TR-49 (2026) from inkle is a Type-Help-like that's.. ok. the beginning is a little rough, there isn't a clear hook like Type Help. the dialog and surface story is meh. the deeper story is better. in a few places the game is overly helpful: your notebook will summarize facts you've found that you might not have realized you've found. ~4-6 hr to reach an ending, another ~1-2 hr to find all the endings. each ending is caused by some single action you can undo; no other branching…
My very first programming projects when I started self-teaching around 15 years ago were about accounting. I was unhappy with keeping track of expenses in a physical notebook, and the spreadsheet I made was also very limited. And existing #FOSS solutions like #GnuCash felt too weird for my use case and its…
“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wo…
*Now* it is my #GLT Cyber-Terminator notebook (again). 😉
#Graz #Steirertux
"the billionaire businessman Vincent Bolloré, one of #Sarkozy’s longtime patrons and the owner of Fayard, publisher of “Le Journal d’un Prisonnier,” has been doing his most to propel the far right to victory."
"Twenty days behind bars, and not long before France may very well have a far-right head of state for the first time in nearly a century. "
New SQL Notebook: Home made font tracing
There are many tools outwhere to create fonts from bitmap images, be it handwritten fonts or fonts from old books. They all involve quite a lot of homework. Letters have to be written carefully on a grid, bounding boxes have to be defined.
I wondered if the process could be made a little bit more straightforward. I want just to scan a book´s page and the tool creates the font for me, identifying all letters.
https://www.belle-nuit.com/sql-notebook/index.html?url=../site/files/home-made-font-tracing.json
Currently setting up my new laptop (HP EliteBook X Flip G1i), and so far:
1. The device was delivered with a bundled warranty that already started 50 days ago
2. The supplier delivered a Battery Replacement Care Pack for 3 years instead of 5 years as ordered
Called HP for the warranty precox, had to send the invoice. Agent: "Yeah, it's gonna be about 2 weeks till we correct that."
(OK, Laptop won't leave the house until then)
Wrote the supplier for…
False choice (with a value judgment in its wording).
You can, & should, continue to raise demonstrable & valid concerns about the accessibility of LLM output and _also_ consider if (or how) you can improve it (he offers options).
But no free labor from me.
https://www.
Folks: Aral, you’re such a natural speaker, your talks are so seamless…
Meanwhile, me, for the past few days, preparing to be a natural speaker: …
Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05
Psychologist: you mentioned that you think you may be on the autism spectrum if you haven't been diagnosed. What leads you to believe that?
Me: I've created featural scripts for multiple alternative number systems. I have multiple notebook pages full of math in base 12 and base 16 with custom notation I created.
Psychologist, nodding meaningfully: ahh....
Say what you will, I read Sartre, and I don’t need anyone’s permission to think for myself.
#JeanPaulSartre #Sartre #Freedom
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