Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 120

Oh. Actually the real 2048 board is 4 wide. I ran with 6. No wonder I won. 4 was the default, but that sounded too small to me. Oops.

Still, it was nice to get a taste of winning, haha.

Yeeesss!!

First 2048 victory ever. Finally!

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One field of use for #tcl that I think people might find surprising is that it mixes well with #nix , at least to me.

Tcl in #nixos has few dependencies, so you can use it for miscellaneous scripts without feeling bad about it.

When doing Nix stuff you can easily get into a few layers of quoting, something Tcl's syntax handles better than the shell code people instinctively reach for.

Tcl excels at orchestrating and composing system commands, again a typical Nix concern.

Finally, even though the programming model could be said to be the inverse of functional programming, on a superficial level I think Nix code and Tcl have a shared aesthetic, they just look good together. 😃

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What brought this on is I started watching ENT4 after two decades of refusing to.

I starts with two episodes wrapping up the time shenanigans of the previous three seasons, and then a scene that I interpret as Daniels winking at the audience and promising never to do it again.

Apology accepted. Pre-Federation Vulcan and Andorian shenanigans is what I wanted ENT for and now that's all they do. Good season so far.

SNW > DS9 > TNG > LD > TOS > PIC3 ENT4 > DIS2..4 > VOY > PIC1..2 > PRO > ENT1..3 > DIS1

This is not definitive or final, it's off the cuff.

I have not seen TAS, but I'm pretty sure I will some time the next 12 months.

> Then, every year as the machine creates revenue you also dole out a bit of expense for the money that went into the machine. Money moves from Assets to Expenses.

And money moves from Income to Assets as people buy your product. It all evens out. On the balance sheet your machine turns into money in the bank, on the profit/loss sheet your expense is paired with income.

When you make a big investment it may be misleading to just say we spent this money, so we "lost" money this year. Instead you say we spent this money, but it wasn't a loss, see, now we have this nice big machine in our factory instead.

That's an asset. Instead of money going from our bank account to Expenses, the money is going from our bank account to maybe some Equipment account in Assets (the bank account itself is also in Assets).

Then, every year as the machine creates revenue you also dole out a bit of expense for the money that went into the machine. Money moves from Assets to Expenses. So if you buy a big machine every five years, now from an accounting perspective instead of taking a big expense every five years you are taking a fifth of a machine of expense every year, deferring the expense to the matching revenue and avoiding spikes in the profit vs loss.

I'll explain to those who haven't subjected themselves to accounting:

When you do your accounting, every plus needs to have its according minus.

What this means is obvious when you have revenue and expense, but you also have assets and liabilites and ways to carry figures from one year to the next.

Let's ignore the exotic parts for now (my "retained profit" is negative when I earn a profit whaat).

Let's also ignore for now the Italian rules from the 1200s that everything is just a different type of plus. That's just because mathematicians hated negative numbers until the 1800s.

How do the tax structures work that make it profitable to have less revenue? I don't get these "they killed it so they could deduct it" things.

In the simple taxation situations I have been in, if you have 16% corporate tax and you have 200 dollars revenue and 100 dollars deductable cost, after tax you have 84 dollars profit.

If you cut that revenue, woohoo, you have negative 100 dollars that can cancel out some other revenue for tax purposes, but like. You're saving 16 dollars in tax compared to if you didn't have that negative 100, but you're missing 168 dollars in profit that you would have had if you kept the revenue.

What's the maneuver that folks like Disney are doing?

Huh. I thought I had posted more information on this.

I bought a generic cable, sound still not working. I seem to remember I posted an issue somewhere, trying to find it while also asking on minifree IRC.

I'm on a Minifree ThinkPad T440p and the audio device exists but software messes up, gets buffer overruns and fast forwards the video when trying to write to the audio device.