#ossasepia | 2020-06-03

http://ztkfg.com/2020/06/guitar-practice-log-8-how-to-pentatonic/ << whaack -- Guitar Practice Log 8 - How To Pentatonic

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jfw in further yrc nitpicks - does it apply lowercase to incoming nicks or how does it manage to end up with 2 windows for the same nick only based on case-sensitiveness? e.g. /msg NickServ will end up in window NickServ but reply will end up in a new window, nickserv

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http://ztkfg.com/2020/06/guitar-practice-log-9/ << whaack -- Guitar Practice Log 9

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diana_coman: that rings a bell, I'll have a look on this pass. possibly more like not applying a case-mapping where it should. IRC is supposedly case insensitive, unfortunately implementations differ as to what the mapping actually is (Scandinavian origins). still, should at least do one mapping consistently

15:15

aha, that sounds sensible

15:17

I'd also like it to show date changes (when there's actually messages there), that'd be nice for the monthly blogolog too

15:19

well, the 2 are separate, lol

15:21

I know, I'm pointing out what to me seems a shortcoming in both since the dates are not otherwise displayed.

15:22

alright, noted

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http://younghands.club/2020/06/03/jfw-daily-summaries-week-of-1-jun-2020/ << Young Hands Club -- JFW daily summaries, week of 1 Jun 2020

15:23

tbh for yrc I don't particularly see it as a big thing either way

15:23

I can kind of see the use for it more in the blogo-monthly log indeed

15:24

alright, good to know re priorities on those usability issues.

15:25

one can get full unix timestamps from the log files (and I have a script to format these as human dates that'll go in the next patch) but I saw that as a workaround.

15:26

aha, I noticed the unix timestamps in the log files, made for a pleasant change from all the various formats/not 2 the same otherwise.

15:27

welcome back cruciform

15:27

diana_coman, thanks! Apologies for the ~month absence - I fell off the wagon a tad :p

15:27

diana_coman: heh, you might not like then that it's centiseconds rather than the more conventional float-seconds or ns or whatever

15:27

jfw ahahaha

15:28

see, I didn't yet look at it in any detail

15:29

cruciform one of those days I'll figure out what's this falling-off-the-wagon fashion all about!

15:31

diana_coman, in fairness, I guess most people don't have much of a wagon to fall off (not that I have such an excuse)

15:32

you are possibly quite right there, indeed, huh.

15:33

cruciform how's the move going?

15:34

at any rate, I'll have a post up tonight about the prior month and the upcoming week; my internet connectivity will be a bit spotty over the next few days - packing stuff and moving to a friend's for a coupla weeks

15:35

the move's not been terrible so far; just time-consuming

15:36

so where to?

15:37

back to Surrey - had enough of London to last a lifetime!

15:37

ah, I thought it was either Bath or York

15:38

yea, reckon it still will be, but there are some local family issues I need to sort out in the next week or two

15:38

ah, so move 2 to follow, lolz

15:38

I believe one's allowed to actually view properties again, since Monday - didn't wanna move sight-unseen

15:39

oh, do they expect one to move now without even visiting?

15:39

lol, yes - hopefully the moves'll be inductive; and if the first one goes well, so will the rest!

15:40

I believe that's been the case for the last coupla months, yea - they only allowed "online viewings"

15:40

ahahah, that figuring out proof by induction clearly left its mark

15:40

next up, paying rent by posting pictures of cash

15:41

lmao; then again, I guess on one hand "wtf all the pretense, they are all ~same anyway" and otoh since it still goes ahead anyway...why not push it further, ofc.

15:41

jfw, I understand lots of people's "girlfriends" work along the same lines, nowadays

15:43

cruciform: you'd think the reuse possibilities there would be lucrative except the market's well saturated for quite some time now :D

15:45

lol, I suppose they'd argue it lowers carbon emissions/is a form of recycling, if people don't have to actually meet up

15:45

it's safer!

15:47

diana_coman, I noticed since Monday, far fewer masks; traffic - cars and foot - much closer to pre-hysteria levels

15:47

here I barely saw any masks at all at any time; gotta be London the worst, huh.

15:48

I did a coupla informal counts over the last few weeks - it was always >50%; since Monday, ~33%

15:48

but yeah, at the weekend it was absolutely packed in and around the chiltern hills area

15:49

sounds lovely! have you been to Hughenden Manor

15:49

I have to admit though that I find the orderly queues quite funny to watch - from a distance, lol

15:51

ikr! I should've taken pics - some of the bank queues were 100 yards long

15:51

no, is that anything special? I tried to get to the hills, proper hills, god-damned it but I still ended up with mainly walking-on-the-flat-near-the-river

15:51

bank queues ? ahahah ; so far I saw only supermarket and shop queues

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so next time I guess I'll just get a boat to start with, makes more sense anyway

15:52

yea; people snaking back in 2metre increments

15:53

so 1980's!

15:54

Hughenden is great - especially if you like redbrick; it's on a hill, though nothing mountainous!

15:54

funnily enough, trying to find a "village" we ended up walking all the way to ..."the town"; apparently we failed to register the 3 houses as village or something.

15:55

but anyway, from what I saw the "distancing" idea is that people get out of the way simply so honestly, I don't mind it at all.

15:56

same, though I am in need of the services of a tailor/barber/gym-operator

15:56

cruciform bwahaha, redbrick is a never-ending-complaint in my house

15:57

but yeah, redbrick is expected too; the surprise is if it is something else, really.

15:57

diana_coman, lol, I used to be the same, but it grew on me

16:00

now a tailor/barber/gym-operator in one like that might be even rarer than not-redbrick, lol

16:00

lol, National Trust is missing a beat!

16:02

isn't it odd how the narrative has changed - virtually overnight - from the flu to the riots? And no one seems to care/notice - as long as they have something to be hysterical about

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cruciform what exactly would you class as "care/notice"? as in where & how can that even happen exactly?

16:04

it's not hysterical, it's just ...with a purpose, ok?

16:04

verschlimbesserung (thank you for the term, bvt!)

16:05

I suppose I mean, the mainstream media goes from 110% Covid doom to 110% blacklivematterTM doom, and people just shift their focus of worry

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but without thinking, "oh, I suppose that last thing couldn't have been so bad, afterall" - just straight to the next worst-thing-ever

16:07

eh, common; it's like expecting people at latest film to *still* worry about the previous film's action, lol

16:09

how come everything is a Fast and Furious 11/Avengers-universe/Harry Hobbit thing nowadays, then?

16:10

fashion really; but what difference exactly do you think it makes ?

16:12

well, it seems people can fanatically follow a narrative within a fictional universe... oh, lol; it's the same with the media

16:13

at least the movies have special effects!

16:13

well, they are trying! it's called PPE!

16:14

Personal Protective Equipment? Politics, Philosophy & Economics?

16:14

now recalling the village-life discussion - have you ever seen sheep as in more than "look, there's some sheep over there"?

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I've seen 'em in a petting zoo

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diana_coman shall not spoil the PPE mystery and allow readers to enjoy it!

16:15

cruciform ah, no, that won't do anything, hm

16:16

literally to see for a couple of days how sheep behave; the bland "they follow one another" fails utterly to capture any of it really

16:17

ah, no - I've only seen 'em in passing; though the way people've reacted to the virus...

16:20

that they follow blindly is one thing; more at the root though, I'd say it's the fact that they will desperately push into the flock, it's at times a very vivid illustration of what I can only call - the desire to not-be-individual

16:21

it's that the one thing that trumps everything else, the total terror, nothing else.

16:22

but anyway, I doubt there's any way I can somehow express that just through description as such.

16:22

I'm recalling Patrick Bateman's "I want to fit in!"

16:23

diana_coman, isn't it strange, the trope of everyone being a unique special snowflake, given the above?

16:23

cruciform, lol, I'm only vaguely aware of it as a reference; I rarely (very rarely) watch films at all

16:24

not all that strange if you think of *why* is it so all-important, heh

16:24

especially so all-important to affirm it, not to ..be it

16:26

thanks for the insight; like any good ruminant, I'll have to chew it over - meanwhile, I'd better get back to boxing - be back tomorrow!

16:27

in the enduring words of a frustrated classmate: "I only *say* crazy stuff and everyone says I'm nuts but *you DO even crazier stuff* and nobody says anything!!"

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laters

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http://younghands.club/2020/06/04/back-to-work/ << Young Hands Club -- Back to Work!

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