Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • from the corner

    the conversations in my head
    at night 
    are so much more vivid
    than the ones I watch happen from a distance
    from the corner I have chosen to wallow in
    to rewind the time and rethink, rephrase
    this is what I meant 
    this is what I wanted to say
    this is how I feel
    do you see?
    the dizzying sensation 
    of everything moving around me at full speed
    at all times 
    while I sit still and wonder
    am I here at all
    do you see me, really 
    too afraid of the answer 
    to even dream of asking
    

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACEHPMI Wordo: MISDO

• Politics and World Events

  • That claim that leasehold is only in England and Wales

    Any time spent discussing leasehold in the UK will confront an observer with the curious claim that residential long leases aren't used outside England and Wales.

    Of course this is a bare-faced lie. All the residential property in the entire Australian Capital Territory is leasehold. Any image search for "leasehold" or "#leasehold" used to return mainly properties in Malaysia and Indonesia. It obviously exists in Canada and Israel as well.

• Technology and Free Software

  • My Analog Computer: Lessons So Far

    A point that I did not understand, while I was building my analog computer, is the importance of the time constant of the integrators. For accuracy, the integrators should all have the same time constant — or set of time constants — so that they all give the same results for the same rate of change input.

    I mistakenly thought that it was important to get the integrator feedback capacitors all at the same capacitance. More fundamentally, though, what you want is for all the integrators to have the same time constant, which is the product of the input resistor and the feedback capacitance. So, if R=100 kΩ and C=1 µF, then RC=0.1. That means your simulation time is 100 ms, and that your integrators are running at 1/0.1 or 10x as fast as real time.