upload, since they’re extremely specific to how my devices are set up and what these devices are.
It was an annoying process, but feels nice to have done. I had been circling around it for over a week, now.
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YouTubers I’ve been following(via bookmarking their /videos page, not faffing about with YouTube’s reportedly unreliable subscription/notification system
YouTube still offers RSS feeds and it’s what I use to monitor channels.
(There’s no longer an RSS icon but you can just paste the channel URL into most RSS readers and they’ll detect it.)
The only problem I notice is that there are some repeat videos, but maybe I’m missing some other issues.
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Never used RSS and have no interest in trying it. Only limitation I’ve found to just bookmarking things is that I sometimes have to name folders something other than the obvious to minimize cases of multiple subfolders in a given folder starting with the same letter and sometimes can’t avoid having a bookmark in a folder starting with O. But with that, opening all the Mathematics related YouTube channels I’ve bookmarked is as simple as alt+b, y, m, o and then checking is as simple as press 3 to jump to the newest video link, ctrl+w to close the tab if nothing new, ctrl+tab to switch to the next tab is there is something new. Though keeping anything from conflicting with m for maths(or t for technology) is a big part of why I haven’t broken up my YouTube/Entertainment folder which is a mix of channels about music, movies, and television. ANd if a cancel seems dead, removing it is just a ctrl+d and a couple of shift tabs to the remove bookmark button. On a related note, when I want to check this forum, it’s just alt+b, f, i to bring up the latest posts page.
In short, I’ve gotten good at optimizing keystrokes for opening frequently visited individual bookmarks and open whole folders of related bookmarks I want to check in rapid succession. Which is a good thing since I’ve never been able to keep up with my screen reader speaking at an accelerated rate and my typing speed has been plateaued at about 50 wpm for like 20 years.
Finished making the orange stripe for my rainbow bead mat and have the yellow beads transfered from the plastic bags they come into the plastic spice jars I’ve been using as bead dispensers. Plan to stitch the red and orange stripes together before starting on the yellow stripe, though I think I’ll wait until both yellow and green are done before stitching yellow to orange to cut down on needing to ask for sighted help(Remember, the crenelated edges come in two types, red and yellow match, orange is different. the combined red-orange section, I know which working edge is orange versus red, for red-orange-yellow, both working edges are the same. I’ll probably like wise do both blue and purple before joining them to the main mat, and then pink will be the final stripe).
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first the good one: the epilogue of Isekai is safe, for now.
then the not-so-neutral one: as a military historian, I can’t believe my eyes. what happened in DC wasn’t a military parade, but a bunch of stooges on tracks goofing around…
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Never used RSS and have no interest in trying it.
Ouch! RSS is an endangered species at this point, be nice to it 
I do like keyboard shortcuts too, though.
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Today I splurged and bought myself a new set of juggling balls at the local markets. My previous ones (from about 20 years ago) were messed up when I took them to a trip to New Zealand. NZ authorities were fine, but as I returned to Australia the border security weren’t sure if the balls were a biohazard, so cut them open. They were never the same again, although it wasn’t a huge hindrance to their use.
The balls I got today were handmade with a nice soft leather. Good feel. And I still can juggle, which is a good reminder that once I just learned a skill I thought might be beyond me.
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We’re preparing for our upcoming vacation in Scandinavia. Yesterday we went shopping for windproof jackets and new backpacks. We also bought a pair of e-readers, which is pretty exciting and new and weird.
I thought I was going to miss holding the physical book in my hands while I read. And I do, but I’ve learned after checking out my bookstore’s e-books that what I miss even more is browsing through physical shelves of books to make my choice of what to buy.
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I too miss the feel of reading a physical book. Listening to my screen reader read digital text or listening to an audiobook just isn’t the same. Plus, my eye was quite a bit faster at taking in print than my ears are at taking in speech and it’s much easier to doze off and lose one’s place when listening compared to reading.
Doesn’t help that its hard to find ebooks in my preferred format.
I also miss brick and mortar shopping. Sadly, circumstances are such that going to a local brick-and-mortar store involves dealing with someone who is intolerable to go shopping with.
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My WIP has now reached over 256KB - a milestone for me, since it means there is now physically no way to return to z5 file format. Basically, my game is growing up and its got so much content now - even more than Milliways…
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I’ve accepted that though my IFcomp 2024 entry was subpar by my own opinion, I enjoy developing IF games more than other games I’ve made in other genres. I have knuckled down on a new project and have settled in to grasp and learn inform 7 more. I was able to implement a combat system with some varying complexity such as randomized damage, different weapons effect different creatures in different ways etc. I’m inspired to try to finish this project and to understand inform 7 better.
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Safely made a 290-mile round trip today to onboard a new counselor for my company.
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I learned to code dice rolls for a dnd-style adventure today! It’s been really exciting, seeing it actually work! I also learned some new coding tips!
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