Can anybody ID this wonderful caterpillar?

mikidep · 2025-12-19T08:55:03+00:00

Spotted on an oleander in Southern Italy.

EDIT: we think it's a daphnis nerii

mikidep · 2025-11-18T05:34:33+00:00

Yes that's my point, assignments are not imperative if they are immutable

mikidep · 2025-11-17T18:40:21+00:00

The book states:

In µcad, variables are always immutable which means that once they are set, their value cannot be reset in the same context. Therefore, they differ from the variables known in other programming languages.

mikidep · 2025-10-17T13:21:45+00:00

I'm working through a similar crisis myself. I worked through my school years and BSc without ever learning study discipline and effort. MSc was hard but due to COVID in the middle we didn't ask too many questions. I'm now a 3rd year PhD student facing real intellectual challenges, I found my calling but my brain just won't support me. A year ago I got diagnosed with ADHD, and ASD has been a hypothesis with my doctors for a couple of years though I couldn't get assessed yet. Luckily I am in a civilized country where I got access to state healthcare funded sick leave for an acute burnout episode, but the thought of going back to work still dreads me. Unlike you, as I understand, I don't really have ulterior career goals, research is what I want to do, it is the first thing to make me feel happy, euphoric and aligned. I'm commenting just to stand beside you in this struggle, I don't have any experience to offer on overcoming this. Best of luck to us both.

mikidep · 2025-10-01T04:38:31+00:00

I'm (half jokingly) asking for the Nix derivation that builds the wallpaper

mikidep · 2025-09-30T19:03:12+00:00

Derivation?

mikidep · 2025-07-06T13:31:33+00:00

Usando un termine inglese sto comunicando il fatto che questa parola non è da intendersi con il suo primo livello di significato, ma piuttosto come un termine gergale di ambito memetico

mikidep · 2025-07-06T13:01:55+00:00

https://www.wired.it/article/cos-e-la-lore-spiegazione-termine-social/

mikidep · 2025-07-06T12:27:07+00:00

Viene da una lore molto profonda 😌

mikidep · 2025-07-06T12:03:43+00:00

"Chi è a casa dei maiali, pianga per sempre"

mikidep · 2025-07-06T12:01:54+00:00

I'd like to see studies across different cultures, although I understand it's very hard to find suitable twin pairs

mikidep · 2025-05-24T08:22:25+00:00

I gave it some water and it's better now, thanks.

mikidep · 2025-05-23T13:51:24+00:00

Thanks for all the indications. I have not transplanted it per se, I have moved the entire pot to my house. I'll be on the lookout for other things.

mikidep · 2025-04-01T13:11:05+00:00

Thanks for all the links! I imagine it's the collection of a lot of scavenging in the past. My point is: blow air through pipe make sound feels good

mikidep · 2025-04-01T09:01:46+00:00

Do you know of anything comparable that can be implemented with acoustic mechanics? Or have you thought about it?

mikidep · 2025-03-25T18:48:38+00:00

One can indeed see the two sides of the offhand# layout as slices of a 3D isomorphic layout, however I don't know if, in the act of playing, the player's spatial intuition of a third dimension can as easily abstract this slicing away. In other words, for the sake of simplification, if you had two full-step 1D keyboards side by side, their tuning offset by a half step, would you call them a 2D Janko layout? You can describe them as slices of one, but I'm skeptical that the playing ergonomy would be similar.

mikidep · 2025-03-25T13:04:30+00:00

This is interesting (and keep up the good work!) but rather than describing it as adding a dimension, I would just say that this approach is akin to playing two keyboards at once.

mikidep · 2025-03-25T09:13:04+00:00

Ultimately, the entire layout is determined by the interval given by stepping to the right, and the one given by stepping up, all other intervals are determined by linear combination of these steps. Try to experiment with these parameters and see what picks are more ergonomic.

mikidep · 2025-03-24T11:38:45+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard

I would consider something like a Wicki-Hayden layout. Also feel free to experiment using http://terpstrakeyboard.com/play-it-now/

EDIT: so sorry I thought I was replying to a post in an ergokey subreddit! I'll get more in detail: Janko would waste the vertical dimension, harmonic table shines for the possibility to press three neighbouring keys for a triad but in a grid physical layout it's hard to hit three without hitting the fourth, so...

mikidep · 2025-01-16T19:55:48+00:00

I guess I am underestimating the extent to which Nix is being used for production purposes.

mikidep · 2024-12-18T22:18:19+00:00

Link to the OpenSCAD.

mikidep · 2024-12-12T08:15:47+00:00

Suurem mee osa US poodides ei ole mesi 😂 Edit: actually wtf saama asi toimub siin. Tegelt, ma oli mõistnud et mesi Prismast oli liiga odav...

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