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Miscellaneous talk #45 reasonable request, Genitiv, otherness, C2, two-leg chair, Leib, Ten Watch, Foreign, Italiano

I’ve read a paper recently and got some weird interpretation of this almost standard data availability statement written in English: The data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request by the corresponding author. Of course, u...

A note about a bug in irr::kripp.alpha()

Let me chronicle a random discovery of a bug and in my opinion, its impact; and the fixes (or lack thereof).

Ubuntu to Fedora and back

I went through a small predicament and I thought it’s nice to note it down. Also, it coincides with the 20th anniversary of Ubuntu Linux.

Miscellaneous talk #44 Without social media, a month later

A month has gone since the last post about logging out of Mastodon, my last narrowly-defined social media.

Mastodon: A Consolatio

I logged out of Mastodon on September 07. I do not remove my account. I will just let it die. And I know that day will come.

MASHINA G is released, or a blog post about the German language

The game MASHINA G, my second game, has been released on itch.io as Alpha. It is available for free. Except the physics engine, the whole game was developed in 96 hours for GMTK Game Jam. There is no hope that the game could win 1. But I think the...

OKR #11

Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10.

PIKR-033 is released and some thoughts

This is the sequel of my previous blog post on creating a Picross aka nonogram video game.

My recent spiritual retreat: Writing a video game

Can I actually create a video game? I asked myself this question and then I took a week of my vacation to find out the answer to this question. Actually, I planned this as my spiritual retreat 1. To put it lightly, I found some asp...

Non-API calls conundrum, CRAN, cpp11, minty, true length, vendoring, readODS

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German B2 #2

Previously on this blog: German B2 #1

German B2 #1

I think it’s no secret where I was in the last few months. In case you don’t know: by the end of last year my German was not enough for some reason and I suddenly needed to attain the level of B2 German in a few months. In order to make this happe...

OKR #10

Previously on this blog: my objectives / adjustment; actual OKR #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9.

The tool situation 2023 Q4: shell, dirvish, expand-region, iPhone SE

The original idea was to just give a follow up to all those “Advent of emacs” (aoe) posts an update and say whether I am still using emacs the way described in those posts. But actually I have accumulated quite a bit of posts about tools (all tool...

The real toll

Four years after my last visit in late 2019, I was in Hong Kong again. 1 My wife and I would like to be very low profile this time. Unlike my previous Modus Operendi of twinning my trip homeward with other academic activities, this time I really j...

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