Saturday, September 11, 2021

The Bible is OG Open Source

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Ah, evening time of yet another day. What shall I write about? I finished reading After the Absolute: The Inner Teachings of Richard Rose...

Smaller Distribution File for the Compiled pbarwin.cpp

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Just a quick update. I've changed the way I built pbarwin.cpp for creation into a usable binary to reduce the number of distributed D...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Release of pbarwin.cpp With Showing Wear Level

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I talked before about how the source for pbarwin.cpp was too long to dump out. Well, that problem has been solved. I just released it o...
Thursday, September 09, 2021

No Thoughts; Head Empty

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Just an obligatory entry to keep up the streak. It was a quiet day that just passed. I didn't worry myself with thinking about the co...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

Words That Work

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I completed reading Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear by Dr Frank Luntz earlier today. It is an interesting bo...

[Not-so] Stupid O'Clock

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Ah... it's stupid o'clock once more. I had slept almost immediately after my last post, and have woken up about fifteen to thirty ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

A Prayer for My End

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Dear Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done. When it is my time to go, I pray that it will be swift...
Monday, September 06, 2021

Minecraft

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If you're looking for some deep entry today, well, too bad---no deep insight of any sort today. I built a 2.7k+ block railway bridge f...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

Moving from Evil to Good

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Ideally, be not evil---be good instead. But sometimes that is not practical, because it involves too large a change to be acceptable. Hen...
Saturday, September 04, 2021

Fixing Bits of pbarwin.cpp

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I got to test out pbarwin.cpp on Edythe-III and found a couple of interesting side cases. The key difference between Edythe-III and Eileen...
Friday, September 03, 2021

Final Touches to pbarwin.cpp

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The day's only half done, but I feel a little more accomplished than before. I took the battery information code that I put together ye...
Thursday, September 02, 2021

On the sloc...

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By the way, sloccount said that pbarwin.cpp was 189 sloc, compared to the 204 sloc for pbarwin.py . Note that the sloc unit here is base...

Command Line Battery Information Finally Returns!

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Well, I'm on a roll. Ever since I wrote that short program that auto-resets my typematic rates via Win32 API , I felt this urge to do ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2021

Typematic Rates

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Okay, let's talk a bit about typematic rates. The idea of a typematic rate is simple: when a key is pressed and held, there exists som...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

SMS Musing #15

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In response to a Facebook post asking about opinions on musical instruments made in China on the Flute Forum : Which country a flute is made...
Monday, August 30, 2021

``Renewable'' Rant?

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Everything is ``renewable'' in the sense that for most things at the energy level that we can operate in, the conservation of mass (...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Cleaning My Old Clocky

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I've owned a clocky alarm clock since 2009. It's my favourite alarm clock, not because it can run about when triggered, but becaus...
Saturday, August 28, 2021

The Rules of the Internet

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It's 2021, or rather, nearing the end of 2021. I've lived on the 'net for years now, and after mulling over all the nonsense t...
Friday, August 27, 2021

SMS Musing #14

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While dining out alone: With much of the world staying connected through electronic networks, I wonder sometimes how hard it can get to volu...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Off Tangent?

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There is often a slight difference of mentality between writing a blog entry in the morning, and one that is nearer the end of the day. The...