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Thursday, 13th of January 2022, 8:13:55 UTC
8:27:11
Colleen
<selwyn> *flashbacks*
8:27:21
Colleen
<selwyn> the british one is even more
9:41:32
Colleen
<shinmera> Well they have way more expensive ones at other places
9:41:38
Colleen
<shinmera> Found it up to 120€, which is INSANE
9:41:50
Colleen
<shinmera> In Switzerland I had to pay 0.- for antigen, and 99.- for PCR.
9:44:24
Colleen
<selwyn> happily, britain is going to scrap lateral flow testing
9:44:36
Colleen
<selwyn> we will live with coronavirus by not knowing if we have it or not :)
9:49:18
Colleen
<shinmera> Fantastic
9:58:21
Colleen
<selwyn> i am hoping to go to els but presenting is out of the question unfortunately
9:58:37
Colleen
<shinmera> or rather :I, I suppose?
9:58:45
Colleen
<selwyn> i have to not fuck up my thesis
9:59:45
Colleen
<selwyn> first draft will be done very soon
10:01:21
Colleen
<selwyn> if i don't submit by mid-march there will be consequences
10:01:31
Colleen
<selwyn> but very doable. i can't get distracted though
10:02:00
Colleen
<shinmera> Yeah I wondered if that was why you hadn't been around in chat here
10:02:24
Colleen
<selwyn> i was simply too dumb to update the client
10:03:48
Colleen
<shinmera> Ah. Not really your fault we broke things
10:11:31
Colleen
<selwyn> we also published a paper just before the new year
10:11:40
Colleen
<selwyn> can't really believe i'm going to be done soon
10:12:06
Colleen
<selwyn> it looked almost impossible 18 months ago
10:13:55
Colleen
<shinmera> Well, same for Kandria lol
10:14:08
Colleen
<selwyn> oh yeah the slice!
10:16:31
Colleen
<selwyn> visually its incredible
10:16:44
Colleen
<selwyn> it keeps getting better and better which i didn't think possible
10:17:03
Colleen
<shinmera> :u I don't know how to interpret that lol
10:17:10
Colleen
<selwyn> it is very pretty
10:18:04
Colleen
<shinmera> It is, and it's mostly Fred's work lol
10:18:10
Colleen
<shinmera> The earlier regions had al ot more of my work
15:59:02
Colleen
<selwyn> i see the mystery of lichatters spam remains
19:23:10
drakonis
Shinmera: do you happen to have some kind of editor for trial yet?
19:23:51
drakonis
there was someone asking about game editors in #lispgames
19:23:54
Colleen
<shinmera> I used to in the past
19:24:00
Colleen
<shinmera> But no, not for a long time.
19:24:25
Colleen
<shinmera> It's currently not really fitting with how trial is architectured.
19:34:17
Colleen
<shinmera> For instance, an editor would require something akin to a "project file format" that it could load, manipulate, and save, in order to be useful
19:34:20
Colleen
<shinmera> Trial has no such thing
19:34:45
Colleen
<shinmera> Obviously Kandria has an editor, but that's because I have specified a world format and a save state format for that project.
19:35:06
Colleen
<shinmera> I'm not yet convinced I have the right idea on how to go about that, so I have not tried to backport it into Trial.
19:37:04
Colleen
<shinmera> An editor would also likely require some kind of architecture that knows how to deal with various types of objects, and have some protocol to offer customised controls depending on the object type, etc.
19:37:14
Colleen
<shinmera> Trial does not even specify a UI toolkit yet :v
19:37:53
Colleen
<shinmera> Anyway, my point is that it doesn't exist yet, but it might at some far time in the future. It's definitely nice to be able to place stuff in an editor rather than in code.
19:38:25
drakonis
so yesterday i learned about named-readtables
19:38:42
drakonis
this will certainly simplify building a bunch of embedded DSLs
19:38:53
drakonis
i cant believe that racket does not make it this easy lmao
19:39:33
drakonis
simplify using dsls in my project
19:39:34
Colleen
<shinmera> I have frankly found very sparse use of readtable shenanigans
19:40:01
Colleen
<shinmera> Though I also remember reader shenanigans being one of those "cool discoveries" when I learned lisp.
19:40:22
Colleen
<shinmera> But for many reasons I'm sure you'll discover they're often not a great tool :v
19:45:13
drakonis
perhaps i'm approaching my problem incorrectly
19:54:22
drakonis
okay, yes, i'm doing it wrong and using named-readtables isn't going to help me with anything
19:56:52
drakonis
not right now anyways.
Thursday, 13th of January 2022, 20:13:55 UTC