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by franek 1y ago
> Fun fact: Jansson illustrated The Hobbit and drew Gollum as a giant. Tolkien realized he never described the size of Gollum and made adjustments to later editions. For those curious like me, here are some low-res images: https:/&
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by franek 2y ago
This sounds like what RNode devices for Reticulum networks appear to be able to do. (I haven't tried it for myself yet.) > RNodes can be made in many different configurations, and can use many different radio bands, but they will ge
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by franek 2y ago
> Sure, in some cases, when the network has fewer announces to deal with, the 2% limit has less effect, the best way Reticulum can deal with this is with a network made out of more specialized node types connecting the lower speed links
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by franek 2y ago
That does make a lot of sense, at least in terms of latency: I imagine that when a one-hop announce comes back from outer space, the faster multi-hop path across town will have already been established. For bandwidth, however, I don't
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by franek 2y ago
Thanks! I had thought it would make sense to post this chapter of the Reticulum manual separately, as the other post is about Nomad in particular. But since my post here didn't get traction, I repeated my question over there now.
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by franek 2y ago
Does Reticulum routing always prefer the path with the fewest hops, even if a path with more hops might have higher throughput or lower latency? That's how I understand the manual ( https://reticulum.network/manual/
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by franek 2y ago
> chapter 4 of the manual To me that chapter ("Understanding Reticulum") was a very pleasant read a few weeks ago, and inspiring too. I would love to get some HN expert opinions on it, especially about routing, so I posted it s
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by franek 2y ago
> Once an announce has reached a node in the network, any other node in direct contact with that node will be able to reach the destination the announce originated from, simply by sending a packet addressed to that destination. Any node
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Understanding Reticulum(reticulum.network)
7 points by franek 2y ago|4 comments
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by franek 2y ago
I fully support the recommendation of Le Guin's short stories! Too bad they are easily forgotten over her novels. (I guess a novel, as a product, is easier to review and to advertise?) My favourite collection is "The Birthday of t
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by franek 3y ago
Personally, I like to use wajig, which combines several (most?) Debian packaging operations in one tool. https://wiki.debian.org/Wajig https://github.com/gjwgit/wajig
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by franek 3y ago
While not built around CSV, two terminal spreadsheet tools I have successfully used in the past are sc-im and the (neo)vim plugin vim-table-mode: https://github.com/andmarti1424/sc-im/ https://github.co
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by franek 4y ago
I didn't know about DMXIS and tried to look it up, and it seems that there is a software and a hardware component (the latter not being produced anymore), see here: https://www.dmxis.com/dmxis/ I don't know a
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by franek 5y ago
Quoted from the page: > To my knowledge, Gnomon* is the first font ever to respond to the user’s actual time. The shadow of Gnomon* changes location throughout the day in relation to the time. Come back and refresh this webpage every cou
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Gnomon(indestructibletype.com)
1 points by franek 5y ago|1 comments
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by franek 5y ago
I haven't seriously tried any of them, but have a look a the list at: http://lilypond.org/easier-editing.html Maybe Denemo: http://denemo.org/
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by franek 5y ago
> As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWYG editors, in the same "I deeply care about typography" sort o
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by franek 5y ago
The title is indeed ambiguous. It could just as well refer to sound-coding systems/languages like Sonic Pi, or to what you imagined. (Which would be an oddly specific kind of music, but cool! The operation of a compiler turned into mus
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“Compiling” Music(lilypond.org)
136 points by franek 5y ago|44 comments
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by franek 5y ago
I'm a freelance performance and theatre artist. This means (in my case) that I stage/create performative works of my own, perform in other people's pieces and sometimes build special effects using electronics and programming.
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by franek 5y ago
Ursula K. Le Guin, "Solitude", from the collection "The Birthday of the World". Speculative story about a society whose adults spent the majority of their lives alone. Told from a female perspective. One of my favourites
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Wajig: Simplyfying Ubuntu and Debian Administration(wajig.togaware.com)
2 points by franek 5y ago|0 comments
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by franek 5y ago
This is pretty similar to what is described in Stanisław Lem's "The New Cosmogony" (a work of fiction, included in the book "A Perfect Vacuum"). Only there the terrarium-like isolation of intelligent species is a se
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The Covid‐19 insidious trick: Subjective perception of numbers (2020)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
4 points by franek 6y ago|0 comments
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by franek 6y ago
Sure! I'm assuming if we have the means to fake the one turbulence, we can also cancel the other. Or the arrow is just not moving, thus no "natural" turbulance to cancel. I'm not saying that air turbulence wasn't a
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by franek 6y ago
Turbulence and length compression are good evidence, but in theory not sufficient to infer the speed of the arrow: The arrow could have been squeezed and air turbulence induced some other way. These alone then would not make the arrow fly i
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by franek 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation and correction!
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by franek 6y ago
(I'm neither a physicist nor a philosopher and happy to be corrected.) I don't believe you can. Given a snapshot of an arrow suspended in air, how do you know its direction and speed (or if it has been shot at all rather than just
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by franek 7y ago
I'm a student at that university, though I don't have any contacts to the IT department or other sources of inside information. I went to collect my new password already. The process was pretty smooth with only a little confusion
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by franek 7y ago
Wow, I was completely fooled by the serifs and my excitement. Thank you for clearing that up!

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