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tartley

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Made out of meat.

Class III sentience. Singular biological manifestation. Mortal. Human. He/him.

Computer programming sparks joy. Linux lover. Test obsessed. Mostly wrangling Python.

Loving the current discourse in the science fiction scene, of a critical need for metamodern myths to rally around, provide meaning, and heal the culture wars, by integrating the best of the ancient, modern and postmodern views of the world and our place in it.

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birv2, to emacs
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Installed #syncthing on my 2 linux machines last night. Seems to be working so far, though I haven't yet figured out exactly how it all works -- what syncs with what, how often, etc. But they can see each other and share.

Next is trying to get it going on my Win10 machine. For some reason, that makes me nervous! But if I can get all 3 synced, and #emacs working on all of them, I'll be pretty jazzed.

tartley,
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@birv2 oooh, I'm at a similar point, got it installed on a couple of Linux laptops, and am now going to spread around more devices. Haven't tried the Android client on my phone yet...

Brahn, to random
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Gemini 1.5 pro, gpt-4o, claude3 opus, mistral, llama3...

Not a one of them could correctly tell me how to install home-manager on macos.
Not. A. One.

When trying to resolve errors it created, they would keep repeating themselves.

The only time things go useful is when I added this to the system prompts "It is important that the information you tell me is accurate and not a guess. If you do not know, simply say 'I don't know.'"

It's very difficult for an LLM to say "I don't know."

tartley,
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@Brahn Agreed. Interestingly, perhaps this is a reflection that the documents LLMs are trained on were overwhelmingly written by people who thought they had something to say other than "I don't know".

18+ Brahn, to random
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In my area, finding non faith based therapy is absolutely impossible. I visited an emergency room recently due to a horrible PTSD episode, couldn't breathe, heart was crawling out of my throat and trying to choke myself, covered in sweat. I needed medical services so I could get my shit together. And the fucking er brought not 1 but 3 boyfucking priests to my bedside despite my protestations. I got loud and screamy so now I'm some kind of danger. This world sucks

tartley,
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@Brahn That sounds rough. Sorry to hear you're having a tough time, and that supposed support services are so inappropriate. Hang in there, I am assured by relatives with not entirely unrelated experiences that it gets better.

jakub, to godot
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oop signals in #godot look so cool

tartley,
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@jakub I am inexperienced in Godot but when I started using signals I wish I had known:

Objects I want to receive a signal often did not have a reference to the object sending the signal, so could not subscribe to it.

To solve it, notice that objects can raise a signal which is defined on a completely different class. Hence, one pattern is to have a single well known MessageBus instance, which defines all the signals, which anything can raise, and anything can subscribe to.

tartley, to random
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We're a couple of seasons into cartoon tv show, and it's shaping up to be every bit as good as (2005) was.

ArmouredWizard, to gamedev
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I'm not sure what I'm going to make with this dungeon yet.
It started as a Random Map Maker for Android, for use with TTRPG, but I think I could turn it into something. Some kind of neo-Roguelike?
Once I've got proof-of-concept for a Map, I'll see what next.
Suggestions welcome.

tartley,
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@ArmouredWizard As Commander of humanity's first exoplanet base, you patrol the halls, greeting crew members as they pass, wondering which of them hosts the mysterious aliens that are laying eggs, blocking corridors with strange webs, and apparently constructing spaces of their own.

otfrom, to random
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Recently bought an LG smart telly. Should I connect it to the internet, or just use it with an attached computer (Mac mini) and older Google Chromecast.

Eventually I'll put Linux on the intel Mac mini, but I'm wondering if the streaming via the computer is any less horrible than using the built in apps.

I know it is all horrible, I'm just wondering if LG webos is even worse.

tartley,
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@otfrom I do not have advice about your specific situation, only empathy. :-) I have my t.v. (A smart Hisense that runs Android) not on the network, just being a dumb HDMI display for an Nvidia Shield, which also runs Android, so the UI/apps were identical, but the Shield is noticeably faster to respond to user input, and has the grunt to run more demanding apps like Plex. Our t.v. CPU and RAM is just enough to get by, running apps on it required annual repaving. Maybe your LG is better?

tartley, to random
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@reinainblood <waves> ?

tartley,
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@reinainblood Hooray! Very glad to have you on board! Welcome. 🤗

tartley,
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@reinainblood hey, you're Minnesota! Me too! Am I spacing on you IRL?

tartley, to random
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Late last night in deepest Minnesota the gravel roads were dotted with people's cars pulled off to the side in remote dark spots, like it was some sort of country wide make-out contest. Will the aurora provoke similar madness tonight?

glyph, to random
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It seems like editing one's answers on Stack Overflow is not an effective protest vote, but perhaps upvoting https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/430135/where-is-the-opt-out-option-so-my-answers-dont-get-used-by-openai could be one signal that would be legible to the site's owners

tartley,
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@glyph An alternative to StackOverflow that looks reasonably feature complete, but seems lacking for an audience... https://codidact.com/

claresudbery, to random
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This afternoon I have been enjoying this view from my seat in the British Library, in London. It's a bit like being in an inside-out ship!

tartley,
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@claresudbery If you took a landscape oriented photo then people can use it as a video call background 🙂

trisweb, to random
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Byeeeee stackoverflow

tartley,
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@mrcompletely @trisweb this. There exist non-commercial sites that have more or less duplicated the functionality of SO, but suffer from a lack of content and audience. They have discussed mass import of questions in the past, but (rightly) judged it to be a big job, given their meagre resources.

tartley, (edited ) to sbc
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Meet our new . arrived. Wired it up to two 4TB hard drives. 5400rpm, for quietness and reliability. Installed Cockpit to pair them up in RAID1, and left rsync copying our media onto here overnight. Next up, a media server will access media from here, and try as a Dropbox replacement...

tartley, to random
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@perfect5th Hey! Great to see you on here. I trust all is well. I'm having a typically parental weekend, kiddy soccer tournaments, family hike in a State Park, and tonight am assembling my just arrived new "zimablade" single board computer NAS device.

wordshaper, to random
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Layering extra things on top of the “making shit up at random” machine isn’t going to fundamentally make it stop being a making shit up at random machine. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112383184056923602

tartley,
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@wordshaper That is true, but my layman speculation is that this is sorta partly how humans work. You have a deep subconscious level that makes lots of noisy associations, and a bunch of filters that prevent most of the unworkable or irrelevant or socially unacceptable ideas from making it up to your conscious thoughts.

A make up random stuff machine with filters might be more creative and productive than the opposite, attempting to deduce true things from axioms purely by inductive reasoning.

tartley,
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@wordshaper Absolutely agree. I didn't mean to imply anything about the process of human learning, only the subsequent exploitation of the resulting associations when we're being creative.

tartley,
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@wordshaper Very fair. My speculation about "how brains actually work" was crudely expressed. I should have said "Behaviourally, seems to have some things in common."

seve_py, to vim
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Curious about how many Vim/Neovim plugins you’re rocking? 🤔 Jump into your terminal, navigate to your Vim or Neovim configuration directory, and run this command: ls -alp | wc -l. I currently have 41 plugins, but I’m aiming to slim down to 30-35. How about you? Share your plugin count below! #Vim #Neovim #Plugins”

tartley,
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@seve_py Yeah, it's interesting, thanks for posting the question.

I think when I was younger, I indulged more than I do now, but I had oceans of free time in which to curate and configure them. Nowadays I just want something good enough so that I can get on with what I'm actually supposed to be doing without distraction.

tartley,
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@seve_py A curious outlier, one of the smartest people I worked with used textpad, the required features for choosing it being syntax highlighting, and mapping keys to run arbitrary shell commands.

I'm not saying that's the One Right Way to Do It, but it gives one pause.

tartley,
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@dabe @seve_py Yeah, that is very understandable, I think you're right that there's value in shaking things up from time to time.

kelteseth, to random
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Why are we still using mailing lists in 2024? You want to show formatted markdown or code? Don't be silly. You want to upload a test file? Too bad. You want to upload an image? Nope. You want to upload a video? Preposterous!

tartley,
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@kelteseth um... I'm starting an online neighborhood chat and hosting it on a mailing list seems like the best of all the options. Emails can contain embeds and links, so all the "preposterous" scenarios you list are... actually easy? Plus, every single neighbor already has email, even the 80 year olds, even the ones without a smartphone, works like pub-sub by default, in a context where everyone understands what that means. What's not to like? The formatting can be a bit wonky? Who cares!?

ArmouredWizard, to godot
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Current bugbear:
GDScript using whitespace (Tabs) to define function/loop boundaries! Must have correct indentation!
I am SO not used to doing this!
I might have to re-adopt my habit of commenting End-Of-Section! :(

tartley,
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@ArmouredWizard I'm just pondering this same question. For me, I'd like to work in NeoVim. I'll have to look up how to get that working...

tartley,
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@ArmouredWizard ah, I only now have seen the context, that you're wrestling with using indentation for code structure.

I apologize for not entirely understanding your problem, but am happy to chat about it if you'd like. I used to write a lot of C-like languages, which use braces or other markers to delimit loops, etc, and found it was universal and sanity-preserving to use indentation too, for human readers of the code. So in gdscript, like Python, we get rid of the redundant markers.

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