@[email protected] Of course, we were never going to do it properly. The very first paid dev work I did was integration software between a UK fire and rescue service and a brand new reporting service set up by the national government for collecting stats.

During the launch, the project lead on the government side pulled me aside to thank me for writing the only implementation out of over fifty that sent xml that validated. Several of the other implementations were written by large consulting firms at orders of magnitude greater cost.

@[email protected] I'm going to say it: if as an industry we'd done SOAP properly and built the tooling to support it in more languages, it would have been awesome. XSD is so much better than json schema for specifying a domain.

@[email protected] To be fair, you can have fun with that even with every day real life names. I mean, going the literal translation route my own marriage was between "One who is like God" and "The Woods", which, much as I value my marriage, sounds a little over the top and mythic.

@[email protected] Procol Harum's lesser known hit, "A special sort of awful"

@[email protected] this comment prompted me to go to your profile as up to this moment I'd only viewed your profile pic in feed - where my brain has always interpreted the mini version as a teddy bear with a party hat.

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Oof. This. The combination of #adhd and #chronicfatigue is a life of constant war between "you should rest immediately when you need to" and "here is your reminder of critical thing that if you don't do it right now it will drop into a black hole for ever"

@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, this is fascinating as I'd only hit the reverse issue; people thinking they had 'taught' the LLM something and then being surprised (and sometimes embarrassed while showing off the progress) that the explanation had no impact on the next time they asked the LLM to do the same task.

Using 'learning' as a way to explain how the question you are asking shapes the response is something I'd never thought to try, but is certainly something I'll keep in mind for the future.

Anyway, sorry for derailing the thing you were meaning to spend your time on this morning; this is very much idle curiousity on my end, so please don't let it highjack you.

@[email protected] @[email protected] The language space is getting pretty overloaded in this area in ways that are unhelpful, it has to be said. I recently nearly skipped over a genuinely interesting piece of machine learning (sorry!) research as it had AI in the title and was something LLMs would obviously be terrible at - but they weren't using LLMs.

> I really mostly saw people correctly take it to just mean "this changes in response to information"

It's interesting to see you (Cat) say this, as one of the issues I have with LLMs is that people assume they will learn while in reality the 'learning' already happened at the model training stage (with added bonus confusion if there is or isn't any context being stored), and the thing you're actually using doesn't change in response to information. Which is true of a lot of machine learning tools in general, not just LLMs, but LLMs have the added disguise of tracking context within a conversation (and frequently now an internet connection), so interface almost implies that longer term learning is happening (despite not having 'learning' in the name :facepalm:).

Tempted to write a json-ld library for #zig as a way of learning Zig properly and because it might be a better way of implementing #fediverss (blog.mavnn.eu/2026/04/10/fed...) for low resource environments than dotnet. #activitypub #rss

Me, being clever: so I don't want this RayCast node firing every physics tick, so I'll disable it and only enable it when I force it to update.

adds all the code to enable and disable the ray casting

Me, actually reading the doc comment for the force raycast update function: "Note: enabled does not need to be set to true for this to work." sigh

It's almost like the devs considered this use case! #godot #gamedev

My latest modern art creation: the warming of the soup.

Worth at least an extra ten thousand due to the ephemeral nature of its satisfying beauty.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Doing this to random people on the internet seems rude and lacking self awareness. Doing this to your employer seems to take a... special something, and maybe limit future life opportunities

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Could these be... new features related to the new course draft?

Yes. Yes they could. #visualnovel #gamedev

@blog Of course, the only issue here is that the screen shot on the blog is itself going to get scaled, but hey ho!

Also, if you have less terrible ideas for a course name, I'm all ears

Ideas for the new course starting to solidify, with the plan being a five week online intro to creating #visualnovel assets of your own for under 18s with no budget (above and beyond having a computer) using tech you probably have around the house and open source software like #krita and #audacity. Official announcement coming soon. #HomeEd #GameDev

@[email protected] "There's about five hundred thousand more valuable targets with the same vulnerability, so just think of it like Russian roulette with a 500,000 shot revolver. That shoots like a really fast machine gun. I'm losing this metaphor, aren't I?"

Been a bit quiet on the VisualInk (visualink.mavnn.eu/) front for a few weeks, but a minor release went out today which allows scenes to have names with spaces in. Previously a bug meant that you could upload scene backgrounds and give them a name with a space, but they then wouldn't show up correctly in your visual novel.

Also, look out for some new #visualnovel course news in the coming week!

@[email protected] I have a couple of websites that gets in this loop on one of my devices regularly. Other Cloudflare checks on the same device work, I can access the site from an other device, but the tick box just loops. The next day it'll be working again. It's been going on for years intermittently at this point.

@[email protected] Same thing we do every Wednesday. Try to take over the world!