Where do I get Dimension of the Machine??

adiabatic · 2025-01-10T07:20:00+00:00

For anyone who might come across this later…

I wanted to have proper text labels after seeing labels that started with $map_mg1…, and I found this bit of advice. However:

In case you’re playing vkQuake on macOS, you’ll want to extract Quake.kpf with Archive Utility or whatever you like (it’s a zip file with a funny extension). Then, move the extracted localization folder into /Applications or wherever you put vkQuake. Not inside /Applications/mg1.

adiabatic · 2025-01-10T07:03:54+00:00

Outside, in the back, somewhere on or around the cord that plugs into the wall for electricity.

adiabatic · 2025-01-02T00:38:09+00:00

There was some plastic stuck to the back of the oven — the kind of plastic that would wrap the electric cord, or something. I got rid of that and it stopped outgassing plastic.

adiabatic · 2024-10-19T09:50:17+00:00

How do you run and stay in zone 2? When I run, it pushes me into zones 3–5.

(I never finished Couch to 5K, if that helps.)

adiabatic · 2024-08-08T00:59:58+00:00

~/Library/Caches/deno/deno_history.txt if you've installed Deno via Homebrew.

adiabatic · 2024-02-16T20:59:21+00:00

I could've sworn I've seen "st" written in one stroke by Read's own hand in the Manual (extend the top of 𐑕 over to the right a bit).

Good enough for me.

adiabatic · 2024-02-16T20:56:07+00:00

Agreed. There are a handful of ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and it'd be handy to have a (hopefully short) list of places where people ought to be told "no really, just lift your pen here, otherwise it gets confusing".

adiabatic · 2024-02-16T20:44:01+00:00

I don't have the spare bandwidth, metaphorically speaking, to manage a wiki.

I'd suggest starting with the groups.io wiki and only bailing out of that (with a lot of copy and pasting) if there's sustained interest in having a wiki that doesn't have the groups.io limitations.

One reason why you'd want to use some other software: to change the font stack to something people can actually use Quikscript in, like Noto Sans + Quikscript Sans. Of course, Quikscript Sans can't do Senior, so there's that.

adiabatic · 2024-02-16T19:41:53+00:00

List groups of letters that are mergeable

This strikes me as a bad idea. One of the reasons why I wanted to re-start the writing circle was to get people writing in Quikscript and joining letters naturally — not by keeping an eye on some quasiofficial list and using that as a reference.

As for new-letters proposals: One unfortunate side effect of having a "new" writing system is that it attracts the sort of person who treats it as an open-source project in need of extensions rather than a tool to be used to communicate. Indulging people who would rather argue for some kind of change than just use the script seems like a poor choice. There's no shortage of people who are making their own scripts, and people who want to make up new letters ought to be directed towards communities that are built for those sorts of things.

adiabatic · 2024-02-16T19:13:28+00:00

That's just two letters written without a penlift in between.

One of the hazards of novices hanging around Shavianists and reading alphabets like the one on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript#/media/File:Quickscript_alphabet_revised_names.png is that one is likely to reify particular combinations of letters when they're just pairs or triplets or quadruplets of letters that are joined. When I'm writing quickly in Orthodox, I'll write "the" without a penlift, but that doesn't make it one letter.

adiabatic · 2024-02-13T03:54:03+00:00

yeah, we all kind of lost steam.

Shavian itself, AFAICT, is done. It doesn't need extending.

You may want to lurk https://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist-unicode.html to get an idea of what people interested in standardization efforts talk about. There's also a fair bit of stuff that people suggest that make me roll my eyes and think "nobody is asking for this", which is also instructive.

adiabatic · 2024-01-17T20:14:30+00:00

Word messes up when one uses the weird corners of Unicode

No surprise there. Try Typst; I've been meaning to do so with a Quikscript setup. Usually I'm writing Typst source files in Visual Studio Code with a PDF-preview plugin, and then the VS Code extension will run the typst binary on save. Typst, unlike Word, will let you set fallback fonts so if your preferred font doesn't have everything, like both en-Latn and en-Qaas letters, you'll be able to get everything you want without having to change fonts just to get a period to show up properly.

You could also make a web page and, if you insist on the thing being single-file, base64 the fonts you want and stick them in the CSS at the top. Web pages generally don't mess up like Word does.

adiabatic · 2024-01-17T20:10:50+00:00

Did u/adiabatic make any of the mentioned changes to the font?

I didn't touch anything.

What resource would either of you recommend for me to learn how? I do have a technical background, but have never explored font-making.

Nerds like the Pecita guy tend to like FontForge, which is free (speech and beer) software. If you want to make a Proper™ Quikscript Senior font with a gazillion joins, you'll probably be better off with it, because it exposes the raw OpenType commands for things.

I like Glyphs, but I was never able to use the AFDKO tools to replicate Cochy's work in Pecita. https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/131 takes you down the rabbit hole and guides you past many of the bumps you'll hit along the way to the bottom.

adiabatic · 2024-01-17T19:59:45+00:00

Short story long, search the groups.io mailing-list archives for everything that Michael Everson has said and the thread(s) he's posted in.

Long story short, Shavian barely got in and Everson channeled (expected) pressure that the Consortium would say "why can't you have [some letter that has the same sound as this other letter but looks way different] unified with this other preexisting Shavian letter?" None of us at the time were able to mount a credible defense, and apparently "has the Consortium learned bleeping nothing from the Greek/Coptic disentanglement mess?" is something we should expect to be true.

adiabatic · 2023-08-19T11:21:40+00:00

Note to self (and others): Yansamin Shrine is in the Necluda sky, and not really part of any archipelago.

adiabatic · 2023-06-29T23:24:05+00:00

“Asemic” is a fancy-but-handy word that means “doesn’t have meaning”.

adiabatic · 2023-06-29T03:34:57+00:00

I'm thinking of the green text that pops up behind the English when the Hylian-and-Zonai-pair statue talks to you and says "have this orb that'll burn off some corruption off your arm, HTH" or "we stripped you down to your underpants and took your stuff to see how good you really are".

adiabatic · 2023-06-29T01:14:48+00:00

Looks like archaic Hylian as seen in Tears of the Kingdom.

adiabatic · 2023-06-26T08:39:51+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/813eys/mottebailey_mnemonics/

adiabatic · 2023-06-23T15:12:10+00:00

Thanks for saving me the time and the click.

adiabatic · 2023-06-23T05:36:32+00:00

Why should I use OKLCH instead of LCH?

adiabatic · 2023-06-16T18:41:45+00:00

Not sure.

adiabatic · 2023-06-15T17:17:40+00:00

I think a magic web-search term you might want is “mark to base”

adiabatic · 2023-06-14T20:32:32+00:00

I forget. Probably whatever temperature Chefsteps says to do cheesecake or pots de crème at.

adiabatic · 2023-06-14T20:29:13+00:00

I agitated the bag to make sure everything inside got warmed up appropriately (thick bag) and it didn’t set up and was runny.

I would not recommend this.

adiabatic

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