First things first:

cósecúre-jen-i      rónata-sa       tese        reti-waicőmai
consecuar-lang-INS  write\IRR-PSV   seemingly   more-heavy
What is written in Consecuan sounds more important.

The height of wit, I know. (New grammar point, though: seþ and seis, i.e. ‘it’, are often left out, as they are here.)

For some reason I’ve got another urge to make some damn languages (though I’m sure it’ll be gone by tomorrow), and since its wiki page just stops in the middle of a section, Consecuan is as good a candidate as any. (Also, I have a few ideas, which I find helps.)

The main problem I have is the same as everyone, I imagine: not enough words. It takes a surprising amount of effort to come up with something that doesn’t sound absolutely retarded (though maybe that part’s just me), so I get like three words in and just give up. (A word generator is cheating, and at any rate it’d be far more effort than it’s worth to come up with one that gives good results. Still, it could be interesting I suppose?)

So yeah. I’m probably not going to actually make many Consecuan-related posts here, since that’s what the wiki’s for, but I just felt like mentioning it.

Edit: the wiki actually has some sort of a logo now (as does here). Let’s see if anyone notices. (I already know that answer to that, but still.)

No-content post ahoy!

No-one wants to see my xorg.conf, I know, but it took me forever to track down the right things for my touchpad. Damn thing doesn’t support multitouch though

(Also, man synaptics is useful.)

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This is why Qt is the best toolkit ever. Shame the Kubuntu repos still only have 4.3. (I know I could update it myself, but that will invariably prove to be a pain in the bum somewhere down the line.)

For some reason I never really connected MapReduce with futures in my mind until just now, but yes. Everyone knows the real name for reduce is foldl, though. :v

Since the computer labs didn’t have LyX installed, I’m writing my CS essays (one of which is due today…) in Vim. Someone in SH/SC or the CoC or somewhere mentioned a few things which would make it less painful (setting linebreak and nolist, mapping up/down to gk/gj, and so on), and of course, spell checking.

I thought spell checking would be terrible, it would try to ‘correct’ all the markup, and finding dictionaries would be a pain. But as always Vim knows what it’s doing. Only text with no other highlighting is checked, and to get a dictionary you just have to do

:mksp <output file> /usr/share/dict/words.

Put the resultant .spl file in ~/.vim/spell and all is well.

In conclusion: if you think Vim can’t do something, you’re wrong. (Well, except for diagnosing mental disorders.)