Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

Making progress on the scarf. This pattern calls for sparse spacing in the weft (6ppi) with a finer yarn and it's weird seeing these gaps. Apparently it all fills in when off the loom and washed. #weaving

This was after I had to undo half my warping work to center it, and tangled the yarn while rewinding it on the original skein. I spent at least an hour untangling and rewinding all 250 yards into a ball so it wouldn't tangle again.

In a warp zone. #weaving #scarf

@girthychode No, this is by design:
https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/

@kop316 HUGE! Thank you SO much for all your work on this!

@rastinza Sure thing! I'll probably start it in a week or so after I get to a good stopping point in Durant Vol III.

Pretty excited to start this book. I've found the quality of translation really matters and this most recent translation of We is supposed to be the best.

"Farmers have already told us that they’re buying older tractors to avoid the software repair restrictions that manufacturers like Deere put in place." https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxd8wy/the-used-tractor-market-is-far-wilder-than-the-used-car-market

@Thalass Yeah, pushing a safety razor hard enough against my skin to roll that roller runs counter to everything I know about safety razor shaving.

@yaelwrites That was one of the more interesting (and more personally nostalgic) parts of Snowden's autobiography. He, like me, came of age online in the late `90s and observed that the prevalence of anonymous forums and chat allowed him to try out a new idea or belief and be able to abandon it (by switching to a new persona) once he found it didn't hold up. Now such explorations online are tied to your identity and follow you forever.

After doing more research it turns out this razor was known as the King Oscillator and is one of the few safety razors out there that require proprietary blades! No wonder you don't see many of these around anymore...

Today's antique store find: a King razor plated in 22 karat gold. The roller on the top rolls against your face and makes the razor blade move back and forth. I'm actually more nervous about shaving with this than my vibrating Stahly razor.

Dragging the chain and hearing the gears click into place is very satisfying--nice tactile feedback. However, carrying a one across the whole register takes some force. It looks nice and is OK as a small desktop calculator, but subtracting w/ it makes me prefer the Addometer.

Multiplication is repeated addition, shifting left for each digit in the multiplier. Here is 12 x 12. Because of the extended complements for subtraction method, division is possible but not ideal.

To clear the register, you turn the knob on the bottom right side anti-clockwise until all the digits say 0.

The chain only moves in one direction, so to subtract you have to use the complements method. To subtract 42 from 31342, I add 9999958.

These are portable, but are bigger and heavier than other pocket calculators of the time and primarily sat in or on a desk using the kickstand, and were used for quick arithmetic. To add a number, insert a stylus at the corresponding digit and drag down to the bottom.