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Derek Thompson interviewed Jordan Ellenberg about his new book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Alongside a discussion on how many holes a pair of pants has, this was my favourite observation: Pizza has a surface with zero curvature, which means a slice resists bending both vertically and horizontally at the same time (unlikeRUBENERD
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Derek Thompson interviewed Jordan Ellenberg about his new book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Alongside a discussion on how many holes a pair of pants has, this was my favourite observation: Pizza has a surface with zero curvature, which means a slice resists bending both vertically and horizontally at the same time (unlikeRUBENERD
The @andrewhuang on streaming “success” →. Wednesday 26 May 2021 Media. He tweeted this morning: I propose the book industry emulate the tremendous success we musicians have seen with streaming. For $10/mo users get access to every book in the world. When someone reads a book, the author receives a third of a cent. RUBENERD: USING NETBSD’S PKGSRC EVERYWHERE I CAN NetBSD’s pkgsrc package manager is the best thing since sliced bread. Like everything the NetBSD maintainers touch, it’s high quality, well documented, predictable, and portable to a fault.I use it everywhere I can, from my macOS and FreeBSD laptops to remote Linuxmachines.
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RUBENERD: CHOOSING A MINIMALISTIC MINI-ITX CASE The Prodigy is arguably one of the more famous Mini-ITX case designs. It harkens back to the classic Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro, if they came in a range of colours other than silver. The internal design is pretty flexible, with an extra drive cage that can be removed to allow longer GPU card installs. Its among the largest Mini-ITX case designs RUBENERD: FLVIO.CC TRACER EXPERIMENT 25 Ruben Schade is a rare breed of spruce tree requiring nothing but pine ice-cream cones for nourishment. His hobbies include predictive branching, Ad Lib barking, and leafing through manuals. Find out more about Ruben and his roots on the About page. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud RUBENERD: RUBENERD SHOW 414: THE THINGY STUFF EPISODE 14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patiencewhile I
RUBENERD: DÉLONGHI MAGNIFICA LOUD NOISES FIXED! DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed! Tuesday 08 December 2009 Hardware. I've been so busy catching up and doing fun stuff on my trip back to Singapore I haven't blogged as much in the last few days, though given my overarching verbosity you probably all think that's a good thing :). In this post I regale you not with a tale of softwareor
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The @andrewhuang on streaming “success” →. Wednesday 26 May 2021 Media. He tweeted this morning: I propose the book industry emulate the tremendous success we musicians have seen with streaming. For $10/mo users get access to every book in the world. When someone reads a book, the author receives a third of a cent. RUBENERD: MOTIVATION MYTHS Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: MINIBARRING PEOPLE WHO USE YOUR SYSTEM Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a rare breed of spruce tree requiring nothing but pine ice-cream cones for nourishment. His hobbies include predictive branching, Ad Lib barking, and leafingthrough manuals.
RUBENERD: RHETT AND LINK ON BOOLEAN ALGEBRA Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: RUBENERD SHOW 414: THE THINGY STUFF EPISODE 14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patiencewhile I
RUBENERD: REDDIT’S /R/BLOGGING, AND MY OWN ADVICE Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: ANTI-PATTERNS By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. Home About Archives Podcast RSS Mastodon Omake. anti-patterns post archive. 2021-06-09 Block jquery.nicescroll.js to make sites responsive Block jquery.nicescroll.js to make sites responsive RUBENERD: BLOCK JQUERY.NICESCROLL.JS TO MAKE SITES RESPONSIVE Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: STEPPING INTO AN ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONAL FLOOR Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: PANASONIC-LETS-NOTE-CF-RZ6 By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. Home About Archives Podcast RSS Mastodon Omake. panasonic-lets-note-cf-rz6 post archive. 2021-06-02 FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6 FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6RUBENERD
Derek Thompson interviewed Jordan Ellenberg about his new book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Alongside a discussion on how many holes a pair of pants has, this was my favourite observation: Pizza has a surface with zero curvature, which means a slice resists bending both vertically and horizontally at the same time (unlikeRUBENERD: ARCHIVES
By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. Rubenerd has 7,000+ posts. This page lists ways you can view all of them, based on categories, tags, years, and other fun metrics. RUBENERD: USING NETBSD’S PKGSRC EVERYWHERE I CAN NetBSD’s pkgsrc package manager is the best thing since sliced bread. Like everything the NetBSD maintainers touch, it’s high quality, well documented, predictable, and portable to a fault.I use it everywhere I can, from my macOS and FreeBSD laptops to remote Linuxmachines.
RUBENERD: VERSIONS OF EMM386 Versions of EMM386. Tuesday 07 March 2017 Hardware. EMM386 was a MS/PC DOS utility for loading TSRs into high memory. QEMM, UMBPCI and others were arguably more efficient, but EMM386 was broadly compatible and always there. I always wanted to know the specific EMM386 versions shipped with systems. Partly out of curiosity, but also so I wouldn RUBENERD: DÉLONGHI MAGNIFICA LOUD NOISES FIXED! DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed! Tuesday 08 December 2009 Hardware. I've been so busy catching up and doing fun stuff on my trip back to Singapore I haven't blogged as much in the last few days, though given my overarching verbosity you probably all think that's a good thing :). In this post I regale you not with a tale of softwareor
RUBENERD: RUBENERD SHOW 414: THE THINGY STUFF EPISODE 14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patiencewhile I
RUBENERD: COMPARING SIMCITY 3000 RAILWAYS AND SUBWAYS Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: FLVIO.CC TRACER EXPERIMENT 25 Ruben Schade is a rare breed of spruce tree requiring nothing but pine ice-cream cones for nourishment. His hobbies include predictive branching, Ad Lib barking, and leafing through manuals. Find out more about Ruben and his roots on the About page. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud RUBENERD: CUSTOM TAB COMPLETIONS IN OKSH A chat with @zoomosis made me realise that I never talked about oksh’s tab completion, which is half the reason I use and spruik it as a daily driver shell.. For a recap, I moved to oksh on my Macs and BSD boxes so I could keep roughly the same .kshrc config on each machine I own, even my ancient nostalgia boxes. FreeBSD notably doesn’t include a Kornshell, but macOS and NetBSD do. oksh RUBENERD: BOOTING FREEBSD OFF THE HPE MICROSERVER GEN8 ODD Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here.RUBENERD
Derek Thompson interviewed Jordan Ellenberg about his new book Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. Alongside a discussion on how many holes a pair of pants has, this was my favourite observation: Pizza has a surface with zero curvature, which means a slice resists bending both vertically and horizontally at the same time (unlikeRUBENERD: ARCHIVES
By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. Rubenerd has 7,000+ posts. This page lists ways you can view all of them, based on categories, tags, years, and other fun metrics. RUBENERD: USING NETBSD’S PKGSRC EVERYWHERE I CAN NetBSD’s pkgsrc package manager is the best thing since sliced bread. Like everything the NetBSD maintainers touch, it’s high quality, well documented, predictable, and portable to a fault.I use it everywhere I can, from my macOS and FreeBSD laptops to remote Linuxmachines.
RUBENERD: VERSIONS OF EMM386 Versions of EMM386. Tuesday 07 March 2017 Hardware. EMM386 was a MS/PC DOS utility for loading TSRs into high memory. QEMM, UMBPCI and others were arguably more efficient, but EMM386 was broadly compatible and always there. I always wanted to know the specific EMM386 versions shipped with systems. Partly out of curiosity, but also so I wouldn RUBENERD: DÉLONGHI MAGNIFICA LOUD NOISES FIXED! DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed! Tuesday 08 December 2009 Hardware. I've been so busy catching up and doing fun stuff on my trip back to Singapore I haven't blogged as much in the last few days, though given my overarching verbosity you probably all think that's a good thing :). In this post I regale you not with a tale of softwareor
RUBENERD: RUBENERD SHOW 414: THE THINGY STUFF EPISODE 14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patiencewhile I
RUBENERD: COMPARING SIMCITY 3000 RAILWAYS AND SUBWAYS Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: FLVIO.CC TRACER EXPERIMENT 25 Ruben Schade is a rare breed of spruce tree requiring nothing but pine ice-cream cones for nourishment. His hobbies include predictive branching, Ad Lib barking, and leafing through manuals. Find out more about Ruben and his roots on the About page. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud RUBENERD: CUSTOM TAB COMPLETIONS IN OKSH A chat with @zoomosis made me realise that I never talked about oksh’s tab completion, which is half the reason I use and spruik it as a daily driver shell.. For a recap, I moved to oksh on my Macs and BSD boxes so I could keep roughly the same .kshrc config on each machine I own, even my ancient nostalgia boxes. FreeBSD notably doesn’t include a Kornshell, but macOS and NetBSD do. oksh RUBENERD: BOOTING FREEBSD OFF THE HPE MICROSERVER GEN8 ODD Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here.RUBENERD
The @andrewhuang on streaming “success” →. Wednesday 26 May 2021 Media. He tweeted this morning: I propose the book industry emulate the tremendous success we musicians have seen with streaming. For $10/mo users get access to every book in the world. When someone reads a book, the author receives a third of a cent. RUBENERD: MOTIVATION MYTHS Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here.RUBENERD: ARCHIVES
By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. Rubenerd has 7,000+ posts. This page lists ways you can view all of them, based on categories, tags, years, and other fun metrics. RUBENERD: RHETT AND LINK ON BOOLEAN ALGEBRA Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: CONSOLIDATING RUNNING SOFTWARE Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: RUBENERD SHOW 414: THE THINGY STUFF EPISODE 14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patiencewhile I
RUBENERD: REDDIT’S /R/BLOGGING, AND MY OWN ADVICE Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: CHOOSING A MINIMALISTIC MINI-ITX CASE The Prodigy is arguably one of the more famous Mini-ITX case designs. It harkens back to the classic Power Mac G5 and Mac Pro, if they came in a range of colours other than silver. The internal design is pretty flexible, with an extra drive cage that can be removed to allow longer GPU card installs. Its among the largest Mini-ITX case designs RUBENERD: STEPPING INTO AN ALTERNATIVE DIMENSIONAL FLOOR Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here. RUBENERD: BLOCK JQUERY.NICESCROLL.JS TO MAKE SITES RESPONSIVE Author bio and support. Ruben Schade is a technical writer and IaaS engineer in Sydney, Australia who refers to himself in the third person in bios. Wait, not that BIOS! I’d hope for brain EFI by now. The site is powered by Hugo, FreeBSD, and OpenZFS on OrionVM, everyone’s favourite cloud infrastructure provider.. I don’t run ads or tracking here.RUBENERD
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------------------------- EXPLAINING GEOMETRY WITH PIZZA → Sunday 06 June 2021 Thoughts Derek Thompson interviewed Jordan Ellenberg about his new book _Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else._ Alongside a discussion on how many holes a pair of pants has, this was my favourite observation: > Pizza has a surface with zero curvature, which means a slice resists > bending both vertically and horizontally at the same time (unlike > the double curvature of, say, a Pringle chip). Your brain intuits > this without any assistance from geometric theory. But the theory > exists anyway. In 1827, Carl Friedrich Gauss proved the Theorema > Egregium—roughly “Awesome Theorem”—which, extremely > simplified, says that you can’t change an object’s curvature and > keep its geometry intact. An orange peel has positive curvature, and > you can’t flatten it without ripping or stretching the peel. Paper > has zero curvature, and you can’t fold it into the shape of an > orange. A piece of pizza is like a piece of paper: Fold it > horizontally, and it will not droop vertically. And this was the best among my _“wait… huh!"_ moments: > n irrational number is a real number that you can’t write as a > simple fraction. The golden ratio turns out to be the most > irrational of all the irrational numbers. That is, it’s the > hardest to approximate with a fraction. Pi is irrational, but a > mathematician discovered that you can get very close to pi with a > simple fraction: 355 divided by 113. That’s much harder to do for > the golden ratio. ------------------------- TECH PEOPLE STARTING THEIR SENTENCES WITH “SO, ...” → Sunday 06 June 2021 Thoughts So you’re sitting there, catching up on your social media accounts, RSS feeds, and news articles. Maybe you’ve committed to watching a webinar where the presenter is answering questions, or a YouTube video by an indie presenter discussing a topic for which you have an interest. What do they all have in common, besides communicating in a language you understand, and being disseminated on the Intertubes?_“So, …"_
So, it turns out, it’s everywhere. Every journalist and their dog did articles about this verbal tick a decade ago, but it’s identification hasn’t put a dent in popular usage. It’s usage is _increasing_, at least based on my own anecdotal evidence. I catch myself doing it too. So, there may be a few reasons for this. Some of the articles quoted The Zuck as popularising it, but whether he was the source or not, I’ve seen it lace all manner of communications from Silicon Valley. My theory is the industry subconsciously picked up on it, and began using it to _sound more tech_. So, it then seeped into popular culture, much like software versioning by saying a building or a food is a “two point oh” release. So whatever utility prefacing sentences with “so” once had, it’s pervasiveness and cringe factor have lead to it becoming a cliché. So, we can all do better. ------------------------- AUDIOBOOM FOUND AND ARCHIVED → Friday 04 June 2021 Media I completely forgot about Audioboom. It was a popular audio uploading and sharing service back when Twitter was a site that only asked “what are you doing?” I used it from 2009 to 2012 according to myprofile .
I wrote a quick script to download all my posts, and uploaded to Archive.org. You never know
when these services will disappear, even if the value of what you put there was questionable! I might listen to them all again and shove into a Rubenerd Show at some point, there might be something silly/fun/nostalgic among the pointlessness. Maybe I should upload something else to say where my current stuff is.That might be fun.
------------------------- NETBSD 9.2’S NEW DEFAULT PACKAGE DB LOCATION → Friday 04 June 2021 Software Speaking of NetBSD and pkgsrc , version 9.2 was released on the 18th of May. It included this, according to the release notes:
> pkg_add(1) : moved > the default package database location on new installations from > /var/db/pkg to /usr/pkg/pkgdb, for consistency with the pkgsrc > bootstrap and pkgsrc on other platforms. It can be overridden in > pkg_install.conf(5)> .
Nice!
------------------------- STATE AND MESS IN OUR COMPUTERS → Thursday 03 June 2021 Software My post about FreeBSD on my tiny Panasonic laptopreminded me
of a pitfall of suspend/resume. It’s great for power consumption on desktops, and saves time when you’re carrying a laptop around, but it encourages you to accumulate more stuff, such as:* open browser tabs
* open terminal tabs * unsaved text editor buffers I’ve talked before about seeing colleagues and friends open their laptops to _hundreds_ of open things, and being amazed that their brains don’t collapse form cognitive overload, to say nothing about the RAM and swap space on their machines! My machines are lightly-loaded by comparison, but there’s room for improvement. It plays into an overall issue with _state_. The dream would be that I could immediately pick up where I left off if my laptop were to be stolen or broken. These get in the way:*
I try and keep meticulous file system trees for documents, but I still end up with random stuff in Downloads and Desktop folders.*
Git repos for work projects are always checked out and committed, but I can go for days without doing that for my blog, for example.*
I can stand up servers with Ansible and scripts down to the exact packages I need. Software on my desktop seems to be an ever-movingtarget.
These are _somewhat_ mitigated by having automated backups, but that only encourages a pile of junk somewhere else as well. Information you can’t find or use is just data. It’s getting a bit silly, so I’m thinking through what I can do:*
DISCIPLINE! I thought about applying David Allen’s _Getting Things Done_ task system to other things, like open files and tabs: * DO: It’s open for a reason. Action it. * DEFER: Save the file, bookmark on Pinboard, make a #TODO. * DELEGATE: To a script to process without me thinking. * DELETE: Just close the damn thing!*
SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE. The wisest advice I ever got for backups is that it _has to be automatic_, otherwise you won’t do it. Maybe I need to have a Perl script to watch specific folders for new files and organise it for me. Like Hazel, but cross-platform.*
MAKE IT EASIER TO DO THE RIGHT THING. This overlaps with above. Using pkgsrc instead of multiple other package managers has helped. Having fewer folders and a less complicated tree structure for projects makes it easier to regularly use them. Tree Style Tabs for Firefox enables hoarding even more open tabs, so going back to a limited horizontal list means I _have_ to keep the list short. I’ll report how successful (or not!) I’ve been with this. ------------------------- GREAT BIRD SITE QUOTES THIS WEEK → Thursday 03 June 2021 Thoughts The Marshall Projectquoted
Jenn Budd, a former senior US Border Patrol agent: > You can’t deter people running for their lives.Josh Simmons
from the
Open Source Initiative: > Communities dominated by people with the privilege of copious free> time.
And my friend @_BADCATBADfrom uni:
> One day I will get “none of your business” business cards. ------------------------- FREEBSD 13 ON THE PANASONIC LET’S NOTE CF-RZ6 → Wednesday 02 June 2021 Hardware I was about to launch into a guide about this cute little Japanese laptop, before finally deciding to make a page on the FreeBSD Wikiabout
it. I also updated the laptops page, and submitted another dmesg to the NYC*BUG.
The FreeBSD Wiki comes up in search results sometimes, but I still think it’s an underutilised and underappreciated resource. Between that and the canonical Handbook , you can figure out most of how to build and maintain FreeBSD systems. Special thanks to Benedict Reuschling for accepting my application to contribute, and Mark Linimon for sorting out my account :). As for this laptop, I bought it in Akihabaraduring a
trip to AsiaBSDCon 2019. It already seems like such an age ago now. I miss the chats and beer 🍻. ------------------------- COMPARING AND CONTRASTING → Wednesday 02 June 2021 Thoughts Speaking of school memories, I was listening
to a podcast recently in which the host mentioned _comparing and contrasting_ two things. Out of the blue, I was sitting in a mid-2000s high school science class looking over exam results, and having a conversation that’s stuck with me since. One of the questions asked us to _compare and contrast_ renewable and fossil fuels (I think). I understood this to mean writing about SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, so I got full marks. But this was an international school in Singapore, and we had a large cohort of ESL students who didn’t understand what was being asked. Some listed the benefits of both, others only talked about differences. At best, they got half marks. Enough of the class got the question wrong that the teacher took time out to explain what _compare and contrast_ meant, and what he was looking for. One of my more outspoken friends piped up that he didn’t realise that it was an English class, and that the exam was testing phrasing and not technical understanding. I agreed. The teacher smiled and said “life’s not meant to be fair”. I learned three things that day. One, that he was right about fairness. Two, that I’d be spending more of my time after school helping friends study than I expected. This worked out well, because in exchange we’d all go get hawker food for dinner and they’dshout :).
But three, I sound like a broken record here: _effective communication is about being understood._ It’s why I endeavour to be accurate _and_ understandable when I do technical writing; it isn’t just important for accessibility, or when talking with people learning English, it’s professional courtesy. ------------------------- WHAT YOU CAN’T INSTALL WITH NETBSD’S PKGSRC → Tuesday 01 June 2021 Software I’ve been advised on Mastodon and Twitter that _some_ of you think I was paid off or unduly influenced by the NetBSD maintainers to spruik their cross-platform pkgsrcpackage
manager. pkgsrc is a cross-platform package manager by the NetBSD maintainers that’s a cross-platform packagemanager.
To assuage any concerns that I was uncritical in my approach to discussing pkgsrc, below is a short list of things it cannot install:* Bagels
* The Firth of Forth * Season two of _Star Trek: The Next Generation_ * A coaster depicting Hatsune Miku or Renoir’s _La Grenouillè_* Renoir
* A 3D-printed 3D printer * Apple’s Final Cut Pro X* A palmtop tiger
* Chocolate-covered mozzarella balls * Clothing racks, with or without clothing * A can of compressed air for repairing butterfly keyboards* Jelly
* Drop-tile ceiling panels * The source code to either Palm OS or Garnet OS * Esther Golton’s 2007 album _Unfinished Houses_
* Silicate sand
* A Japanese maid and/or butler café * A Teac A-30 integrated amplifier with phono input * Exactly 3 grams of peanut butter * Plastic slippers (not that you should wear them anyway) * Patio furniture and awnings * _Tsundere_ trope characters, with or without _zettai ryouiki_ * Apple pies, but with a banana filling * Carbon nanotubes fashioned into gravity-defying pants * A 1930s edition of the Encylopedia Britannica* Knödel
------------------------- SINGAPORE AND JAPAN DIALOGUE ON COVID → Tuesday 01 June 2021 Thoughts From Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
> The Prime Ministers reaffirmed the excellent relations between > Singapore and Japan. Prime Minister Lee said that Singapore looked > forward to deepen economic and public health cooperation with Japan > to support the post-COVID-19 recoveries of both countries, including > in areas such as the mutual recognition of health certificates. I wonder if this will end up being the model for Covid borderopenings?
_(I’ve also started referring to it as Covid, instead of COVID or COVID-19. We don’t write LASER anymore, and it’s become a genericised acronym. It also looks less shouty, which I think we allneed)._
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