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hrefna

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SRE at Google. Queer. Poly :potion_polyamory: Trans :verified_trans: :nonbinary_potion: Engineer. Ace :flag_ace: Member of AWU-CWA. #ActuallyAutistic :rainbowinfinity: #UnionStrong

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People who know nothing about ecology hear about something that requires no work or understanding on their part but where they can "spread awareness online": "YES THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER."

Applies to more than just ecological activism, of course

Rather than saying "I'm not going to mow for a month!" take a while and actually learn what is in your yard. Don't just hop on arbitrary bandwagons with no understanding of what you are looking at

But learning is complex, "not mowing" is easy 1/

hrefna,
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You can do significant damage to your ecological system by just doing things like "not mowing" arbitrarily, especially depending on where you live. You can also cause more damage by leading various things in the environment to "take shelter" in your yard and then resuming mowing come June.

What's more, just letting things grow will usually invite in invasives and noxious weeds and will promote invasive monocultures.

Grass laws are terrible, but "ignore it" isn't the solution.

2/

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I hate -.-

The root fragment on the right is a remnant from last year that is mostly dead except for about once inch on the end. I just pulled it.

hrefna, to random
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This is really, amazingly cool work. https://recurse.social/@lindsey/111180369571322649

hrefna, to random
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Holy… 5.5 hours of lore x_x Well that's my freetime for a few days.

https://youtu.be/4n9eakXNsIQ?si=WFmeJeZfEhGVn84N

hrefna, to random
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slams desk emphatically THANK YOU. This matches my exact experience with small talk and gives me a good analogy for it.

The one comment on cockatiels is just chef's kiss, because that is exactly how it works with birds (and in people, though we like to deny it).

It's not my favorite mode of interaction, but if you understand its purpose as a social ritual it seems a lot less meaningless.

The other thing: I like to stick it at the end of the conversation.

https://www.tumblr.com/thetetra/750913052342419456/i-figured-out-i-was-autistic-when-i-was-explaining

hrefna,
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Like I used to help run these study groups that would involve discussion and an exercise

I would let people do small talk at the beginning but wouldn't participate, because some of the other participants were more extroverted and liked to do their "Are you a dog!" "I'm a dog!" exchanges early. When it lulled I would step in and we could run the group, but then we'd return to small talk and I would participate in that as part of the social ritual

Because it is important as a piece of the ritual

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I have NOT read this paper yet so this is not a Cat endorsement yet but the title and premise is good enough to share 👀

https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(24)00105-0

hrefna,
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@grimalkina This has a lot of very strong parallels and resonance with a presentation I recently saw from Prof. Steven Bird about non-extractive methods of training language models (based on this paper https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-long.50.pdf).

hrefna,
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@grimalkina

I can just see Quijano going:

Thank GIF

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Stupendium's Production Line is like "yes yes, eldritch monsters, but have you considered the horrors of capitalism?"

https://youtu.be/HYdOZOdjXnI?si=tGjbnxdiBYj4aPn6

hrefna, to random
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Why are horses?

ami_angelwings, to random
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wait what year is this

https://youtu.be/OHpiIAJiExo

hrefna,
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@ami_angelwings my immediate response as well

Robin Williams What Year Is It GIF

hrefna, to random
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It always bemuses/annoys me when some smug ass sails into a theological debate with "who cares it is all made up anyways."

My brother in clearly-not-Christ, have you been in fandom spaces on the internet? Ever?

Go ask a Tolkien group about Tom Bombadil and see what happens, or ask any group of straight male genshin players if any given character is a lesbian.

It's especially annoying when those debating aren't actually followers of said faiths and are just borrowing the lens.

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Everyone wants to do the fun work, everyone wants to play with grand ideas, but getting people to actually do the gritty, challenging, in-the-weeds work is really difficult.

Getting people to agree on how to do the in-the-weeds work is really difficult.

Then, getting people to acknowledge that you did the work is further complicated.

hrefna, to random
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Ballet floor program, aka, "you know those tiny muscles in the hips that you maybe saw once in advanced anatomy and never thought about again? that's now the focus of an exercise, you're welcome. Oh, your heart rate won't get above 120, but you will feel like you are going to die afterwards anyways."

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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect.

hrefna, to honkaistarrail
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I'm personally of the view that 's 2.2 quest was one fo the strongest from a story perspective and one of the weaker ones from a game storytelling perspective.

Turn that plot into a movie or a light novel and I'm all in, but they tried to do a lot of things and I don't think they all worked together particularly well mechanically.

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I swear respects the players time and attention less than any major title in the last ten years. The game goes out of its way in several ways to just underscore how little it understands these things.

Going back to my earlier criticism: there is a third of four different games in Fallout 4 and those thirds don't play nicely together.

hrefna,
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Pop quiz

  • Can I pick up that extinguisher?
  • Will the refrigerator open or can I take items out of it or neither?
  • Is there an in-game key for this lock/console? Is that key in the same building?
  • I found a secret passageway! Is it meaningful or a dead end with maybe a few steel scraps?
  • Is putting my time into building settlements out worthwhile? How can I know?
  • If I am bombarded by requests, how do I prioritize which ones to do? Can I take a break from requests to focus on the story
hrefna, to random
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Of course, part of the problem of knowing if you have the same object or if there has been an update is that to do it properly requires canonicalization, which is normally a nightmare, but is an extra special nightmare if it means you have to process the JSON-LD and also define ownership relationships that don't exist at the moment -.-

hrefna, to random
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Examples of the things SWICG is publishing that should, IMO, be FEPs: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-webfinger/

hrefna, to random
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Love the look of using server-to-server blocks like you would a personal blocklist. Just love it.

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"This is a server-to-server protocol that is specified like a client-to-server protocol."

"Why are all of the distributed systems engineers twitching?"

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Part of my frustration with and one of the things I find baffling giving everything else in it: the lack of tools for backpressure.

Backpressure is fundamental in building reliable distributed systems (c.f., Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods). From a C2S perspective I get why it wouldn't need to be specified, but from a S2S federated protocol perspective its absence is frustrating.

All that it says is to take care not to overwhelm others and a bit on rate limits

hrefna,
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@julian But that could be specified at the protocol level. It isn't, but it is kind of weird

There are entire sections on it for Dynamo (first image), Tiara discusses it extensively in the posted snippet (second image) and in multiple other sections, and it is covered as something to address in Requirements for Signaling Protocols (RFC 3726).

These all have multiple sections addressing different parts of this problem and solve it with different levels of flexibility, but they all address it.

Crash resistance. Observe that Tiara can be separated into disconnected components by the crash of even a single process. Tiara can be fortified against separation due to crashes in the following manner. At the bottom, each process maintains a crash-redundancy link to its right neighbor’s neighbor. That is, the bottom level list becomes doubly connected. Thus, it can tolerate a single crash. The crash tolerance can be further improved by adding similar links to more distant processes. Since these links only span a fixed number of processes, their construction does not affect the asymptotic complexity of stabilization of Tiara. Note that in an asynchronous model there is no reliable way to distinguish a crashed process from a slow one [15]. Thus, to accomplish this, the processes need to be equipped with failure detectors [9, 10]. A failure detector alerts the process if its neighbor crashes. Then, Tiara stabilizes to a legitimate state corresponding to the system without the crashed process
5.10.3. Graceful Handling of NSIS Entity Problems NSIS entities SHOULD be able to detect a malfunctioning peer. It may notify the NSIS Initiator or another NSIS entity involved in the signaling process. The NSIS peer may handle the problem itself e.g., switching to a backup NSIS entity. In the latter case note that synchronization of state between the primary and the backup entity is needed.

hrefna,
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That's a mood.

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