In recreational mathematics, a magic square is a square grid (equal number of rows and columns) filled with distinct numbers such that the numbers in each row, and in each column, as well as the numbers in the main and secondary diagonals, all add up to the same value, called the magic constant.
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I accept my limitations and I forgive myself for them
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Wada (creator of the Happy Hacking Keyboard): because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces.
The HHKB shirt says: 「馬の鞍」- saddle of a horse.
The Conc is ready for hibernation. Seven and a half gallons of STA-BIL treated gasoline fill the tank. Battery tender attached.
Via LinkedIn APL Group via Dyalog via Jsoftware:
APL’s birthday was fifty years ago:
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Happy belated birthday APL.
Did you know you can use the first 24 hours after a traumatic or disturbing event to mitigate its long term effects on your mind and body? Here’s how to begin.
My goal is to create a logo. It doesn’t have to be a Paul Rand quality logo. Instead, I just gotta like it. Adobe Illustrator (AI) is a fine tool for the job.
AI is flexible. Working in it feels more to me like programming than illustration. Don’t get me wrong though, it is a tool for designers, and, I am not. Although every Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) application includes at least one built in JavaScript interpreter, I am not talking about programming here. Instead the similarities between programming and illustrating are that
My plan follows.
The most important keys on any keyboard for an Emacs user are the Operation Keys (I made up that term). Without them Emacs would be useless. For Techne (the new name for my Emacs keyboard project) I decided to use symbols instead of letters for them.
The operations cluster is on both the left and right side of the keyboard. Yes, that is a full twenty keys just to make life happier in Emacs! I love keyboards so dedicating twenty keys to a critical task is perfect for me. These sections live on a eight row by sixteen column layout so there is plenty of room. It’s bottom left corner is position (1,1) (Row, Column) increasing as you go up and to the right (ala Cartesian coordinates). In the table I wrote the key name and then the symbol. The picture only includes the symbol.
Legend: C# (column number)
| Row | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two | Hyper ⬖ | Super ⬙ | Meta ⬗ | Control ⬘ | Space ⭕ |
| One | Alt ⎇ | GUI ⃟ | Ultra ◆ | Shift ⇧ | Enter ⎆ |
Ultra is: C-m-S-H. Emacs can handle that including the Shift modifier along with it. In case you haven’t encountered it yet, here is how to get all of the Emacs modifiers on a modern USB keyboard.
My symbol choices started with Sun’s meta symbol. After playing around with that, reading Xah’s page on Unicode input symbols, searching for and comparing symbols with PopChar and playing around with a ton of combinations I ended up here. It is nice because it settles on the diamond theme.
