The problem with being pretty smart is that I'm not even sure the smarter people than me would have any good ideas.
@[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
When you've been staring at a problem trying to integrate 2 very different systems for a week, and come to the conclusion that it's about as impossible as taking thousands of excel files and automatically migrating them into a database. Unstructured data to structured data just doesn't work like that...
@[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)
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
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] @mavnn That makes sense as a feature, but it's a bit of a gamble when you're trying to build a community. I'll stick to the tags just to be safe.
@[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!
@mavnn That's a bit of a nightmare for keeping a thread going. I'll make sure to keep the mentions in so you actually see me.
@[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.
Godot and IF are such a powerful combo for kids to learn how systems and stories actually talk to each other.
@[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.
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
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
@mjg59 FUSE's highest use!
@[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
@jalcine Friend, you and I both!
There is a ratcheting process on this, I think.
We need a core of server software that supports the ActivityPub API, so that client developers have something to work against. I've made one (onepage.pub), and I know there are others happening.
Then, we need a set of interesting API clients, to show what having a standard API can get us. I've done a couple that I like (a geosocial checkin app and a movie review app), but it would be cool to have more.
@[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.
@codepo8 ooh I like this. Also: 'Is this content wage-appropriate?', 'I'm afraid that is wage-restricted, you need to have your wage confirmed first.'
@[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".
#Poll time!
Which terrorist organisation do you belong to?
@[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
Apart from the group courses at fixed times I'm running at Thinker's Meetup for 11+ year olds, I'm also currently doing online mentoring of #HomeEd individuals or groups who'd like to add #gamedev with #godot, #ComputerScience, or #InteractiveFiction to their activities (whether that's working towards a specific qualification or project based). Drop me a private message if you'd be interested.
@pikesley It also implies Fairy Plasma, and we can definitely induce a phase change to plasma using sufficiently powerful lasers. For Fairy Liquid, I'd recommend using a scaled-up Polytron:
@[email protected] @[email protected] I... wow. That is quite the advert.
I just got an email from a journalist who works for the quarterly journal of the main Dutch scientific grant organisation. They want to interview me for the upcoming issue of their journal.
The theme of that issue is: Failure.
Especially, the email helpfully clarifies, *personal* failure.
@[email protected] Many years ago there was a TV show on the BBC called Mastermind in which the contestants could pick a specialist subject to be asked question about.
"Your special subject is personal failure" is not a choice I recall, I must admit, but I feel I wouldn't score too badly!
What's this? New courses? And being announced more than a week in advance?
thinkersmeetup.com/scholars/...
If you're interested in either writing or creating assets for a #visualnovel, we've got you covered. Five weeks on each as online sessions for 11-16 year olds in the European afternoon/US morning. #creativewriting #gamedev #homeed
It occurs to me that I don't remember many individual commits from my career with pride, and of that small number every single one was a net decrease in code size (and normally associated with a large increase in either performance or reliability)
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