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lucky

@lucky@mastodon.nz

31/F??/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, living w 2 cute cats and my wife. Programmer, teacher, gamer nerd.

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lucky, to random
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i'm still undecided as to the merits of various text editors, but i checked out Helix and it's sort of heartbreaking how excited they seem about it being a Chromium base... something that is, for me, a negative

if you have a favorite text editor with a GUI (sorry i'm not ready to launch into the vimlikes yet) i'd love to hear it though! i feel like i just use atom, brackets or (vs)code(or the OSS version) out of habit rather than particularly liking any of them

phil_stevens, to random
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Asking for a friend (literally): What happens to existing Windows 11 machines now? Do the get the spyware enhancement force-fed to them on the next Patch Tuesday? Is there an opt-out?

I may need to play the risk mitigation card with the business I do contract work for, since I occasionally touch a Win 11 laptop that's used in manufacturing and QA workflows.

lucky,
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@phil_stevens No! The new snapshotting feature is only supported by new hardware, so they're going to be trying to sell it to you over the next few years -- they can't force it (at least the way it's been presented) onto existing PCs.

lucky, to random
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Today a 17 year old asked if the game industry was good to work in and my co-teacher and I just started taking poison damage on the spot

Binder, to random
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If you don’t yet think that old people are sexy, just you wait.

lucky,
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@Binder i'm ahead of the curve

pat, to random
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So we've got DHH regurgitating (and promoting) transphobic talking points this week, with a history of parroting harmful racist rubbish in the past.

Will we see any Rails Core team members speaking out against this? Any sponsors of RailsWorld? Any founding/board members of the Rails Foundation?

Or is it cowardly silence (or worse, agreement), just like in the past?

lucky,
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@can @pat he's recommending a new unpleasant-at-best book by the author of "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters", which is just as bizarre as it sounds https://world.hey.com/dhh/bad-therapy-08849dc9

nyquildotorg, (edited ) to random
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Do you have examples of words like "helicopter," that people instinctively shorten incorrectly?

(Helicopter is "helico pter," not "heli copter," making derivative concepts like "helipads" and "roflcopters" nonsensical.)

lucky,
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@nyquildotorg people don't necessarily shorten it, but "bikini" is from the Bikini Atoll, but everyone pretends it's"bi" like two, hence "monokini" for a one piece is nonsensical. Really does it for me

lucky,
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@nyquildotorg if I remember correctly this is sometimes referred to as "rebracketing" so you might be able to find more examples with that. Such a great phenomenon

lucky, to random
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went to a farewell party for four very good coworkers who should still have jobs, immediately regretted not wearing a mask, ate a few pieces of cheese, got too sad thinking about my field, went home

Binder, to random
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Got me a nice jiggly British girlfriend. Call her my Shakewell Tart.

lucky,
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@Binder Got me a slutty American DILF. Call that a Pop Tart

jonoabroad, to random
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Did mastodon.nz go bang last night for a while?

lucky,
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@jonoabroad I noticed it as well, tried to doomscroll a bit before bed and was saved

lucky, to random
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out of curiosity, which countries AREN'T currently lurching further to the right? Brazil?

billbennett, to random

Is it me being fussy or do other people think that news media, including specialist tech news media, doesn’t do a great job reporting AI? Specifically, there’s often not enough explaining and background information for someone coming new to a story to get a handle on it.

lucky,
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@billbennett no, I totally agree. I also have issues with how much of it uncritically repeats marketing.

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    lucky,
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    @Binder Honestly, most of the Texans I know either feel a desperate hope that they can try to improve their home or they're trapped in Texas by poverty

    Drawinz, to random

    In the earlier internet websites would often have a list of links to other people’s websites so you could explore the web hopping from one to the next almost like it was a web

    lucky,
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    @Drawinz we should bring it back

    lucky, to random
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    anyone in NZ know where to buy a one-piece swimsuit / swim dress that has both a skirtlike bottom AND a high neck? it seems like everything under $200 only does one or the other and i'd really like to just concentrate on swimming without managing all my various lady lumps

    feel free to boost for reach thank you

    billbennett, to random

    One clear lesson from this weekend’s election. NZ Mastodon, or at least the politically vocal segment, is not even remotely politically representative of New Zealand as a whole.

    lucky,
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    @billbennett i suspect large swaths of Mastodon (at least the parts we see, because of effective moderation) are left-leaning; it can be nice having that bubble, but humiliating to remember that's what it is!

    lucky, to random
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    shout out to the 981 transphobic idiots (so far!) who decided their only political opinion was "i feel bad when people call me cisgender" and didn't get the hilariously named "Women’s Rights Party" a single seat

    lucky,
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    @billbennett yeah, this one was really for people who had NO other political opinions

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    I'm imagining graffiti that says "STOP VORING ANIMALS"

    lucky,
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    @spacefinner i found a blog from a conspiracy theory vegan at one point (as opposed to a regular vegan) who believed that eating any amount of protein led to constipation which lead to impure sexual thoughts and ideally human beings should eat no protein, poop liquid and never want sex, and aside from those facts the thing that really sticks with me was that he referred to non vegans as "CARNISTS" and "CORPSE EATER CULTURE" in all caps

    i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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    I have my dad's old phone number and every friday at exactly 5:04 I get an automated call from his job

    lucky,
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    @i_lost_my_bagel a friend of mine has an old alarm that goes off at 10:15 and she never bothered to get rid of it, so she used to send "happy 10:15!" messages every day, i find it so charming

    lucky, to random
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    here's another HUD and item that will not be named because i'm not here to shame specific people, who probably don't know what they've purchased (and this is far from the worst HUD, more on that later). why does it take twice as much memory? and why does it have to load each time, spamming the chat with messages, before it can be used?

    it's hard to tell for sure since you're not allowed to modify the scripts, but i have some guesses...

    screenshots of the chat window in second life being spammed with "Config ready, HUD ready, receiver ready" loading messages

    lucky,
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    the receiver AND the HUD both have TWO scripts in them. one is to make the thing work, and one is a "config". maybe the "config" script is allowed to be edited by end users? or maybe the "config" script reads user-input information and saves it? none of this is necessary -- it could be done with one script. more annoyingly, i've seen these HUDs around a lot, and if you have "materials" as well (specular and normal maps), those are separate scripts!

    lucky,
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    this means i've seen plenty of items where the HUD and the receiver items EACH contain three to four scripts, all of which are using at least 64kb of memory each, just to apply user-defined textures and materials. (my HUD does both in the same script because why wouldn't it?)

    again, though, this is not the worst HUD by far. let's go find a worse one!

    lucky,
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    here's a pair of shoes i really like. okay the receiver is taking 128kb, that's normal-ish, but OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE HUD? note that this HUD doesn't do anything particularly spectacular, it just lets you select between like 16 different textures to apply to 3 different faces of the 3d model. this could definitely be done in 64kb or even less!

    lucky,
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    i got very confused the first time i went on this adventure, because if you open up this HUD in edit mode, you actually see it contains.... nothing. there's no script in the root object of the HUD at all. why?

    because once you start going through all the buttons... all 23 of the buttons... you realize EVERY SINGLE ONE has a script inside of it. every single button is also its own 1024 pixel texture that has to load for the user!

    it's so unnecessary and so so funny and so common

    lucky,
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    this is also not the worst HUD i've seen, though it's the worst i own. i know HUDs that take 4000kb of script memory -- enough to run DOOM!

    what can you as a creator do?

    if you see an item with a great HUD, edit it and see what's inside! you might find a brand of script maker to look up :)

    buy scripts that let you edit them if at all possible! experiment! ask for help!

    and PLEASE let buyers modify your item to delete your scripts when they're done ;_;

    /thread

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