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πŸ“… On [[2025-07-23]]
  • Had a very nice start of the day with my mum and Burup.
    • Then very nice lunch with [[KM]]!
    • Then idem conversation with [[TW]]
      • He told me to look up [[positional embeddings]] as they are key to understanding how attention works in practice
πŸ“… On [[2025-07-21]]
  • Back home on my free day :) I took the day off to do something with my mum off-peak (meaning not in the weekend). We were going to go to the [[St Beatus Caves]] but due to the weather we changed plans as she wants to go to [[Ikea]] ([[KM]] called it the artificial cave and it’s very fitting!).
  • I’m typing this on my new small [[RK61]] keyboard and I quite like it! It is a very limited layout as it’s only 61 keys, so maybe not ideal for some use cases, but definitely good enough for doing general purpose writing.
  • [[KM]] :)
  • [[burup forever]]
πŸ“… On [[2025-07-16]]
  • I met [[KM]] this week and it was wonderful!
  • The reference Agora at anagora.org is partly broken and the server it mostly depends on nowadays might be on the way out so further downtime could be expected, I’ll be noding about troubleshooting activities here and posting to https://social.coop/@flancian/114865307000829931. Please excuse any disruption!

2025-07-16

  • [[Emacs]]:
    • Useful when searching: rgrep.
      • I have a bunch of files named the same, of regular meetings I have with the same person on different dates.
        • i.e. something like ‘Catchup with Shevek yyyy-mm-dd’, with corresponding file names catchup-with-shevek-2025-07-16.org.
      • I wanted to search for a specific term, but only from meetings with Shevek.
      • M-x rgrep, then search term when prompted, then catchup-with-shevek*.org for the file pattern when prompted.
πŸ“… On [[2025-07-13]]
  • Mi mamΓ‘ tose mucho mientras duerme :(
    • Espero que se le pase pronto!
    • En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
  • I am now writing in [[tara]], the "main" project computer as of now :)
    • I have just [[meditated]].
    • I am thankful for existence!
    • I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
  • Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don’t quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let’s see…
    • (These are the sidequests that make up so much of life… I try to enjoy them!)
    • I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
      • It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
        • (See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines… I’m rolling with it for now…)
          • (OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]…)
    • Hmm
      • Yep, it’s fixed in Tara!
      • How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
      • Now to figure out why it’s broken elsewhere \o/
      • Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn’t actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
      • Fixed then! :D
πŸ“… On [[2025-07-12]]
  • Back here after a long while!
  • I spent ten days with my mum in [[Calp]], [[Spain]] — I expected to write and code a lot, as I usually do (expect, not do, during holidays). In the end we mostly spent time in the sea or the pool, spoke, read and played [[Rummy]]. I have no regrets!
  • As I write this, we are in the [[Alicante]] airport waiting for our flight. I am looking forward to being reunited with [[Lady Burup]]!
πŸ“… On [[2025-07-09]]
  • Internet restored!
  • Downtime made me go through a couple of books and half a dozen podcasts
    • Of note is The work of David Lynch
      • Belated listen given his passing in January
      • Makes me want to rewatch both old [[dune]] and [[twin peaks]]
    • Also this1 passage from [[jay rubin]] in [[making sense of japanese]]
      • Regarding the active vs. passive voice in the Hiroshima monument inscription
      • Strange book when it comes to translation/language learning
        • The focus is on how to approach things that are difficult/impossible to translate
  1. Yasuraka ni nemutte kudasai. Ayamachi wa kurikaeshimasenu kara. / β€œRest in peace, for X will not repeat the mistake.” This has been rendered, β€œRest in peace, for the mistake will not be repeated,” which is far less problematical than the original. β€œWho will not repeat the mistake?” people wanted to know when the monument was unveiled. β€œAnd who made the mistake in the first placeβ€”the Americans when they dropped the bomb, or the Japanese when they started the war?” The transitive Japanese verb in the active voice calls for a subjectβ€”a responsible actor. The passivized translation makes far less stringent demands. With its unnamed subject, the Japanese sentence seems discreetly to avoid placing the blame on anyone, but it is far more thought-provoking than the English translation would suggest, for the inescapable conclusion to the unavoidable search for a subject is β€œwe.”

πŸ“… On [[2025-07-05]]

2025-07-05

  • I was getting this error:
    • Before-save hook error: (wrong-type-argument org-roam-node nil)
    • Narrowed it down to when orgrr adds a #+zettel property to the file, it does it before all other properties, and org-roam doesn’t seem to like that.
  • I like the look of Jeff Brown’s [[skg]] (Share Knowledge Graphs) project.
    • I haven’t clocked all the details, but a high level it has [[Agora]], [[FedWiki]] etc vibes.
    • Some discussion here.