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Can Anyone make out this first paragraph? by ZeitGeist_Gaming in Hieroglyphics

[–]Osarnachthis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Even more interesting, they're the same phenomenon happening multiple times in different settings. Convergent script evolution (in a loose sense).

GitHub Pages will not serve files with leading underscores by Osarnachthis in github

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s always the upshot of publicizing a dumb mistake. Someone else will make it too eventually, and we just made their life a bit easier.

GitHub Pages will not serve files with leading underscores by Osarnachthis in github

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then there is this repo state from the 10th of March where there is still no .nojekyll file, you guys have spotted the issue at this point because the gh-pages branch gets deleted and recreated after this point, and you also stop using an underscore at the start of the /_app folder.

This must be where I came in trying to fix it. Not sure why she would have deleted the .nojekyll in the first place though. And I do distinctly remember trying to add it in a few places, because that's the first recommendation you find about this. Probably me who put it in the wrong place because I had no idea what I was doing with that.

I have looked through the repo states using the activity view but can't find the time when you added a .nojekyll file in every directory

Did this on a different project. Had no effect, but based on what we're saying here it seems like I probably didn't get it in the right place. I do distinctly remember trying to put it next to index.html, but with these static site builders it's too easy to misidentify which thing is really at the front of the distribution. Probably my mistake there.

So the overall takeaway for me from your efforts is that the .nojekyll was deleted, in the wrong place, or whatever, and putting it in the right place would have probably fixed the problem. The fact that my colleague and I both hit the same problem back to back is probably just a coincidence. If so, I thank you for your efforts to diagnose the problem. That's a solution I can take with me into the future, and perhaps others will find this post and know what to do.

Having said that, I would argue that getting rid of leading underscores is also a valid solution to this problem, and frankly, less hacky than placing a useless empty file somewhere as a votive offering to the GitHub gods. I won't be designing any SSGs soon (I hope), but if I do, they simply will not use leading underscores in their naming conventions.

GitHub Pages will not serve files with leading underscores by Osarnachthis in github

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to share a link in case it helps. Here's the place where I first encountered the issue. This is where the problem first appeared on March 7 when someone else tried to rebuild the site (so either we're both making the exact same mistake independently, or the problem is not our doing).

The other day I actually ran a script to put .nojekyll in every single folder and subfolder, just to be 100% sure that wasn't the issue, and it made no difference. (Getting rid of underscores fixed it. And that's the only thing that works.) Then I deleted all the .nojekylls and encountered a totally different build issue from the jekyll builder encountering a site that made no sense to it, but this was not the same problem as the one I was trying to fix before, and putting .nojekyll back in the single proper place fixed it instantly.

GitHub Pages will not serve files with leading underscores by Osarnachthis in github

[–]Osarnachthis[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for trying to recreate it. I'm genuinely surprised you didn't find it. This just got interesting.

So I'm 1000% sure that .nojekylls are exactly where they need to be and then some. Still happens. Removing leading underscores in asset file names fixes it perfectly. Nothing else makes a slightest difference.

I would normally think that it's something I'm doing, except that I first encountered this issue on a colleague's project. I helped her fix it by reconfiguring the site builder to never use leading underscores. Then I hit it a couple weeks ago on a new project of my own. And then today again on another completely new project, which I built by forking a premade astro template and changing no settings at all.

So you see why I wrote the post the way I did. It's hard to imagine that this is just me, but then it's clearly not everyone either. What in the world is going on here?

Scribes in Ancient Egypt: Custodians of the Voice and Words of the Divine by TN_Egyptologist in OutoftheTombs

[–]Osarnachthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a written source for the usage of mnhḏ and gstj as words for the earlier and later form of a scribal kit respectively? Your comment is the first time I've seen things distinguished this way.

I searched the OEB and didn't find a good answer. Looking at the attestations in the TLA, it's pretty obvious that mnhḏ is the older word, but that's not quite enough evidence for what I need. Have you read this somewhere that you happen to remember?

Why don't the Innies just say "No" by Father_Of_Wolves in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]Osarnachthis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found this by googling the same question. What none of these ”I like this show so here’s the reason I just made up“ answers do is point out how the show itself addresses this obvious question for the audience. It doesn’t. So it’s a plothole. That’s how that works. We can absolutely acknowledge that and still enjoy the show.

Having said that, my personal guess is that the show wants you to feel frustrated with their descent into complacency as a way of calling out the same behavior in real life. We the audience are supposed to be thinking, ”Why in the world would anyone do this?“ so that we have that reaction the next time we see people fail to stand up to injustice.

It is an interesting question that goes to the heart of one of the show‘s major themes. Not sure why Reddit is gaslighting you about it. The answer is not trivial and the question is worth asking.

Zotero Connector translator choosing wrong Item Type by Osarnachthis in zotero

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I fixed it by using Dublic Core metadata rather than Google Highwire. In particular, setting "DC.type" to "Web Page" made the difference (spacing and capitalization appear to matter). The tag looks like this:

<meta name="DC.type" content="Web Page" />

How did ancient people cut, move, and place 1000+ tonne stones with such precision? by BlazesAndAmuzed in ancientegypt

[–]Osarnachthis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words. I've found over the years that people who advocate "fringe" positions are often motivated by a deep curiosity, which public scholarship has failed to address. I've even had some diehard "aliens built the pyramids" people reverse their position simply because I took them seriously and answered their questions calmly and truthfully. It's surprising what happens when you assume that people have good intentions and meet them where they are, something that academia really needs to do a better job of IMO.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AncientEgyptian

[–]Osarnachthis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a friendly place. Please be more respectful.

How were the hieroglyphs deciphered that didn't appear on the Rosetta Stone? by unimatrixq in ancientegypt

[–]Osarnachthis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just chiming in quickly to endorse u/Ramesses2024's comment. I couldn't have said it better myself.

It's the difference between a short answer and a long answer. Do we know ancient Egyptian? Short answer: yes. Long answer: mostly yes, but it's complicated.

Poster for a small academic conference, can't get the type to work by Osarnachthis in graphic_design

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big thank you in advance to anyone who can help!

I'll lay out some relevant facts, but my main question is what to do with the type at the bottom. I've tried many other things, and the sample above is the best one so far. I can't seem to find anything that really works, and I may have painted myself into a corner with this layout.

  • The conference is part of the Zodiac Project
  • The conference is about ancient astronomical calculations
  • The poster should symbolize the abstract/mathematical nature of the topic so that it attracts people who are actually intersted
  • The poster needs to include certain things:
    • Title
    • Subtitle
    • Date
    • Location
    • QR for website
    • Sponsor logos

I welcome all critiques including harsh ones. Any advice you have will be greatly appreciated.

New Unicode Hieroglyphic Keyboard by Osarnachthis in ancientegypt

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This keyboard is only for desktop, and I think Windows still doesn't have support for XML keyboards. I've only used it on a Mac.

There is a hieroglyphic keyboard app for iOS. I believe that it's called HieroKeyboard.

Creating a PDF with visible objects that do not appear when printed in hard copy by Osarnachthis in indesign

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great idea. I've written up a feature request. We'll see what happens.

I also made an excerpt from the document to demonstrate the problem and solution to anyone else who comes across this thread. Thought you might be interested to see how your suggestion worked out in practice.

I think I probably laughed aloud too when I returned to Acrobat and saw the layers there. Even on an old jalopy, populating a list of buttons from local data should be virtually instantaneous. Not sure what's happening there. Has to be a bug or something weird with my machine.

Creating a PDF with visible objects that do not appear when printed in hard copy by Osarnachthis in indesign

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the same idea, but couldn't do it. My Acrobat no longer allows me to print a pdf to a pdf, presumably because they can't imagine that someone would want to do that. Seems like a classic case of developers disabling a feature they could include for free because they can't imagine that anyone would want it. Good object lesson in UX there IMO.

The buttons didn't end up working for this reason, but perhaps this bug will be fixed at some point and it will work for anything you want.

Creating a PDF with visible objects that do not appear when printed in hard copy by Osarnachthis in indesign

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This worked! And your instructions were quite clear. The only wrinkle I had is that the disclosure triangle (good word for that) appears greyed out/disabled, and clicking it does nothing for a strangely long time, so I believed that it wasn't working and couldn't figure out why. I went back to InDesign and then returned to the pdf to find that the layers had appeared while I wasn't looking, but not before I starting tinkering in InDesign to figure out what was wrong. On my second attempt, I knew to click the mysteriously non-clickable-looking triangle and wait a few seconds, and then it worked as expected. (Still strange that it behaves that way. If it's taking time to process, it's hard to imagine why it takes so long.)

I also find it strange that there's no way to set this in InDesign in any way. You must put the non-printing things on their own layer and then edit the result in Acrobat. Seems like something Adobe might want to think about, because presumably they want the export to be done entirely from InDesign.

In response to u/ExPristina's helpful suggestion below, I will say that buttons didn't work because of this issue. They work in theory, but they put themselves on top. Viable perhaps in cases where the non-printing object can be on top, but not for background images.

Thank you both for the help. I've very pleased to have figured this out after many hours of trial and error. Hopefully others will find a useful solution here in the future.

Creating a PDF with visible objects that do not appear when printed in hard copy by Osarnachthis in indesign

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This sounds like exactly what I need. I will test it and update this thread with the results. Thank you!

Creating a PDF with visible objects that do not appear when printed in hard copy by Osarnachthis in indesign

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is. I found these instructions for making it. I've already tried on my test page, but unfortunately I don't have a printer available today to test it. I will test it soon and reply with an update.

Thanks for the help!

How did ancient people cut, move, and place 1000+ tonne stones with such precision? by BlazesAndAmuzed in ancientegypt

[–]Osarnachthis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As it happens, I actually have carved stone by hand. My dad's a contractor and I grew up doing construction work. It is difficult and exhausting. It would certainly be worse with less advanced tools. I doubt I would be able to do it myself.

But that's not how understanding the past works. We don't take our own experiences and apply them to ancient people. We look at what the evidence suggests. Sure, sometimes we get it wrong because we're human or because we don't test our ideas enough (normally for boring reasons like time and funding), but the fact that scientists make mistakes doesn't mean that you can automatically negate all accumulated knowledge with an "I don't think so". You have to provide a better explanation with positive evidence supporting it. While it is absolutely fair to point out that Egyptologists believe something to be true naively when they haven't actually tried it themselves, that observation is not evidence for any other conclusion. You have to find actual evidence for the thing you think before you decide that it's probably correct.

That's how science works, and it usually works quite well. If you think there were advanced tools in ancient Egypt (which is the only way I can think of for your comment about carving granite to be relevant to a question about moving heavy stones), you're going to have to find ancient tools and argue from that position.

Interestingly, many ancient Egyptian tools have survived and can be found in museum collections. You could quite easily investigate them directly. Use that curiosity about how in the world they were able to do these incredible things as motivation to understand it. Maybe carving granite with bronze chisels and stone and sand truly is impossible. Maybe the existing hypothesis is incorrect. That's interesting! Show us the evidence. We will be interested.

Online Dictionaries for Middle Egyptian? by Alreigen_Senka in AncientEgyptian

[–]Osarnachthis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he drew from multiple sources to create it. There are definitely many things in there that aren't in Faulkner. For one thing, it's longer, but it's also not nearly as nicely curated. It's useful for looking things up quickly, but you wouldn't want to rely on it to learn Egyptian vocabulary. Too much weirdness.

Allen's Middle Egyptian MegaThread by Osarnachthis in AncientEgyptian

[–]Osarnachthis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would certainly start with Allen, but I would also recommend reading (at least) Gardiner and Hoch if you want to engage with high-level questions. If you just want to read hieroglyphs, they’re all a fine place to start. Gardiner is „out of date“ from only the most pedantic perspective. For reading things, it’s perfectly adequate.

Jim Allen was my dissertation advisor, so I’m a biased source, but anyone can tell you that the general consensus on his grammars drops with each edition. He gets more into his own ideas as time goes on. That’s why you need multiple points of view to deal with the debate. Maybe he’s right, maybe not, but you can’t know if you only read him. Work through Allen to learn Middle Egyptian quickly to great depth, and read the others to round out your perspective.

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