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The Satyrs’ Forest 🍇
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Apologies for any downtime… it appears i accidentally let my domain name lapse! Got it back but, uh, that was not meant to happen
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As requested, the Attic converter code. https://satyrs.eu/source/for/app/attic.js Bit of a bodge, but it was one of those projects where once you confirm it works you raise your hands to the sky in relief and swear solemnly never to look at it again.
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
The actual displaying of the dates is spread thin across my nightmare spaghetti of internationalisation code, so that’s a bring-your-own-beer affair for now! `signedDate` is positive for waxing, negative for waning, and 0 for the hene kai nea, month numbers are 0-indexed from Hecatombæon up, and years and olympiads are 1-indexed.
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
Living in the UK i have the luxury of always being pretty close to UTC so also this might break terribly if your time zone is far away from either Greenwich or Greece and will *definitely* break horribly if you are in the southern hemisphere.
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cidoku
7 months ago
This is awesome! It's one of those things that make programming worth it. I'll figure it out and maybe port it to C so I can have a nice companion for my planetary hours program. Thank you, divine Xanthe!
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cidoku
7 months ago
Oh, and don't worry about it breaking. Living in the southern hemisphere, I'm used to this kind of stuff breaking... but the indomitable human spirit always prevails.
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
Have fun with the moon calculations then! Last time i tried calculating astronomical positions myself (read: last week) i came to the conclusion that i should turn off the computer, give up, and back away slowly, lol
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
@capstasher Script to convert standard Gregorian dates into the Attic calendar, the moon-phase-based festival calendar used in ancient Athens
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I remember that there was some page on your site where you explained your particular usage of the Greek calendar, but I'm unable to find it. Did I dream it?
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
Ahhh, no — i delisted it because updating it for the new year was a chore and I'd finally automated it behind the scenes anyway. It miiiiiight still be at /calendrical but idk if i even ported it over during the shift to self hosting.
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cidoku
7 months ago
I'd love to know how you automate it! I'm really interested in learning how to reliably get the current date.
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satyrwoud
7 months ago
I *have* been meaning to properly open-source my site for a while… may finally get around to it now you’ve asked!
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cidoku
8 months ago
You can never know the value of any irrational number anyway. Reals will be reals. You don't think about them, you FEEL them
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satyrwoud
8 months ago
I am, really, a stemcel at heart, but sometimes when i gaze too long into the abyss of mathematics i start to wonder if feels really do > reals
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rare look behind the curtain at the garden https://i.imgur.com/MQxQatu.png
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Real ones remember this