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timonoko··on Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii
This "rag" pulled really good. There is always wind above 300 meters: https://youtube.com/shorts/mdiKYHHAvAA?si=Vd4T2qiHLQ3Q8Gh-
timonoko··on Record-breaking solo rower Kelsey Pfendler arrives in Hawaii
How do you resist the temptation to raise somekind of rag on strong tailwind? No witnesses.

-- I was just drying laundry.

timonoko··on The Vespa at 80
The horror that was aluminium engine. You could open and close a screw only twice and goodbye threads.
timonoko··on (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)
My Lisp from 1975 was actually used in real world and highly lucrative. Gemini could read the source code, but it told that my code was piece of shit and cannot be implemented in 64-bit world without drastic changes, so it made an example. But that version was just too advanced and too complex as a study subject. There are already enuff good Lisps in the world, methinks.

https://github.com/timonoko/nokolisp

timonoko··on (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)
I actually perfected the Norvig Lisp at one time. It has compiler to python and just everything. Those very few here that can actually read code, understand why this project soon exploded into biggest piece of odorous excrement.

https://github.com/timonoko/nokolis.py

timonoko··on (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010)
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timonoko··on Renting a sewing machine from the library
The report is deliberately misleading by the red-green government. If you read between the lines it is a poll among the library visitors.
timonoko··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
One soon discovers that those fancy words are not Ænglish words at all. If you know 6 other languages, you will pass this test 100%.
timonoko··on Mechanical Watch (2022)
There are not many watch-enthusiasts on boomer generation methinks. The misery of unreliable super-expensive timekeeping raises no fond memories.

I can literally taste bile, when somebody is boasting about their ugly watch, whose only value is that some slave in China worked hundreds of hours to make it.

timonoko··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
Whatever this is, Tasmota is not the solution.
timonoko··on A few interesting modern pixel fonts
Unrelated font joke.

https://x.com/TimoNoko/status/2030735635313545330

timonoko··on My I3-Emacs Integration
No Thank You

  export EDITOR="emacs -nw"
timonoko··on My I3-Emacs Integration
Incredibly splendid. I just tested it myself.

Try C-x 2, C-x 3 and C-x 4

timonoko··on My I3-Emacs Integration
Unrelated, but me and Gemini just invented "C-x 4" for multiscreens.

  (defun my-external-readonly-split ()
    "Open the current file in an external xfce4-terminal as read-only."
    (interactive)
    (if buffer-file-name
        (start-process "xfce-terminal-split" nil 
                       "xfce4-terminal" "-x" "emacs" "-nw" 
                       "--eval" "(find-file-read-only (pop command-line-args-left))"
                       buffer-file-name)
      (message "Current buffer is not visiting a file!")))

  (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 4") 'my-external-readonly-split)
timonoko··on Is AI Profitable Yet?
Gemini now remembers you wholesale and makes good analogies and shortcuts knowing youres personal capabilities. You are already hooked and paying starts any day now. Or maybe it starts recommending some marvellous products somewhat related to your query.
timonoko··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
When you cut the splat in half, result is either fuzzy fog or sort-of fibrous crystals. As depicted here.
timonoko··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
What? KIRI Engine makes splats. I always wondered what 3DGS might mean.

Yes. I knoweth what "splats" are: They are splats of fuzzy blobs on the display surface.

timonoko··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
How do you change display-modes with ssh?

  os.system(f'ssh -Y {compu2} "DISPLAY=:0; display.py {modes};"')
timonoko··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
If you turn one computer display off as in "xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --off", the monitor automatically selects some other computer to display.

Thus I have 2 computers and 3 displays, and I can do sentences like "displays 13", which uses only displays 1 and 3 and sends ssh-command "displays 2" to the other computer.

timonoko··on Prolog Coding Horror
We need infinity-Prolog, which already knows all known facts. Feeding them separately everytime feels lame.
timonoko··on Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better
Needs "translate" buttons. Now little too cumbersome for most,

https://www-gutenberg-org.translate.goog/cache/epub/64099/pg...

timonoko··on Inkscape 1.4.4
Inkscape = Press random buttons until something good happens.

In this case the "Good" is that it makes Gcode for lasercutter. Everytime it takes atleast 30 minutes, even when I have recorded instructions. Always some weird thing happens, and I have to do it again, step-by-step. There is zero clue what paths, edges, layers, backgrounds, vectors etc might actually mean.

But no more. Gemini AI made me a total solution. It takes a picture, checks it for "isolated islands" (which drop off and need bridges) and then generates perfect silhouette of Mannerheim or Mussolini.

timonoko··on Ask HN: Is USA at war with the rest of the world now?
when Ronald Reagan was president, 87% of Swedes said that USA is greatest threat to world peace.
timonoko··on State of Kdenlive
I have I have been using Cinerella for about 30 years. I asked Gemini about it and it told me there would be nothing new or exciting in Kdenlive. Only recently it started to be a worthy competitor.
timonoko··on Air Powered Segment Display? [video]
I bet you can reproduce the look on Cheap Yellow Display for 5€.

This also looks like a real thing any further than a foot: https://youtube.com/shorts/JlYUZN7aw20?si=a_DspL_Ct2NLSyaO

timonoko··on A Tour of Oodi
These are just echoes of Soviet Era "Cultural Palaces" aka "Folkets Hus" in Socialists-run Sweden.

For the "Culture" no one wants to pay their own money for.

I visited only once, using the Toilet. Kinda Scary. It was gender-free, consisting of large locked cubicles, which were mostly occupied as kiosks for drugs and sexual services. Romanian Romas also had permanent presence there. But sadly this gender-free dream was destroyed by the order of the Nazi Polizei.

timonoko··on They're made out of meat (1991)
Why is "They Were Made Out Of Meat" Hacker News favourite, but "Bordered in Black" is always flagged?

Gemini: In short, "They're Made Out of Meat" makes people feel smart and curious, while "Bordered in Black" makes people feel uncomfortable and argumentative—and on Hacker News, "uncomfortable and argumentative" is a fast track to being flagged.

timonoko··on Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos
Achually. If you have L.M.Ericsson 8x8 latching crossbar switch, 64-bit memory needs only 6 relays. Yes SIX.

The Fuji relay-computer has lots of those crossbar switches.

However. The rope-memory in this scene is read-only-storage containing vast amount of data. Rope memory is economical to use but labor-intensive to produce.

timonoko··on Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos
You will amazed. One reason is that relays are suitable for multilevel signalling. That is why the relays-only Fuji computer was on par with contemporary Amerikahito crap.
timonoko··on Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos
I suggested that after the Final Countdown first computers are made with Rope Memory and Mechanical Relays. But Ken Schirriff said NO -- you need semifast semiconductors to read the memory.
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