Happy things thread!

[Man in Space]

Band practice today went fantastic. My collaborator paid me a huge compliment: One of our WIPs ends with a vamped passage for the outro (for the recording it’s supposed to fade out) and I decided to go a little nuts with the ride cymbal, snare, and toms. When we ended it, he had a grin and told me that he really loved what I was doing but he had to fight the urge to smile because doing so would make his earbuds fall out.

[Raphael]

Nice to see something good happening to you once in a while!

[Travis B.]

Nice!

[Ares Land]

Band practice today went fantastic. My collaborator paid me a huge compliment: One of our WIPs ends with a vamped passage for the outro (for the recording it’s supposed to fade out) and I decided to go a little nuts with the ride cymbal, snare, and toms. When we ended it, he had a grin and told me that he really loved what I was doing but he had to fight the urge to smile because doing so would make his earbuds fall out.

And I'm really happy to hear that!

[Man in Space]

Took a few hours but I alphabetized my record collection this afternoon.

[Travis B.]

I have written a guide to zeptoscript over the last few days or so and also implemented classes for non-"object" types to enable the implementation of words such as show ( value -- string ), for converting any value into a human-readable string; hash ( value -- hash ), for turning any value into a hash; and equal? ( value1 value0 -- equal? ), for testing the equality of any pair of values.

[Man in Space]

I’m on the way back to my college town for the Norman Music Festival.

[Ares Land]

I have written a guide to zeptoscript over the last few days or so and also implemented classes for non-"object" types to enable the implementation of words such as show ( value -- string ), for converting any value into a human-readable string; hash ( value -- hash ), for turning any value into a hash; and equal? ( value1 value0 -- equal? ), for testing the equality of any pair of values.

Nice!

[Man in Space]

I have successfully acquired a new OtterBox.

[sasasha]

a really interesting collection of essays

in a rather lovely edition

I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!

[Raphael]

a really interesting collection of essays

in a rather lovely edition

I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!

Oh, thank you very much! I wouldn't have thought anyone would like the book so much that they'd post about it in this thread of all places!

[Ares Land]

a really interesting collection of essays

in a rather lovely edition

I received my copy of The Philosophy Graduate’s Fallacy and other essays (by Raphael Landeck, ed. Mark Rosenfelder) yesterday and am really enjoying it!

So did I, and I'm happy about it too!

[Travis B.]

I have gotten FAT32 support (mostly) working in zeptoscript -- and I only say "mostly" because I have not tested files larger than one cluster yet. It took far less to get to this point in zeptoscript than I did in zeptoforth. Of course, that is largely because this was largely a translation of code from zeptoforth to zeptoscript. One thing that is significant, though, is that this is far more user-friendly than the original code was in zeptoforth. Now you can trivially do things like:

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zscript-fs import
zscript-block-dev import
zscript-simple-fat32 import

global my-fs

: init-fs ( -- )
  2 3 4 5 0 make-simple-fat32-fs my-fs!
  true my-fs@ write-through!
;

: list-dir ( path -- )
  my-fs@ open-dir { dir }
  begin
    dir read-dir if { entry }
      cr entry name@ type
      entry entry-dir? if ." /" then
      false
    else
      drop true
    then
  until
  dir close
;

Now executing s" /" list-dir will list the files and directories in the FAT32 filesystem in partition 0 of the SDHC card connected to SPI peripheral 0 through SPI pins 2, 3, and 4 and the chip select pin 5, and for listed directories / will be placed after their names to make their directory-ness obvious to the user.

[doctor shark]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

[bradrn]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Very fascinating and important work!

[Travis B.]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Congrats!

[Raphael]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the verb of the sentence?

[WeepingElf]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the verb of the sentence?

I am not the author, but I know enough of chemistry to answer the question: Yes, complex is the verb here. You will have guessed it, it means 'to form a complex'.

[Raphael]

This finally went online! (Took long enough...)

Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the verb of the sentence?

I am not the author, but I know enough of chemistry to answer the question: Yes, complex is the verb here. You will have guessed it, it means 'to form a complex'.

Thank you!

[doctor shark]

Great! Do I get this right that in "It is found that perfluoroalkyl diacids and pillar-[5]-arenes rapidly and strongly complex with each other at aqueous interfaces, forming solid interfacially templated films.", "complex" is the verb of the sentence?

I am not the author, but I know enough of chemistry to answer the question: Yes, complex is the verb here. You will have guessed it, it means 'to form a complex'.

Thank you!

And WeepingElf is correct!

Very fascinating and important work!

Congrats!

Thanks! I'm especially proud of the fact that three of my M.Sc. thesis students are coauthors.