As long as I have this ink, it's going in that pen. As long as I have this pen, it's going to be filled with that ink.
...and that's when I realized you don't have to wait for a pen to be completely empty and thoroughly cleaned before filling it again, because this is the first time I've refilled without swapping inks.
Organics Studio better stay in business. :neocat_knife:
[#]FountainPens #Stationery #OrganicsStudio
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I JUST NOW figured out that the Mate desktop environment is named after the plant/beverage, not the term for a friend or... intimate partner.
I may yet be a fucking idiot. :neocat_laugh_nervous:
[#]linux
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I know it must be true, but somehow I still feel like I'm imagining the increased heft after filling my favorite pen with Endless Alchemy Candy Sea ink.
That little flask of ink I got when I refused to leave my friendly local fountain pen store empty-handed. That shopkeeper was so kind and generous with his time that I couldn't let it go unrewarded.
This pen was previously full of Organics Studio Nitrogen which, true to its reputation, proved to be keen to coat the whole feed with a nasty reddish purple crust and a pain to clean.
Still, that sheen is almost supernatural. A whole page of blue notes flashing bright red under the office lights is positively enchanting.
[#]FountainPens #Stationery
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I am now running MX Linux on my laptop. The setup, including proprietary GPU drivers and Steam was so smooth I'd almost call it "boring."
This should be celebrated. I know it's not news to most Linux users, but setting up Linux is now, in my experience, significantly easier than setting up Windows - even on a laptop, which used to be a serious test.
Who else remembers the days of having to connect over ethernet before you could connect over wifi?
[#]Linux #MXLinux
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I feel like more big projects should have someone on staff to help users contribute. I'm not sure what I'd call it, but maybe it falls under "community manager."
I am not a "developer," by which I mean I've never been paid to write executable source code, and I don't fully understand the tools that a developer needs to be soaked in before writing useful pull requests.
What I am is an engineer who has experience reverse-engineering code to find bugs. Furthermore, I'm an enthusiastic #Linux user, I pretty regularly contribute to #OpenStreetMap, and I help run #FurryConventions: I WANT to contribute to your community.
But your project is big enough that I'm not sure how to help, or whether I know enough to help. Does your wiki need to be fleshed-out? Well, if I have to reverse engineer your code to make a certain feature work, I want the notes I take in that process to go to some use...
I think, in my experience, OpenStreetMap has the best onboarding experience I've been through. I went from being terrified of breaking the map with the default editor to happily cleaning up many errors left in by previous contributions and mapping whole new areas with fancy editors on my phone and laptop.
If nothing else, OSM has been very clear that the map will never be perfect and that everybody is welcome to make any changes that they're confident will improve the map. I think that attitude is not encouraged nearly enough, especially in wiki-based documentation projects.
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[#]Linux #AskFedi
I mentioned the other day that I'd like to install Linux on my laptop in the next few days.
I'm not sure which distro to get, so I'm curious whether people have suggestions. In the past, I've mostly used distros that are very convenient distros with a lot of mass-market appeal like Mint or (a long time ago) Ubuntu. Here's what I'm looking for with this one:
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I'm planning to put Linux on my laptop over Thanksgiving break because it's now out of warranty and I'm tired of Windows.
In a team meeting yesterday, my new favorite coworker and I went off about whether I should put a distro with KDE Plasma on it or skip the DE entirely. Everybody else in the room was totally lost. Everybody but one guy seemed happy enough with Windows. We turned to that one last guy and asked his opinion, and he just went "I like macs."
I love this team.
[#]Engineering #OfficeWork #Linux
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Another amazing night in #Resonite.
In quick succession, I learned that it's possible to spawn in an audio stream connected to a Discord call, I learned that it's possible to shrink down to such a small size that the floating point errors make your avatar weird and jiggly, and I learned that it's possible to shrink the floor down to nothing, dropping everybody into the basement - if you turn your shrink ray's safety off and miss while attempting to shrink said Discord streaming box.
This was hours ago, and I just got offline because I never wanted to leave... :blobcatheart:
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On second thought, this wouldn't be so bad if the format of this training session was more interactive rather than being mostly lectures.
Whenever we've gone to breakout sessions for an exercise, the time has flown by.
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Sitting on a literal all-day conference call is awful.
Doing it when we're expected to have cameras on and be visibly "engaged" the whole time is fucking murder. Even with scheduled breaks, ADHD is making it surprisingly hard to simultaneously pay attention and look like I'm paying attention.
[#]ADHD #OfficeWork
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Dude, @simontatham is here!?
I played his puzzle collection on my phone to survive a boring conference call just today! 🎉
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Help me out here, fountain pen community. I thought there was a site listing different models, filterable by various measurements like grip diameter. I can't find it, though. Here's why I'm asking:
I showed a coworker a page of notes written with the Nitrogen vial I just opened up.
Some time later, she admitted that she wants to get a fountain pen because of the variety of inks available, but she doesn't like how big most fountain pens are. She said she strongly prefers the slim body and rubberized grip of a Sharpie S-Gel pen, and asked if I had any suggestions. I did not. After searching for half an hour online, I still don't. Any help?
[#]FountainPens #Penabling
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Nothing made me care about the difference between "dye" and "pigment" like getting into fountain pens did.
I only noticed this when someone mentioned blue dye being made from lapis in Minecraft and I felt an unreasonable level of annoyance. 😹
[#]Stationery #FountainPens #minecraft
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Man, I did not expect to get so emotional over Weird Al and @deviantollam videos this morning.
I feel like there's some profound meaning behind all this, but I can't put into words.
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So, #GURPS Space has a system for generating star systems and planets based on dice rolls and lookup tables.
It's surprisingly hard to find the value on a table corresponding to a dice roll without defining a result for every possible die roll, which is a bit lame if the table in the book has only three defined ranges for fifteen possible roll results. At least, it's hard to find a nice, pythonic way to do it.
In the past hour, I've run numerous searches for bisect, returning only the values of particular parts of tuples, and list comprehensions, and all I have to show for it is a lovely variety of error messages.
[#]python #worldbuilding #GURPSSpace #ttrpg
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Let's see if my hyperfocus holds out long enough to see this project through. 😹
[#]ADHD #programming #SciFi
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Finally getting off my ass to write a starmap generator of my own in python, because I'm a weirdo who wants a very particular kind of starmap.
That is, a graph (in the mathematical sense) of star systems that are generated randomly in 3D space - but in accordance with a density distribution function - with edge weights according to their "jump drive distance" which can vary somewhat from their euclidean distance in the initial 3D space, but are limited to a reasonable local neighborhood. I'm hoping the output will be in graphML so I can use existing tools to render sections of the map for printing.
Yes, I'm aware that this is an absurdly ambitious project for someone with my level of programming experience.
Yes, I'm aware that a map generated from 3D space is unlikely to flatten onto a page nicely.
But who else is going to do this? "Be the change you want to see in the world"... 😹
[#]python #SciFi #starmap #programming
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You know how #DungeonsAndDragons 5e has been known for having really long adventures that a lot of groups never get all the way through and are difficult to mix-and-match, rather than publishing anthologies of short adventures that are meant to slot together into a campaign?
I know it's really conspiracy-minded, but I really can't get it out of my head that those looooooong books are at least partially intended to make groups less likely to swap to other #ttrpg systems, because "they want to get to the end of the story" and stopping partway through would be disrespectful to whoever bought the book.
Let me put it this way: I'm not planning to run my #GURPS game in 9 months because I think it will take nine months to prepare... 😬
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@deviantollam
Listening to one of your talks while doing hobby stuff (shingling a miniature house), and the topic of request to exit sensors came up.
It reminded me to tell you that you're the reason I figured out why my office's front door pisses me off so often: The office is designed so you can approach from the side, but the sensor only covers approach from the front. So, if I'm not careful to swerve out of my way, the maglock doesn't open and I run into the door like an idiot. 🤣
Thanks for all your informative and entertaining talks! Always good food for thought, and encouragement to see things most people prefer to ignore.
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I wonder whether @mattgrayyes is an #OpenStreetMap contributor.
It seems like the sort of thing they'd get up to in in quiet moments while out and about. But maybe that's just me projecting.
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