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One note on the article, though - if you're camouflaged in the dessert, that's pretty obscure.

This is analogous to saying it would be impossible to have an effective federal government if what people say is somehow exempt from their oversight. That would be a giant loophole.

Which, true, is in fact an argument often made.

Software execution itself is not the issue. Criminal intent is the issue.

It seems more accurate to use a name for the party that isn't the actual name of the party?

Depends on how many teachers you still want to have a year from now.

Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.

In A.I. War (book by Daniel Keys Moran), Trent uses a "custom 240-point Unicode board" to code in SuperLISP, which originally put the idea in my head. I asked Moran about this. He made it up whole cloth. No such keyboard exists. Of course, we still have ample time to invent one before the time of that story.

Maybe not for 450 keys (!), but I would dearly love to be able to type all the diacritical marks and at least select Unicode ranges (Cyrillic and Greek).

It's been a really low-priority desire (I won't dignify it with "need") and so I haven't even really worked out a layout or even carefully defined what I'd like, but yeah, the Really Big Keyboard would fill at least a small need.

I live in Puerto Rico. Moving from here to the mainland is not a step up in quality of life, I can assure you.

Given HUD still hasn't released the relief funds for Maria in 2017, I'm not holding my breath on any other help coming here.

There was an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set in San Juan, though. So now there's something else mainlanders have heard of.

Huh. I live about 40 miles south of it and I always wondered about that.

This feels like "mathematics pseudocode" and I kind of love it. Indexable math Zettelkasten notes.

You know what Orbán has in common with, say, Kádár? They were both "democratically" elected.

"Sending federal agents to help localities is not uncommon."

Sending them against the express will of the localities, however, is probably illegal.

As a 53-year-old Perl developer (my CPAN handle is MICHAEL, I'm that old), I freakin love Vue.

I haven't done paid work with Perl since the 90's. Now I'm glad I haven't. I use it for my private work because it does what I want it to do, but on the few occasions I've coded for pay since leaving the industry, I've used Python.

That's classic subconscious fear of failure.

Just do something stupid that goes in the right direction. Do it this weekend. You know you want to.

Yes, that lesson took very firmly.

It was pretty cool in its broken state, too, with a rhythmic spark occurring inside the handle (which houses the electronics). But I wanted to kill mosquitoes. Our house in Ponce was built for air conditioning - without power it was miserable, as the air circulation through the small windows was effectively nil. We were forced to keep all the doors open to survive.

That first day I killed over forty mosquitoes. Under the dining room table it was just bzzt-zzt-zzt-ztt. Seriously one of the more satisfying episodes of my life.

If the spark literally jumps across between the leads of the resistor before the capacitor charges fully, it is bad design, and not a standard feature.

Once I insulated around it so it could do what it was supposed to do, the zapper worked perfectly, and still works perfectly.

When Hurricane Maria hit us in 2017, we lost power for two weeks (we were extremely lucky in that - we were among the first 4% of the island to regain power due to our proximity to a hospital).

During those two weeks, my entire lifestyle changed, obviously, so it's difficult to know what changed because of that, and what was just the fact that e.g. I went from sedentary tech work to nailing salvaged roof scrap on top of the house on our farm.

But - my blood pressure dropped. I lost weight. I did a lot of reading of books. My notes are more interesting for those two weeks because they were ink on paper and I could insert drawings and diagrams wherever I wanted. They were more thoughtful and less reactive.

I fixed a mosquito zapper by sheer force of will (the capacitor was shorting across a resistor - poor design, but once I figured it out I could fix it. I'm still using that zapper today, and only shorted the capacitor out across my finger three times. Ow.) That day, I was become death, destroyer of mosquitoes.

I guess I quasi-fixed the roof on the farm house by sheer force of will, too. Had to dig the nails out of the scrap - no hardware stores open. My son considers it a formative experience.

So I didn't choose to go cold turkey, and it was only a short time, and its lifechanging nature is impossible to tease away from concurrent events, but still - anecdotally, it's probably worthwhile to try it voluntarily.

All my real-life achievements were just shit that happened.

Honestly, my most grounding achievement, one that feels more real than anything else I've done, is that I got hit by a hurricane and, lacking resources and available contractors, built a new roof myself. Whatever else I do or fail to do, this roof is a good roof.

I've worked remotely since 1996, living in rural Indiana, Budapest, and Puerto Rico. Now I live on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico and all my questionable life decisions have culminated in a very, very tolerable quarantine.

So, answer: slow nomad. It's been a good life, although I've found it difficult to prosper to the extent more connected people can. (But I believe this is more me, than being remote.)

I drew loops and it congratulated me on my boring picture of a paperclip.

Also anything not memorable has been lost. There's a selection bias.

Why are so many old houses built so well? It's not just because craftsmanship was better. It's because the ones not built so well didn't get old. (I owned a house built in 1884 for a few years. Most of it was excellent craftsmanship. Some ... not so much. Previous owners had been lucky the dining room floor had never been stressed too much.)

The District of Columbia is not a state, and yet is included.

I did, before I commented here.

Another COVID tracker that leaves Puerto Rico out of the United States. I don't even know why I'm still surprised.

Yes, props to @tcrowe for telling the rude people they're a bunch of shit-covered foreigners who should shut up. Real civic-mindedness on display there. Mad props.

My wife has a school friend who is schizophrenic. She tried - hard - to get her some help, but "getting help" maps onto "suppressing what reality I think I can perceive" really fast. Her friend was already terrified of Tibetan spies infiltrating her family, and just figured they got to my wife, too.

It would be nice to hear any strategies that do work. In the end, we couldn't find any.

Oh man, you have made my world that much better today. Thank you. Good coffee, and Winamp 2.95 back on my machine at long last. What more could I possibly want?

That's a pretty neat site (Wikiotics, I mean - wikibabel appears to go to multiple places).