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honked back 27 Mar 2023 00:19 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/110080324533670713
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honked back 27 Mar 2023 00:19 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/110080324533670713
This week: Programming: Whacked together a date picker: more-or-less correct on the first try. Deploying the code: fucking around with incomprehensible machine-specific crashes that don't happen in debug mode.
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bonked 21 Mar 2023 13:13 +0000
original: henryseg@mathstodon.xyz
An (amazingly simple) aperiodic monotile has been discovered by David Smith, Joseph Myers (@jsm28), Craig Kaplan (@csk), and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. It's literally four copies of a third of a hexagon glued together. Details at https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/
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honked back 17 Mar 2023 14:08 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.art/users/nathanolsenart/statuses/109875962166972325
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bonked 15 Mar 2023 18:41 +0000
original: neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
I am organising a conference on FreeBSD / Linux jails and chroots. It’s an in-person event, but you have to sit in a room in your own, and there’s no socialisation / networking after.
I really enjoyed "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe. It's about the murder of Jean McConville, and covers the Troubles more generally (although generally focusing on the IRA's crimes more than those of the other sides). I highly recommend it.
I had a dream that there was a group called the "Linux Sex Mafia". People had lsm.org email addresses and everything. It seems like exactly the sort of name that someone would (a) have come up with in the 90s and (b) be embarrassed by today. So anyway, if the ASF is looking for a new name, they can use LSM.
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honked back 11 Mar 2023 18:08 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/hoverbird/statuses/110001913312544590
Fuck yeah. And no, I had no idea until this moment that Sackson was involved. I think about that book all the time, as Ms. 4 starts to learn about gaming. And I ended up (at least for now) as a game designer, so I guess it did the job.
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honked back 10 Mar 2023 13:50 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/smellsofbikes/statuses/109991784819290991
@smellsofbikes Our Mitsubishis have worked well for the past five years. They are a little irritating to do a deep clean on. For all splits, try to set them up so that you can avoid having to pump the condensation, since condensation pumps will fail periodically.
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honked back 07 Mar 2023 17:45 +0000
in reply to: https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/109983089356620393
@b0rk I've been using bitmaps to do pentomino packing. So, I've got (say) a 6x10 board, and I want to figure out if a T pentomino can go in the top right. So I take the bitmap for T, bitshift it over 3 (so that it's at the right), and then bitwise-and it with the board; if any bits are set, I know that it overlaps an already-placed pentomino. If not, then I can bitwise-or it with the board to place it. Even for larger boards (8x15, say), this is still reasonable; the whole thing fits in two 64-bit ints, and only takes a few instructions.
Catoll.
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honked back 02 Mar 2023 17:39 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/109954389103651207
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honked back 02 Mar 2023 14:18 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/109951457379313562
@lahosken I think I prefer the term for a baby llama (along with a grain) to using a proper name unnecessarily.
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honked back 27 Feb 2023 17:28 +0000
in reply to: https://toot.io/users/coolxenu/statuses/109916378282163581
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honked back 26 Feb 2023 20:15 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.hccp.org/users/igb/statuses/109928311879451009
@igb If they find salmonella in Proustian madeleines and have to recall them, do you have to send back the memories too?
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honked back 23 Feb 2023 22:09 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/109916283730846314
re: "old man" complaint about board games
@danluu I don't think you should necessarily enjoy poker. I don't. But I don't think the reason is about skill ranges, since poker definitely has a wide skill range. Maybe your preferred metric, then, isn't wins over an infinite number of games but net wins per hour?
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The most valuable company in the world thinks that it's acceptable to send (always very small) integers as strings in JSON. Also, booleans as the string "true" or "false".
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honked back 23 Feb 2023 20:06 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/109915670038613322
re: "old man" complaint about board games
@danluu I guess another analogy is rando-Azul, where at the beginning of the game, a tile is secretly chosen and put aside, and at the end of the game it's revealed and you get some extra points for each one of those tiles you have. Even if you are really good at counting, you won't know that you picked the wrong color until the end of the first bag, which is often most of the way through a game. Seems like a mechanic I wouldn't like. The one advantage over regular Azul is that it reduces the "but Tony is in first place, so let's punish him" problem. Of course, in >2p Azul, that's rarely possible or worth doing anyway, so it's kind of solving a non-problem. Still, I think (as Garfield and Elias point out) that "Tony is in first place" is a real problem for multi-player games where there's any way to non-altruistically punish specific players, and this is one of the two problems that randomness is solving (the other is that it's rude to quit a long multi-player game even when you've already lost -- and it's unfun to do so in a small group where there isn't another game to join, so having some uncertainty keeps players in).re: "old man" complaint about board games
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honked back 23 Feb 2023 19:37 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/109915582027419700
re: "old man" complaint about board games
@danluu I think I disagree here. I'm not saying that the non-rando part takes "some skill". I'm saying that it takes all of the skill of regular chess. You might say that it's strictly worse because the returns to skill in terms of win ratio are lower. I'm not sure I agree. Everyone agrees that poker involves a great deal of skill, and yet it takes a very, very large number of hands to overcome the randomness. I don't think it's possible to imagine poker without randomness. I agree that rando-chess is worse than regular chess, but not because of the win ratio. It's because the randomness doesn't add anything to the game. I would also dislike ChessCaylus, which is just like chess, but while you're playing chess, you're also playing Caylus (the outcome of the Caylus game has no impact on the chess game -- it's just for fun; it's considered poor sportspersonship to say, things like, "I got checkmated but at least I won at Caylus"). I basically want to change your definition of returns to skill to be: a better player will defeat a worse one after an infinite number of games. To some extent, modern regular Chess is like this: there are so many draws that it takes a lot of games to determine the winner. My point, maybe, is that making decisions under uncertainty is just as valid a game mechanic as lookahead (chess, go), memorization (Scrabble, Innovation), or negotiating (Diplomacy, Catan, Apples to Apples), or creativity (Stupiduel, Word Blur, Montage), or trivia (Trivial Pursuit, Montage). You can still complain about games that have randomness but are too long to play enough to overcome the randomness. And you can still dislike certain mechanics. But you should not treat random as necessarily opposed to skill; it just means it takes more time for the skill to show.re: "old man" complaint about board games
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honked back 23 Feb 2023 15:24 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/109911017344300244
re: "old man" complaint about board games
@danluu I don't think that "90% chance of winning a single game" is a reasonable metric. Consider rando-chess (It's chess, but after the game you roll 1d6 and on a 6, the loser of the chess game wins). It's got all the skill of chess, but Magnus Carlsson isn't going to beat anyone 90% of the time.
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bonked 21 Feb 2023 13:15 +0000
original: UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com
"Aye, the sirens," says the lighthouse keeper, picking a bit of tobacco from his beard. "Some nights, when the wind is just so, I swear I can hear 'em singing." "What do they sing?" I prod him. A faraway look in his eyes, he says in a voice barely above a whisper, "Tubthumping."
Went to see the Nick Cave exhibit at the Guggenheim. I had assumed that it was Nick Cave the musician (why not -- he's also written novels, and acted in movies). But no, it's a totally different guy with the same name, who is also totally awesome. My pottery buddy and I were both totally blown away by one particular piece. We want to play the video game of it. Obsessively. Definitely go see it.
"The time of the original app purchase, in a date-time format similar to ISO 8601." Similar? Similar? (No, there's no further information about how it differs)
Ah, yes, the famously delightful Apple user experience, where users have to manually restore in-app purchases, like savages. It's almost as if Apple has forgotten that computers could keep track of this shit on their own.
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bonked 15 Feb 2023 15:48 +0000
original: jmac@masto.nyc
Flying away from #NYC makes me remember the same single disorienting shock I feel every time I return to it: New York! Greatest city on earth! Where we just pile up our literal garbage right on the fuckin sidewalks! Hahaha! Yeah, I know, trust me, you’ll stop even noticing it after the first week. 🗑️🐀
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honked back 09 Feb 2023 19:11 +0000
in reply to: https://dice.camp/users/bryantd/statuses/109835653300027277
Tedu's Honk (with misc patches). Good: dead easy to operate -- about five minutes to get running on a DigitalOcean droplet. Bad: I can't figure out how to vote in polls -- maybe it's not possible. It has somewhat incomprehensible language ("honk", "bonk", etc). Someone has a patch which removes this but I don't want to get too far off mainstream. It only shows about 450 messages, so if you get far behind, you'll miss some. I wish for threading. Possibly a different client would help with this stuff, but I definitely don't need more distractions on my phone, and I haven't looked into what web clients are supported.
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bonked 08 Feb 2023 15:35 +0000
original: danhon@dan.mastohon.com
Introducing Dante It’s a hellishly exciting time to be working on torment technologies as we translate deep research and breakthroughs into products that deliver new levels of distress. That’s the journey we’ve been on with creating torment from large trauma models. Two years ago we unveiled next-generation torment and misery creation capabilities powered by our Artificial Generative Ordeal and Nuisance Esnemble (or AGON-E for short).
With this patch, I now have patches in three different programming languages that I do not use. (Previously, I added a function to Rust's standard library, and fixed the return code of scaladoc).
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honked back 27 Jan 2023 14:10 +0000
in reply to: https://masto.nyc/users/jmac/statuses/109759585627924121
@jmac Honk (my ActivityPub client) doesn't know how to poll (I think), but add one vote for "continue to leave it blank". You're also not required to used Fitzpatrick modifiers on your emoji. Others do not get to choose which aspects of your identity (if any) you make salient.
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honked back 25 Jan 2023 13:25 +0000
in reply to: https://social.coop/users/graue/statuses/109719222045865339
OpenTripPlanner had both of those features in 2010.
I was trying to make an Art Deco style card back for my work-in-progress game Deco Deck, and I accidentally created... Fart Deco.
I think Biden ought to be impeached over his handling of classified documents. Classification is bullshit, but it's far more important that the president follow the law than basically anything else.
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honked back 17 Jan 2023 17:48 +0000
in reply to: https://social.jvns.ca/users/b0rk/statuses/109700446576896509
@b0rk https://gitlab.com/tezos/tezos/-/commit/b9e04d119f7bce75c8c60756ffa1a87bca97cb60 This is case of integer underflow that I fixed.
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honked back 15 Jan 2023 00:31 +0000
in reply to: https://wandering.shop/users/crystalhuff/statuses/109686332512406619
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honked back 11 Jan 2023 14:01 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/b0rk/statuses/109670855322107281
@b0rk In 2009, was converting some streets between map projections (from something like EPSG:32618 to lat/lon). The shapefile didn't have connectivity data -- it just had something like "this street segment starts at point 123.4 and ends at point 456.7". To reconstruct connectivity, I assumed that if two streets shared an endpoint, they were connected. But I kept finding missing connections that were off by a few ULP. The coordinates were exact in the source data, but sometimes changed during the conversion. It turned out that the JITed and non-JITed versions of the conversion routines did the arithmetic slightly differently, so the first ~1000 points converted had slightly different results for the same inputs.
Our fucked up healthcare system: Had a prescription (for something time-sensitive) sent to Capsule. Two and a half hours later, Capsule let me know that they can't deliver it until after I leave the house tomorrow morning. So I called up the doctor's office to have it sent to a local pharmacy, and the receptionist said that (a) the doctor herself will have to call the new pharmacy (why?!) and (b) she might not get to it before the local pharmacy closes, and that the receptionist has no way to know whether or not this will be the case (and she didn't even mark it time-sensitive until I was rather insistent about it). Meanwhile, I am pretty sure that my cat had exactly the same medication three weeks ago, and like a fucking idiot I threw out the remainder. That one's on me -- I should know better than to ever throw out medicine. I bet if I called the vet and told them that my other cat had the same problem, I could just stop in and pick up some, but that would be more expensive and further away.
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honked back 31 Dec 2022 00:56 +0000
in reply to: https://zork.social/users/shortgame/statuses/109605017456304650
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bonked 31 Dec 2022 00:55 +0000
original: shortgame@zork.social
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honked back 24 Dec 2022 21:15 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jmsdnns/statuses/109566418704153861
@jmsdnns So, the "hint" would basically be a button that shows up after a while which says "revert to before your first error"? But that might eliminate newly-added good parts as well as bad parts. So maybe the button should just remove all erroneous lines. I have a hint button now, so maybe the newbie mode should be "Highlight the hint button when I look like I need a hint"?
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honked back 24 Dec 2022 01:52 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/maayanroth/statuses/109564489924985173
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honked back 24 Dec 2022 01:51 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jmsdnns/statuses/109565012091858838
@jmsdnns You can make and clear connections arbitrarily, or press a button to clear all the connections at once.
Just realize I had never posted my new finial.
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honked back 23 Dec 2022 18:44 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/jmsdnns/statuses/109555400498717270
@jmsdnns That is a fascinating idea. I wonder if that would even be implementable -- or whether it would just be annoying ("Why didn't you tell me!"). Also, for small puzzles, you'll usually find out in a few moves anyway.
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honked back 22 Dec 2022 01:22 +0000
in reply to: https://recurse.social/users/leah/statuses/109553687549628311
@leah The problem is that it's not always immediately obvious what the connection is between the error and the later impossibility. (Indeed, there might be multiple ways to find impossible regions, depending on what choices you make after a mistake). But yeah, I agree that it teaches bad habits.
Got my @conservancy T-shirts today. Always happy to donate, and the shirts look great! Also a Godot sticker, which is much more fun now that I'm actively using it.
I'm working on an app for a new kind of logic puzzle. It's likeTentai Show (https://www.interactive.onlinemathlearning.com/fun_galaxies.php) in that it involves marking regions on a grid. Like most logic puzzles, there is a single correct answer. Question: should I have a mode that immediately marks wrong entries (even if they are not contradicted by any other decisions that you have made yet)? Is that useful for learning, or does it just make it so trivial as to be pointless?
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honked back 21 Dec 2022 20:40 +0000
in reply to: https://democracy.town/users/TonyStark/statuses/109551837374961009
Also, they have immunity to local idling laws, so they idle all the time with total impunity.
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honked back 21 Dec 2022 14:32 +0000
in reply to: https://recurse.social/users/zmagg/statuses/109547985093277295
@zmagg I just used a box of centimeter cubes to lay out my kitchen tiles. But that only worked because my tiles are rectilinear in simple integer ratios, with a small number of colors. If you're Penrose-tiling your bathroom, you'll need something fancier.
Ms. 3: Dad, how many colors are in a rainbow? Me: 16,777,216.
I've updated my new game, Mosaic River. The update fixes two major bugs, and improves the instructions. It's available gratis for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fun.mosaicriver.mosaicriver and iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mosaic-river/id6444349912
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bonked 16 Dec 2022 18:16 +0000
original: rubenbolling@mastodon.social
Things just seem so crazy today.
I mean, can you imagine say in the 1930s if the richest automobile executive in America was also a media owner who used his platform to encourage anti-Semitism and allied himself with a foreign dictator waging a territory-expansion war in Europe?
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bonked 16 Dec 2022 18:16 +0000
original: pfadintegral@ohai.social
There are many legitimate reasons to track Elon Musk's flight coordinates, for example to offer him ads more relevant to his interests
I'm really enjoying Fake Feelings: https://dadabots.medium.com/fake-feelings-ai-emo-93e77918b21 It's reconstituted music sludge that's great background noise for working.
We know you're obsessive, but please stop telling us about your three girlfriends already.
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honked back 14 Dec 2022 17:08 +0000
in reply to: https://hachyderm.io/users/lahosken/statuses/109513008937838609
@lahosken Weirdly, most forms don't offer that option! Like, there are probably way more people who use "Your Excellency" than "Dr. and Rev."(which I'm pretty sure I've seen).
It's completely weird that forms require a "title", like Mr., Ms., Mx., etc. I don't want to be referred to as "Mr. Turner". I prefer to use my first name. Surely I can't be the only person with this preference -- the entire tech industry seems to use first names by default. It's not even that they're using the title as a proxy for gender, because "Dr." is often on there. Does anyone these days prefer to be referred to as "Mr. Lastname"? The one case I can think is be a person from an underrepresented minority who has a PhD: they might want to be referred to as Dr so that they're taken more seriously. But anyone else?
For fuck's sake. I got four quotes to replace some windows:
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bonked 12 Dec 2022 18:22 +0000
original: kissane@mstdn.social
So Google search is increasingly vibing late-90s Alta Vista in a casino, Facebook has melted into MySpace + Second Life, Twitter is dogpaddling as hard as it can toward early 4chan but probably isn't going to make it, people are making blogs again, and everyone wants to talk to the ELIZA Is the whole internet swimming back home to spawn and die, what is happening
My new game is out! You can find it at Mosaic River is a mobile solitaire game. You’re an archaeologist, sailing down a river, collecting mosaic tiles, and placing them into a triangular grid to make melds (straights, flushes, etc). Tiles have bonuses randomly assigned at each game. Here's a blog post with more information:
https://mosaicriver.fun/
https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-12-mosaic-river-my-third-indie-game.html
New blog post: A response to some Hacker News comments on my Stable Diffusion post https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-10-response-to-some-hacker-news-comments-on-stable-diffusion.html
They know what they did.
Perfect cinnamon roll.
Last night's chicken, for @katieamazing: If you have time, brine your chicken thighs: cover them with a few cm of water; weigh the results, water and all; add salt to 1% of this and MSG to 0.25%. Refrigerate overnight. If you don't have time, just salt and msg to taste while the onions are sauteing. Saute some onions. When they are brown, add minced garlic, minced preserved lemons, turmeric, and ground coriander and saute for a minute. Drain your chicken, discarding the brine. Add the chicken, along with chicken stock and/or water. When the chicken is nearly finished cooking, add some green olives and vinegar or lemon juice to taste. Mustard would be good too.
New blog post: I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion. https://novalis.org/blog/2022-12-05-i-am-frustrated-with-stable-diffusion.html
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bonked 05 Dec 2022 14:25 +0000
original: tedu@honk.tedunangst.com
DZ: cats not cats
Beautiful. I like that it starts writing the extra letters into the image. https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1599254476720066560DZ: cats not cats
@hankgreen: Someone suggested that I ask MidJourney to show me a cat but to keep adding “A”s until it wasn’t a cat anymore. Here is “cat.”
@hankgreen: Caat
@hankgreen: Caaat
@hankgreen: Caaaat
@hankgreen: Caaaaat
@hankgreen: Caaaaaat
@hankgreen: Caaaaaaat
@hankgreen: Caaaaaaaat
@hankgreen: Caaaaaaaaat: officially no longer a cat.
@hankgreen: Other cats…it kept being some sort of cat for 18 “A”s.
I've been enjoying The Whippet: https://thewhippet.org/ I especially liked the Calvino story reprinted here: https://thewhippet.org/the-whippet-131-how-to-pick-up-and/#conscience
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honked back 01 Dec 2022 20:19 +0000
in reply to: https://tech.lgbt/users/nelson/statuses/109439870721519275
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honked back 30 Nov 2022 14:45 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/keithburgun/statuses/109430918190102982
Relatedly, if someone uses the name "uncle X", and they are not your actual uncle, they are trying to scam you into believing they're some sort of authority.
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bonked 29 Nov 2022 16:17 +0000
original: gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz
I want David Cronenberg to design the new USB standard, so all the ports and plugs sigh and moan and writhe before finally accommodating each other’s anatomy in a blissful, disturbing union that allows charging and data transfer to occur effortlessly between all equipment.
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honked back 29 Nov 2022 13:38 +0000
in reply to: https://h.icyphox.sh/u/icy/h/3Xx64H591dYPqfMHjp
Idling season is back in NYC. As the weather gets cold, commercial vehicles run their engines while stopped. This releases a bunch of PM2.5. If you report it, in theory, you can get a reward of a quarter of the ticket ($87.50). Take a 4 minute video, add timestamps, upload it, along with a screenshot from the video showing the business name and another showing the plate.
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bonked 28 Nov 2022 19:37 +0000
original: attoparsec@clacks.link
The Pocket Typerwriter! It's a typewriter (kind of) for your pants (or where ever else you'd like to keep it)!
Tried to make yogurt out of hazelnut milk. That didn't work at all -- the result tasted like Windex. Ugh.
New vase just out of the kiln. The pustules were supposed to look more ocular, but that glaze is a little finicky.
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bonked 27 Nov 2022 03:38 +0000
original: mia@movsw.0x0.st
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honked back 26 Nov 2022 00:37 +0000
in reply to: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/Bf9Dx4l23PYhcSv3mL
https://novalis.org/patches/0001-Handle-informal-id-specifications.patch I've got a patch, which handles informal id specifications (like "user@example.com" without the initial @, or "example.com/user" without the initial "https://") when following users.
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bonked 25 Nov 2022 14:03 +0000
original: numbertheory@hachyderm.io
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bonked 25 Nov 2022 14:02 +0000
original: ArfMeasures@home.social
Wife: you need to prepare the turkey Me: *sits turkey down* dude this isn't gonna be a good day for you
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honked back 22 Nov 2022 13:57 +0000
in reply to: https://triangletoot.party/users/zmagg/statuses/109385310513327312
In both Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series, and JK Parker's Fencer series, attorneys engage in non-metaphorical dueling with actual sharp blades. One guess as to these authors' (previous) day jobs. I wonder if Ken Liu has done anything with this.
So far, I like the energy in the Fediverse. It's more about ideas, and less about the main character of the week. Except for the parts that are about Twitter. Those are about the main character of the week. And I also like Honk. Running my own server means that I don't have to worry that I'll be defederated because of some asshole (unless I'm that asshole, and, well, I can live with that).
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honked back 20 Nov 2022 01:45 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.social/users/fallenpegasus/statuses/109368439431788047
@fallenpegasus Not mastodon, but Honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk) supposedly supports it. I haven't tried it yet.
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honked back 18 Nov 2022 19:32 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.me.uk/users/garius/statuses/109365069633050082
@garius I made Surfwords, a brutally difficult word game for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, and Linux. People who like stressful word games will enjoy it. You can find all the links to get it at https://surfwords.com, or just search the various app stores (Play, Apple, Steam, Itch).
Freudian psychology is wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_and_the_Three_Bears
Bettelheim mainly discussed the tale in terms of Goldilocks' struggle to move past Oedipal issues to confront adolescent identity problems.[24] ... Elms suggests Bettelheim may have missed the anal aspect of the tale that would make it helpful to the child's personality development.[23]
A few weeks ago, I tried out Stable Diffusion. It didn't go well. Today, I'm testing out Honk from @tedu. Let's hope it goes better.