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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Cool that you’re trying something new out! I also often find prefix arguments a bit unintuitive in my flow.

    First of all, you’re right that you could do (eat nil 4) to simulate the prefix argument. I do this in a number of my helpers.

    For my advice on your code, I think it would be easier to understand if you used a let* block to assign meaningful variable names. I’m writing this from my phone, so it’s hard to give a detailed example, but:

    (let* ((eat-buffers (match-buffers "\*eat\*"))
           (last-buffer (last (sort eat-buffers))))
     ;; Body
    )
    

    And so on. This would let you reuse some values, and would also reduce the amount of nesting in your code.

    Edit: Missed a few parentheses, fixing syntax highlighting











  • I’m playing Wylde Flowers. It’s a farm sim game with witchcraft, but I mostly like it because it is extremely low-stress. No inventory management, no time pressure to do things, just building a farm and talking to / romancing people.

    I picked it up after I got to the point in Subnautica where you have too much contact with leviathans, and I need something calm and relaxing. Maybe I’ll make more Subnautica progress soon, though :).

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  • When I toured the concentration camp at Dachau some years ago, the tour guide was very clear on this point: people did elect the Nazis.

    In 1932, the Nazi party became the largest party in the German parliament, with 37.3% of the vote. It is true that it was not mandatory to make Hitler chancellor, but as the head of the largest party, it would have been expected.

    The Nazi party received massive support in democratic elections, where the expectation of the voters would have been that if the Nazi party gained enough seats, Hitler would become chancellor.

    This is an important point to me, as it shows that it is possible for democratic elections to result in a fascist government that dismantles democracy. Ignoring this historical example prevents us from applying the lesson to new situations.


  • Hah. I tried doing some research about what this kind of drain is called, but I have no idea. I’ve never had a drain like this before, but I guess it must not be too rare?

    In my case, the issue is that it starts to stink a lot. We had a plumber out a few years ago, and he opened that thing up and used a plunger to remove a ton of hair. He then suggested we wash it out every now and again, but I haven’t been able to do it for a while now, since I can’t get that thing open.