@movq@www.uninformativ.de Welcome to the club, mate. 26°C, bah! Luckily, the shutters kept the heat outside. For today. However, the computer fan going berserk when compiling and running heavy software stacks doesn’t help this at all.
Today’s sky after sunset was not too bad. I missed the best parts, though.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Simply ask your personal helicopter pilot to drop you off at the office roof.
@mckinley@mckinley.cc Oh, this is so great! :‘-D Gotta have to tell this my mates who play Factorio. Also had to laugh when reading the introduction:
[Compared to Excel] serious financial, medical or industrial applications should probably stick to the more mature calculation capabilities found in Factorio circuits.
@prologic@twtxt.net Thank you very much! The originals are now available in this 11.4 MiB ZIP archive.
@darch@neotxt.dk I could be wrong, but I don’t see a pun here, maybe some English native speaker can correct me. From my point of view it’s just a parody on Robin Hood with some ridiculously funny spin. Monty Python at their finest. The lupin part might be a reference to tulip mania, when prices in the Netherlands for tulips bulbs went through the sky in 1637. Or it’s just some random thing without a deeper meaning.
Yeah, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, we’ve cut it short and unfortunately didn’t make it to the third emperor-mountain. Some feet called it quits prematurely.
Our four hour long night hike turned out to be really great. It was surprisingly warm, most of the way a t-shirt was enough. Only in the end we had to pull over a jumper for the long sleeves. We saw plenty of bats flying around us and also a marten in one of the villages. It was sitting in the middle of the road and then hid under a parked car. On the downside, tons of mozzies were also around.
In one place the street lights shining on the tree leaves in combination with slight mist turned the scenery into something really incredible. Can’t describe it other than mystical. Just super beautiful and impossible (for me) to capture on film.
We brought our torches, but didn’t end up using them. The moon and starlit sky was enough. Only in the forests it sometimes got a bit dark on us. The first night hike of the season was a great success and will be repeated several times.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you! No, that’s straight from the camera, apart from resizing no manipulation was performed in post.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, most sheep around here have lighter hair, too.
@prologic@twtxt.net This is so cool! @mckinley@twtxt.net We went on a long hike (~24 km) yesterday, a short stroll this morning and are about to have an ~15 km night hike tonight. Let’s see how that goes.
@prologic@twtxt.net Thank you! Yeah, these are sheep with long hair. I don’t know the exact name or breed. Maybe they’re just about to be sheared.
@mckinley@twtxt.net That’s an interesting article, mate!
We went on a little bit longer hike again, super nice weather. A bit too hot in the sun already. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2023-05-26/
Brutal Circular Saw Blade Fight with Hydraulic Press: https://youtu.be/7AMcN021x3A
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net Hahaha, very nice! :-D I did not know of fc. @abucci@anthony.buc.ci Heck yeah, great story! :-D I never came across something similar. I know these buses exist, but I’ve never seen one in person.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Nice view, oh yeah.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I especially love the doch and hiking videos! :-D
We just had a very violet sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2023-05-16/
Got the best picture book April weather yesterday afternoon. It did not rain as much as advertised, though.
@mckinley@mckinley.cc That’s one more than I have. ;-)
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci With things like these I also always wonder in the end why I did not do/fix/improve/… it months or years ago.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Heck yeah, this is an awesome view! I don’t mind the grayness at all.
Thank you very much, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Yep, that was very spectacular. :-)
Thanks, @prologic@twtxt.net! Yes, luckily, this is just a backlit cloud behind a bunch of trees. But it certainly looks like a large fire. I’m glad that it is not. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cable for the win! Agreed, that’s a very silly trend. If they at least used regular batteries, AA, AAA or something like that.
That reminds me that I have to get replacement ear pads for both my headset and headphone. The synthetic leather is falling apart and black fuzzy crap ends up all over my face. Also, my headset’s left ear piece has some intermittent contact that seems to get worse lately. Shaking my head usually fixes it for some time. Not sure if trying to repair that will finally break the headset instead.
This evening I greased all the axles and crudely fixed a few more handles of our handcarts for the upcoming scout flea market at the upcoming weekend. We also pumped up the tires and replaced two destroyed tubes. We gotta have to replace or completely overhaul some tongues and sidewall boards next time, though. They’re too worn out and the plywood is delaminating and falling apart beyond repair. The badly maintained handcarts just have to bear up once more before we find time to properly service them like they actually deserve it. The handcarts will be used to collect donated stuff from people’s homes and to move items from the sorting area outside to the right locations in the hall.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Haha, yes. It’s not recommended to be close to it. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Reminds me of classic https://xkcd.com/1172/.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I heard you like listening to engines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJ4Zm647n0
My mate and I just juggled again for the first time after the beginning of the pest. It’s awesome how well it worked after all those years. Like we never paused at all. The saying is true: It’s similar to riding a bicycle, you’ll never forget how to do that.
Hahaahaaa, that’s a good HPC video! Add some glue and you have a legit piece of OSB. :-D Transforming wood into rock with a 150 ton hydraulic press: https://youtu.be/eSNWVEPsDFs
@prologic@twtxt.net You sure don’t like that. That’s like language attrition! But you have to like the fact that they actually talked to each in person other and not, like, used a chat on their phones for that.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Ta! Yeah, can’t complain about that. :-)
Before hiking, I watched “The Silver Bullet Syndrome Part 2 – Complexity Strikes Back!” by Hadi Hairi. Probably nothing new for you guys, but still highly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN3CSOai_ZU I haven’t seen part 1 and he said in the opening, that’s not needed.
That’s good news, @prologic@twtxt.net, congrats! :-)
@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you, mates! On today’s hike we saw several thousand tadpoles in a much larger forest lake. It’s going to be great! That’s the tree where the easter bunny picks all the eggs. They’re all locally sourced. :-D
My mate and went on a longer hike today. About 24 km in to the minute seven hours. We started after lunch and the sun was beating down with 22°C. My cattleman hat served me well. 51 shows the Wasserberg (“water mountain”) on the left (also in 52) and the Fuchseck (“fox corner”) on the right (also in 53). I should have taken another distance shot from back home somewhere. But 03-05, 08, 15 and 21 show our backyard mountain Hohenstaufen. And in this one from yesterday you can see the Fuchseck to the left of the center.
At the Fuchseck summit a guy went down the steep mountain straight through the brush. So we thought, let’s take this beaten path, too. But there was none. We couldn’t figure out where he went and which route he took. We only heard the rustling of leaves and cracking of twigs and branches at the beginning when we were still taking photos up top. But we said, let’s try it anyway, when he manages it, we will, too. The North slope was about 70° steep and covered with 15 cm of leaves. Super slippery, we slid more than walked. But once committed, there was no easy way back up again. There were lots of sketchy sections and I wondered what the heck I was doing there. We had to brace ourselves with one or sometimes both hands on the slope. Then we saw the dude sitting in a tree and we continued our adventure downhill. 29-31 show the much easier parts closer to the bottom before we hit an official path.
Later we took a new well-graveled logging trail which then dead ended. So we then decided to walk through the tall grass in the forest to meet a parallel footpath. We survived much crazier terrain earlier. So what could possibly go wrong? This long patch of grass was an old, now probably abandonned path anyways. I misjudged the distance to the other path quite a bit and it took us much longer than anticipated. Finally, on the real path, I had collected ten ticks on my pants! Bloody bastards.
After the shower I now feel like a new person. I reckon I’ll find some great sleep tonight.
jot is usually a BSD tool, hence hardly known. It’s similar to seq on GNU.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see, ta.
It was very close and hot, awful! Now it’s spitting a wee bit. I also just saw the first lightning in the distance while typing these lines. Very dark outside, I hope we get a thunderstorm with a lot of rain. In the afternoon, we visited the tadpoles:
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you! Yeah, I’m quite lucky with nature indeed. Although, there can be quite some people around, too. Especially if the weather is cooperating. But it helps that I don’t mind getting a bit dirty, so I can take smaller, less frequently travelled paths. :-) If I move one day, I will only relocate to rural areas with very few people (much less than here) and lots of nature, like Schwarzwald, Schwäbische Alb, Allgäu etc. The ever-growing population just sucks.
@prx@si3t.ch I never heard of jot before. Often I simply use pwgen -sy 64.
This time I got some pictures and videos of the deer. However, only three were grazing over there, at the other end I could see two more. It was really cool watching them for 10-15 minutes coming up the paddock towards me. But the light disappeared, so shots didn’t get any better over time (79 deer files and most were hopelessly blurred). What can you do. Also, the tadpoles are back again, yeah! It was my first encounter of the season. Looking forward to see them grow up.
@marado@twtxt.net Hahaha, go for it! :-D
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, I do enjoy that. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe also quite low hanging clouds. :-?
Woah mates, I’m telling you, today it was really worth it again! I got surprised by the rain, but the rainbow made up for everything. I saw plenty of birds, a nice sunset (by then my battery died once again) and seven deer! The first one when I had to pee in the woods. :-D It was maybe ten meters away from me. Really awesome, best view so far and hard to top! :-D About two minutes later, four deer were grazing on a pasture. A bit later one large deer was standing on a forest path and watching me. It was the only one that did not run away, even though I was walking past quite close to it, I reckon 10-15 meters. And at the end one was hiding in the shrubs two meters away from me. I’m super glad that I went outside this evening. :-)
Thanks, @thecanine@twtxt.net. Haha, okay! That borders on cheating. :-D But now I’m wondering why I didn’t think of that myself. Too easy.