@jcoglan @Doomed_Daniel @TartanLlama Rosetta 2 should work on a modern mac... I built the NoStarch "Writing a C Compiler" for x64 like that, and ran gasm under Rosetta 2 to assemble and execute all the x64 assembly code 👍

@robpike ed seems frivolous to me when you can just type in the contents at the shell and > to whatever filename you need? 😉

@bd I have been recommending 7 strings to even beginners for easier fretting and reuse of chord shapes in more positions for as long as I've been playing one -- it's pretty counter intuitive that adding another string makes it easier to play

@bd That would explain why I have a tendency to move around the neck and mostly avoid the top two strings on my 7 string in BEADGBE... I've never thought about why, but now that you spell it out it's totally to avoid having to remember to account for the missing semitone! I don't know that I'd like to switch to all 4ths though, because doubling notes across two B or two E strings is nicer this way.

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@mntmn @holo_memory very nice write up and explaination, thanks. 'nother little typo: modifyable => modifiable

@mntmn @theawesomerandomness despite chonk, if it has all day battery, I would replace my iPad mini as soon as you're ready to ship! But e-ink would be even better for my typical use cases...

@vga256 yep, California and Colorado spring forward and fall back in and out of MST equivalence at opposite sides of the year. Arizona (except some reservation land IIUC) does not adjust for daylight savings, so is in sync with one or the other of those states depending on time of year! 👍

@hisham_hm no MST zone available. Denver is MST during the Winter, and Los Angeles is MST (aka PDT) in the Summer... so change timezones twice a year if you live in Arizona? 😢

@mntmn I find the 8.3" iPad mini form factor to be a good compromise between portability, weight, and enough screen for large fonts for my old eyes. The Librem 5 is about right for a phone, but battery life and software holds it back as a daily phone, and I find myself carrying my Pixel 6 around still.

What I'd love love love to own is an e-ink linux device with all day battery to hold my Calibre library and follow my RSS/masto feeds without adding another backlit device to my life!

@theawesomerandomness Happy Birthday Tina!! 🐕🎂🥳🎁

@penryu I was all in on the pun. I lived in Naperville for a few months, and went to Chicago regularly for my job HQ before fruitco... but I also never visited Aurora.

@penryu also "northerners" : NOT from London :: "Northern AZ" : NOT Phoenix ...maybe "Northern lights" : NOT Aurora, IL 🤪

@erincandescent @k4m1 @alina the funny thing is that we designed systems to support a multitude of protocols. then we proceeded to only ever (commonly) use three of them (ARP, IPv4, IPv6)

but fear not! we designed IP to support a multitude of protocols too! and then we proceeded to only really use TCP and UDP. For an unwritten reason everything else has to match one of those now :))))

but fear not! we designed TCP/UDP to support a multitude of protocols too!!! and then we proceeded to block every port other than 80, 443 and 53, because everything is HTTP(S) or DNS now

but fear not! we designed^W slapped websockets on top of HTTP because THERE IS NO GOD

@penryu Heads up! I disable dark mode wherever the defaults make it hard to read the ui. I don't even need to get up for the light switch in my office after dark... all those glowing monitors provide plenty of ambient light. If you look at any screen I'm using, on zoom or otherwise, snowblindness awaits! 😜

@penryu I am him! (because dark mode is too uncomfortable to read....)

@penryu @benrady @twoscomplement Kinda like a regression test, only for something that was not a requirement and is accidentally a success for the testers environment at the time it was commited. I henceforth name this a suckcession-test. You're welcome!

@hisham_hm On occasion I've wondered about implementing a Lua equivalent of Tcl [Starkits](https://www.tcl-lang.org/starkits/) to combine a zip pseudo-filesystem containing lua and binary modules along with a lua runtime into a single executable, but implemented with [APE](https://justine.lol/ape.html) compiled binary code... so many interesting projects, but so little time to realize them! And in any case, almost all of my Lua projects are libraries, so no crossover with those either.

@hisham_hm what do you think about implementing this same functionality as a c-module that could be built with and linked directly into the lua binary you install on your system? I suppose lhfs bundling mechanism for rolling up a binary of lua and c modules into a single binary would also work (I forget the name of that project, sorry!)

I think we'll be having our LuaRocks Hackathon Part II tonight