shkspr.mobi/blog/?p=67726 This is such a grounded and well written piece on not getting scared of missing out from @[email protected] . Unless you're an investor, there's not a massive benefit in being a 'first mover' and even if you are, it's a risky strategy. Keep an eye on new stuff, but don't get sucked into the fear narrative.
@[email protected] I'm honestly not sure, and I'm working towards moving all my code to a #forgejo instance anyway so I'm not going to investigate too hard. That said, I probably need to set up github authentication on code.mavnn.eu/ before I move too much out else it's a pain for people to do things like submit but reports.
Today I was reminded that by default github doesn't make you a watcher of your own repositories. Sorry @[email protected] - I didn't ignore the issues you created on github.com/mavnn/codemirror-... for 3 weeks on purpose.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Yeah, the fact that even people like... fighting game content creators... are getting fed up and publicly tearing apart some of this stuff is actually encouraging.
@[email protected] Meta classes next with built in DLSS - why allow yourself to see anything ugly in real life? Remember; variety and other people's personal expression are just a confusing source of discomfort!
@[email protected] @[email protected] European from one country living in an other European country and who has professional ties to at least two other European countries. I've... never heard of an impressum, so in this particular dude's case I'm just going to assume it must be what happens when you sit on a photocopier and take a copy.
@[email protected] This is a beautiful piece!
On a slightly unrelated note, I've been meaning to comment for a while that (having been somewhat involved with publishing over the years) it is so refreshing to hear you talking about your book covers as someone who is obviously inspired by the content of the book so I'll take the opportunity to say that now as well.
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you're not like everybody else, and the expert advice may not fit you. This brought to you by a reminder I had of talking to one of my son's teachers.
"Don't worry, we've taught plenty of children like your son before!"
When we told the educational psychologist they actually laughed out loud, because the piece of advice that triggered the comment would only be helpful for around 1 in every 5,000 children and would have been actively detrimental to an 'average' pupil his age. 1/2
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@[email protected] Thank you! Also, that's a very classy avatar
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@[email protected] When I was sixteen my drum teacher pulled me in at the last moment for a concert because an orchestra member was ill. I had one job: whack a huge bass drum about six times.
One of those times I whacked it a full beat late, in a moment of complete silence from the rest of the orchestra.
My drum teacher afterwards said "don't worry, the audience will have assumed it was on purpose. Apart from the musicians in the audience - they'll be having a good laugh."
I wonder if you're hitting a similar situation or whether they're just, er, not very good...
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Me: You do realise that even Bing have started indexing the new domain, and I didn't even tell them?
Google: We have a button here that does nothing you can click, and we'll tell you your page is in a priority queue!
Me: Okay, so we're really doubling down on the epitaph "Woke up and chose to be worse than Bing". Good to know.
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Google: Would you like to see the crawled version?
Me: ...okay?
Google: Ha! The page hasn't been retrieved.
Me: The one you just told me was crawled?
Google: Maybe you need to wait a bit?
Me: ...so, telling you my website has moved means you notice more slowly than if I don't tell you?
Google: Pretty much! Thanks for telling us!
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Me, to Google: I'm moving my blog from blog.mavnn.co.uk to blog.mavnn.eu. I've set up redirects and everything. Now I'm submitting a report to tell you.
Google: Okay!
Me, next day: Google, why have unindexed all my mavnn.eu sites, even the unrelated ones?
Google: We've crawled those pages but haven't indexed them yet.
Me: They were already indexed?
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Blog: Easy, visual, camera bounds in Godot
I'm building a 2D rogue-like in #godot with one of my students and it was proving a hassle accurately setting camera and world boundaries on levels. This is one way to allow level scenes to set their own boundaries visually in the editor.
@[email protected] @[email protected] You are not alone in that frustration, believe me. And thank you for the actual conversation!
Me, months ago: I will improve the performance of this piece of code by thunking an expensive operation!
Me, this morning: That's weird; how is thunking working when I've declared the private holding property as a const?
Reader, the thunking was not working. It never assigned to the internal private property, and in fact could not do so because it was a const.
@[email protected] @[email protected] A couple of weeks ago, somebody mentioned they were using a blog post of mine from 2013 to guide them in their current project. It is, in fact, on a blog titled Mavnn's Blog
@[email protected] if it helps, my son (native English speaker) regularly loses points on multiple choice English text comprehension exercises in Italian school because the answers to the questions don't make sense or become ambiguous if you actually have a full understanding of the text - but are straight forward if you only know the English the syllabus expects you to know so far. Multiple choice questions are a great way of testing if you know a syllabus, and a terrible way of testing understanding.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Eh. I don't really want to get into a discussion about how theology works (unless you're especially curious?) but I do sometimes feel the need to point out that the right wing crap spouted in a lot of these situations is religious language as a paper thin veneer over the hate, not a coherent theology. In the same way I don't want the hate, I'd rather the push back from it targeted the actual hating rather than the veneer. Which is why I actually like it when people point out (as Victor did) 'this makes no sense even in their own framework' because then I can step up and agree that no, it really doesn't.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] You can make the argument (and theologians have) that God normally uses male pronouns for himself so it is respectful to do the same. But to me that sounds exactly the same as respecting anyone else's choice of pronouns?
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