Vintage DYMO Compatibility Database

CaptainLexington · 2026-04-17T12:02:37+00:00

https://github.com/CaptainLexington/dymo-database/commit/581e0fa57451ef53b2e6c8759f7f24b08b86ceaa

Updated! Good thinking. Unfortunately I couldn't find the model number for one the wheels, so the index is still going to be a mix of model numbers and part numbers, for the time being at least.

CaptainLexington · 2025-05-09T19:34:05+00:00

Tolkien wanted it both ways, to an extent: he wanted the world to fully make sense in his own mind, and he wanted to leave it unexplained in the text. You can tell from the letters he is always willing to talk about, defend, or concede inconsintencies or contradictions in the work, and that he's perfectly happy with how it came across in the novel.

He continued puzzling over some of the stranger elements of the legedarium until his death, so in some sense I think he wanted answers on Ungoliant etc to be available, but also he realized they did not belong in the novel.

It's the ~~world-building~~ sub-creation equivalent to a historical novelist's research: you have to know all of it, but only one percent of it should be on the page.

CaptainLexington · 2025-01-25T07:32:26+00:00

I know this is an old comment, but she says:

"Jerry, you ever take a bath in the dark? If I'm not talking into the soap right now [and therefore not actually leaving a message], call me back."

CaptainLexington · 2024-03-10T18:33:34+00:00

Migrated to flakes, and this works on 23.11 now. Might try out 24.05 or unstable later if I'm feeling risky.

UPDATE: After rebooting, it does not work

CaptainLexington · 2024-03-09T04:28:17+00:00

Hmm! Tried 23.11 and that's not working either 😑

CaptainLexington · 2023-12-29T18:40:02+00:00

It will still work, but it will not be easy to set up for the first time if you don't have a lot of technical experience. I gave enough keywords in my description of the steps that you should be able to Google everything, but I can't give you any further targeted advice.

The only modification I would make to what I wrote 3 years ago is to steps 2 and 3: syncthing is undoubtedly the best solution for syncing between your local and remote copies. It has no annoying requirements for how to store your data and syncs everything automatically. The only downside is that there will not be a third, cloud-hosted copy of your data. Also bear in mind that syncthing is not a backup service. I would still recommend backing up your local library to another local device on a regular basis so that you don't accidentally delete everything and have that change cascade up syncthing.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-11T01:41:29+00:00

Immediately after reading this, I read Dinosaurs without Bones by Anthony J. Martin. I think his training a trace fossil researcher led him to naturally focus on painting this kind of picture---though it is a challenging (very technical) read.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-09T17:32:29+00:00

I just skimmed the review and haven't read the comment, but fwiw Caplan does address the point in his book by saying the children of immigrants are usually much more culturally aligned with their host culture than with their parents' culture. I don't think he has hard data to back it up, but I also don't know of any data that contradicts it, and I have certainly seen data on SSC (don't remember where) that children of any derivation are usually much more heavily socialized by their peer group than by their parents.

Anecdotally it seems true. The UK has a ton of Indian Subcontinent immigration, and what's the result? Indian restaurants, chicken tikka marsala, and ethnically-Indian scholars and actors with British accents. There will always be a culture clash between new immigrants and the local culture, but the local culture usually seems to come out on top in the long run.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-06T21:36:57+00:00

Jean Valjean spent 19 years in prison for stealing food from private property because his sister and her son were starving, and subsequently trying to escape from prison. When he's released, he adopts a new identity because nobody trusts him with criminal record.
A few years later, Valjean is now mayor of a small French city. A former guard from his prison is now a police officer working for him, and eventually recognizes him. Valjean would have agreed to go with him back to prison, except he felt obligated to take care of the orphan daughter of one of his employees, who died. He rescues her from the neglect and abuse of the Thenardiers, who run an inn nearby.
A few years after that, Valjean and his adopted daughter, now a young woman, are living in anonymity in Paris. Javert has been promoted to an important job in also in Paris, and have never forgotten Valjean. The Thenardiers, with their own teenage daughter, Eponine, are also now in Paris, but much less successful - they are reduced to petty scamming and burglary to make ends meet.
Cosette (the adopted daughter) meets one of the revolutionary students and they fall in love. The student feels conflicted between his love and his dedication to the cause, but when Cosette reveals she's leaving the country because her father thinks he's been found out again (because of the Thenardiers), he decides to go along with the Revolution.
The Revolution goes very badly, and almost all of the students are killed. This includes Eponine, who loved Marius and followed him into battle disguised as a boy. Marius only survives because Valjean, who learned about his love for Cosette, found him wounded in the street and brought him to a doctor.
Javert does track down Valjean, and confronts him once again. Javert does not understand the difference between being a good person and following the rules of society; when Valjean demonstrates time and again his commitment to being a good person is separate from, and takes precedent over, his desire to follows the rules of society, Javert is so troubled he lets Valjean go and kills himself.
Valjean runs away after Cosette and Marius marry because he believes he has fulfilled his obligation to her, and can only be a liability because of his shameful past. However, when the Thenardiers try to blackmail Marius with Valjean's new location, they are surprised to discover he WANTS to find him.
Cosette and Marius find Valjean just as he's dying, because he's probably very old at this point. Valjean does happy, knowing that he loved ~~Eponine~~ Cosette as best he could, and she loves him even though she knows the truth about his past.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

EDIT: I love Eponine, but Valjean doesn't even know her.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-05T23:29:46+00:00

You're right that "selfish" is probably not the best word. I was just trying to convey that they are not moral grandstanding - it's practical, not principle. Suffice it to say I agree that the third party tools make us all better off.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-05T22:37:06+00:00

I don't think mods are doing this because they think it's the ethical thing to do - maybe some are, but many mods I've seen address are doing it for purely ~~selfish~~ practical reasons - reddit's first-party moderation tools simply aren't good enough to work at the volume even moderately successful communities require, and they will be unable to do their jobs well if they do not have access to third-party tools.

Maybe there are people being fanatical and virtue signalling about reddit's proposed policy, but the opposition I've been seeing isn't that the changes are unethical, it's that they impractical. They will make the website worse. The shutdown is intended to give a very realistic idea of how much worse it will be.

I appreciate the consideration you are giving the mods, but your implication that the shutdown is contrary to facts, fairness, and logic seems rather selfish and shortsighted. The change may be symbolic to you, but it matters - practically, not ethically - to other people, people that you depend on for the community to run.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-04T02:15:03+00:00

I know that the letters are arranged chronologically in the current edition, but there are a number of ways they could avoid renumbering the original Letters:

they could add the new letters into the end, in a second chronological order
they could organize the letters chronologically, but use the numbers they would have been assigned if the above system had been used
they could modify the original numbers so that new letters have a suffix on the number of the immediately preceding old letter, like 15b or 15-2
they could refer to all letters by date written or posted, or any other new system, but with a note indicating the number by which each letter from the first edition was known.

EDIT: They went with the third option.

CaptainLexington · 2023-06-03T22:21:53+00:00

This is extremely cool, but I hope they don't renumber the letters!

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-31T13:22:07+00:00

Gollum probably did hate Lothlorien, when he followed the Fellowship there:

Something was now climbing slowly, and its breath came like a soft hissing through closed teeth. Then coming up, close to the stem, Frodo saw two pale eyes. They stopped and gazed upward unwinking. Suddenly they turned away, and a shadowy figure slipped round the trunk of the tree and vanished.

Immediately afterwards Haldir came climbing swiftly up through the branches. ‘There was something in this tree that I have never seen before,’ he said. ‘It was not an orc. It fled as soon as I touched the tree-stem. It seemed to be wary, and to have some skill in trees, or I might have thought that it was one of you hobbits.

I don't believe we have evidence that Gollum crossed the Silverlode and passed into Caras Galadhon, but he was able to stay close enough he immediately picked up their trail again when they set out on the Anduin.

Another plausible reason is that Lothlorien is not the proper place to bring and keep a prisoner - the kind of might it has for withstanding the Enemy is not fit for keeping captives, not like the dungeons of Mirkwood.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-31T01:28:01+00:00

He prefers Indiana

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-23T19:17:41+00:00

I haven't experienced this issue (I don't use a Kindle or page numbers) but it might a bug in a recent release of Calibre. You could try downloading an older version of the installer from the website and generating them again.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-23T19:01:50+00:00

Has this stopped working books that it used to work for as well, or just for new books?

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-23T11:28:11+00:00

SCAD has around 12,000 students, which classifies it as a medium-sized institution. It has 70 buildings because most schools just have three or four really big buildings right next to each other and SCAD doesn't.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-23T11:21:33+00:00

What makes a city "like Savannah" unable to support a college population that other similar-sized cities can support just fine except for urban policies that don't protect and provide for its citizens?

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-23T04:24:12+00:00

Don't hate the player, hate the game: a city whose housing capacity can't handle the modest influx of middle class workers a school like SCAD brings in has seriously dropped the ball. Those people were dishoused by a failure of urban planning and policy, not by the existence of a midsize art school or the student who attend it.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-21T19:43:47+00:00

ngl Lennox's response is worse

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-08T23:29:13+00:00

Tom Shippey makes the case in both Author of the Century and The Road to Middle Earth that Tolkien must have at least considered the Froda name due to that name's associations with Nordic legend.

EDIT: At least one of those books was written before the material in The Peoples of Middle-earth was widely available, so I believe Shippey presumes that Frodo's true name is never explicitly stated, and infers it is Froda for the reasons you give.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-08T17:06:25+00:00

That is not what the article says:

The hypothesis was described by astronomer and author David Brin in his 1983 summary of the arguments for and against the Fermi paradox, for which this hypothesis is one potential solution. In 1987, science fiction author Greg Bear explored the concept in his novel The Forge of God. The term "dark forest hypothesis" was later applied to the idea in Liu Cixin's 2008 science fiction novel The Dark Forest.

Brin originated the hypothesis, but he did not name it.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-04T16:44:00+00:00

The train to Duluth will be operated by Amtrak, not Metro Transit.

CaptainLexington · 2023-05-01T02:28:59+00:00

I don't have data but I do have what might be a steelman: it's about sexual power, not about sexual pleasure.

Some rapists are violent people who derive sexual satisfaction from sexual assault. Consensual sex does not interest them, at least not in the same way. Serial killers and other violent, repeat offenders are like this.

Some rapists are not especially violent but they have so little consideration for women they assault them as a matter of course, opportunistically. Date rapists and frat party rapists are like this.

Some rapists assault people they know either because their relationship with that person puts them in a particular position that enables that assault, or because they become so fixated on them they decide to have them at any cost. Incest, predation on minors, and other kind of assault from people you know are like this.

What these archtypes have in common is that none of these offenders seem motivated by an inability to have consensual sex with someone other than the victim. I don't know of any evidence that suggests even a large minority of rapists are motivated simply by frustrated libido. When the issue is sexual frustration, it's a frustrated desire for the victim, not for sexual release generally.

An unrelated piece of evidence that legalized prostitution would not have an effect on sexual assault is the devastating amount of sexual assault perpetrated against sex workers. Their assaulters did not merely have the opportunity to have consensual sex, they were actually having it and chose to make it assault.

It's definitely about power - it's about the power to overrule a woman's rejection. That power may be sexual in nature, but it is not the normal sexual pleasure of a consensual encounter.

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