Notices by Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe)

@fitheach We have a tentative swallow nest by our place (yay!) so hopefully they'll stick around (not get driven away by magpies) and hunt mosquitos/midges

Do they make it up to where you are?

@clacke That's what I suspected. I wonder what percentage of their trade is using this versus SWIFT, but that's probably a difficult number to find out

@yogthos

@clacke I hope you're right, it'd be great if it really did displace SWIFT. As that linked article mentioned, the Caribbean also needs something similar (and maybe they just link in to the eCNY)

@yogthos

@yogthos

implying that about 38% of global trade could bypass the US dollar dominated SWIFT network

I'd be curious to know what the real figure is, but 38% is a potential, not a reality

@solidsanek As someone in a parasocial triangle with coffee and tea, I understand

The US and UK tracking and arresting people for political speech is a reminder that even if you're doing nothing wrong, privacy is important

@loke two letters whose names differ only in a voiced/unvoiced distinction, what could possibly go wrong !

@clacke It's interesting that we're about as far from Middle Chinese as from vulgar Latin, but the change seems more than in the Romance languages ? Though I guess if French had a billion speakers, it might have diverged even more

@clacke This is me using German to try to speak Dutch

@fence Most bags can fit vinyls if you fold them a couple times

#hottip

@clacke I counted to -1, was I supposed to do this unsigned ?

Evil shu 🤘

#tea @tea

@clacke 0.27.5 fixed that for me

@juliobiason Please don't.

I know someone who had an idiot motorcycle crash into him like that. The idiot died, and my friend is still traumatized about it despite it being 100% the fault of the guy who hit him

@16af93 Taking the Cathedral/Bazaar metaphor more seriously than the essay did

@clacke One of the funnier songs I stumbled upon recently, is one I know from the Irish tradition, and where there's a dragon that's slayed. Same theme in English and Scottish versions of the song.

The Appalachian versions feature a wild pig instead of a dragon, which is just wonderful

@clacke Pete, and even more his sister Peggy, Seeger were huge figures in folk and traditional song across the English speaking world. She was a first-rate song collector, and spent much of her life in England.

Your broader point of course stands, but there's an interesting conversation amongst all the English folk traditions, plenty of songs move back and forth across oceans and seas, giving Anglophone folk an oddly cosmopolitan bent

@pymander @elb IME the result of sexpr regexp systems like rx is no clearer than normal regexp syntax, just much less concise

@hanshuebner I have parens-require-spaces set to nil, to prevent that from happening with M-(

If that doesn't fix it you'll need to share what you have ( bound to, and any active minor modes :neko_glasses:

@clacke I once saw an indicator with a visible rainbow: red through blue for one sort order, blue though red for the other