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2023-03-12 23:56

yep. this is a another late-night blog post. probably won’t be a long one, but
that’s okay, i don’t aim to post at a specific length when i write, i just kind
of write how i want and when my brain wants to throw text into the world’s eyes
to read.

anyway, i updated my markup parser so i can split ordered and unordered list
items across multiple lines. it was beginning to feel odd to have a text file
that was 80 characters in width, and then … ⌘ Read more

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There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum. A genius at suffering | Hacker News

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance”*… | (Roughly) Daily

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Find quick solutions to common String problems
Strings are a fundamental building block of programming. Go string is a sequence of variable-width characters where each character is represented by one or more bytes, normally using the UTF-8 encoding. You can find quick solutions to common string problems that arise during writing golang programs from this valuable resource. 1 points posted by Ayeree ⌘ Read more

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance”*… | (Roughly) Daily

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How Hong Kong’s redevelopment projects can be showcases of ‘organic city’ growth
The decision to bulldoze Kowloon Walled City in 1993 wasted a chance to create a cultural treasure that celebrates its history and character. Instead of cookie-cutter shopping centres and residential towers, Hong Kong needs development that evolves from the local characteristics of each district. ⌘ Read more

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‘Glocalised’ school-based curriculum at Caritas Wu Cheng-chung Secondary School empowers innovation and inspires students from nearly 20 countries and regions
Caritas Wu Cheng-chung Secondary School (CWCC) embraces ‘glocalisation’ to optimise its students’ learning experience as well as their personal growth and character building. ⌘ Read more

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@prologic@prologic The immediate context was deconstructed movie characters, but I find I’m also tiring of deconstructed foods, deconstructed philosophy, deconstructed art, etc.

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One year of private diary blogging
This morning I wrote my 365th diary entry. With that, I now have my first full year of daily private diary blogging complete. A milestone! The statistics tell me that’s 32245 words with 186900 characters and an average word count of 88 words per post. ⌘ Read more

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Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am getting this when I run it on cron (extra lines in between becuase otherwise jenny will make them a mash):

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 565, in

if not retrieve_all(config):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 373, in retrieve_all

refresh_self(config)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 294, in refresh_self

process_feed(config, config[‘self_nick’], config[‘self_url’], content)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 280, in process_feed

fp.write(mail_body)

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/encodings/iso8859_15.py”, line 19, in encode

return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\U0001f4e3’ in position 31: character maps to

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In-reply-to » I wrote a 'banner'-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

Cleaned up a bit, with installation instructions for Plan 9 and p9p, tiny character tweaks, and a change log.

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Learn Chinese

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Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.

In reality, Chinese is really easy. It has literally no complex morphology: no tense, plurals, gender. It doesn’t have irregular verbs or nouns because it has no verb and noun endings whatsoever. It’s almost difficult to explain how easy Chinese is.

The only different thing is the writing system which is I hesitate to say anachronistic. The Chinese character system i … ⌘ Read more

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@vain@www.uninformativ.de the truth is, i never “got” or liked twitter. i think it’s way too noisy and a terrible way to have a conversation, what with the character limit and all. and then mastodon came along and i thought it would be different, but then it became too twitter-like. i get what you mean about twtxt and discoverability, that is one of its drawbacks.

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