Gemini Articles of Interest
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Technology and Free Software
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intense emotions in regards to software
i often experience intense emotions. these don't stem from relationships, anger, despair, happiness, or hatred. they come from a deep passion and love for humanity, the idea of it.
i can "feel" when others are passionate. i get emotional when i do. it's like a strong sense of empathy.
it's weird. i can literally cry from watching a video of someone talking about something they made, or witnessing people helping each other.
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Internet/Gemini
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Hello Pekko!
Which is sad in a way, but perfect in many others, because that means SpaceBeans will live on without a big investment on my part.
I would have stayed on the open source version of Akka, or ignore the license and upgrade to the latest version -which I considered for a while-, but I can't honestly keep using a project when it is not really open source any more. Not only because I wouldn't be complying with the license, but also because I would be "promoting" in a way a project that doesn't deserve such promotion any more.
I still don't know if SpaceBeans is important for anyone but me, but I'm happy to say the project will live on thanks to Apache Pekko.
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I miss being a kid
I was listening to Gemini Radio Episode 51. Ben was talking about how he would wake up early to watch the animated Highlander TV show and then play FFVI on SNES. Which is just so me… and I really miss it.
That feeling of waking up an hour or so before school popping on the TV and watching some cartoon. For us this was Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z. I assume Power Rangers as well! But I don't know if that was a weekend or afternoon show. It was really cute. My house had an extra room my dad used as his office. It was stacks and stacks of papers in boxes, a medium sized CRT television with wood paneling on the side. I assume this was previously the primary TV but when we moved house this was too small for the space? I should ask him about it next time we talk. But we'd sit on the floor and look up at his desk and watch TV in there as kids before work. He worked in the city but had a home office for whatever reason! I know my mom used it for her job which was part time and WFH but I don't know. Memories are weird!
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Guppy, a UDP-based smolnet protocol
I posted some feedback on the spec based on writing a toy Guppy client and server.
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Programming
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Least Recently Used
A technique for algorithmic composition is to pick something least recently used. This could be deterministic, or one might randomize the selection.
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