Here is the new RSS feed.
Please update before it is too late!
Forty-two of you won’t see any more posts unless you do.
Author: grant
Can you ever set your standards too low?
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo
What dash should I use when attributing a quotation?
- Use an EM-DASH, which is this:
—- Not an EN-DASH, which is this:
– - Nor a HYPHEN-MINUS, which is this:
-
- Not an EN-DASH, which is this:
- Do not leave a space between the EM-DASH and the name.
For example:
Wisdom begins in wonder.
—Socrates
AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer
Here is a High Performance Computing (HPC) system with sevente Apple II motherboards: one controller and sixteen nodes.
It is probably as great as you imagine.
A Hand-Held Mobile Computer Running Python
Here is a hand-held mobile computer running Python.
It does GRAPHING pretty well too!
So You Want To Build Your Own Cray-1A?
How hard can it be?
Org2Blog v1.1.11 Released
I just tagged Org2Blog v1.1.11. It’s got a few nice changes for easier blogging. It got a lot of changes to make it easier to contribute and report issues. After this, all of the work will bring it up to the current version of Emacs and Org mode. That work will begin in the v1.2.0 branch. For the sake of simplicity, consider it unstable (no matter how unlikely, that is where issues could show up). When it is ready, I’ll post it for people who want to test it out.
Happy Blogging!
Here is the change summary:
Invert Colors and Toggle Grayscale with JavaScript on macOS
Via reboot81:
Open Script Editor and paste each block into a new script for you to use.
Invert Colors
var systemEvents = Application("System Events");
var systemPreferences = Application("System Preferences");
systemPreferences.activate();
systemPreferences.panes.byId(
"com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
).anchors.byName("Seeing_Display").reveal();
chkInvert = systemEvents.applicationProcesses.byName(
"System Preferences"
).windows.byName("Accessibility").checkboxes.
byName("Invert colors");
systemEvents.click(chkInvert);
systemPreferences.quit();
Toggle Grayscale
var systemEvents = Application("System Events");
var systemPreferences = Application("System Preferences");
systemPreferences.activate();
systemPreferences.panes.byId(
"com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
).anchors.byName("Seeing_Display").reveal();
chkInvert = systemEvents.applicationProcesses.byName(
"System Preferences"
).windows.byName("Accessibility").checkboxes.
byName("Use grayscale");
systemEvents.click(chkInvert);
systemPreferences.quit();
Can you get an unquoted result from Emacs server eval?
Yes. You can do it with server-eval-at instead of emacsclient.
It took days too long for me to understand the solution.
In honor of that effort, in case someone out there can benefit, I wrote down all of my notes here.
Happy Hacking!
@cableknitjumper Have you heard the Monster Mash?
Amy:
Very troubling that the song “Monster Mash” isn’t the Monster Mash — it’s a song about the Monster Mash, which is not itself heard on the track, and is fundamentally unknowable to us.
Be at ease. The possibility exists for us to hear the Monster-Mash-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song. Although we never listen to it sung, we can listen to it at some point. Here is why:
When The Mad Scientist committed an inter-reality incursion from the Monster-Mash-Universe-Reality to the Our-Universe-Reality, he opened the door to expose that universe to ours. Proof here is that:
- We can hear him narrating.
- We can listen to The Crypt-Keepers Five playing the music.
- We can listen to the backup singers to the Monster-Mash-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song.
- We know that the singer of Monster-Mash-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song is at the party and wants to sing again: Dracula
- A person is at the party listening to all this, and it is apparently not you: you are listening to Our-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song
Start by studying the diagram as a PDF, illustrating all of the evidence and relationships explaining everything. Be sure to click on the links for who wrote the song, the lyrics, and the video to get the full background. If you can’t do PDFs on your device then here is an image instead:
Click to get full-size version
Now that you’ve wrapped your head around it, you know that we can hear Monster-Mash-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song. Yet you are still left with an awkward feeling of discomfort and confusion. You know that something is very, very wrong with this song. Despite the above: something is left unexplained. You must be wondering why precisely the music is crafted so that we never hear Monster-Mash-Universe-Monster-Mash-Song?
You are right. You will read the answer below. It will push your mind to the limits of its understanding. If you are a real adventurer, and indeed you are, then read on to discover the actual conspiracy behind THE MONSTER MASH.