2024-07-08 03:04:38 <KipIngram   > Well, Beryl has decided it's coming right at us, instead of coming ashore down where Texas and Mexico meet as was originally forecast.
2024-07-08 03:04:58 <KipIngram   > It'll make landfall in the next six or eight hours.
2024-07-08 03:09:04 <thrig       > beryl roll, I think those are called in airspace
2024-07-08 03:18:58 <KipIngram   > Yeah, they go through the alphabet, don't they?
2024-07-08 03:22:24 <thrig       > not the google headquaters!
2024-07-08 03:37:58 <KipIngram   > Oh, sorry - I was talking about official hurricane names.
2024-07-08 03:49:59 <zelgomer    > whoosh
2024-07-08 03:55:39 <crc         > hopefully Beryl won't be too severe when it reaches you
2024-07-08 03:56:22 <crc         > (my brother lives in grenada, when it hit them, he made it through ok, but the island about 20 miles north of him was almost completely destroyed)
2024-07-08 05:17:36 <KipIngram   > Yeah, it's only supposed to come ashore at a category 1, and will weaken a little by the time it gets to us.  So I'm hoping the same.
2024-07-08 09:53:16 <veltas      > Prayers for you lot
2024-07-08 16:22:53 <rendar      > KipIngram, how's things there?
2024-07-08 16:26:19 <dlowe       > wow, that's intense
2024-07-08 16:31:50 <KipIngram   > We're under the eye at the moment.
2024-07-08 16:31:56 <KipIngram   > Calm.
2024-07-08 16:32:22 <KipIngram   > I suspect the back side will be weaker than the front was.
2024-07-08 16:32:41 <veltas      > Wow
2024-07-08 16:33:09 <KipIngram   > So I'm betting just coasting on through from here won't be that hard.  Our AC is out, though, and that is NOT going to be fun tomorrow, the next day, etc. when the sun comes blazing back out.
2024-07-08 16:33:46 <KipIngram   > And there's no telling how long it may take to get someone out here to fix it, what with a whole city of storm-affected folks that need tending to.
2024-07-08 16:34:12 <KipIngram   > Fortunately I had an appointment with an AC guy for other reasons anyway, so maybe I'm at least high on a list.
2024-07-08 16:36:11 <KipIngram   > olle: Yes, eye of the storm.
2024-07-08 16:36:24 <olle        > KipIngram: Yikes, god's speed
2024-07-08 16:36:44 <olle        > No
2024-07-08 16:36:46 <olle        > Godspeed* :)
2024-07-08 16:36:50 <olle        > Hehe
2024-07-08 16:36:53 <KipIngram   > Winds earlier were mostly out of the northeast, and now there's hardly any at all.  Birds have come back out, etc.  But in a little while we'll get wind out of the southwest.
2024-07-08 16:37:01 <KipIngram   > Thanks.
2024-07-08 16:38:00 <KipIngram   > The thing is, this is awfully early in the season to already be getting a hurricane here.  It's only the second one in the Atlantic this year.  I usually think of "prime hurricane season" as several months later, like September/October time frame.
2024-07-08 16:39:11 <olle        > Yea, that's what people has been saying. Earlier storms, more storms, wetter.
2024-07-08 16:39:16 <olle        > have* been
2024-07-08 16:40:12 <zelgomer    > you haven't sacrificed enough virgins to the weather gods
2024-07-08 19:08:10 <zelgomer    > i had a revelation today regarding factor (and i suppose other functional/quotation-based forths)
2024-07-08 19:10:00 <zelgomer    > i was thinking about how a feature that forth offers over most other languages is that all words are first-class (despite that it's not really advertised as a FP language). e.g., you can get the xt of foo and pass it around, but you can also get the xt of operators like + and use it exactly the same way. but then it occurred to me that the only thing you can't take the xt of with ' are numeric literals
2024-07-08 19:10:23 <zelgomer    > and string literals
2024-07-08 19:11:03 <zelgomer    > and then i thought, i guess if you ever wanted such a thing, you can always wrap it in a quotation. like if i wanted an xt that, when executed, pushes the string "hello", then i would probably write  [: " hello" ;]
2024-07-08 19:11:54 <zelgomer    > and that's when it hit me, that's what languages like factor are doing. quotations are more to them than just inlined words, they're more like a combination of traditional forth ' and function composition
2024-07-08 23:49:57 <KipIngram   > Well, it's all over now, except the inconvenience of getting everything fixed.  I don't have enough internet redundancy - I get really unhappy and sour when I can't reliably get online.  I'm thinking of adding a StarLink setup to my inventory.
2024-07-08 23:50:21 <KipIngram   > "If all else fails..."