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Gemini Links 05/09/2023: End of Wordpad



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: AMNWSTR Wordo: SCUDI
      • Long shift

        I left for work at 0620 this morning, got home at 0115. In between I worked 17 hours with no lunch break, a 10 minute break to step outside to kiss Evy and first daughter who were in the area on their way home from Evy's parents' house, and I peed twice.

        It was my third day of what we call 12-hour shifts, but never end up being less than 13. When I'm charge nurse I have to stay til my required paperwork is done.

      • ROOPHLOCH 2023

        I'm writing this in the morning of Sept. 5th, with pen and paper, on the top of a big boulder next to the house I'm staying at. On top of me is a small and sparse vine. I'd rather be writing this in the woords, but I've come unprepared for this weather. The boulder is wet, it was rainging not long ago, I'm in natural squatting position.

        I'm on vacations in a remote-ish village (there are 3 neighboring houses still occupied; the rest is deserted and derelict) with my family. Yesterday, Sept. 4th, the power went out intermittently between 17h and 17h30, at which time it went out completely. I didn't notice it until around 19h, as I was watching a movie on my laptop.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • FLOSS Equivalent of Wordpad?

        Microsoft is sunsetting Wordpad, which I have to say only surprises me in the sense that I assumed they’d done it years ago already. I never really used Wordpad. Back in the day it almost seemed like a handicapped version of Word. I’ve never had a look at the rtf file format and don’t know how it compares to, say, odt or Abiwords own format. Or markdown for that matter.

        These days I use LibreOffice for all my writing that needs a bit of formatting. It is, however, heavy. It takes time to open even on a rather fast computer.

      • Programming

        • Fast Thoughts on a Fast Language

          I've spent the holiday weekend diving into Ada, a language I tried out many years ago but have since put on the backburner.

          I figured that, since that time, I've become much more well-versed in C and Rust, and also you know graduated from college with a CS degree so maybe I can make more sense of Ada's idioms and whatnot.

          In this post I'll collect some initial thoughts from this weekend project.

        • AI artist statement / art and image synthesis

          why do i work with AI? first of all, because i can. but what made me keep at it, and keep reading about it?

          GAN-generated images hold a sense of wonder, as if you were to wander into the library of babel and find a floor where all the books made some simulacrum of cohesion, rather than being mere linguistic white noise.


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