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Dreamer. Muesli enthusiast.
#Musician #Coder #Writer #Cartoonist #SingerSongwriter #Mefite #StLeonards #UK
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*any time you are holding a fork.
I think I am beginning to figure out my mistake.
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To avoid stabbing yourself in the hand with a fork, simply remember to refrain from stabbing yourself in the hand next time you are holding a fork.
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First part of the comic up, just in case anyone is still here: https://comic.conniptions.org/comics/795.html
I'll post it properly tomorrow.
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Anyway, I have drawn Elon Musk.
Now to draw the rest of the fucking owl...
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I really don't want to draw Elon Musk.
But there is no other way.
Bah.
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Text on this tightened up a bit, hope it's a bit funnier and less wordy now.
Time to try and turn it into a cartoon.
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@futurebird Awesome, ty.
Instruments are all about the interface, from which technique and the range of technique possibilities are an emergent property. So yeah, you could replicate some of the sound possibilities of this purely in software but some things would be really hard to do, maybe […]
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FWIW, some context: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/experts-urge-caution-over-use-of-chinese-ai-deepseek
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[Dependency hell]
No en-croissant The Ultimate Chess Toolkit for me, then.
I *could* raise an issue saying 'does not compile on ancient versions of Ubuntu' but I suspect a reasonable answer would be 'no shit, Sherlock, it won't run on a 286 either, closing this up as silly' or similar.
It's […]
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[Dependency hell]
Not only this, but looks like it will never compile, because it depends secretly on a minimum version of glib-2.0 which is still two LTS releases away from where I'm at, and there's no way of shoe-horning that in without breaking a whole bunch of stuff I'd rather not break […]
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[Dependency hell]
Update: node has compiled, after only a couple of hours during which I have done my daily violin practice and made dinner. Finally installed pnpm, downloaded the source code of the thing I wanted to install and...
*drumroll*
It doesn't compile.
Joy.
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[Dependency hell]
Update: still compiling
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[Dependency hell]
Update: node is still compiling. This gives me plenty of time to remember whatever it was, assuming nothing goes awry. Laptop is nice and toasty to type on.
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@alisynthesis Ok then, here you go,