ukfarmer · HackerTrans

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In Firefox 98.0, it actually works but is well-hidden. You not only have to turn on dom.webmidi.enabled in about:config as you've already done, but also need to manually add 'Access MIDI devices' and 'Access MIDI devices with SysEx support' permissions for the page in Tools -> Page Info before reloading, as otherwise it silently fails instead of prompting for confirmation. Hot-plugging interfaces after the browser is launched also doesn't seem to work yet.

ukfarmer

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This website was redesigned a little while back, and the replacement is still missing a lot of useful content that was on its predecessor.

For example, although tor --help still sends users to https://www.torproject.org/, as far as I know it's impossible to find the daemon documentation starting from there. The older website https://2019.www.torproject.org/ does have these docs, but it's surprisingly hard to turn up in a search. (You're much more likely to turn up old documentation on one of the man pages sites.)

It's interesting to compare https://www.torproject.org/ and https://2019.www.torproject.org/ more generally. To my eyes, the new site is uglier, less inviting and less useful, but I'm probably just getting old so my tastes don't align with fashion, if they ever did!

ukfarmer

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I had the same problem building Kakoune on more elderly systems, and settled for building a static binary on my own machine that I could then run on shell accounts on other people's boxes if the toolchain isn't new enough to build in situ.

kak locates its runtime library relative to the binary path, so it works fine in ~/bin & ~/lib or ~/.local/bin & ~/.local/lib even if your home directory is different on different machines.

ukfarmer

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I'm puzzled by which machines are covered by these regulations, and which aren't.

I bought a new farm telehandler three or four years ago, and a dairy farmer friend did about the same time. His machine has the reversing alarm which is apparently non-optional. Mine doesn't, and as far as I know, they never sell anything with one.

They're from different manufacturers and mine's centre-pivot whereas his is side-mount, but they're basically similar-sized kit to do the same job. Nonetheless, only one of us makes an enemy of the neighbours at 4am. (I wonder if the rules only require them for construction sites, and my manufacturer doesn't sell into that market whereas his does?)

ukfarmer

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"A more intuitive solution would be to resolve globs to nothing (the empty string) if they don't match."

I agree, so I use shopt -s nullglob in both bash scripts and interactive shells. It retrained my interactive habits with find very quickly because unquoted wildcards no longer work in the common case where there's no match in the current directory.

(I like dotglob, extglob, globstar and pipefail everywhere too: saner defaults than emulating traditional shell behaviours.)

ukfarmer

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Sorry, I don't I'm afraid. I have plenty of stories of my complete incompetence to relate, but I find it so much harder to motivate myself to write that kind of thing in the evenings than to tinker with software projects.

ukfarmer

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Not at all: I'm between Ellesmere and Whitchurch, same end of the county as you.

ukfarmer

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The one thing I did that I'd recommend to anyone who wants to move into running a farm business: spend as much time as you can working for other farmers before you start. You'll have fun, learn loads, find your strengths and weaknesses, etc.

The great thing is, if you are able to juggle tech stuff and farm work, each feels a bit like time-off from the other because they're so different.

ukfarmer

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Ah, I was on HN before I was a full-time farmer, and I still work on various free software stuff. After we sold the startup I co-founded to a large acquirer, I took on a Shropshire farm where I've been building a calf-rearing and beef enterprise.

ukfarmer

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Also, we don't pick the time we start or finish work based on what the clock says, although the weather definitely has quite a lot of input!

The main effect of BST vs GMT on farm life is the unexpected one hour jump in the times of day that non-farm stuff happens, e.g. deliveries, times you can phone business, when the vet closes, etc.

ukfarmer

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UK farmer here. We're often cited as justification for BST vs GMT, but it's complete nonsense. We don't care! In fact, the discontinuity is a nuisance to us in many of the same ways as it is to city people.

Time-dependent natural processes don't reconfigure themselves when some administrative body decides to shuffle the names of various times of day. If my cows want breakfast at 6am and you shift the clocks forward, they'll start shouting for Food Man(tm) at 5am instead.

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