"What is good in life?"

Conan: "To hear the lamentations..."

Kant: "Potato"

Conan: "...yeah, okay. I'll give you that."

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@[email protected] Next question for me is something good for keeping my place in podcasts #podcast

@[email protected] MALP on android and some scripts currently, with the audio playing via AirPlay from a Raspberry Pi to a few different speakers around the house. It's not super awesome, but it appears to do the basics and is pretty fast.

Whelp, it's taken a lot longer than I would have liked but I'm finally managing to take the time out to move the whole family's music from Spotify subscriptions to mp3s on a self hosted mpd instance. It's a lot easier to hook into things like OpenHab as well; while nothing is a reliable means of getting a teenager out of bed, programmatically escalating light and #progrock volume levels are the best we've found so far.

And we get to both save money and support artists more directly; although we like music it isn't like we buy an album+ a month at the moment. #music

@[email protected] Well, if weren't being all cynical and pedantic and assuming that 'a day' meant more than one day you'd see how easily the statement could be true.

That ended up slightly more mysterious than it needed to 😁 . If you're interested, the band is called Kardi and they seem to play this kind of stuff: youtube.com/watch?v=MSO2YAcC...

It's random Korean music moment! Back with the same group as the last tune I posted, but before they were named? I'm guessing this is some kind of origin story moment.

It's a cover, and 'Legends Never Die' is a solid pop track I actually quite like but they start the song somewhere different (conch and Korean version of the zither anyone?) and then take it... somewhere else. I suspect right into @[email protected] taste kind of territory. And if nothing else - this is what stage presence looks like.

youtube.com/watch?v=tISOeFoo... #music

@[email protected] I can take a guess but: what's the free table in this context?

@[email protected] Indeed. I still remember an NHS manager trying to apply penalty clauses to my brother's start up for not delivering a piece of software, and being disappointed when he received legal advice telling him that it might be hard as he hadn't actually provided them with the specification of what he wanted yet.

@[email protected] When I wanted to use this as an #adhd metaphor a few years back it suddenly hit me that not everybody already knew what the term meant. Fortunately, somebody put together a pretty good visual guide: How to gird your loins.

(Disclaimer: I know nothing about the rest of the site, although at a quick glance they are a lot saner than you would expect from the name "Art of Manliness"...)

@[email protected] The lack of pre-gaming always confuses me. I feel like 90% of commercial performance metrics could be elimanated by just running through the checklist of:

• could somebody spend money to make this number go up?
• would spending money that way improve something about the business or increase its profits?

For a lot of common measures the answers are "yes" and "no", which makes you wonder a bit about business culture.

@[email protected] It feels a lot like using a logic based language so far (i.e. prolog and friends) in that everything is about the constraints rather than execution flow. I'm a fan.

Built my first ever fragment shader today, and it had strong 'entertaining logic puzzle' vibes. If I suddenly disappear for a few days, send search parties - I'll need an #adhd nerd sniping intervention to actually carry on getting any #GameDev done...

Want a reusable combat loop in #ink? This really deserves a blog post, but given I was sharing in response to a question anyway I thought I'd post it up.

This script shows you how to create a fight knot which you can then reuse multiple times throughout your story just by setting up a few variables before diverting to it - and it is a tunnel, so it will then return back to the story (unless the player dies!). #VisualNovel #GameDev

@[email protected] You are wise in the ways of teenagers.

@[email protected] You could let him know that you're currently not open for business?

@[email protected] It's been 11 minutes and there's still no shitposts. You're slacking on your relaxing...

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] I think we're using formal in different ways and maybe talking past each other? You can formally assess the likelihood of an event in a number of ways, or estimate values using formal methods and that's incredibly useful and may produce informally true results (believed likely with reason) but has very little to do with formal logic: I have a set of axioms and a chain of implications 'we can't prove if this is true or false' is a valid and frequent answer.

It saddens me deeply that as someone who would have said Evangelical was the closest shorthand to my own theology ten years ago that I disagree with none of Ian Dunt's summary about the politics and recent history of the Evangelical movement in the last couple of decades. I'll be curious to read the full article.

https://bsky.app/profile/iandunt.bsky.social/post/3mnes43zatc2a