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"Renton: Houser Street Railroad"


The Woodinville Subdivision used to run from Black River Junction to Snohomish, until the I-405 overpass was demolished and the section through Kirkland was pulled up.

#mywork #photog #photography #railroad





Well, DUH!


They just FINALLY figured out that saying nothing in the face of genocide was a bad political strategy???

https://truthout.org/articles/dnc-autopsy-finds-kamala-harriss-silence-on-gaza-genocide-cost-her-votes/




Not only has #Mazda kept selling the CX-5 after introducing what I would imagine would be its successor (the CX-50), they even just introduced another generation of the CX-5 long after the CX-50 has been selling. :P
















Any car can be a convertible if you have an angle grinder. :3



Thinking about putting together a 70cm 9600 baud packet radio endpoint. What's a good radio module that can do 9600 baud on UHF?

Some I've found: NiceRF SA818U/S, Dorji DRA818U. Still not sure if these can actually do 9600 baud, though. :/

#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #PacketRadio

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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

9k6 shouldn't be too difficult. Back in the olden days there were lots of instructions on how to access the discriminator directly in whatever transceiver. You need to bypass the audio stages in both directions, then you should be good.



"Whitehorse Trail"


The Whitehorse Trail was very overgrown along most of its length, with long stretches where no trail surface was visible at all through the grass. It was pretty bumpy with loose gravel in places, so a cyclocross bike would do much better than a road bike.

#forest #mywork #photog #photography









How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

A man takes a train from London to the coast. He’s visiting a town called Wulfleet. It’s small and old, the kind of place with a pub that’s been pouring pints since the Battle of Bosworth Field. He’s going to write about it for his blog. He’s excited.
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He arrives, he checks in. He walks to the cute B&B he’d picked out online. And he writes it all up like any good travel blogger would: in that breezy LiveJournal style from 25 years ago, perhaps, in his case, trying a little too hard.
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But as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler.
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By the middle of his post, he’s writing in what might as well be a foreign language.
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But it’s not a foreign language. It’s all English.
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None of the story is real: not the blogger, not the town. But the language is real, or at least realistic. I constructed the passages myself, working from what we know about how English was written in each period.1
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It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
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Read it and notice where you start to struggle. Notice where you give up entirely. Then meet me on the other side and I’ll tell you what happened to the language (and the blogger).


https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english


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in reply to Neil E. Hodges

At 1400 I called it - with effort I could have read it, but I'd need a bit of time and nothing else demanding my attention 😊 After that though it'd be a real struggle.

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The Game Boy Advance (original, not SP) will always be my favorite portable console. :3

(Mine has a backlight mod. :D )




Is it possible to write an #IRC bot that create chatrooms and virtual user DMs? :3
#IRC
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Can an #IRC #bot impersonate users? As in, I'd like said "virtual" users to be able to be messaged directly (/msg), without needing to have the bot log in as each of them.
#bot #IRC
in reply to Neil E. Hodges

afaik not, that would kinda break some core protocol ideas. Why tho?
in reply to mirek kratochvil

I can't speak for the terms of service of the servers, but if your single bot multiplexes over multiple connections it could theoretically do this with the irc protocol, but otherwise i am not aware of other ways to do this. been a while since i wrote irc protocol clients
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in reply to KFO̸UNK

@exa
I'm not trying to make any value statement on the idea of doing this, just I think this would be the only way to accomplish that and technically possible
in reply to KFO̸UNK

@KF0UNK yeah running connection for each nick will ofc work (at least until you hit some random spam protection limit or so) but that might not scale easily
in reply to mirek kratochvil

@exa
I was unclear if a lot of chanels would work too.

I would not recommend either of those on public servers, but they aren't technically challenging.

in reply to Neil E. Hodges

Kind of seems like I could write an IRC leaf server in Python, while a "normal" IRC server is the hub.