@grmpyprogrammer after the war, before Canada, was he in Germany or Romania? (lots of Romanian Transylvania is Saxon in architecture and history, but much of that population was displaced by/after the war.)
it used to be that when you write to your senator or congressional representative, you’d always get a response.
usually just a dumb, barely responsive form-letter precomposed about whatever issue you addressed. but still. something.
nowadays i find it is usually nothing. there is just no response, whether the communication is by submitting an online form, or sending certified postal mail.
i know. i am old.
@lauren new logo will be a shiny 3D apple with a bit of surface cut out revealing cranial tissue beneath.
@soc it’s just a place we still live. a nice place! we like it here!
this post could have been a meeting.
[new draft post] Authority minimization https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/09/authority-minimization/index.html
@scott i mean i would, look at us.
but i think yours is a fine intervention and a criticism well made!
and i sure hope that nobody's skin is thin enough to block you.
@scott (thanks for letting me know. i'll try to write a response to that response soon. but yours will be better!)
@scott i have great confidence that it would.
@scott i'm grateful you think well of it, or that you are reading it at all. (i'm certain that the version in your head is far better!)
@scott i haven't seen it. but i'm not shocked. housing writing brings out a lot of passions in my experience.
"Given I liked the Scala language, and did not like the Scala ecosystem, what else was there to do but to write my own ecosystem?" #LiHaoyi, encapsulating in one sentence how programmers are. https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/12yearsofthecomlihaoyiScalaPlatform.html
(i love scala's ecosystem eclecticism. most of my recent stuff combines Li Haoyi's remarkable libraries with ZIO painlessly.)
@grmpyprogrammer line of work / basis as insured “ucenic dogar”… i had to ask my wife, it seems he was an apprentice barrelmaker!
@grmpyprogrammer (Barth Carol is the name of the insured.)
@grmpyprogrammer in 1937-1938 he was given 6 weeks of benefits, by “stamp” (timbre) rather than by price list (lista de plata), i guess that would be reimbursal of market payments?
@grmpyprogrammer 25-May-1938 DIAGNOSIS (disease of which the insured suffers) fracture of the left calf, both bones (“ambele oase”). Then handwritten notations track progress until August 14, but beyond the dates I can’t make sense of them. The next page 12 is the same table extended horizontally, we can see matching the 25-May diagnosis under “TREATMENT PRESCRIBED and number of the medical order” it says “at the hospital” (la spital), then the week May 24-31.
@grmpyprogrammer Basically, our gentle barrelmaker broke his calf May 25, 1938 and was accorded health benefits by Romania’s prewar welfare state, including a week of hospital care and 6 weeks off of work. His condition continued to be monitored through August. He came from and lived until this his 18th year in very lovely places, worked, was injured, was helped. I wonder what the next years, which were less lovely and less civilized I’m afraid, brought our young gentleman.
@grmpyprogrammer so, issued in Medias, “judet” (something between state or province and county) Sighisoara, near the very beautiful, medieval, Dracula-esque city of Sighisoara. https://maps.apple.com/?address=Medias,%20Romania&auid=1548341400814320616&ll=46.161399,24.357288&lsp=6489&q=Medias&t=m
we forgot eternal summer
would mean the end of spring.
"if there’s no enjoyment or even basic respect, then the civil service will keep hemorrhaging talent." @Alon https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/06/08/quick-note-on-respecting-the-civil-service/
i sure hope we don’t look back and say the same thing about COVID-19. https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/112565919926622726
@grmpyprogrammer (anytime!)
living is a forever war.
[tech notebook] Should blogs adopt the itunes:category RSS tag? https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/08/should-blogs-adopt-the-itunescategory-rss-tag/index.html