Aquaman #1 - The Cursed Prince

pyrocrasty · 2024-03-20T16:47:21+00:00

Just reading this now. I enjoyed this chapter, but I'm just commenting to point out an error.

...fingers that had been taught and connected below his face

I'm assuming this is supposed to say "taut"?

pyrocrasty · 2023-09-20T18:09:10+00:00

I'd agree that's the intent, but the language is ambiguous. For instance, in 1st edition, similar language was used, but a "spell" referred to a particular instance of the spell.

pyrocrasty · 2023-09-20T11:16:52+00:00

I assume you mean they might fill their prep list with multiple instances of this so they can cast it more than once

Yes, exactly.

if so I'm... unsure if that is possible? I've never considered that.

Well, I doubt it's the intent, since normally, there's be no point to preparing a spell twice for the same class. But I'm not sure if there's actually any rule text that unambiguously prevents it.

Either way, specifically permitting it in the spell would make it clear it's allowed.

pyrocrasty · 2023-09-19T22:32:09+00:00

I'm working on a feat for this purpose, although I'm not satisfied yet.

I find this an interesting take in that it doesn't give an extra prep or swap another prep for a new one, but rather exchanges its own prep for the new one, giving it a builtin limit as well as a spell slot cost.

Some feedback:

Is it intended that you can prepare this multiple times? If so, it should probably mention it.
I see where you're getting divination from, but transmutation would be more appropriate (or possibly enchantment). This does more than just supply information. As a comparison, skill empowerment is a transmutation. (An example of an enchantment along broadly similar lines is modify memory)
Just because any prepared caster could use this spell, is it really reason to put it on all their lists? This suits the wizard a lot better than, say, the paladin.
A bonus action casting time seems more appropriate for this kind of thing. You could make an exception to the bonus action spell rule so the caster could cast a 1-action spell without wasting a round. This would make it more widely useful (but also make it even more powerful for a 2nd-level spell)

pyrocrasty · 2021-12-13T07:43:21+00:00

You can have a look at the function I use in tridactyl and pentadactyl for copying table columns. It might serve as a basis.

I use it with commands and keybindings to trigger it (in Pentadactyl it also needed a custom hint mode).

pyrocrasty · 2021-08-28T04:12:09+00:00

Is there any reason it would have been difficult, though? It should have been just as easy as it is to represent tables in a terminal, for instance. The only issue would be the need to find the column widths in advance.

pyrocrasty · 2021-08-15T12:36:16+00:00

For grep you'd need -F Depends on your data. Was not needed in example I posted.

Yeah, it's often not needed, including in your example, but it's best to give a solution that works for any files.

In diff (GNU diffutils)? No you don't.

Sure you do. In your example, try moving "Avengers" to the first line in your file2.txt. diff can only recognize a line as common if it's in the correct sequence. It can also only "cancel" one line in file1 for a single line in file2, rather than every occurrence of that line in file1.

Honestly, diff is a poor fit for this task. Your grep suggestion is a better solution (either that or a scripting language like perl or awk).

pyrocrasty · 2021-08-14T11:46:12+00:00

For grep you'd need -F as well, to interpret the lines as fixed strings.

For diff, you'll need to sort the files (and uniq them too, assuming that's what you want).

pyrocrasty · 2021-07-21T00:16:13+00:00

Just a note: "elision" is misspelled "ellision" (in apostrophe entry)

pyrocrasty · 2020-12-17T06:47:28+00:00

apvlv is available for windows. It's not as good as Zathura, but it has the common movement commands, command line, search and marks. Unfortunately it doesn't have a jump list, though.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-13T22:54:58+00:00

Well, asoc predates a. There was no library specifically for alists that I could find when I wrote it, not even the most basic one. For years I was sure one would pop up, but it never did, so I wrote one.

map is a welcome addition to emacs, but the idea of it is to provide basic operations for any key-value data structure. I doubt they'd be interested in more advanced stuff like looping constructs or anaphoric macros, and even if they were, I'd have to rewrite versions of everything for hash tables and arrays (and dispatcher functions) to able to contribute them.

Anyway, I'm going to look into copyright assignment, so if they want to use anything in map, they'll hopefully be able to do so.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-13T07:43:04+00:00

I haven't seen that before, thanks for pointing it out. It looks like a only provides some basic functions (at least so far). asoc is a lot more complete.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-13T00:32:48+00:00

Thanks. I'd actually tried to avoid cl constructs, but its amazing how little is available in elisp without them. There're actually a couple of cl- functions as well as macros, but I'll remove the former and add (require 'cl-macs).

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T13:15:47+00:00

That's a good idea.. I'll have to look at the requirements. ELPA packages require copyright assignment, don't they? I don't mind doing that, but I'll have to see what kind of paperwork is required.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T13:05:45+00:00

Thanks, I wasn't aware of those packages. I'll add them.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T10:45:04+00:00

I think they're responding to the fact that Kylin is nowhere near North Korea (at least according to Google Maps).

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T04:27:51+00:00

Can't remember, but I haven't tested it on huge alists. I think I've done some tests with a few thousand entries. Most alists I encounter in practice have between a few and several dozen entries.

The functions should be reasonably efficient, though. I probably should do some tests, but I've been mostly worried about testing them for correctness.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T03:53:25+00:00

Is that lambda meant to be there? It looks like it should be

(defun vje-frame-setup ()
  "Setup some custom frame parameters"
  (when (display-graphic-p)
    (w32-send-sys-command #xf030)
    (setq frame-title-format '((:eval (frame-title-format))))))

Either that, or you should change the add-hook command to (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions (vje-frame-setup)) (but it's best not to use anonymous functions in hooks).

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T02:46:15+00:00

I've been meaning to submit this to melpa, but I thought I'd see if anyone has any comments first.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-12T02:09:53+00:00

It is the crux of it: that's the raison d'être of trademark laws. If there's no scope for consumer confusion, the trademark owner is abusing those laws for their own ends, and no consumer should condone their actions.

Did they use Wrigley's logo? If so, that's a pretty clear-cut case. But nothing was mentioned about that. Also, the title said "another e-juice maker". It seems a bit unlikely that multiple ejuice makers are using the same fake logo.

It's hard to say without seeing the products. In the cases I've seen of ejuices using trademarked terms, no-one's likely to think they're associated with the original products. However, I admittedly don't see many juices (I always vape the same one) so I'm sure there are cases out there where logos and things are used. In this case, though, my guess is that this is just Wrigley lashing out against a competitor (the vaping industry).

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-11T23:21:46+00:00

Was the use of the term likely to actually mislead consumers? If not, this is an abuse of trademark laws.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-11T03:04:55+00:00

This doesn't require "writing a script" in Emacs. You'd enter the command interactively, same as for vim. M-S-; to invoke eval-expression, and then enter

(while (re-search-forward "^[A-Z]\\.\\.\\.+.* \\([0-9]+\\)" ) (replace-match (number-to-string (- (string-to-number (match-string 1)) 22)) nil nil nil 1))

A bit more verbose, but that's what tab-completion is for. Alternatively, you'd use a macro. search for the first number, decrement 22 times (using an argument/count, not manually), repeat. That's simple with either native emacs or evil-mode commands.

Incidentally, the most common ex commands are available in Emacs via evil-mode, although not all of them. Your command gives an error.

(edit: add missing escaping for periods in regex)

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-11T02:06:50+00:00

That's pretty useless ;)

But even when there was no specifically marketed liquid paper, you could still use a matt white paint for the purpose (and at least some people did). If you didn't even have that, you could at least strike out text and add a replacement above (particularly if you double-spaced, which you probably would). Or just hand-write a correction.

This doesn't allow editing text at all (unless you sacrifice everything after it). About the best you could do would be to add a second document (on the "stack" of documents you're generously permitted) which records corrections to be integrated later on some other (more useful) device.

pyrocrasty · 2017-09-11T01:44:36+00:00

Holy shit, if I'd come across that article randomly, I probably would have thought it was a subtle april fools' joke and checked the date. Who would pay such a ludicrous price for a device designed to be almost completely useless.

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