: the D&D movie rocks but I think it should be an anthology series. like yeah the obvious choice …
: Don't make up reasons to hate people if there's already plenty laying around Alternatively, “a stopped clock is right twice a day”, “the worst person you know …
: Note on LLMs My thesis statement I guess is: LLMs and the current work on AI is an interesting and possibly …
: Ayyyy eye Time for another “nuance blog”. I think LLMs are fundamentally bad, on balance. The …
: Homebrew A while ago, during the Great OGL Kerfuffle, there was an interesting idea promoted by a bunch of …
: On buying a car to save the planet I wanted to write this down so the next time someone complains I’m lacking nuance or whatever, …
: So what's this button do? Ah, yes. That button defaults the country on its debts. What? Why is that even there? shrug. It …
: passed the first interview. now comes the big coding test, which I always do poorly at. I …
: The little drum fill before the vocals start in “Litany” by Fucked Up is so perfect 🎵
: Just watched “Mad God”. I need a hug
: thought a lot about my game setting thing. it’s sort of turning into “‘Kill Six …
: soft-launched a big feature today, I’ll open it up to more users next week. I think it’s …
: i want to do a really gonzo TTRPG game. Relatively short in length, but completely absurd. …
: My boss just published his 4th game, Charioteer. It’s a racing game and it’s a lot of fun! It plays …
: So we got our RTO order. Everyone who had remote status, but was within a set of zip codes near the …
: I listened to about 4800 minutes of Clutch this year. This is also the first year Black Flag was not …
: Did anyone else notice how Elmo didn’t provide reciepts for his claim about Twitter and the …
: When Apple v Epic happened it was easy to root for injuries: Apple is totally wrong in its handling …
: Trying to get banned from bird site
: This is an absolutely amazing setting riff: forum.rpg.net/index.php I would pay real money for this! …
: I am thinking that this here site does not violate these precepts www.jwz.org/blog/2022…
: really great piece from Monte Cook. I have been so, so guilty of basically being a slave to …
: Remember, every time you take mass transit, you give a fash-adjacent billionaire a headache
: Gotta admit I’m a little shocked that Alexa is such a titanic loser. I never would have guessed at …
: I keep trying to think more in terms of functional programming and somehow I always end back up with …
: i want to run a kinda-sorta OSR game: like no big high-concept thing, no complicated story. Just …
: I noticed that I don’t use contractions when I’m being very serious. A strange sort of tic I guess
: Making a social network a financial success is a cultural problem, not an engineering one. It isn’t …
: The office isn’t as cold as it used to be but I still need thermies and a warm jacket to make it …
: This place sucks but at least there’s coffee
: “New” social network interactions are always kind of lonely.
: It’s cold outside and I am operating the grill
: Gotta write up the new trailer stuff AND post updated pics; and I have plans for upgrades over the …
: Here’s another view, from the front.
: First trip with the full wall kit. Sarah called it “the M.A.S.H. Tent”
: the walls for the awning arrived - just in time for this weekend! we’re going to have a little …
: Ghosted by Best Buy. Still no microwave. I tire of the modern primitive lifestyle (using the oven …
: fixed my Cards problem. Turns out the problem was, you need to use cardsv2, but, all the links are …
: Today in “basic tasks I fail at”, it’s the “cardsV2” return format for a Google chat bot. It’s …
: It’s undoubtedly a symptom of my growing old-man vibe but the relentless moral panics about …
: everyone is looking to what service to flee to, and not really asking what they want out of social …
: This is what I mean by “the awning”
: Got walls for the awning on the way and with this we should be able to camp all through winter. …
: Finished “The Orville”. It’s … cute? Like, the highest budget fanfic ever. Flawed but overall I …
: I was thinking about how to adapt Minesweeper to a real-time, vaguely first-person game. Like you’re …
: I’m increasingly finding that I dislike anything that has “plugins” or some sort of extension …
: Do you think that when we moved from the “thorn” character to “th” people got super mad the way they …
: “Prehistoric Planet” is delightful
: gonna be in New River Gorge in a couple weeks. Excited to get to a new camping location.
: I’m old enough to remember when the most evil thing 4chan could do was to mess with YouTube …
: Came up with a pretty good mashup of Spelljammer and The Locked Tomb books. Really want to try it …
: Pretty grim over on Bird Site. Everyone wants to leave but is unsure about how to preserve the ol’ …
: Backed the Old Gods Kickstarter, because I’m a big fan of the podcast and the idea of Southern …
: A bunch of performance-intensive stuff coming up at work. Might have to do stuff in Go? Can’t …
: You can fit a full quarter cord into a short-bed Taco if you’re REALLY good at geometry
: Thinking a lot about the Old Gods of Appalachia TTRPG and wondering how to do group stories. Seems …
: Guy makes Viking movie trying to be sensitive to how Nazis love that shit and not include blatantly …
: Learning ASL is a lot of fun. What isn’t fun is seeing bands going back on tour and knowing I can’t …
: A playlist is an ordered list of 3-tuples (song, album, artist) with some metadata. Why does it take …
: he’s obsessed with the space heater
: Finding myself speaking more explicitly in the language of design patterns. Like, “I should use a …
: Latest RPG story idea: think The Expanse, only instead of the protomolecule being sci-fi mumbo …
: Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds - PBS NewsHour Ollie poops …
: The great kava boom: how Fiji’s beloved psychoactive brew is going global - World news - The …
: Whenever The Muffs come up on shuffle I get really sad. But also I guess I’m old enough now that …
: Huh. Militia groups spurn alt-right ‘trash’ at Virginia gun rally while establishing a dialogue with …
: An app I like switched to a subscription model. Ok, fine. The problem is they added like 60+ new …
: Bleak Sword (Apple Arcade) is really good! Super-low-res swipe-based Dark Souls, basically. Simple …
: Notice: Heisenburg works here now
: “Any blockers?” Yes, Turing machines
: Another Sabrina note. The musical numbers are cringe af. It’s like some exec said, “this shits too …
: Op-Ed: Yes, Gov. Cuomo, Car Helmets Could Save Lives – Streetsblog New York City Or, you know, build …
: Made it a good chunk of the day before [redacted] broke my spirit
: The only part of S3 of Sabrina i am liking is uh “sexy witch and pansexual warlock go on a revenge …
: Wild how everyone credits “Allied forces” for liberating Auschwitz. It was the Red Army.
: It’s nice to live in a world where immensely important systems explode overnight and no one noticed …
: It seems like the touch sensitivity of the micro.blog app is higher than any app on my phone. I so …
: Some updates to the “booze blog”, including fixing pagination and tags
: Went in hellscape bird site to vent my spleen. Please forgive this transgression. But I promise, …
: I had a few too many and made this thebooze.ninja I’m (slowly!) adding all my recipes and notes and …
: The thing I notice about focusing on Flickr is I want to take better pics. I always want to take …
: “And the Lord did say unto them, ‘never shall there be a Hot Pope Who Fucks’, amen.” Pope Benedict …
: Flickr is very nice. Instead of drunk idiots at brunch or “influencers”, it’s nice photography. And …
: Look I get it, Grimes is at best insufferable and probably insane but Art Angels was a good as hell …
: github.com I haven’t used Chrome (not counting testing) in over a year. I haven’t used Google search …
: Use duck fat to roast your vegetables. Total game-changer.
: They should have left Pepper as Extremis-enabled for Infinity War/Endgame
: Netflix is sort-of down for me on all my devices (UI loads but complains of “No internet …
: Imminent threat to American lives from nation-state who has been pwning us since the 50s: Hellfire …
: It is my solemn promise that if faced with an evil maniac working the controls of some inter …
: Yaaay it’s retired! pythonclock.org Or, not, I guess! www.python.org/psf/press…
: Happy new year from ol’ Yoda ears
: Let’s get some F’s going in the chat for Python 2 (I stopped seeing the guy with the “2.8” tshirt at …
: Trying to unlike everything in my hellscape bird site account. None of the apps seem to do it. Doing …
: Feels good to have no emotional investment in Star Wars. Everyone else can fight it out.
: Fitbit SDK Everything about the FitBit SDK makes me want to develop for it. Nothing about WatchOS …
: If adtech is so good why do I get ads for: Trump, Biden, Gabbard, Bloomberg. That list is “things …
: Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network — …
: Rainy Sunday morning. Listening to the soundtrack for The Expanse S3, doing PyCon work. As you do
: I should go for a run bc it’s 60-something and beautiful outside but I didn’t sleep and sometimes I …
: Why does this psychopath have a job www.khq.com/news/rep-… Also cool I am part of a …
: Instagram literally stopped updating for me so I took it as a sign to log out and forget about it. …
: The risotto wanter has logged on
: Ok final Witcher thought. I do enjoy the way he’s often a sad-sack: covered in guts, doing a …
: The Witcher: “yeah, she’s part elf so, like she’s all afflicted. Hunchback, face all messed up, the …
: I’m watching The Witcher. What the fuck is happening. Who the fuck are these people. Is there a …
: I was looking something up and after clicking around, ended at the official Java tutorial …
: Didn’t go running and I feel like a slob but it was 34 degrees and raining. Also once a slept …
: Supreme Court to Have Final Say in Oracle v. Google Java API Battle Genuinely wondering how this one …
: Leon is the best character in Mr. Robot. This is a hill I will die on.
: If your mortgage payment is $10 - call it $8 principal and $2 interest - and you pay $11, is there a …
: No affirmative hand signals allowed
: Commute by public transit is practically relaxing sometimes. Just sit and kill some time. Longer? …
: I’m less interested in cats v dogs as pets than predator vs prey as pets. Why the hell would anyone …
: Gotta book Pycon but also I’m trying to convince my employer to pay for a trip to Vegas for …
: I was never (officially) a “junior dev”. I was just a sysadmin, then the only dev - “a dev” - for so …
: My end of year music thing is obvious if you know me: Clutch, Black Flag, Propaghandi, Deadmau5, …
: So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery… - Serious Eats
: twitter.com/BillKrist… Just join the Democrats and allow a real leftist party to emerge; send …
: Why I am afraid to be 100% remote: twitter.com/cstross/s… Not that I’ll become a MAGA hat but …
: Gonna see Tool tonight. Last saw them at Ozzfest a long time ago. I am sorta meh bc I loathe arena a …
: One of the chief reasons we ruled out Asheville as a place to move www.cnn.com/2019/11/2…
: I’ve gotten 9000 or so ads for Bloomberg on YouTube this morning alone. Proof all this adtech is …
: Over on hellscape bird site they were doing “unpopular food opinion”. Mine is not too unpopular, I …
: We have Smooth Yoda And we have Baby Yoda Unleash …. Smooth Baby Yoda
: The house liquor of the Muslim world - The Outline
: Commuting by public transit today. Fingers crossed this goes well
: I’m one of those weirdos for whom the iPad represents the dream of computing. This is how I’ve …
: Today in “I cannot actually use an iPad Pro as a full-time computing device”: the AWS console. I …
: Welp. Back to this. Shouting into the void over there at Mastodon wasn’t much fun. I mean here I’m …
: Current status: being electrocuted
: opentable just sent me a notification suggesting i dine at The Inn At Little Washington. …
: Curious if MeWe mewe.com is a worthy microblog competitor. I see stuff about “freedom of …
: the whole Alfred E Neuman thing is hilarious and shows the obvious hole in the Republican movement: …
: Good Girls is kind of a fun show but, like, clearly also network tv. It’s structured like “prestige …
: It says, eg, you need to work to make funds. So I drag the “job” icon onto the “work” icon. Funds do …
: I don’t understand “Cultist Simulator”. A bunch of colorful icons appear then 3-5 minutes later it …
: Everything hurts. I continue to under-recover.
: I’m now an AWS Certified dingbat or whatever
: I’ve had a small amount of success with my most recent Linux On The Desktop fling but this remains …
: “Studying” for the AWS certification. Half of it is just learning their words for what you already …