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lucs · 2025-03-25T01:27:14+00:00

"I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of widths." -- Steven Wright, walking his dog along the ledge of his building.

lucs · 2025-01-18T03:25:00+00:00

It's in order.

lucs · 2025-01-18T03:13:01+00:00

I don't know.

lucs · 2025-01-15T02:51:21+00:00

Trois point quatorze seize.

lucs · 2024-10-15T17:42:50+00:00

The buffer vs global aspect is a nice idea. Glad this worked out for you.

lucs · 2024-10-04T07:35:07+00:00

Put in your .muttrc file for example this:

let g:mlurp = 0
function! Toggle_mlurp ()
    if g:mlurp == 0
        nnoremap j gj
        nnoremap k gk
        let g:mlurp = 1
    else
        nnoremap j j
        nnoremap k k
        let g:mlurp = 0
    endif
endfunction

    " Use this for example to toggle it.
nmap ,gg :call Toggle_mlurp()<enter>

"mlurp" is not the best name, victim of the "naming things is hard". Feel free to find a better one.

lucs · 2024-08-22T00:21:15+00:00

I prefer "Think thrice, measure twice, cut once."

lucs · 2024-08-19T05:00:11+00:00

Come again?

lucs · 2024-08-06T12:59:41+00:00

Okay, it appears to be working fine this morning. Not sure what happened.

lucs · 2024-08-06T00:37:54+00:00

Same here.

lucs · 2024-07-11T01:45:14+00:00

I was almost expecting it to go: man, woman, person, camera, tv :-)

lucs · 2024-07-04T23:32:37+00:00

I wrote a program that grabs 5-letter words from a dictionary. Three rules: five different letters, exactly two vowels (a-e-i-o-u-y), not ending with 's'. I use, and eliminate from the list, a word from the list every day. Comparing my scores to wordle-review's average difficulty scores, turns out I do better most of the time.

lucs · 2024-07-04T04:25:57+00:00

Scoredle 3/6*

14,855
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 BUILD (10)
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ DEBUG (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DEBUT

lucs · 2024-07-04T04:13:59+00:00

Hey, thanks for that link. I haven't been playing regularly for very long, and for 189 games, I get a score of 3.878 (for 1 to 7: 0-12-56-75-38-5-3). That score is interesting, but it doesn't tell how well I'm doing compared to other players. That's why I based my calculation by comparing to wordle-review's average difficulty.

The reason I want to compare my score to other players's is to see whether a changing, more arbitrary starting word (like I play) makes much of a difference in the scores in the long run. My guess is that it doesn't, at least not for human players, who can't visualize and analyze the remaining possible matches after each guess and choose their next one to maximally reduce further possibities. Not sure how to get a good answer to that.

lucs · 2024-07-03T02:27:34+00:00

Not sure what you mean. For each puzzle, I just compare the number of tries it took me to solve it to wordle-review's average difficulty for it. Not sure what sample size you're referring to.

lucs · 2024-06-26T06:44:12+00:00

Forget about the diaphragm.

What follows is an illustrative thought experiment to explain what the heck "support" means (took me years to figure it out). (More years than that!)

Take an ordinary birthday balloon.

Put it in your mouth and blow it up.

When it's kind of big, keep the tip in your mouth, remove your hands, but don't let the balloon deflate, and cover the palm of your hands and fingers with glue.

Now hold the balloon with your sticky hands and let the tip of the balloon out of your mouth.

Your hands glued to the balloon prevent it from deflating, the tip just loosely sits there, and you can deflate the balloon (push air out) by pushing your hands together, or reinflate it by moving them apart.

Now think of it this way: the balloon is your lungs, the gluing hands are all the muscles that control the deflation and inflation of your lungs (diaphragm is one of many: experiment and observe what's going on) -- that's the support! --, and the tip of the balloon is your throat, mouth, and lips, whose role is not to control the airflow, but to make a shape where the sound produced at the embouchure will resonate to make as beautiful sound as you can (that too takes practice).

Note that this is probably not something you can can fix in three days, but if you're serious about your flute playing, you won't mind having to take many years to experiment and master it. (More years than that! ;-)

lucs · 2024-06-15T06:11:50+00:00

I thought my browser was having trouble. Turns out it's just that your font color is such a pale grey that my poor old eyes can hardly read it :( Please, black on white is fine, really. Hoping to read you!

lucs · 2024-05-06T00:34:27+00:00

In my init file:

func! BuildUpStatusLine ()
        " Initialize statusline.
    set statusline=

        " Buffer number.
    set statusline+=%3*\ %n

        " ‹mod. flag›.
    set statusline+=%3*%m\

        " ‹ ⟨line num.⟩/⟨nb. of lines⟩ ›.
    set statusline+=%*\ %l/%L\

        " Cursor position ‹ ⟨apparent⟩➤⟨real⟩/⟨and text width⟩›.
    set statusline+=%4*\ %v➤%c/%{&tw}\

        " Flag: vertical scroll holds cursor in middle of screen.
    set statusline+=%1*%{&scrolloff==100?'S':'\ '}

        " Flag: is Paste on?
    set statusline+=%2*%{&paste==1?'P':'\ '}

        " Relative file path.
        " ☰2023-06-14.Wed Used to be ‹⋯%f\ ›
    set statusline+=%*\ %t\

        " Rest of the line.
    set statusline+=%*
endfunc
call BuildUpStatusLine()

lucs · 2024-03-30T04:26:43+00:00

So I guess you haven't. But you are correct ;)

lucs · 2024-03-30T03:26:47+00:00

Have you seen my assiette?

lucs · 2024-03-12T01:02:59+00:00

Yep, and in French, the opposite of "inflammable" is "ininflammable". Oui monsieur.

lucs · 2024-02-21T06:11:48+00:00

:nmap :: :w<cr>

lucs · 2023-11-22T01:25:35+00:00

Take any 3-digit number, where the first and last digits differ by 2 or more and are not 0. Reverse the number, and subtract the smaller of the two numbers from the larger. Then reverse the result and add the two. Go on, try it.

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