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  1. May 2025
    1. SCM Electric Typewriters by [[Joe Van Cleave]]

      Tips for cleaning the Smith-Corona 6 series electric typewriters and details about how they work.

      S-C also made this series of typewriter for both Sears and Singer under their branding. (including the Singer Electric in this video.)

      The belts on the electric motor and cams was originally a rubber 'V' belt which is no longer manufactured. Using 1/8" round cross-section o-rings of appropriate sizes (for water cannister applications) is the recommended replacement, however one may need to slightly move the drive motor down a bit so that the belt doesn't hit the frame of the typewriter and thereby destroying it over time.

      Cleaning and lubricating the drive motors and moving pieces before using may help before trying out a typewriter which has been sitting for long periods of time.

      Some later models had an electric return, which can tend to be violent. Electro 220 and Coronet Automatic 12 have an additional clutch and draw band (and lack of return lever on the carriage) for their electric returns.

    1. To “switch worldviews” then is not like changing glasses. Or running the privileged finger down the golden fonts of a fine restaurant's menu. It is more like entering another ecology entirely. Or being entered. And such an entry can only ever happen with cracks, displacements, hauntings.

      for - adjacency - apolief - Bayo - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - J. Marvin Brown - David Long - This statement is aligned with the Automatic Language Growth school of language learning developed by linguist J. Marvin Brown and continued by David Long - ALG takes the view that language is a happening, an experience and the best way to learn is to engage in the experience the way that an infant of native language does, with no prior experience or knowledge - to - J Marvin Brown - Automatic Language Growth - https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

    1. for - natural language acquisition - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w

      summary - The key takeaway is that even as adults, we have retained our innate language learning skill which requires simply treating a new language as a new, novel experience that we can apprehend naturally simply by experiencing it like the way we did when we were exposed to our first, native language - We didn't know what a "language" was theoretically when we were infants, but we simply fell into the experience and played with the experiences and our primary caretakers guided us - We didn't know grammar and rules of language, we just learned innately

    1. for - natural language acquisition - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - to - book - From the Outside In - linguist - J. Marvin Brown - https://hyp.is/PjtjBipbEfCr4ieLB5y1Ew/files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501257.pdf - quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown

      summary - This video summarizes the remarkable life of linguist J. Marvin Brown, who spent a lifetime trying to understand how to learn a second language and to use it the way a natural language user does - After a lifetime of research and trying out various teaching and learning methods, he finally realized that adults all have the abilitty to learn a new language in the same way any infant does, naturally through listening and watching - The key was to not bring in conscious thinking of an adult and immerse oneself in - This seems like a highly relevant clue to language creation and to linguistic BEing journeys - to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth - https://hyp.is/GRPUHipvEfCVEaMaLSU-BA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhIM2Vt-Cc

  2. Sep 2024
    1. I’ve always wanted a cursive writer, and finally found one at the thrift store. It’s an electric smith corona coronet automatic.

      Based on this example and several in the TWdb, the Smith-Corona Coronet Automatic has a high likelihood for having exotic typefaces.

  3. Jul 2024
    1. This is classic Rails Magic - a clever side effect that guarantees the token in the session cookie will always match the token on the page, because rendering the token to the page can't happen without inserting that same token into the cookie.
  4. Apr 2024
  5. Dec 2023
    1. CITIZEN LAUNCH
      • for: SRG - community strategy, TPF - community strategy, epiphany - Indyweb Coalition fair attribution map for all stakeholders

      • comment

        • for SRG and TPF, the citizen launch is the optimal choice as it gives citizens the greatest autonomy.to get the correct framework established before approaching institutional partners for support
      • epiphany: Indyweb generates detailed and fair attribution and contribution map for all coalition member involved

        • Indyweb features will allow for granular attribution to all stakeholders and organizations within a collaborative project
        • All contributions are automatically tracked as part of Indyweb workflow via the provenance feature and can be automatically surfaced in granular detail as metadata emergent from the group Indyweb mindplex, the intertwingled shared mindplexs of all participants
          • In particular, by using Indyweb's provenance feature, it allows for automatically tracking the exact nature of the contribution
        • For a multi-stakeholder coalition like Living Cities Earth, this takes care of fair automatic attribution
        • The result is a fair attribution map that shows exactly who contributed and what they contributed
  6. Sep 2023
    1. In other words, when a recipient clicks the “unsubscribe” link in your email, the recipient’s mail client will send an email to this address. It is your responsibility to receive and process these generated emails.
  7. May 2023
    1. It turns out that backpropagation is a special case of a general techniquein numerical analysis called automatic differentiat

      Automatic differentiation is a technique in numerical analysis. That's why Real Analysis is an important Mathematics area that should be studied if one wants to go into AI research.

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    1. If the users table is large, running this migration on a live Postgres 9 database will likely cause downtime. Safe PG Migrations hooks into Active Record so that the following gets executed instead: class AddAdminToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2] # Do not wrap the migration in a transaction so that locks are held for a shorter time. disable_ddl_transaction! def change # Lower Postgres' lock timeout to avoid statement queueing. Acts like a seatbelt. execute "SET lock_timeout TO '5s'" # The lock_timeout duration is customizable. # Add the column without the default value and the not-null constraint. add_column :users, :admin, :boolean # Set the column's default value. change_column_default :users, :admin, false # Backfill the column in batches. User.in_batches.update_all(admin: false) # Add the not-null constraint. Beforehand, set a short statement timeout so that # Postgres does not spend too much time performing the full table scan to verify # the column contains no nulls. execute "SET statement_timeout TO '5s'" change_column_null :users, :admin, false end end
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  13. Jan 2022
    1. Thunderbird determines connection details (such as ports, server names, security protocols, etc.) by looking up your email provider in a database that contains connection information for all the major Internet Service Providers (ISPs). After determining the provider of your account (as specified after the "@" symbol in your email address) Thunderbird can usually provide the account details.
  14. Aug 2021
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  17. Feb 2021
    1. To understand this helper, you should understand that every step invocation calls Output() for you behind the scenes. The following DSL use is identical to the one [above]. class Execute < Trailblazer::Activity::Railway step :find_provider, Output(Trailblazer::Activity::Left, :failure) => Track(:failure), Output(Trailblazer::Activity::Right, :success) => Track(:success)
    2. The macro automatically wires all of Validate’s ends to the known counter-part tracks.
    1. Some assets will be compiled as top-level assets when they are referenced from inside of another asset. For example, the asset_url erb helper will automatically link assets:
    1. When you use this syntax the lines on either end of the areas are actually getting named automatically.
  18. Jan 2021
    1. Potentially competing impulses and inhibitions are controlled by instinct and habit processes, plus any motives (wants or needs) that are present at the time. Wants and needs are generated by feelings of anticipated pleasure or satisfaction and of anticipated relief from discomfort or drive states. All of this makes up our ‘automatic’ motivation.

      Potansiyel olarak rekabet eden dürtüler ve engellemeler, içgüdü ve alışkanlık süreçlerinin yanı sıra o sırada mevcut olan her türlü dürtü (istek veya ihtiyaç) tarafından kontrol edilir. İstekler ve ihtiyaçlar, beklenen zevk veya tatmin duyguları ve rahatsızlık veya dürtü durumlarından beklenen rahatlama duyguları tarafından üretilir. Tüm bunlar "otomatik" motivasyonumuzu oluşturuyor

    1. Automatic Motivation is less conscious and more reflexive, driven by emotional states, impulses and context triggers.

      Otomatik Motivasyon, duygusal durumlar, dürtüler ve bağlam tetikleyicileri tarafından yönlendirilen daha az bilinçli ve daha refleksiftir.

    1. Automatic firmware updates can be accessed from your software settings on System76 hardware. These updates help to promptly quash any threat of security risk to your computer.
  19. Dec 2020
    1. Don't worry about the fact that we're redeclaring the foo function for every component instance — Svelte will hoist any functions that don't depend on local state out of the component definition.
  20. Nov 2020
    1. But then, I still want to upgrade my dependencies from time to time, in a painless way. I recommend checking Renovate which handles JavaScript and Ruby dependencies auto updating. Use it.
  21. Oct 2020
    1. Arguably what is in­ter­est­ing about Svelte’s approach to state man­age­ment is not the store itself but the auto-sub­scrip­tion that is possible because of the Svelte compiler. By simply appending a $ to a variable inside of a component, e.g. $myVariable, the compiler will know to expect an object with a subscribe method on it and generate the boil­er­plate of sub­scrib­ing and un­sub­scrib­ing for you.
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  26. Jan 2019
    1. Automatic Sequence Computer

      The Harvard Mark 1 was an ASCC or an Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I) - so Clarke was using this term for what was possibly the most powerful computer during his time. Our smartphones now are more powerful than several of these ASCCs