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zalasur

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I play strategy games, write software, and stream on Peertube (not necessarily in that order). Also, sock monkeys! Preferred pronouns: he/him/his.

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zalasur, to fediverse
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, we hit magma! We're producing green glass and are working towards kicking off our steel industry. Just in time, too, because we're now a County and the Count wants fancy rooms! I hope he likes steel walls.

We're upgrading our fortress defenses and will be building an above-ground fort pretty soon, provided the smelly goo doesn't drive everyone mad!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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I wonder if there are any man pages written these days that just say "Please join our Discord"

zalasur, to random
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So, I don't know if this works for everyone, but this might be useful if you have noticed (like myself) how time passes faster and faster the older you get, as if fate wasn't cruel enough.

One simple trick: think in terms of what calendar year things happened rather than how old you were.

It's not perfect but it's better to have that "2020 seemed so long ago" feeling than it is to have that "WTF happened to my forties!?" dread.

hannah, to random
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Floored to discover this wasn't just a weird word Terry Pratchett made up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepork

zalasur,
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@hannah "The morepork (Ninox novaeseelandiae), also known by numerous other onomatopoeic names (such as boobook, mopoke or ruru..."

Ok now they are just trolling us 😂

GreenSky, to random German
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zalasur,
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@GreenSky I'm sorry, but the only reason George Orwell would be shocked at all about anything happening in 2024 would be because he would learn that Aldous Huxley was right.

zalasur, to random
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I had this moment today:

https://tapas.io/episode/3009766

zalasur, to random
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Every time. I struggle with a problem for two days, and then I finally give up and ask for help. Five seconds later I figure out the problem.

arstechnica, to random
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Dangerous outbreak in children tied to mixing up irrigation and drinking water

Of 13 children sickened, 7 hospitalized and 2 had life-threatening complications.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/dangerous-outbreak-in-children-tied-to-mixing-up-irrigation-and-drinking-water/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

zalasur,
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@abcderian @arstechnica Irrigation water typically contains animal waste byproducts. I'm guessing E coli.

zalasur,
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@abcderian @arstechnica It was mentioned in the article itself. Sometimes you gotta click through. I know, annoying. But it happens.

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: the Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth: we found magma! And also we have a Hillocks? Our Baron is nice and settled in and I'm making room for the eventual monarch and the unceasing waves of migrants. Lots going on in this world of smelly goo!

We're kind of ignoring petitions for now so no guild halls or specialized temples until we get our furnaces up and running.

Let's play!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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The announcement that NetBSD is banning AI generated code is a noble gesture and all, but the main problem, as always, is detection. If everyone is acting in good faith, then all is well. But if someone generated code using Copilot then it may not be easily distinguishable from hand-written code. It's not like code has a watermark or anything like that. It's text.

I fear that this might end up with people getting falsely accused of submitting AI code. How does one prove their innocence?

zalasur, to random
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It's fun when you edit code that's been written by someone with the job title "Software Architect" and there are so many mistakes in it that it takes you two days to clean it up. 😅

zalasur,
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Let's just say there are more eslint ignore directives in the code then there is code in the code.

"Ope, I got a typescript error in this code! Better tell the linter to ignore it!"

code "compiles"

claps hands in satisfaction at a job well done

zalasur,
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Hmmm, I keep getting deeper and deeper into this rabbit hole and I keep running into more problems. I may have to write all this code from scratch, it at least the part of it I need.

This is the danger of copying code verbatim from other projects. Errors are cumulative.

zalasur,
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I managed to get the code to compile, but it doesn't run, and I suspect it's incompatible with the architecture it was supposed to run under in the first place.

I think cutting my losses at this point and starting over is the best plan.

I'll get an older version that I wrote myself to work. I really wanted to avoid that since the whole idea is to replace my old boilerplate code, but at this point time is more important than correctness. I need to get this working to get the project done soon.

crmsnbleyd, to random
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DuckDuckGo seems to have LLM generated summaries of pages now, this text was not in the page at all.

zalasur,
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@crmsnbleyd Dammit 😤

brooke, to random
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commercial for online therapy followed by a commercial for "nuts.com" snack delivery

zalasur,
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@brooke If there was a .nuts TLD we could close the loop with onlinetherapy.nuts

zalasur,
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@brooke Well, found this article 😅

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/why-nutscom-wont-bite-icanns-new-generic-top-level-domains

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Omg just say what you wanted to say and get it over with.

zalasur,
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@Mrfunkedude I can't. I drank all the coffee and now I have to say all the things. In one breath.

zalasur, to DwarfFortress
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Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plan of Myth, we captured our first goblin invasion force of child snatchers. We'll be sure to melt their armor before tossing them into the magma pits. But fist, we need to build the magma pits.

A Dwarven caravan is on its way and the migrants are arriving en mass. We need to get our magma industry going soon and let the steel flow!

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

zalasur, to random
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Ugh. I love NFS but man my jank fileserver sure likes to make my other devices not happy about one out of five times I reboot the server. 😅

ai6yr, to random

Reuters: Orcas sink sailing yacht in Strait of Gibraltar https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/travel/orcas-sink-sailing-yacht-gibraltar-intl-scli-scn/index.html

zalasur,
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@mkristensson @ai6yr Oh I'd watch that 😄

jzb, to random
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Just curious - of folks who follow me here on Mastodon, what is your desktop of choice? KDE Plasma, GNOME, Mate, Cinnamon, Cosmic, Xfce, other?

(Tried a poll, but apparently Mastodon only allows 4 options? That's woefully insufficient.)

zalasur,
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@jzb LXQt. Lightweight. Fast. Stays out of the way. ♥️

zalasur, to random
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Why do even our senior devs do this? Whyyyy 😭

This line of code does the thing

this.doesTheThing()

zalasur,
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In case you're wondering, the part I'm complaining about is the useless comment above the line of code that is a literal restatement of what the code does without contributing to clarity or understanding for anyone reading said code.

natematias, to random
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Good news — the EPA updated the air quality index on May 6th.

Good news: AQI now includes a wider range of conditions that make people sick.

Complicated news: since AQI is based on health impacts rather than an absolute measure of pollutants, anyone basing research or analysis on AQI should expect the definition of a one unit difference in AQI to change.

Time to update my own monitoring/early warning system

https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2024-02/pm-naaqs-air-quality-index-fact-sheet.pdf

zalasur,
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@natematias No to both those questions:

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