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@kara Well, yes. The podcast I was listening to (Hardcore History) admits a certain bit of Roman fanboyism, just cause they actually bloody wrote everything down.
But contrasting with other civilizations of the time, the early Roman Republic seems moar militaristic, moar regimented, and moar socially-indebted, while also moar bureaucratic, moar artistic and moar indulgent. Which is a heck of a combination. Continuing developments seem to emphasize these traits, to almost caricature.
Having spent a couple trans-Atlantic plane flights listening to the more gritty sorts of history podcasts...
Culturally, the Romans were a *hell* of a statistical outlier.
Whew. Back in the land of strong beer, urban sprawl and dubious political funding.
@Azure Oh wow. I am reminded about the XKCD comic on wiring diagrams: https://www.xkcd.com/730/
@Azure ...ooooh. That IS shiny!
@Azure Stroke thickness might be a good way of doing it too. Actually I'm a little amused by the thought of particularly "meaty" words actually overrunning the smaller text on lines above or below.
Can always experiment and see what works well!
@Azure Okay that IS somewhat problematic. What do you imagine the line spacing looking like in general, then?
In other news, this is the best way I've ever seen to do a transition in a talk: https://youtu.be/Gfe-JKn7G0I?t=13m30s (watch for about a minute)
@ComputerHusband Been doing that recently with a friend via Steam streaming. Works pretty well!
@Azure Variable-width how? That seems like a font issue, not an encoding one...
@iks @szbalint This is a perfect example of one of those things that makes *perfect sense* until you think about it a while, then makes no sense at all, then makes perfect sense when you think about it more.
Languages often have some sort of command language in their repl, like GHC's ":foo" or OCaml's "#foo" commands. Python doesn't have one. So, you need to make it part of the language. And making it call a function when you just print something out Feels Wrong.
@Azure I knowwwwwww. ;_;
...though there's some reserved blocks, right? Could you use the codepoints for one of those along with a custom font?
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@sentamalin Ok but are there any workable Android clients for SSB? :-/ I can't bloody find any.
Woohoo, here we go! Do we have hashtags for this? #rustfest ? #rustfest2018? #rust
Iceland is so surreally pretty. I need to make time to visit it in depth soon.
@sentamalin Honestly sounds higher signal than Mastodon... I'll check it out.
If it ends up being a nice social-net-ish system of communication in general, it might be useful for other things, using references to DAT or IPFS for large data stuff.
