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I just posted "Replying with Letter Quotes, have you tried it? [ my first time, and it worked well, I think ]" on Reddit

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Yann's new Blog page for users is out...
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"Replying with Letter Quotes, have you tried it?"

A much nicer, enhanced version of this post is now at my new Blog. With added comments, links, formatting.

is for and

wordsmith.social/friends-near-
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Positivity helps.
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Go after your dreams & bring them to life!

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The Stamps Flower Whispers Volume 2 stamp set is Controversial.

Which stamp is visually a better Design ? Left or Right ?

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Molly heard something!
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I’m sure I heard the neighbours opening a tin of tuna 🖤🐾
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Fried Rice is wonderful. Homemade, better yet!


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Homemade fried rice for dinner! 😋
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* A Letter to L on a misty May evening *

Last night, as I wrote one of the replies, which I really enjoyed, I felt it would work well as a Blog post - and this morning I prepared it, and it's now Published.

The letter is at : wordsmith.social/friends-near-

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* A Letter to L on a misty May evening *

Last night I read and wrote replies to various letters; from my friends in different countries, all over the World, which I discovered and connected with via the Slowly app.

As I wrote one of the replies, which I really enjoyed, I felt it would work well as a Blog post - and this morning I prepared it, and it's now Published.

See it at "Friends Near and Afar, Letters we Share and Cherish" Blog.

The letter is at : wordsmith.social/friends-near-

#Slowly is for #Writers #penpals #Friendship #Culture #Interchange

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Cat Entertainment window is a huge success.


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Cat Entertainment window is a huge success.
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Molly, charming as usual.


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Thought I’d celebrate by baking a little Molly Muffin this morning. Hope everyone has a great day and gets up to plenty mischief 🖤🐾
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@k11m1 Yeah, it was something that was needed when computing power was a precious resource, much less common, and we needed to conserve it.

Good things resulted from that - people created solutions to enable remote access, shared systems, one large machine that processed tasks from many people or departments; scheduling, so you could slot a job for some late hour when there were less people around.

Following the logic is a good thing, as you write line by line, it should make sense, and flow -- or else, why did you use that line, and the next?

There are pesky typos that break things, but other than those small input errors, the code should be understandable and make sense.

Someone else might have to work on it someday, and that will make their job easier and faster too.

Back in time programming languages were developed to cater to some specific need or group of users; making it easier to create the projects they needed.

We used Fortran, which is Formula Translation; it was created for Science and Engineering students and professionals.

I had a room mate who was in the Math department, we were both 1st year students, had the same Profs (from Math department), and the same assignments.

But his class used another language, called Algol - which was a better fit for Math people's needs.

We enjoyed comparing the finished results of our assignments; quite simply, we looked at the thickness of each other's stack of cards. Sometimes, Algol would win (win being a smaller deck, less processing time), other times Fortran got it. 😄

It was my first time ever seeing and working with a computer -- a mammoth Burroughs 5500 mainframe, and I loved every aspect of it.

Over time, I observed that I could tell right away when something was broken in a new project.

* When I had my source code written up, the next step was to hand it in, for a pool of secretaries who would prepare our cards, overnight. Or find a spare IBM punch machine somewhere (my preferred, faster route).

* Got the cards? Processing time! Go to the computing center, and get in line with other students with their own decks; we lined up outside, in front of a room that contained a card reader (input) and a large printer (output). This was a smaller room, wired to the computer next door which was all air conditioned to around 18 degrees C year around.

* The card reader had two doors, it's own Input and Output of student processing; in via one, hand in the deck, watch it be read, get a printout, out via the other door.

* As the deck was handed in and loaded into the card reader, we stood watching, hoping for a good run. Any result would produce a paper printout, those continuous paper forms. Many times, it was a report of an error at some point.

* processing took some seconds; and I noticed that sucess or failure was indicated by the card reader behaviour; a perfect program would pass thru the reader in linear fashio, smooth flow. I got excited, maybe this time it's all Good!!

* I also noticed that hesitations in the stack flow indicated errors; it would stop at some card, pause or a few seconds, Bad sign! 😔 Soon it would resume, a short report printed, and a more or less dejected student headed out door #2.

...to go back to his desk, his notes and code write up. Read the report (quite cryptic usually), and trace thru the programme to find what was wrong.

Getting a smooth card reader flow was an instant sign I might have made it - and at best happened at the 3rd try or so (worse sometimes, in harder jobs or if you weren't focused enough).

Some great work was done in developing whole languages to be used for teaching Programming, like Pascal -- good habits would carry on into a professional's work life, and be appreciated by anyone working with this person, or later maintaining their legacy code.

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Z(1) = Y + W(1)

Statement in this input device.

The famous "punched cards", which each cold hold 80 characters or one line of programming instructions or data for processing.

I learned this language, and created my assignments in decks of those cards.

Back in November, when I was starting here, we had a delightful thread about it, which included this image.

@k11m1 -- see it here : qoto.org/@design_RG/1031544014

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One line of computer programming, whichever language you were using. Up to 80 characters wide, same as the card's width.

I remember. And we loved it. No home computers, no cellphones, no internet. Mid 70's in my case.

@Full_marx

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Three little ones.


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...but I am not the only one...


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They say I’m a dreamer.
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Feeed Us!!


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This may look like a glorious morning view but these piercing eyes followed by a chorus of shrieking meows demand one thing only; Breakfast. Now.
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So pretty, now no longer with us. Farewell, Tundra. RIP, little sister. 😢


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I left to be with my brother this morning 🌈 my family is devastated. Thank you for y’all’s kindness 💙 farewell friends ☀️
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@nolan @design_RG @freemo

Relevant ones highlighted in yellow.

1. Compartilhar -- Share (with other apps);

2. Copiar -- Copy (to system clipboard);

I was thinking about the usefullness of this feature, and thought you could consider it?

Thank you!

And maybe @a1batross might consider adding this to Husky as well -- Thank you also.

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@nolan Feature Request for Pinafore :

Could you consider adding a context menu option to a Toot -- offering Save, or Share, or Copy possibly?

Useful to recover good info from DMs, which I could import into our Forum for permanent records for example. I woudl like this feature, and found it is implemente in Fedilab.

Screenshots attached. (all menus in Portuguese)

The screenshot with possible options, lots of them.

@design_RG @freemo 1/2

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Waiting at the Gate...


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As soon as the staff look away we're planning to escape from the garden 😸
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