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on the future of 0net (chorus)
another one of those posts that iām not sure will be published immediately after i finish writing it. not because of any self-censorship or even sheer laziness, but because of extreme thinness and fragility of my connection. this is where 0net was supposed to shine ā and i guess it does, as much as it can be said to shine at all.
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it's (not) been a while
Itās been a while
Itās been a while since i updated this blog and/or site, but lots of awesome stuff is going to happen soon nevertheless.
āā 28 Sep 2016
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overview of my recent albums
so apparently iāve released a few albums back when i was hiding mostly offline and licking wounds. and apparently iām in a mood to send another āletterā to my mostly-not-proved-to-exist readers
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i'm amazed at you,
normies with a 5*8 job, with enough energy to socialize and post in public
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you were never (always) 1s old
while it is not known to science, whether you, my intended reader ā a living human being ā exist ā one thing can be said for sure: you were never one second old
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i'm back
oh, hasnāt it been a while? iām back today on 41st of january 2025, so why not give a listen to my 41st album today?
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landscape of intricate ramblings
i made a new album recently and before thereās any more recordings that iāll be uploading soon , i want to make a post about it . the whole thing was recorded during several nights when i could neither sleep nor do anything otherwise useful
you can find the album at badcamp as well as on 0net (please use up-to-date zeronet-conservancy fork!)
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afterthoughts
then the war started , all surroundings got tense ; only me sitting every day at home was terribly wrong ā so i felt , somehow anxious , not being able to rest no matter what . let my eye get red and hair gray ā i wanted to work , to be useful , those were my feelings .
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oui themselves ā orkestrovaja | sotsialnaja | jama
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hit by a bus factor
i havenāt been literally hit by a bus . even my somewhat deteriorated health has been occasionally showing signs of improvements , too . and yet the pseudo-conspiring strings of events made me come up with this title for what otherwise would have been a regular update on my coding or music projects
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announcing riza
last three weeks mark the beginning of a new historic period ā where we can no longer close our eyes and have to bear witness to how lack of access to information can lead directly to mass murder (colloquially called āwarā). free uncensored speech is not a luxury, but an imperative for peaceful prosperous life and overall survival of humanity.
thus we cannot postpone any longer and today we announce the development of censorship-resistant, all-restriction-immune, privacy-protecting peer to peer worldwide network that will be accessible to everyone. of course, this is not enough to stop or prevent war, but it is a prerequisite.
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bad news
late evening tomorrow i was wrapping up my latest album release and thought iād write up a post about it here first thing in the morning. but what i have woken up to was a new world of war ā war of unprecedented scale of aggression in a peaceful region. iām still at loss what to say, but regardless of horrors of the world i gotta do what i gotta do.
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crossposting & promotion is tiring
ā¦unrewarding and almost completely meaningless. i rage quit from bandcamp, reddit and 0net. my accounts are deleted, passwords eaten by Schrƶdinger kittens and private keys thrown into rivers of abyss
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still around
another of those posts about nothing . just checking in that this log isnāt over and there will be more posts
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My ten cents for ugly capitalism
I havenāt been writing this log in a while, so iām not exactly happy to resume with announce of another compromise iām making. But thatās how itās gonna be, ācause i am already late to tell my imaginary readers about this.
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PunchĀ line
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Dead dead season
This blog might seem a little bit deserted lately, after a brief surge of activity in some not-so-distant-yet past. The main reason for this is, as usual, that iām ābusyā with activities in other places; in particular, a lot of blog-like stuff can be found on āmicro-bloggingā ć0meć platform (ZeroNet-only link). But let me post a brief update here, as well.
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Modern internet disconnects
Internet used to connect people who used it. It still does that to some extent. But a lot of modern services/platforms are also working hard at disconnecting people who use them from people who donāt. While we canāt avoid that altogether (thanks to abundant amount of malicious parties), we can at least set minimal requirements for communication/sharing platforms.
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Islamophobia and the freedom of oppression
āSuppose you see a woman in niqab on a hot summer street. Do you experience any negative feelings?ā
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Silent july
So, another month is over, and i havenāt been touching this blog. There couldāve a lot i could write about, probably. But the short things went into 0me, and the long ones.. just didnāt get to be written.
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Rounding to zero in human subjects
Operating exact ārealā (or at least computable) numbers is hard, even for exact machines. For humans rational and big integer numbers already present a problem. Perhaps most noticeable is this when they encounter āsmallā numbers āaround zeroā.
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Some shuffling of 0net sites
(if youāre not reading this from ZeroNet, it probably doesnāt concern you)
Today i finally finished what i had better done much earlier: separated out my literature zites from the main one.
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Thoughts on paranoia I
Iāve been occasionally thinking about āparanoiaā for a long time now, and perhaps itās time to write down some of these thoughts.
But first, let me clarify one thing. The word āparanoiaā has of course a clinical, formal meaning, but this post isnāt about it; there is also an informal notion of āparanoiaā ā thatās what iām going to write about. The meaning can vary from person to person, but essentially it boils down to āa state where the person in question is fearful, cautious or anxious about something they shouldnāt be (according to those who apply the term)ā.
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Two more albums
Apparently i forgot to announce my āepisodesā album here. Well, you know now. But in fact thereās more already: today i released a much less musical, noise album āalmost a capellaā. Enjoy any of them, or both, or none: the choice is yours.
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Turing completeness trap
In the world of programming languages thereās a concept of Turing tarpit: a language that in theory can be used to express any computation ā that is, a Turing-complete (TC) language ā but which is utterly unpractical when applied to real world tasks. Numerous examples can be found: languages which were explicitly designed to be āminimalā (brainfuck, unlambda), domain-specific languages which became TC by accident, and even more weird systems which can hardly be called languages at all.
Perhaps, showing any one of these languages should be enough to prove that TC is not a sufficient condition for language to be suitable for general-purpose programming. But a lot of people tend to believe that Turing completeness is a necessary condition. This is not quite so, and in this post iām going to show why.
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Not much evil
This might sound obvious or controversial depending on how you perceive the world and the word, but iāve come to conclusion that there isnāt that much āpure evil in the worldā. Yeah, sometimes we like to use this phrase ironically, but other than that āpure evilā usually exists far away in isolated places: for example, on war; and even murder of unarmed people in peaceful surroundings (usually referred to as āterrorismā) is rare enough in most regions.
But this post is neither about war, nor āterrorismā. It is about something much more mundane.
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Donations are open
Yesterday i started writing a pretentious post with the same meaning, but i didnāt like it, so hereās a shorter, drier, less literary and more to the point version:
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Literal translation and a video-book
I can hardly believe that it took me more than a year to go from a raw recording to a proper āvideo bookā: narrated (ultra) short story accompanied by related imagery. Now it is here (or, if you canāt run zeronet, hereās a proxy). But before you dive in, i want to write a few words about its english translation.
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Before donating, consider leaving that wretched job
It is perhaps about the time i start looking for donations myself, but before i go into details about that, i wanted to write a post to discourage people from donating.
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So why exactly copyright is unethical
If you ever discussed this topic with me, you probably know my stance on copyright. But i donāt think iāve ever presented arguments against it in a more structured way. So here is an attempt to do so.
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unbroken glass and other stories
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Gender neutrality isn't about gender equality
Iāve been proponent of gender-neutral language (in english itās mostly about pronouns, but other languages have much more gendering of words) for a long time. Recently i noticed that there seem to be a common misunderstanding about its meaning.
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I should have started with audiobooks
Now that iām adding final touches to my first āvideobookā (calling it a book is not quite correct, but iām not aware of better terms and audiobooks seem to refer to small forms sometimes), it becomes painfully obvious that decision to start with video was a bit too ambitious. Even beyond all the technical issues, as well as āwaiting for the renderā (which supposedly account for me being unenthusiastic to the point where four minutes almost took me a year) the process of polishing videos takes quite some time.
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Moving pictures theatre & melt resize script
More than one month and two days later than planned, moving pictures theatre is open. Along with it, iām going to share a script iām actively using for video production in kdenlive on a blunt edge laptop.
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A small (semi-technical) note about my new site
Last few days i was working on finalizing a few things about my video channel site (go visit it before it opens officially, for then iāll have to remove fun-but-distracting background). There were a few rough edges with my infamous engine, but mostly it was about design. Funnily enough it was design which led me to using custom, badly written js code again. But let me start from beginning.
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You can't break what's already broken
Just like your average net denizen, i donāt posses precognition powers, so i canāt say whether the dreaded thirteenth article will have overall positive or negative effect. What i can say, however, is that the amount of criticism it provoked is disproportional.
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Writing challenge
I donāt exactly like new year and especially the typical ways to celebrate it, but being latent conformist i canāt just watch others enjoy themselves without either joining or being annoyed. Thus i tend to think up alternative ways to celebrate. This year iām going to do a writing challenge.
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1618
that kind of noise - 1618, my first noise album, is now released on 0net. I donāt know about you, but for me itās the most pleasant one to actually listen ^_^
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What's wrong with binary packages
Long time ago ā when most users were programmers ā programs were usually being distributed in source form only. But building binaries can be costly process and doing it yourself is only really beneficial when you edit code; so when computers started to be adopted more widely, people started to use binaries more and more. Eventually GNU/Linux distributions were born, bringing to the masses now familiar concepts of packages and repositories. But was that really a good thing?
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Free to pay
Have you ever felt a need for human connection, approval of your worthiness from people you care about? Or even something as simple as recognizing your existance, perhaps? Depending on whose opinion you care about, nowdays it can be as easy as a single mouse click!
Read on for details on this revolutionary āfree to payā system.
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Integrating users on decentralized network
ZeroNet has thousands of sites, but only a very few of them are being actively used. There are countless half-baked projects of āshiny new engineā, blogs on prolonged hiatus, chats with hundred and one āhello worldā message and even more obscure stuff no one cares about any longer.
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Rasterizing too early, PS
Writing previous post i got too busy with colors and math, which i have been thinking about lately, but in fact the idea came to me earlier and wasnāt about āpoint-likeā objects like color. Instead i was thinking about the whole
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We're rasterizing too early
..or the false dilemma between vector and raster graphics.
The common wisdom about representing real world data in computers is that it gets sampled, digitized and loses information in the process. Well, there is no workaround for that, we can only hope sample sizes get closer to Plank time and length. By extension we tend to think that unless youāre doing heavy data analysis, it is bound to be represented by array of integers or, at best, floats.
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Forcing a plot
There is a math proof technique called āforcingā, but frankly i donāt know what it means. But coincidentally my secret writing technique #4 is also called āforcingā.
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sounds of ludum
I guess today is as good as any to make few final things about my āthirdā album: namely, make a cover (which i already did), encode and publish it. Here it is.
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Practical guide to taking over the CLANG
Have you ever been in a situation when you wanted to raise your CLANG as usual, but suddenly noticed strange reaction of people around you? Perhaps youād been climbing over the neighbouring hill to proudly waive your CLANG from this high point, when youād realize that people averting gazes, changing the side of the street, or plainly stare at you with cold creepy eyes?..
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The 'indie' problem
Let me be clear: there are good works which have been labeled (or even self-labeled) as āindieā. Depending on your taste, maybe even most of your favourites are. But that doesnāt make āindieā good. As a matter of my authoritative opinion, it is bad in almost any sense possible.
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Goodbye, Jamendo
Itās been more than ten years now since the day i got introduced to Jamendo. Back then it wasnāt even a site for me: just a tab in the Amarokās internet section. Then it became a symbol of free, open culture. For this reason releasing music on Jamendo was a natural thing for me to do, despite all the hassle with their uncomfortable site, my dislike of centralized services, and the growing amount of signs that they do not in fact stand for creative commons or open culture in general.
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On two modes of question `why`
Natural languages are ambiguous in many ways, including lexical. Weāre all used to one word having different meanings (or multiple different words having the same spelling and pronunciation, depending on meaning of word āwordā). But some of these differences are more elusive than other.
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Correlationā
Correlation does not imply causation, but they certainly can be correlated. Measure of such correlation can then be used as a measure of effectiveness of correlation studies. If weāre to correlate this measure with alternative measures in the same field, and then continue this process of higher correlating ad finitum, what kind of knowledge can we obtain?
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Chapter every day
Itās unlikely to last long, but why not start a āchapter every dayā challenge?
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Forth chapter
å¤ćä¼ćæ is over (not like i should care) and finally, after too much fuss with editing, heavy bright sun is back. Enjoy 4th chapter from here (canāt really give direct links with site being mirrored on clear- and zero- nets).
I have a few more in (nearly) ready state, so one might hope iāll start publishing more regularly, but i promise nothing!
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This blog goes 0social
Finally, after
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Symmetric Peano addition
Given natural numbers defined by
data N = Z | S Nthe typical way of defining addition is asymmetrical
x + Z = x x + (S y) = S (x + y)(or its opposite, recursing on first argument instead)
If you have sense for mathematical beauty, you should be annoyed by this asymmetry. Furthermore, if youāre doing proofs about addition (e.g. x+y = y+x) or want to play with non-total lazy infinity (inf = S inf) and bottoms, this asymmetry is going to haunt you whenever you do that.
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Typelevel addition
Consider the following canonical natural number addition:
data Nat := Z | S Nat plus : Nat -> Nat -> Nat plus Z y := y plus (S x) y := S (plus x y)It can be also rewritten to recourse on y instead of x, or even to return
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One more use for The Dreadful Bottom
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Philosophical zombies among us
The (in)famous concept of philosophical zombies does not make a valid argument for refuting functionalist (physicalist, materialist) view of consciousness. As an argument, it is nothing more but an interestingly worded tautology: those who accept argument as valid have to accept its consequences, but they also already believe them. Those whom this argument is supposed to convince will simply refuse its premise validity. Yet the concept of philosophical zombies seems to be useful beyond its metaphorical value.
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Types as propositions is intuitive
..if youāre taught in a right way about it and know a bit of math.
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Function category
There is a long-standing tradition that talks about category theory application to programming only mention one single category: namely, the category of types (as objects) and functions (as morphisms) (and of course, it is widely known that many languages do not in fact correspond to this category). But category theory is not about single category. On the contrary, most interesting things happen when many categories are involved.
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Thoughts on CC-NC
It occured to me that ānon-commercialā clause in CC licenses can have two different (almost opposite) motivations.
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Once per month is too rare
One chapter per month is too rare, so i hope to publish next chapter sooner. But for now enjoy āŠŠ»Š°Š²Š° ŠŠ²Š°ā of heavy bright sun.
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Emacs: another stop on the journey to perfect desktop
Iāve been searching for a perfect desktop setup for as long as i remember using computer. KDE3, Gnome2, KDE4, switching from (then still) OpenOffice to Kate for everything, drop-down terminal, excursions to *box and awesome, then finally settling with 10-virtual-desktop layout and a handful of shortcuts.
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Poetry page
Now with my āshiny newā template for texts iāve made a proper poetry section. Well, i should really fix css and maybe ācmsā a bit, but it looks almost ok like this. You know iām lazy.
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ŠæŃŠøŠ²ŃŃŠ½ŃŠ¹ Š¼ŠøŃ ŃŠ½ŃŠ» ŠŗŠ°Šŗ ŃŠŗŠ°Š·ŠŗŠ° ŃŠ°ŃŃŠŗŠ°Š·Š°Š½Š½Š°Ń ŠŗŠµŠ¼-ŃŠ¾ Š½Š° Š²ŠµŃŃŃ Š½Š° Š²Š¾Š»Š¾ŃŠ°Ń Š¼Š¾ŠøŃ ŃŠµŠ“ŠµŠµŃ ŠŗŃŠ°ŃŠŗŠ° ŃŃ Š½Šµ ŃŠ¼ŃŃŃŃ Š° Ń ŃŠ¼ŃŃ -
Text section and other updates
So this site just got a shiny new (!) txt section. Eventually i should clean up this mess with projects/txt/music separation and overlaps. Not sure if anyone would care though.
I should also fix a couple things with css at some point. Eh, i need an AI to handle these things for me.
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Heavy bright sun, 1
Heavy bright sun is now being officially serialized. Ch. 1 is available at
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Short history of a certain skeptic
(well, it appears i canāt be bothered to edit this one)
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(Un)minor site update
Finally, eucalyptus becomes official part of the site. Unfortunately, with duct-tape HydeView engine i canāt link to it normally, so for now there are two links:
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What is hard...
DISCLAIMER: this article touches upon philosophy, math, psychology, programming, linguistics and perhaps other stuff, in which its author does not have a PhD. It is not unrealistic to assume that equivalent article was already written. However, if youāve read it, you donāt need explanations why this one was written from me.
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The affinity between voiceless sibilants and cursing
Perhaps trivial for anyone who studied phonetic linguistics, but i just (at the moment of writing, not publishing..) noticed that cursing words starting with sh-like (and to, lesser degree, s-like and ch-like; i couldnāt find example for ts-like, perhaps itās too far) sounds are more appealing.
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Still had to look that cnifri in the dict
lo nu their ŠæŠ¾Š“ŃŠ¾ŃŃŠŗŠ¾Š²ŃŠ¹ Šø ŠæŠ¾ŃŃ-ŠæŠ¾Š“ŃŠ¾ŃŃŠŗŠ¾Š²ŃŠ¹ ages were flipped ku se cnifri äŗŗćØćć¦ććć®äøēćé¢ē½ć~~ćØęćć
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"Geeks" vs "hackers"
Both cultures seem to be heavily built around computer-related knowledge, but relating to computers is nothing more than a flavour. The difference that iād like to call to attention in this post is that āgeeksā pursue knowledge for the pleasure of experiencing new, while āhackersā pursue knowledge to improve their aesthetic taste.
That difference might be more fundamental than one might think on the first sight. While person may switch from one side to another and back, cultures formed by people with certain mindsets persist and have a lot of recurring patterns.
Of course, i could have used E- and W- words, but unfortunately that is too loaded cliche to be easily perceivable and i would have been forced to elaborate more on history and other details and the post would have more chances to be left unfinished.
Being too abstract and not attaching any common names to these categories, on the other hand, could have led to text being too boring, either for me or for my imaginary friends.
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(Un)confusing guide to hiragana
Iām making another attempt at formally learning japanese and this time progressing better than before. Itās quite likely that iām even going to complete memorization of hiragana and while iām at it i decided to make a kind of guide to it. It is mostly for myself, but could be also useful for those who learn japanese in a similar manner (i.e. know some spoken before kana).
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ŠŃŠ¾Š³ŃŠ°Š¼Š¼Š½Š°Ń Š½Š°Š½Š¾ŠæŠ¾ŃŠ¼Š° āŠ¼Š¾Š¶Š½Š¾ā
ŠŠ¾ŠŗŠ° ŃŠæŠµŃŠøŠ°Š»ŃŠ½Š¾Š³Š¾ ŃŠ°Š·Š“ŠµŠ»Š° Š“Š»Ń ŠæŠ¾ŃŠ·ŠøŠø Š½ŠµŃ, ŠæŃŃŃŃ ŠæŠ¾Š»ŠµŠ¶ŠøŃ Š·Š“ŠµŃŃ.
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Internet of Problems
For a while now, itās considered to be progressive, wise and plain old cool to blame the internets for all the problems. The fact that it became cool can be partly explained by the fact that internet is the mainstream today (unlike the days when it was most loudly criticized by conservatively-minded people), so criticizing it gives you coolness points.
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Half-march update
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Changes are
Changes are really your own self-centered eclectic lies universal self.
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OneĀ ofĀ theĀ leastĀ originalĀ meta-jokes
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Theory of Kyoufu
A few book titles:
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What awaits humanity, pt I: extinction
ā¦between true utopia, assorted distopias and extinction
Some futurologists insist on concept of bifurcation or singularity point, prediction beyond which would have little meaning. And applied to āmidtermā time scale that indeed might be plausible. But on the larger scale there are still few constants which can be postulated a priori. Some might not agree with that and put to doubt every notion related to time, but i consider such approach too limited to be fun.
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The art of provocation: external eclecticism vs inner consistency
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That rare case
Internet-era books on ethics hidden behind a paywall are a rare example of books that can be easily dismissed by (otherwise anecdotic) ādidnāt read, but disapproveā formula.
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VHEMT site review
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Consequentialism vs its promotion
This post presents a sketch for an āalmost mathematicalā proof that promoting consequentialism is in fact against consequentialism. By no means i suggest that this thought is original, but i havenāt stumbled upon it in such formulation.
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Immortality
After spending years of my youth on contemplating immortality, i came to a simple conclusion: for any meaningful definition of immortality that is worth achieving, it is impossible to achieve immortality. In other words, if definition of immortality has something in common with common sense understanding of the word and it looks like a desirable state, every entity either is inherently immortal or will never be.
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Communication amplifies your loneliness
While i wonāt claim that to be absolute truth, i think many might find it interesting to consider.
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Writing spaghetti: don't underestimate complexity of simple tasks
tl;dr donāt code in an ineffective way if you donāt enjoy it
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0net site migration: 91% complete
There are still a few things to polish, but it mostly works.
Which means that the era of that weird comment system employed on this page is coming to an end: since it was never quite used and incompatible with ssl, iāll put it down right after adding commenting capability to 0net version.
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Sometimes i wonder..
..how many people care to understand their native language.
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Writing
Yesterday i got back to writing my nanowrimo-2017 novel. Today iām writing this post. Who knows, maybe i can get into the habit of writing regularly?..
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The obligatory empty page
Finally, iām in the process of moving into 0net. I had to start somewhere and decided to create an obligatory empty page. As the title suggests, thereās not much interesting there, but iāll be grateful if youād seed it so that if there are any technical issues i can solve them now instead of dealing with them when publishing actual content.
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ŠæŃŃŃŃ ŠæŃŠ¾ŃŠ»Š¾ Ń Š¾ŃŃ ŠæŠ¾Š»Š²ŠµŠŗŠ° Ń Š¾ŃŃ ŠæŃŃŃ Š²ŠµŠŗŠ¾Š² Š¼Š¾Š¶Š½Š¾! Šø Š½Š°Š¼ ŃŠ»Š¾Š¼Š°ŃŃ ŃŠµŠ»Š¾Š²ŠµŠŗŠ° Š¼ŠøŃ ŠŗŠ¾ Š²ŃŠµŠ¼Ń Š½ŠµŠ³Š¾ŃŠ¾Š² -
How vulnerabilities can improve performance
While some are complaining that patch for recent cpu vulnerability slows down their computers, the only thing i noticed is that my performance seems to increase. With more JS disabled and less browser uptime i have more free ram available and am less distracted by interwebs.
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Declaration of intent
Even if iām not big fan of new year concept, thereās still one thing i really wanted to do āthis yearā: migrate away from the old rotten centralized web into something better, or, at the very least, start such migration.
However, since iām constantly postponing any efforts in this direction, the only thing i can actually get done before 2018 unleashes on us is start cross-posting into ZeroMe.
So, here it is.
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Pulse Of Life
Iām not keeping my promises about showcasing RainyNite, but at least hereās another screenshot. This time from upcoming v0.6 āPulse Of Lifeā.
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RainyNite July update
So itās been a long time since my last post again; i guess i just canāt make a habit of regular updates.
In the meantime, there were three RainyNite āreleasesā and iām preparing next one (all planned features are already there, but i need a new cover image).
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Introducing RainyNite #1
This is the first post in series about RainyNite in which iāll be trying to explain why it came to be and why it might be relevant in the age of many free software animation tools, as well as whether you should be interested in it or not.
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Few humble announcements
1) I participated in LD38 and took part in creating this game.
2) RainyNite source is published here. I know i should put build instructions there. Will do that soon.
3) I have ZeroMe account now (caryoscelus@zeroid.bit). Not sure how much iāll be using it, but expect more ZeroNet news from me anyway.
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Random web parallax video demo
WARNING: requires support for transparent webm videos (firefox: 53, blink seems to have introduced it long ago) and video autoplay enabled!
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Semi-linked region/outline in Synfig
Hereās a short tutorial on how to get a shape in Synfig with partial outlines linked to it. This is pretty much a workaround, but the fix might require either a lot of major changes or a lot of pain with inelegant code.
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Synfig vector morphing without waypoints
Since iām reworking Synfig time & animation subsystem, iām getting rid of current hard-coded & hard-to-edit interpolation via waypoints and replacing it with lightweight valuenodes.
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13 TET
Writing 13 TET music turned out to be easier than i thought.
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Random demo (continued)
As i promised, hereās a video with some explanation about time patch layers.
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Random demo
As i mentioned before, iāve been working on Synfig lately. And hereās a little demo of the Time Patching feature, which is the most interesting thing of what i am doing.
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It's been a while
Itās been a while since i updated this blog and/or site, but lots of awesome stuff is going to happen soon nevertheless.
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taking out the trash
Finally published my second album: taking out the trash. Personally i find it more interesting, both to make and to listen. Currently it can be found here on jamendo, but hopefully i will upload it somewhere else as well.
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Third episode
Third episode of scandia letters is ready! And second episode is translated into english, by the way. Download here.
Next episode might be delayed a bit due to ludum dare, but i hope not.
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Python import magic
Ever wondered how to make package export both its submodules for use with
from package import *and re-export module members for use withfrom package import ClassName? Well, you can of course specify__all__and then dofrom .module import *for each module, but thatās repeating yourself!Instead, hereās a black magic (not really) technique which requires to specify each module only once.
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Second episode
With a small delay, second episode of scandia letters is out!
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Self-translation is pain
It has a combination of translation pain and reading-your-own-text pain, plus pain of witnessing your text being crippled. Especially so if you are less than perfect at target language.
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scandia letters
Without any particular (except for the obvious) reason, iāve chosen today to officially launch my new project: scandia letters (or ŠæŠøŃŃŠ¼Š° ŃŠŗŠ°Š½Š“ŠøŠø in russian, in which it is being written). Why yet another new project? Well, because i tend to extend and inflate any project i start. But this one is a series, which makes it easier to follow deadline and actually publish something.
Since it is started, you can now expect more posts here, official announcement on lemmasoft forum
and perhaps a bit of downtime if github servers would be unable to handle all the sudden traffic(just wanted to insert some unfunny joke here, sorry).The first episode (currently in russian only, but english translation will follow) is available here. Currently you need to have RenāPy launcher to run it, since iām doing this in a rush, but more user-friendly release is to be made soon.
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Redesign is coming
Iām too lazy to put out a countdown for you, but itās going to happen soon. It can be any minute now since i actually have satisfying design and only want to finish updating info as well before launching new stuff.
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Sometimes...
ā¦nobody is hiding the truth from you, but you donāt even bother to check.
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Ludum Dare 32
Continuing my last yearās ātraditionā, i was doing april LD solo. Continuing long-time LD tradition, theme was horrible. But apart from those traditions i didnāt have much time to participate, almost entirely missing first day.
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meanwhile
Meanwhile, i finally released album. Which is pretty much a bunch of random tracks, but who cares. Most important that i donāt have to care about polishing and publishing it, so time to move on.
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NaNoRenO fail
Time to admit it, perhaps. I couldāve built a working demo, but it would be too unpolished for publishing on NaNoRenO.
If anyone interested (hello imaginary friends), there still will be demo sometime soon, so keep waiting. Maybe iāll even make a teaser video and loud announce.
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Future
Your future is what you make for yourself.
Donāt gamble on someone waltzing in your life and fixing it for you.
Donāt try to force someone to fix it ā that will fail or backfire.
Learn to be yourself, to be whatever you want to be, without relying on anybody.
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LD 31: games worth mentioning
This isnāt a proper review, but just a list of games i find interesting, for one reason or another. If after playing some of them, you have a strong feeling your (or not your, doesnāt really matter) game deserves to be take a place here, feel free to mention it.
NOTE: This entry will be updated as i find more interesting stuff.
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Chess Chatter is here
Too tired of LD to write anything interesting about it yet, so iāll just mention it was great. And the result of our efforts is here, but thatās just where you came from, isnāt it?
Will write more detailed report later. You can go read game meanwhile.
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Ok, everybody! We're taking lots! Players, please come and take your destiny!
So yeah, LD 31 started with an unfortunate theme. But iām still doing a small VN cooperating with lonely2012 and maybe someone else from Transient team.
Progress so far: i have an idea and a bit of text, lonely2012 is doing character art.
UPD: Repo is here: https://github.com/caryoscelus/chess-chatter
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Finished MiniLD 55
The game is here. Itās text-only game in chat with some roguelike influence. Not polished and probably quite boring.
Source code here. Mostly PureScript with helper sh+Python script. Note that code is somewhat imperative and unsafe (e.g. everything related to random), so large parts should be completely rewrittenā¦
Itās unlikely that iāll continue active development, unless there will be some interest in it. But it was nice coding experience.
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Checking out PureScript
In search for something better than raw JavaScript which i used as fast solution, i found out about PureScript - āsmall strongly typed programming language that compiles to JavaScriptā as described on itās site. Itās highly inspired by Haskell (and written in it) which already means itās pretty good. Not sure if itās better than some Haskell-to-JS solution, but iām giving it a try with new comment-anything frontend.
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comment-anything update
comment-anything (which is my bicycle project for commenting on this site) is updated and now is more reliable (iām doing regular backups now).
It is still ugly, buggy and insecure, but who cares?
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What is this - obvious riddle for imaginary readers
Hereās an image from soon-to-be-released something. Try to guess what it is and win an unique chance to see it earlier!
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Side note: if you can't draw poses
Yeah, then you should study, study, study, draw, draw, draw until you get it right. But if you canāt afford that, there are always ways around. One of them is described below.
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Working on TDA again
Itās been quite a while since i worked on āThe Day Afterā (see projects for more info), but itās not dead. Starting from today iām actively working on it again and hopefully will produce demo soon. Details to be revelaed later. Iāve got some work to do ^_^
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Added commenting possibility
Added test possibility to add comments. Will be improved eventually, but at least this works for now. Proper backuping is not set yet, so donāt rely too hard on comments permanency, but eventually it will al be sorted out.
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First post!
Well, all the interesting stuff will be posted later. This post is here just to mark creation of blog :)