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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 06:58:02 EDT clacke
   In the bag next to the HP 2530p was the bag with the Dell Latitude E4300[0] that I just got from a relative during Christmas 2016. I installed NixOS on it and then didn't have time to do much more, so I left it with my parents. Now I fired it up again. Firefox had an interrupted session to revive.
   
   A dump of my brain state (my open tabs) just after Christmas 2016:
   
   http://hintjens.com/blog:93
   https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/525229148063952896
   https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/chapter4.html
   https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22/C4/
   https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/
   https://www.google.se/search?q=C4.1+hintjens
   https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/314436669929570304
   https://identi.ca/avadiax/note/Z0BADPsiTrysqjJ5GG0zdQ
   https://hub.polari.us/steve/note/thsBMY_qTj2TWdK7mcXmJw
   https://identi.ca/cwebber/
   https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2016-12-13_Too_Cool_for_PGP.html
   http://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-beyond-javascript/
   http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCAR_CDR.html
   
   [0] Just like the HP 2530p, it's a Core 2 Duo 2.x GHz, fantastic keyboard, 1280x800 screen, tiny but not quite as light, 80 GB HDD instead of 128 GB. I don't see the power cord anywhere, but miraculously the HP cord fits and nothing was incinerated, although BIOS said I was using a weird unknown cord and battery probably wouldn't charge. Both of the machines are (years!) older than the cheapest-possible Lenovo with an AMD E1 we bought in 2012, and both feel snappier. Ok, you "Moore is dead" people. You may have the facts on your side, but now my gut agrees with you as well.
   
   I need to find more of these machines and keep them in store because OMG THE KEYBOARDS. Wonderful to type on and none of they keys are in stupid places!!!11! Home/End/Insert/Delete top right, Esc top left, Ctrl bottom left with Fn to its right, and arrow keys in WASD formation bottom right, with PgUp/PgDown on either side of Up. How are everyone getting this wrong these days?? The resistance on this Dell keyboard is a little bit stronger than on the HP, and it has that perfect Amiga 1000-like response. It's a dream.
   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:04:21 EDT clacke

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      The collection of links is testament to the massive coincidence of factors that is my life at the moment. So I was reading up on Hintjens and C4 and LISP in late 2016? And then in 2018-02 I started working with a guy that has met Hintjens, who puts C4 in every project he touches, and has recently gone Full Racket?
      
      If it weren't real it would be unrealistic.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:06:39 EDT clacke

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         Oh yeah, and we're working in Nix full time, and this computer was the first one I made full NixOS. I discovered that the FF session had another window. The active tab was https://twitter.com/garbas/status/809355104256196608 , about SAT3, package managers and Nix/Guix.
         1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:11:08 EDT clacke

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            https://lobste.rs/s/r0mtfw/thoughts_on_dependency_hell_is_np is the @lobsters discussion on a reply to that article, which was open in the next tab.
            1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:16:45 EDT clacke

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               Another tab of synchronicity.
               
               https://github.com/wingo/fibers/wiki/Manual
               
               The day before yesterday on the plane I wrote to @cwebber about goblins, which is a port of 8sync, which is Not Entirely Unrelated to Fibers[0].
               
               [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/8sync/manual/8sync.html#g_t8sync-and-Fibers
               1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 14-May-2018 07:18:06 EDT clacke

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                  (and just like everything else mentioned this is also Fractalide-related, as the discussion in that mail is about Actors, CSP and FBP)
   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 16-May-2018 09:44:19 EDT clacke

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      http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-slim-power-adapter-90-watt/apd/332-1833/pc-accessories
      70 USD for a new power supply (I am using the HP power supply, which miraculously happened to fit, but it won't charge the battery) is far less terrible than I expected.