@walnut @danhon I was playing through it until the power died today. I haven't gotten to space yet, but the friends who did say it's good. Not as complex as the space exploration mod, but complex enough and the planets have much more variety and personality. I'm pre-space still but enjoying the 2.0 tweaks I've seen so far!

@danhon factorio with the space age expansion is highly addictive and known to cause time travel, in that it'll suddenly be tomorrow without you noticing. Set alarms to remind you to hydrate and/or eat

@mcdanlj thanks, I may have questions later, when the power comes back and I can use a proper computer and Internet to load stuff, rather than a phone on an overloaded local cell network

@dgentry thanks for the pointers! Up here we have no time of use rates yet, so a lot of the value of local storage is diminished compared to other locales. We could either size the storage to ride out common outage lengths, or at least use it with a generator input so that the generator need run less frequently, and at peak efficiency when it does. And of course there's the option of a solar hookup, even with low insolation and no sell-back incentives...

@puppygirlhornypost2 ah no, I'm on Vancouver Island, southwest Canada (aka the PNW, since geography doesn't care for borders). Lovely place, but in the fall the Juan de Fuca strait forms a big wind tunnel, which doesn't mix well with the whole trees everywhere vibe.

@dave_andersen I'm interested! I'm likely to err on the side of boring for base utilities (same reason i use a boring home router instead of homeland nonsense, my hobbies should not be able to take down the Internet for the household ), but always up for some ideas and data!

@puppygirlhornypost2 we do have a couple charged power banks for phones and laptops and the like, but haven't reached for them yet due to being trapped by cat. And the hydro is usually pretty quick to repair the grid. Then again, over 30k without power and at least 3 separate breaks between us and the working grid...

@puppygirlhornypost2 we lit the wood stove for backup heat, waiting for the kettle to boil on said stove for some hand-wrought coffee, and I'm rereading the Foundation novels with an extremely comfy cat on my lap. Tbh, there are worse ways to spend a morning!

It's been a Year, but things might be settling down enough that it could be time to see about house batteries and a generator, maybe. Too late for this windstorm season, but climate ain't getting gentler...

"I think I'm over burnout just enough to hack a bit on a fun thing"

Power: *immediately goes out due to giant windstorm, tens of thousands without electricity, no ETA to repair multiple breaks*

Welp

Oh. Well, all of Cyrillic for one. Or at least the bits not yet covered by Latin, Greek and Coptic scripts. And then Georgian and Armenian get their own sections too.

I'm in the Unicode spec chapter on latin scripts. I've reached characters that were only ever seen on a handful of ancient Nubian parchments, and I'm only two thirds of the way through the chapter. What the hell has it got reserved for an encore?

> U+2CBD COPTIC SMALL LETTER CRYPTOGRAMMIC NI

Wait... We're the knights who say Ni a subtle linguistic joke by Terry Jones this whole time?

In the Unicode standard's section on Greek, another little mind-blower: archaic Greek texts didn't use spaces between words.

Which... Yeah, I'd never thought about it, but in the early days of writing someone had to invent the idea of visually separating words.

Try as I might, rust programming is many things but it's never, fun, or even particularly pleasant. That's a problem for things I want to do that should be fun.

Realized I've been putting off more tinkering with my FPGA core just because I talked myself into needing a pile of rust for some simulation support stuff. But... I can simply not? I have the go bits in place already, I just need a tiny bit of extra C and I can keep doing the fun bit.

@stilescrisis I'm very disappointed that the page I loaded wasn't (apparently) completely empty Neat reference, thank you!

@robpike I'm sure the Unicode consortium would never, they're serious people doing a serious job. And besides, humanity's made enough of a pig's breakfast of things that there's probably no need to go out of their way to find exceptions.

But the deeper I get into the spec, the more the intrusive thought crops up.

@robpike Reading the spec, I do sometimes wonder if there's a secret game going on to encode a character that is an exception to every rule or non-normative regular pattern, as a form of greasing/anti-ossification.

"Oh dear, all the characters with 'HYPHEN' in their name behave similarly, someone might depend on that. Quick, add a hyphen-like character that doesn't have 'HYPHEN' in its name, and a character that does have 'HYPHEN' but behaves completely differently!"

@EveOfTheFuture Having solved all other societal issues, they are now engaged in the typographic equivalent of experimental high energy physics.