Posts by tricoteur@pouet.ca
(DIR) Post #1940327 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T21:18:35Z
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@Canageek Really? how weirdly civil calendarish of them. <shrug> Wasn't the case for the folk I knew; they picked Saturdays closest to the event (full moon, quarters, cross-quarters...)
(DIR) Post #1940382 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T21:22:46Z
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@Canageek <nods> I would still drop 'other pagans' section, mostly because you don't want to get into the arguments of, for example, Ethiopic vs Orthodox vs Roman vs Reformation christian dates, either. The same kinds of arguments between some varieties of non-christians.
(DIR) Post #1941673 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T22:12:58Z
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@Canageek btw, if you are looking for more questions related to observations for the season...Solstice events:* Summer - southern hemisphere* Winter - northern hemisphere* 冬至 (Dōngzhì) - China* Kračun - Slavic ethnicities* Shab-e Yalda - IranianFull moon events (22 Dec):* Uposotha (Poya in Sri Lanka)* Khorram Rooz (first day of Dey, ancient Persian New Years, 1st day of 10th month)Unable to determine date:* Shálako (Zuni) 49th day after 10th moonOthers - http://venez.ca/53mOs
(DIR) Post #1941787 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T22:26:18Z
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@Canageek (Trick question) Q: What are the two types of Solstices and how often do they occur?A: Winter and Summer Solstice, and each occurs twice each year, depending on which hemisphere you are in.
(DIR) Post #1942002 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T22:33:29Z
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@Canageek Well, Dōngzhì is a chinese event, but I do not know how widely observed (China is also wildly non-homogenous.) It's sort of the Chinese Thanksgiving, lots of travel back home, and rice balls.Laba festival will not be until late January this year
(DIR) Post #1942255 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-12T22:45:26Z
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@Canageek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_festivals_in_Asia <- bewildering trying to track these down to Gregorian calendar dates.
(DIR) Post #2175818 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2018-12-21T22:54:29Z
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@Canageek very nice! My one regret with LineageOS: no camera panorama app.
(DIR) Post #2661800 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-05T06:38:04Z
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@ajroach42 @Canageek bitd I used to create *nixy-like cli tools in Asic (it's almost basic.) This command file assembler (.com) is still available as a shareware. It is very performant.You can persist variables with memory hacks.The most important tool for me was the line editor; I eventually hacked together my own, but get super familiar with the arcana of whichever line editor you are working with.You can draw and animate windows in batch. It is a waste of time, but you can do it.
(DIR) Post #2661915 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-05T06:55:20Z
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@Canageek @ajroach42 <big nods> Or, you know, you could use a gui.But assuming you want to build stuff from scratch in DOS... this gave me some PTSD flashbacks:https://www.dostips.com/DtTipsMenu.php
(DIR) Post #2661946 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-05T06:56:54Z
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@Canageek @ajroach42 You can in Mac OS. I have never looked into it in Linux/Windows.
(DIR) Post #2662025 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-05T07:00:51Z
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@Canageek @ajroach42 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
(DIR) Post #2662061 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-05T07:03:54Z
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@Canageek @ajroach42 There is an interface which lets you simply perform the gui actions, which it records. And you can use it to animate Quartz, moving the cursor to a window, clicking, that sort of cra... thing.It is a long time hang-over from MacOS 7 onward iirc. Not sure how much of it is still in there.
(DIR) Post #2718409 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-06T23:43:54Z
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@Canageek you beat me to it! @codesections
(DIR) Post #2807091 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-09T18:09:31Z
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@Canageek I did not see where XKCD mentioned that. However, after waving my fist impotently at you for 10: <giggle>20: <click previous>30: goto 10I got to laugh all over again about the rollover onhttps://xkcd.com/2089/
(DIR) Post #2820885 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-10T03:09:42Z
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@Canageek @DialMforMara ++. Would buy again.Also, typing is handwriting in the modern world. They don't even *teach* cursive these days.
(DIR) Post #2850416 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-11T01:13:53Z
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@Canageek thank you for this reminder to go check the status of my Librem order.<sigh> still awaiting shipment.
(DIR) Post #2882794 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-11T23:42:16Z
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@neb @climagic That is a birdsite @; they are not on #fediverse.
(DIR) Post #3008479 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-15T18:58:01Z
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@Zuph It occurs to me the phrase many of the threads are dancing around is "artificial scarcity." That is, we have the resources to care for earth AND explore space, but they are deliberately inefficiently distributed so neither is done.
(DIR) Post #3015110 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-15T23:27:48Z
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@ALWETP @xj9 @Zuph NB: appears to be user #1 on that instance, therefore…
(DIR) Post #3048336 by tricoteur@pouet.ca
2019-01-16T23:27:26Z
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@Canageek Also, you can create an issue via the website.