I call myself a fair-weather waller. I don’t do drystone work through the worst of winter. If you have ever jammed numb fingers between cold stones, started a morning by sledgehammering apart a frozen stone pile, or done a pee outside, bum exposed to biting winter air, you will understand why.
Drystone season is almost upon us. This year we have a run of really interesting jobs and I have a new ambition, learning to drive a digger.
The crops are all in, and the peaches are rotten The oranges are packed in the creosote dumps They're flying us back to the Mexico border To pay all our money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mi amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane All they will call you will be Deportee
Now my father's own father, he waded that river they took all the money her made in his life six hundred miles to the Mexico border They chased us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria you won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane No, all they will call you will be Deportee
The sky-plane caught fire, over Los Gatos Canyon A big ball of fire, it shook all the ground Who are these friends who are falling like dry leaves The radio said they were just deportees
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye Rosalita Adios mis amigos, Jesus and Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big aeroplane. No, all they will call you will be Deportee
But we died in your hills, we died in your valleys We died in your orchards, we died on your plains We died on your deserts, we died in your treetops Both sides of the river we died just the same
Me quedé ayer pensando un buen rato que joder con la gentrificación en el barrio, ya hasta las tiendas de lámparas tienen nombres raritos y modernos en inglés... hasta que caí en que faltaba la i JAJAJA
As of around 11:21 AM Central time, we have power! I repeat, we! Have! Power! This was an approximately 124-hour power outage, which makes it the second longest I've lived through. And our whole house generator did a wonderful job of keeping everything going. Clarification: How do I know we got utility power back? Good question! We have an automatic transfer switch installed. Thirty seconds after power originally failed, it commanded our generator to start, waited until it was producing stable power, then switched our house to it. Then this morning, it saw that utility power had returned, probably waited a bit to make sure it was stable, switched our house back to it, let the generator run for a while with no load, then commanded it to shut down. Had I been fully awake I *might* have suspected utility power was back when we were switched to it, but the real giveaway was when the generator suddenly shut down but power didn't. Whew! It's over!
I have a hole home battery backup. However, I don't switch to it automatically. I want to ration power, so I switch circuit by circuit based on what's going on. For example, in the summer I don't put the hot tub circuit on it, but in the winter I have to in order to prevent the pipes from freezing. I also shut down the servers and then take the battery backup away from them. Assuming I ration to use only the essentials (medical equipment, lights, refrigeration) I can keep everything going for up to five days without electricity or a fuel delivery. Also, the battery system can be charged by a Tesla charger, or any other electric car charging station. And it's multiple batteries, so if I think after 60 hours I won't be getting power back, I can take one discharged battery and recharge it, and bring it back without interruption to the power.
It actually cost me less than putting in an automatic switchover. Because I could do it myself, without requiring a licensed electrician, inspection from the power company, or a disconnect from the grid while it was installed. I looked at a propane generator with automatic switching, and between all the licenses and completely replacing the breaker box, it was going to cost me around 20 thousand dollars. I did this system for only eight thousand.
'Happier' recorded live at Village Underground London.Shot by Henry Milne (with additional shots by Sean Stapleton, Rory Barnes and Jasper Shiner) Edited by ...
I just want to say thank you to the Americans on here who have evidently made a concerted effort to start putting an F to specify when they are talking about Fahrenheit degrees.
I can't imagine what prompted the recent shift, but it makes a difference, it's clearer and respectful to the rest of the world, and I for one have noticed the change.
Wastewater concentrations are very high for COVID-19 in Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Dakota; for influenza A in South Dakota and Vermont; and for RSV in Maryland, Massachusetts, Louisiana, and Virginia. #COVID #Influenza cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gener…
#PSA: If you are documenting the #ICE operations in the #USA with #video, I am BEGGING you to NOT trust ANY US-based #SocialMedia like #YouTube. There is currently a high risk your uploads will be nuked, shadowbanned or otherwise suppressed, given the recent FISHY #TikTok aquisition.
Backup everything on international servers. Or better: Move ur stuff altogether. Use decentralized tech like #PeerTube. Do it BEFORE the banhammer strikes.
If you're a wayward half-baked Norwegian looking for a place to crash till you can jump the pond, #minnesota is the place. #Trump says nobody wants to live there, but, seeing all this...passion...I'm sold. All this is like a fucking #liberal "come live here" infomercial. I love it.
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Businesses around Minneapolis are keeping their doors locked, hosting "warm areas" and offering free drinks to protesters and observers.
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#USPolitics #FuckICE #Minnesota
Organizing works! This is a win for public pressure, and a message about the moral clarity Canadians want from politics right now.
Now we need legislation to ban all Canadian companies from contracting with ICE or otherwise supporting Trump's kidnapping and deportation machine. And Parliament must pass Jenny Kwan's bill to close the U.S. arms export loophole – so that no Canadian armoured vehicles, weapons, or equipment end up in the hands of ICE to brutalize people.
A company owned by British Columbia billionaire Jimmy Pattison says it will not be selling a Virginia warehouse to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which planned to use the site as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
I was walking through the city yesterday when I suddenly tripped, for no reason. i must have been falling in love with @ky0les all over again. Love you, paws ❤
44100 still sounds a bit shit, but it's also like, 44100 HZ. No Klatt engine does 44100 well, or at all. I'm not going to blame myself for that one. We made 22050 and 16000 sound more refined, fuller, richer, and those are sample rates more are likely to use than 44100. I shouldn't be mad at myself. But I really wanna pour icecubes all over my body because of it. torture myself somehow as punishment for making it shit at 44100.
After downloading 50 GB or so of ACB Radio Main Menu archives, I was disappointed to not find my demonstration of Klango which, as far as I can recall, aired between Auguest and the end of 2008. Does anybody have more episodes from that period?
Although pager networks fell out of general use a quarter century ago, they still are in use today by a select few groups of users. I just heard an insane amount of spuriousness while scanning this afternoon. And that brings me to my question. One would think, that the radios in use on these pager networks would be well-certified, well-tested, quality-controled, commercial-grade radios. Right? I mean, at least that's my theory, anyhow. So why in the hell are they so damn spurious, noisy, and just cause really really super wide splatteryness? I guess, is it just because of the modulation? Its loud and noisy, and cuts threw? I dunno. My actual radio knowledge is more like a person who drives a car, rather than a mechanic who fixes cars every single day. But we both qualify for a license, we just have differing knowledge strengths. So I put it to my true radio mechanics, any thoughts on this?
But I think I will ship it ultimately. It doesn't make the voice more clicky than it was already. It adds new sliders if people hate the new pitch deltas and glottal shaping modulation they want to mess with. So like, hmm. It's not a bad change. It is not one that creates regressions at all. I've been reading long passages with it to discover added clickyness but not hearing none.
There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at:
Download Loops by Pixelfed by Daniel Supernault on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Loops by Pixelfed.
Hello, Tyler Zahnke here! I have officially launched BatchPedia, and I recommend that every Microsoft Windows user at least check it out. As it has just been launched, there are only fifteen or so articles so far, and this website is an open wiki, so people are free to contribute. BatchPedia aims to be the encyclopedia of all things Windows Command Prompt and Batch files, including Batch culture! You heard that right, this isn't just a Windows/MS-DOS command reference; the Internet is already full of those. Though BatchPedia does have a category for information about commands for the sake of completeness, it also has articles about forums, subreddits and Discord servers where Command Prompt and Batch files are discussed, as well as articles about software and projects found on these sites. The Software category is full of tools and even games (especially text adventures) that were built entirely with Batch and can be played in Command Prompt. The Books category has links to textbooks about working with Command Prompt and programming your own Batch files. Why did I create BatchPedia? BatchPedia was created as a central resource for the Batch community. Some Batch games have been mentioned on the R/Batch subreddit but not on the DosTips forum, or vice-versa, while proposals like the language model DOSLM were mentioned on the DosTips forum but have never been mentioned on the subreddit or either of the Discord servers (Batch Town and Server.bat). The Batch community is already small, so divisions within the community make it hard for some information to be noticed by the community. BatchPedia is all about collecting information from all these resources and compiling it into a handy encyclopedia. As a blind Windows user, Batch-based software has fascinated me since childhood. Though most members of the Batch community are not blind, it is easy to see the potential appeal that Batch has to blind users. Batch is known for having very little in the graphics department, therefore most Batch-based games are almost entirely text-based. If a Batch program is inaccessible for some reason, it tends to use ASCII art (pictures made of letters, numbers and symbols), and these are relatively rare due to the complexity of creating ASCII art, especially when stretched between lines of code. Though a Batch Graphics library has been created to make simple graphics slightly easier, most Batch programmers prefer an out-of-the-box setup, therefore most Batch programmers create a very text-heavy, therefore usually accessible if somewhat retro and MS-DOS-like user interface. Though BatchPedia currently has no information about blindness and accessibility, we are definitely planning on this, and a big reason I created this site is because most Batch-based software is text-based and therefore accessible. As a fan of retro video games and retro game YouTube content, I also acknowledge the retro, MS-DOS-like vibe of Batch files (this fact is so well-known that some people still call Batch files DOS programs, and they call Command Prompt a DOS window). So both my retro PC software side and my accessibility side are fascinated by the Command Prompt and the programs that can run within it. Despite the name, general Windows Command Prompt information is also welcome, not just for the sake of building a program. There is a shocking amount of Batch file-related material online, from text-based games to instructions on programming an efficient file backup automation tool, even a mini-program for managing your to-do lists! Though Batch files may not be a powerhouse of the computer programming world, it is a light and very accessible way to make small programs with completely keyboard-based interaction; for those of you who remember the classic retro computer phrase "Press any key to continue", Batch files are the easiest place to find this phrase in a modern setting (spoiler alert, this message is displayed when a pause command is entered). Due to Batch files being an only slightly modified version of the MS-DOS command interface, pretty much nothing is mouse-based, giving almost every Batch file that nice, clean, accessible, 100% keyboard-based and text-based experience! This website will tell you things about Windows that you never knew, but I must repeat this disclaimer again; this is a brand new website, so it is currently lacking lots of information, though anyone is willing to send me information by email or even directly in the wiki. batchpedia.miraheze.org
Welcome to BatchPedia, the encyclopedia of all things Windows and MS-DOS Batch! There are currently 6 articles in this encyclopedia. Learn about Batch tools and...
Vcera jsem tu narazil na video simulace kapusticek, kapustickozroutu a zroutu kapustickozroutu v nekonecnem cyklu. Hned jsem si s tim chtel hrat a odpovedet si na spoustu otazek ze sveta lovcu, lovenych a kapusticek.
Akce to byla uspesna. Osahal jsem si @bevy + #burn.
To ship the new Speech player branch or not. people will then yell at me. But I really am liking this sound. ugh ugh. Decisions decisions. I guess I'll wait a week on it. Ahahaha. It sounds clearer at 16000 and 22050, less whispery of a voice, I'm really digging this.
I wish Apple's operating systems had a better setting for whether VoiceOver should speak hints. Right now, it's either all hints, or none. What I want is the option to only speak a hint when that hint is not the default one. Double tap to activate? Yep, I've heard that for 17 years. Swipe up or down with one finger to select a value? Yeah, I know--don't say that one. But if an app adds custom hints, I very much want to hear those.
Double tap with your nose, flick right 17 times, swipe up and to the right, rotate your finger in a counterclockwise circle 3 times to select? Yup, do inform me of that.
If you rely on assistive technologies (TTS, Braille display, enlarged fonts), what would be your preferred terminal output from a compiler or other CLI tool telling you where an error occurred? If you'd prefer a different option, please elaborate. #Accessibility #Programming #A11y #Rust #RustLang
at path/to/file.rs, line 10, column 29 (56%, 14 votes)
In the Telegram group of a podcast I really love a listener brought this: github.com/github/spec-kit. And it seems, it's a thing I've been searching for since I started using #AI assistants in my development. Even before AI I always wrote a spec first, even if it was quite rough on edges, — I've always thought in lists and headings (yeah, screen reader user habits!). It's even more trustworthy because comes from #GitHub itself. Although it's still in version zero, I'm trying it now and it seems a very interesting concept.#SpecKit #SDD #SpecificationDrivenDevelopment
For 11025 Hz, we kept the original symmetric cosine glottal waveform because the new LF-inspired one sounded "constrained" / "like a small cell phone speaker" at low sample rates. At higher sample rates (16000+), use asymmetric LF-inspired glottal waveform with sharp closure (sharpness=3.0) for richer harmonics and "grainier" Eloquence-like character. This is based on the Liljencrants-Fant (LF) glottal model from 1985 - the same research that informed Klatt88 and likely Eloquence's DSP!
real vocal folds close faster than they open, and this asymmetry is what gives natural voice its "body". Now, SpeechPlayer 11025 and 16000, 22050, sound the same voice, just less sharp and compressed at higher sample rates. Feels like magic.
In most email clients (outlook, Thunderbird ETC), you can copy files from your file explorer directly into the message body of your email. Saves trying to go through the browse dialogue and add attachments that way.
@Bri I tried that just yesterday. I copied the file in Explorer, went to the email I was writing, and pasted. Nothing happened. I figured it just wasn't a thing. You mean it should have worked?
@alexhall @Bri That works perfectly in Outlook and GMail Web. Thunderbird you still have to envoke the attach dialog with Ctrl+Shift+A, but can then paste as you otherwise would.
@alexhall Yes. Copy the file to the clipboard, paste it into the filename box of any Open dialog and it will be converted to a textual path with proper quoting. @jackf723 @tired_and_wired @Bri
@alexhall @jscholes @jackf723 @Bri Once you copy a file from File Explorer, in Outlook you don't even have to create the message before initiating the paste. From the inbox, instead of pressing ctrl+N, press ctrl+V. This invokes the New Message dialog and takes the file that you had copied and automatically attaches it to the message. Just fill out the relevant fields, to, cc, etc., type the message and send and the file is already attached.
@GrapheneOS You can add another app to your list of apps banning GrapheneOS: The AGOV access app from the swiss federal authorities (play.google.com/store/apps/det…)
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