@[email protected] I know the feeling! Thanks for the new release, things seem to be improving at a rapid pace at the moment 👍️

@[email protected] Just as a heads up, this post renders as an audio file for me? Following the link to the source file takes me to the 1.0.3 release announcement

I got told about the Pacman rule 7+ years ago and it has improved my experience of conferences ever since. Sharing the rule each time a circle 'closes' to make sure there's a space has lead to meeting some of the most interesting people and opened up conversations in directions I never expected. Highly recommended.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Time, finally, for your secret origin to be revealed Mr "three Claudes in a trench coat"!

@[email protected] Just use your intelligence to become more intelligent. You'll hit the singularity and invent time travel in effectively no time!

...experienced time may be more than zero, logical fallicies may apply, please check the rules and conditions of your local universe as well as your psychiatrist before assuming that you are the basilisk

@[email protected] Back when I was a young and more naive Mavnn working as a data analyst, many years ago, I was surprised when the local authority I worked for asked me to add a new measure to a dashboard (fine), which required asking staff performing a service to record a new piece of data (fine), and for a historic 12 month rolling average to compare against the first month to see if we'd got better at this since last year (apparently elected politicians do not experience the linear flow of time the way the rest of us mortals do)

So why a public post about this? Partly because it forces me to acknowledge the improvement myself. Partly to encourage other people hitting such "lack luster" milestones that no, this really is progress.

But also as a public service annoucement that post-viral/chronic fatigue feels and behaves differently to 'being tired'. You can carry out a task that doesn't feel like it is straining you at all - because it is well within your trivial strength levels - but which will leave you brain fogged, physically washed out, and unable to sleep properly for days afterwards. If you're getting hit by feeling like somebody has pulled the plug and feeling, well, stupid hours or even a day or two after being more active than normal, it might be worth looking into a longer description of how normal and chronic fatigue differ. The things that help in each situation are quite different.

Today in #ChronicFatigue : I hit a week of exercising every day, without skipping any. And given it has been 15 months since I stopped work, and this is the first time, I feel the need to celebrate that. In this state it is so easy to do too much and knock yourself out for the day(s) after.

It does feel a bit strange to celebrate though, because exercise in this context is 10 minutes at 4.5 km/h on a treadmill. For those of you not used to metric measures, this is a ludicrously minimal amount of exertion; I normally walk at around 6 km/h and ten minutes is, well, ten minutes. And if I try and do this twice too close together (like walking to get an ice cream, sitting for half an hour, and walking back) I wreck my energy levels and sleep for the following several days. #PostViralFatigue #LongCovid

@[email protected] @[email protected] It is, I may need to check if I can change it as a config setting. Also, apparently you've just discovered that I set up an account on .social in 2018 and completely forgot about it!

@[email protected] Yeah, I'm honestly not quite sure whether it's by design or not; I can see the logic of 'well, if you replied but removed the tag you didn't want to notify the person you're replying to' and I would expect that to work on descendent replies (i.e., letting the original author drop out of being notified on a thread that has gone off topic). I don't know what Mastodon does in the same situation.

@[email protected] It seems I've just made a random discovery: it doesn't look like I get notified here a Bonfire instance if somebody replies without a mention.

Fixing bugs by adding errors: previously VisualInk was hiding some of the runtime errors in your #visualnovel. Although Ink checks a lot of things as you're writing (and VisualInk prevents you running a broken script), some errors only occur when you're playing - like when you try and compare a number and a string that looks like a number. Now you always got told what went wrong, and which section of your script it went wrong in.

Oh, yes, links. We haz them. Have one of them there new fangled hyperlinks to the courses I'm talking about: thinkersmeetup.com/service-p...

So, what kind of things will be covered in our new "Making 2D Game Assets" course for 11-16 year olds?

Example 1: Use layers and a simple art style (pixel art is great for this) to quickly create expressive characters in #krita. Is this just a prototype? Or will the style grow on you and get refined? Either way, you can carry on actually making your game. Meet Pixel Dood and his brother Squarilino Dood. #gamedev #krita #art

@[email protected] @[email protected] I can't think of anything I've done with FUSE that wasn't a crime, a hack around my own ignorance, or both

@[email protected] @[email protected] I've successfully posted to a @[email protected] instance using C2S, partly because the project I'm using to do so is something I'd like to see work in a wide variety of places and I'm hoping that I can do my small part to resolve the chicken and egg aspect of server/client support by producing things that use the API from the client side. I'd love to see broader support.

Also: if you're an employer, why not make this a policy? Apart from the ethical arguments, I've seen many commercial projects stall waiting for an open source feature or taking a hard to maintain internal branch when they could have just submitted the fix upstream for everybody. And it will please the kind of staff who you actually want to retain.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] This reminds me of a friend of my brother who loved expensive cars. Office wear was generally t-shirt and jeans, but on the days they had to meet investors he would put on a really nice suit and then take a long lunch break to go test drive a car. Because it turns out that the test drives were in fact wage-restricted, they just didn't have a great way of measuring "wage".

@[email protected] @[email protected] Did you play "Paranoia", by any chance?

Friend computer is looking increasingly representative of what a genuine US military AI would look like every day. #ttrpg