🟪 if your hands are full you can always give a thigh-five instead
@[email protected] ...you have five thighs?
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Not too surprisingly, we're huge fans here of Inkle studios (headed up by @[email protected] and @[email protected]) which is part of why we chose to use their scripting language to power VisualInk.
We are mentioning this because currently their whole back catalogue is up for a charity supporting sale on Humble Bundle and if you like fun, quirky, narrative heavy games you may want to go have a look. We, er, might have just bought a copy ourselves.
@jonny @geeeero @SnoopJ @davidgerard it is if nothing else an excellent shitpost. It will be an even funnier shitpost if it works though
@[email protected] @[email protected] Funny enough for another star and watcher definitely. I do wonder if (unfortunately) links from places like xitter and the orange place are where the repos get found.
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Just testing something. #kumquat
Scripted up a simple data transformation for school today in Google Sheets and App Scripts are slooooow. Like order of magnitude slower than running vbscript in Excel circa 2000. Is this normal?
Turns out that each operation is very, very, slow but the code speed isn't actually too bad. Basically: for must batch updates and then set values for large ranges at a time, or your code will run like molasses.
Scripted up a simple data transformation for school today in Google Sheets and App Scripts are slooooow. Like order of magnitude slower than running vbscript in Excel circa 2000. Is this normal?
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@[email protected] I think you're right, yes.
@[email protected] I probably wasn't clear: the spells your character casts are a stack based programming language whose built in functions are implemented as nodes. So gdscript interpreting arrays of nodes as stacks of operations, sort of. Including quotations and subprocesses - sorry, subspells. It's very silly.
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Lighting starting to get going, and no #godot logo! (No real artwork either, but hey).
Initial performance tests are encouraging though; given the spells are basically a very slowly interpreted language built of Godot nodes I was worried it would be unworkably slow and I'd need to start optimising early to get it workable. Turns out that even with dozens of spells flying around at a time it all still just works. #GameDev
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One of the students at my wife's school showed great cunning and skill by managing to sneak his mobile phone into a no digital device externally moderated exam.
He showed slightly less cunning when he posted a picture of one of the other students taking the exam to my wife's Google Classroom complaining that nobody with that posture could be taking the exam seriously.
I'm honestly unclear on what he thought would happen next.
Hooking up barks (the short exclaimations made in games by NPCs to respond to events happening in real time).
Death cries seemed the kind of moments of pathos where I could both test the plumbing and flex my mighty game narrative writing skills in some deeply poignant last words.
=== death_cry ===
{~Oh noes!|Woe is me...|Never surrender!|Next time, gadget!|Aaaaaaaaaargh!}
-> END
@agreeable_landfall Worse than that, I live in SOMA, the most paved-over neighborhood in San Francisco. We have more pigeons than leaves. A pigeon-blower would be just as effective.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Hate gas blower so I was very dubious when someone recommended me an electric one. It's great! No louder than a large hair dryer, no messing with explosive petrochemicals, blows all the leaves into a pile that's easy to sweep up. Only thing I'm not clear on is why the leaves are so much harder to sweep up when blown by a gas blower... (and yes, I do live somewhere where there's lots of leaves)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access So, that's the limit on LLMs, then -- not a technical cap but a policy one? Why would any frontier model provider continue investing in capability enhancements if there's an artificial ceiling on deployment?
@[email protected] Gotta love the argument of "we agree that none of these things can ever be protected from jail breaking so you should let us carry on selling ours." I mean, yes, the government is biased inconsistent bullshit but as counter arguments go "why haven't you just nuked our whole industry" is a surprising take.
I’d like to see somebody create conlang inspired from prisencolinensinainciusol with the use case being as a film industry standard filler language to depict English speakers, when you already have English used to depict say Russian speakers. The prisencol can help communicate the perspective shift, ie that from the （Anglo depicted) Russian speaker perspective, the Brits or Americans are speaking in Foreign Tongue. I wouldn’t do this by swapping the languages because that would just sound wrong
@[email protected] In the original Turkish translation of Narnia, the translators ended up calling Aslan "Lion" (Lewis had used the Turkish word to sound foreign). It confused me rather and definitely sounded wrong (we happened to be living in Istanbul when it was released).
RE: https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KTXR624EZSNZZ3DKSS49KMHT
Artificial Ingratiation? Nah. Almost Incomprehensible? No. Sycophancy-as-a-service? NAILED IT!
@[email protected] I think I managed to break the quote acceptance, so let's have a final try pasting a manual link that might work in both Bonfire and Mastodon. 4th time lucky, or something.
@mavnn @GossiTheDog I quote tooted your post, but it's still telling me you have to approve showing the quote.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, in a true fediverse moment I think I managed to upgrade to a broken pre-release of Bonfire while the acceptance was queued. Hopefully it will finish working its way back through the backlog and accept the quote reasonably soon 🙈
@[email protected] would it be possible to have federation deletion jobs that don't find the thing to delete not be considered a failed job? I seem to get an awful lot of them (enough to drop federation job success rates down to ~60% sometimes) which makes it hard to spot actual problems when they do happen. Especially because (it appears?) some servers keep on sending the deletion requests, meaning that it's showing errors for things that have already been successfully deleted.
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- Minimum viable product (I suppose isn't strictly software related, but seems to see most use and misuse in our industry).
- CI has been misused so much that in general usage it now just means 'having a build server and a main branch' and I have, to my shame, used it to mean that on my CV before.
- Unit tests, integration tests, pretty much anything with test in the name (cries slightly).
- IoC and dependency injection: not so much misunderstood, as known to not be understood because it has something to do with containers and reflection and framework plugin configuration and magic rather than knowing "but why?" on any level
@[email protected] Oh! And "UX". The idea it could also mean something easy and/or efficient to use rather than just "visually shiney". Is that software? I feel like that's at least software adjacent.
What named principles (e.g., information hiding, DRY, etc.) in software development do you find are often referred to but are commonly misunderstood (or are actually flawed)? I have a talk, Principle Misunderstandings, where I cover a few, but I'm planning to extend this to half- and full-day formats, so I'd be interested in what you find is commonly misunderstood.
- Minimum viable product (I suppose isn't strictly software related, but seems to see most use and misuse in our industry).
- CI has been misused so much that in general usage it now just means 'having a build server and a main branch' and I have, to my shame, used it to mean that on my CV before.
- Unit tests, integration tests, pretty much anything with test in the name (cries slightly).
- IoC and dependency injection: not so much misunderstood, as known to not be understood because it has something to do with containers and reflection and framework plugin configuration and magic rather than knowing "but why?" on any level
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