Tessera

the pinkest little nose

one of those nights when there's a whole bunch of stuff I want to tell @fxv2.bsky.social about but he's not there anymore

successfully gave away a bike to my volcanologist friend, now I only have four bikes which is still kind of too many (folding, cargo, cross, electric)

doc@docseuss.bsky.social · last wk.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

$Ed Alleyne-Johnson's "Purple Electric Violin Concerto" from 1992. The cover depicts Ed, a white man with long reddish-brown wearing a black T-shirt with a purple jacket and round sunglasses in front of a fractal-ish black and white background. He is holding the titular purple electric violin, which has five strings. Fun fact: he made it himself!$

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

Felladonna@langsec.hacker.gf · 2w ago

as promised, the conversation where chatgpt 5.6-sol proves that there does exist a parsing expression grammar that recognizes all palindromes the proof machinery is v. weighty but it's all spelled out explicitly it got long but this is part 1: motivation and discovery chatgpt.com/share/6a6420...

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still chewing away at this, btw. a proof is nice and everything, but if there is indeed a palindrome PEG, I want to see it, so I'm talking the model through generating it occasionally it gets stuck, but we're down to five steps remaining

it's too hot for welding right now so I'm going to tilburg

got basically nothing done today. it's time to start welding, but the "tools that can kill me" anxiety is too damn high if anyone has a pep talk in them I could sure use one

decided to join in the chatgpt counterexamples to open math problems fun, and while I need to sit down and check its work, we might have found a proof that the language of palindromes can be recognized by a parsing expression grammar just a proof, not a grammar, but I'm having it make a grammar now

these little guys will be what hold the machine feet on as soon as I've detached them from the plate, welded the captive nuts on, and welded them to the ends of the legs if they're the joint between the legs and the feet, does that make them ankles?

A steel plate on a workbench. Four 19mm holes have been drilled in it in a grid pattern, and two cuts have been made vertically to the left of and between the holes. There are also some pencil markings indicating other cuts. The bottom left hole has an M16 nut sitting on top of it. A blue joiner's clamp holds the plate to the tabletop.

The Brussels Times@brusselstimes.com · 2w ago

can we please get back to this kind of silly international drama

'It is regrettable that foreign companies are taking work away from Belgian businesses.' Belgian Fireworks Federation said.

happy national day! 🇧🇪🎆🇧🇪🎇🇧🇪

decided I would rather cut out the gusset plates for the leg with something easier to control than an angle grinder, so there's a jigsaw and rail system arriving tomorrow in the meantime I've plotted all the cuts on the steel and drilled relief holes at the inside corners of the Ts and Ls

this has got to be the highest scoring world cup game in recent memory

the entire top of the frame is assembled and moved to where it's actually going to live! now I get to cut a bunch of fishplates and install the legs, braces, and feet

The completed top of the laser cutter frame, relocated to its actual home in the shop, as opposed to the kitchen.

edith@edithcharles.bsky.social · 3w ago

andrew niccol's lysistrata ("andrew who?" I hear you say. he wrote and directed a few little films like gattaca and lord of war)

Chris Nolan has just made The Odyssey, but what other classical works should be made into films, and who should direct them? Greta Gerwig’s Antigone The Coen Brothers’ Metamorphoses Alfonso Cuarón’s Iliad

on the train to quaregnon to pick up the two side braces that somehow failed to make it into the original steel pickup

finally got the top of the frame bolted square! each diagonal is 340cm, so I know I got it right next step will be to take the whole thing apart and position, mark, and drill the other five crossbeams

A 3m by 1.9m rectangle made of 50mm square steel tubes, lying on a red cement floor. There are some chairs and a kitchen table covered in tools in the background, and the base of a pallet is to the right of the rectangle.

Closeup on one of the corners. An end crossbeam butts against a side rail, and they're bolted together with an internal angle bracket with two M8 bolts on each flange.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

one of my sisters is a public school art teacher and the other one is finishing up her master's degree to become a school counselor not sure if I could make a lapidary curriculum that would last an entire term I could prob manage another degree but I'd get fired from her current internship so fast

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?