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Flawesome. GNU/Linux is my daily driver OS since 1995. On Fedi since 2008. Working in Racket, Tcl, Python, whatever gets the page up. Solving yesterday's problems tomorrow. A dad. Freddie Mercury is my spiritual advisor.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› profile picture
I wanted to read up a bit on Gerbil Scheme again, because somebody mentioned it.

github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbโ€ฆ
The documentation is automatically rendered online at cons.io.

I'm sorry to say, but the accurate statement is that the docs are 404 at cons.io.

Is this project neglected, or is this an unusual hiccup?

#GerbilScheme #Scheme
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 3w
Latest commit was this month, co-authored by 12 people, and touched src/ and remade how builds work. That's seems a resounding proof of life.
Hypolite Petovan · 4w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnjzrf5yyyfwent50am07cl0anquqrtcce9qsvqv7lc7kvuu3h77qntdv6u This will always remind me that since I started my current position in 2014, I received $10,000 in company shares annually, vested in three years as part of their โ€œLong-Term Employee I...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› profile picture
I just discovered that I own shares in an AI company. ๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿ˜ฎ ๐Ÿ˜

I bought shares in an IT services contractor I was working for in 2013--2016, and then I left the country to move back to Hong Kong. Around the same time stuff happened in the company, and I considered selling it all off, but in the end I just passively held on to my shares. They sought new capital, wanted to be expansive and brave, sold off the parts of the company that were profitable, and then the shares cratered in value and I never looked at them again.The company was founded in 2001 and became a public company in 2019 after conducting a reverse takeover of Indentive AB [<- the company I bought shares in a few years before]. In August 2024, Artificial Solutions rebranded to Teneo.ai.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teneo.ai

Now the shares are almost back at the price I bought them for in 2015! ๐Ÿ˜
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 4w
When I was considering selling, they were worth about five times that. ๐Ÿ˜…
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
Galaria is a region inspired by the UK and the industrial revolution, that's why their coral is all bleached out and ghostly.
Bonkers · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqnjzrf5yyyfwent50am07cl0anquqrtcce9qsvqv7lc7kvuu3h77qntdv6u what the heck does it even mean
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
Oh, this is interesting. Why April 14th? Because it's a sidereal calendar! ~1900 years ago the New Year was on the equinox, but the equinox has since moved three and a half weeks. The Gregorian cale...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› profile picture
This is similar but also entirely different to why Swedes celebrate "the longest night of the year" on December 13th and have St. Lucy bring light to the winter darkness on that day. That's not because of a misalignment between tropical and sidereal, it's because the Julian calendar is bad at being a tropical calendar. Its year is just a little bit too long compared to the actual equinox-to-equinox year -- the Julian calendar is an average of 365.25 days, while the new and improved Gregorian calendar is an average of 365.2425 days per year.*

Over the course of ~1000 years, the equinoxes and solstices kept slipping until the winter solstice was on December 13th rather than December 21st (or the 25th in the days of Caesar himself). By the time Sweden switched to the Gregorian calendar, the solstice occurred on December 10th in the Julian calendar, but by then tradition had cemented the celebration of light on the 13th, and it remained there even in the new calendar.

* The tropical year we're trying to align with is 365.24219 days. The Orthodox Church has an even better calendar that is an average of 365.2422 days per year. It is currently in sync with the Gregorian calendar, but will diverge in the year 2800, when the Gregorian calendar has a leap day, but the Revised Julian calendar does not.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Luโ€ฆ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decemberโ€ฆ
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_โ€ฆ
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
Happy New Year to those who follow the Malayalam calendar! And the Tamil calendar! And many others! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VishuVishu falls either on the same day or near April 14/15 as other new year...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› profile picture
Oh, this is interesting. Why April 14th? Because it's a sidereal calendar!

~1900 years ago the New Year was on the equinox, but the equinox has since moved three and a half weeks.

The Gregorian calendar is a tropical calendar, so it keeps in sync with the equinoxes, not with the zodiac and the fixed* stars, and that's why in that calendar, the zodiac has moved instead, and that's why your astrology friends say you're not born in the starsign you think you are.

TIL we have cultures with sidereal calendars.

* of course nothing is "fixed": they're very far away and slow in terms of angular velocity as seen from Earth
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
This is similar but also entirely different to why Swedes celebrate "the longest night of the year" on December 13th and have St. Lucy bring light to the winter darkness on that day. That's not because of a misalignment between tropical and sidereal, it's because the Julian calendar is bad at being ...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
There's a problem with this explanation. The Kollam Era, which is the era of the calendar, starts in the year 825 CE, which is much more recent than 1900 years. Was there an existing older equinox celebration that it was attached to, or is the explanation bogus and the almost-equinox date a coincide...
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› profile picture
Happy New Year to those who follow the Malayalam calendar! And the Tamil calendar! And many others!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VishuVishu falls either on the same day or near April 14/15 as other new years in parts of India where the sun's path is followed, such as in states like Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Bengal, Northeast India, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, and Jammu. Additionally, the Songkran festival of South East Asia also falls on the Vishu date, with the significance of the Kanikonna as part of Laos new year same like of Vishu celebrations in Kerala.The Sinhalese New Year in Sri Lanka also coincides with the Vishu date, sharing similar traditions such as the Vishu Kani, flower blossoms, traditional foods, and fireworks.
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’› · 5w
Oh, this is interesting. Why April 14th? Because it's a sidereal calendar! ~1900 years ago the New Year was on the equinox, but the equinox has since moved three and a half weeks. The Gregorian calendar is a tropical calendar, so it keeps in sync with the equinoxes, not with the zodiac and the fix...