ANapSoundsNice

ANapSoundsNice, 8 months ago

I think I’ll take your implicit advice to not watch it, now that I went and read the description. I feel hollow just off that alone.

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

Banger of an article and this paragraph especially made me feel like the author personally knew me

Mark’s pyramid illustrates how fundamentally different the role of architect compares to developer. Developers spend their whole career honing expertise, and transitioning to the architect role means a shift in that perspective, which many architects find difficult. This in turn leads to two common dysfunctions: first, an architect tries to maintain expertise in a wide variety of areas, succeeding in none of them and working themselves ragged in the process. Second, it manifests as stale expertise—the mistaken sensation that your outdated information is still cutting edge. I see this often in large companies where the developers who founded the company have moved into leadership roles yet still make technology decisions using ancient criteria (I refer to this as the Frozen Caveman Antipattern).

To the first point, I was already thinking that maybe I too am an accidental architect but that note about burnout trying to stay on top of everything within your breadth of knowledge I completely understand. I’ve also done a lot of work over the past 4 years to offload and socialize a lot of knowledge because there was a point I couldn’t get my own work done in any meaningful way because I was getting interrupted multiple times a day with questions, and in meetings I kept hearing similar phrases to “I don’t get it but if anyone does, knows”. It’s not like I wanted to be the bus factor of one, but sometimes you don’t realize how high the silo walls got until they start filling it with grain.

To the second point, I’ve often had the idea with some enterprise architects I’ve encountered that they are idiots. I guess it’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they are working too closely on outdated knowledge and tools so it looks like they’re dumb. It’s helpful that there’s been a big push in the enterprise architecture community to follow TOGAF recommendations for company technical maturity in the modern age with so many new frameworks and tech stacks popping up every 5 years.

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

Runner minutes from runners on gitlab online are limited to some certain amount according to some calculations… I dunno. But if you self-host your own runners, wherever they may exist (your own home lab in shell, in containers, in a k8s cluster, really a lotta options ) then you don’t pay anything to use your own runner minutes. I can tell you from experience they aren’t that difficult to get going and registered to your online gitlab workspace or self-hosted gitlab platform, simple matter of registering the runner with a token key given to you in the runner panel on gitlab, and providing it a TLS cert especially if you intend for the runners to interact with self-hosted container registries because then it will stop yelling at you.

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

I’ve been grappling with thinking how the best implementation of this plays out for some time. I think in a perfect topological implementation of federation, moderately sized regional hubs would house lower sized social constructs. Midwest.social would have both state based and city based communities within the federation instance for example.

But that ideal probably causes both too much fragmentation of the already small and burgeoning community for the sake of placing things in neat packages.

In the interim, I guess we will have to make do with the formation of communities on whatever instances they spring up on. Feeling out the community creation vibe at beehaw however I don’t think geographic community based, er, communities are best suited for this instance vis-a-vis creating each newly provisioned community with the intent of measured growth to not create ghost towns that aren’t in use after a few months.

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

I have adjusted my mindset instead of adjusting the terms themselves, for me. While completely getting everything that exists was and is still to “100%” a game, I have adjusted “to beat” a game to no longer be nearly synonymous with 100% because I ain’t got time for that anymore.

Instead I believe to have beaten a game if I get the main sequence credit roll and have completed as much non-main scenario content as I want to before I feel it’s tedious or stupid. Sometimes beating the game is strictly completing the main sequence because no extra content exists, are only achievements, or are so difficult that I simply don’t feel like investing the time into it (unless I want to. Shout out to God of War ps3 with the hardest difficulty + Valkyrie Queen side quest! Now THAT was a hard but fair and fun fight!).

I recently played through BotW finally so I can move onto TotK and I did all shrines, about 320 korok seeds, and some side quests and chains (like terry town) but I decided against doing the trial of the sword deep dungeon. I kept playing and doing things and didn’t get all shrines because I wanted to but instead had such a fun time that I got all of them because I just happened to continue enjoying the journey to all shrines. That subtle distinction means I keep playing games as content still exists and while I’m still having a good time.

When the good time ends, then I feel I have beat the game. And that’s good by me.

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

Sorry for the late response to my other comment - I also was reading through the documentation for the first time and it looks like you got the answer ahead of me, nice!

I whipped up some sample code that does exactly the same thing you ended up doing, so no further additions here except that in the Lemmy API is expecting requests to be sent to <instance domain>/api/v3/... .

I used my code that is basically the same to what you have above here, but when I switched it to v1 the server throws an 400 error (malformed request). So if you haven't ran this code already you've got my sanity check that it will work except for making sure you change the api version. You can then carry that auth token with you when making requests by including it in the header like so

headers = {
  'Content-Type': 'application/json'
  'auth': '<jwt goes here>'
}

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

The only thing I'd add is that any new homebrewer to the hobby become familiar with our often quoted wisdom.

Homebrewing looks scary before during and for a few beers into starting their hobby! People have great concern that they're messing with thing sitting in cupboard or basement for a week or more and they don't want to be sick or get their brew infected and they worry greatly over sanitation. I'd only add that as long as you aren't being an utter nastyass when it comes to sanitizing your equipment and exercising some sense on the cold side of the process, you should be okay.

That's why we have the phrase RDWHAHB - Relax, Don't Worry, Have A Home Brew!

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

Found an article from Japan Times (non-paywall link) explaining that the bill is about Japanese immigration law adjusting at least in part the ability to deport asylum applications.

First four paragraphs of the article as a jumping off point:

Parliament on Friday passed a bill to revise an immigration and refugee law that will allow authorities to deport individuals who repeatedly apply for asylum, despite objections from some opposition parties.

The Upper House enacted the law with the support of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, as well as other right-leaning opposition forces.

The previous law governing such matters did not allow officials to send a foreign national back to their home country while their application for refugee status was pending, and immigration authorities suspect many have abused the system by applying multiple times in order to remain in Japan.

Under the amended law, the government will aim to reduce long-term detention in immigration facilities and encourage the expulsion of foreign individuals who do not comply with deportation orders

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

This has the fantastic parallel to Kintsugi. I also repair my own clothing like OP, but I just yesterday created a big horizontal tear in a pair of shorts I enjoy wearing and will try repairing them like you've linked here, it looks really nice!

I also have a rather difficult time finding decent jeans in my correct waist and length, so I've taken to hemming my own pants and while the first time was terrifying (I'm cutting off the bottom of a perfectly good pair of jeans what if I mess up!?) it turned out amazing and I look and feel SUPER confident in the altered pants. So I recoimmend to anyone to give hemming their own clothes a try, maybe starting with a pair of pants that you'll repair like OP's anyway, you can't screw it up much worse anyway!

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

I followed this tutorial which cuts the jeans to the proper length and then uses a sewing machine with a zig zag pattern to create the new hem. I had to go this way instead of reusing the original hem because I needed to shorten the leg by 4 inches and would have way too much fabric at the bottom of the leg if I kept the original hem or did one of those non-sewing tricks.

I used a marker to create the lines of interest as described in the video but uh… those lines didn’t wash out. Thankfully they’re hidden unless you really go looking for them but I’d suggest a quick trip to the craft store for tailoring chalk!

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

Dropping in here to ask a side question

My biggest concerns with finally making the switch to gaming in a linux distro are

• Will the biggest releases generally be guaranteed to (eventually) work in wine?
• For game with multiplayer that use invasive anti-cheat third party systems, what's the hit/miss rate of people getting unfairly banned because they're running it on linux? I'm generally playing multiplayer in FFXIV and WoW these days so I'm sure that's fine, but I don't want to worry about being VAC banned down the line for playing some non-AAA game with a trigger happy cheat detection software.
• Follow up for this last question - if that's just a reality of gaming on linux, what anti-cheat softwares do I have to be weary of?

I found such a list

Bless this community.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

It just occured to me that you're probably talking more about the study of creating the art. But I already wrote out this post so here you go!

A couple of youtube channels I greatly enjoy in the study of art composition, background, and history are

• Great Art Explained. I first encountered this channel in an A to B to C starting from a Dunky video on the movie Playtime to my long fondness for Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and later recalling this analysis when I played through the jazz-filled adventure puzzle game Genesis Noir.
• I'm just really into that Art Deco style, and when you think great art of course you think Magic the Gathering cards. Rhystic Studies has amazing breakdowns of both the story and art of MTG cards, like my favorite video on the art of the art deco inspired Streets of New Capenna set

ANapSoundsNice, 10 months ago

Me reading this comment as a brand new all-in full-time Manjaro Xfce user got me sweating, hoping I don't break my install. I'm already working through my bluetooth drivers exploding when going into suspend state.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Just going off of a quick stroll through the iOS app store (as of time of this post)

• Apollo is the highest rated 3rd party reddit app at #11 in the News category (for comparison, the next highest was Narwhal at #75 within this same category)
• Apollo does not however breach the top 200 apps app-store-wide. The official reddit app does at #52 overall. and enjoys the company of other ubiquitous apps like Hulu, Duolingo, Google Drive, and Disney+, all within 10 ranks of it on the overall list.
• It does seem that reddit has crunched their numbers and gambled that 3rd party app users and the uproar they are in is a calculable loss against the groundswell of desktop and official reddit app users.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

To mention a couple more YouTubers in the strong town space I recommend following:

• Road Guy Bob explaining the reasoning behind traffic infrastructure and how municipalities often rethink and reimplement traffic features to meet the needs of the modern driver and the modern city.
• City Beautiful discusses city planning from transportation to urban design.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

I myself live in an unwalkable urban hellscape dystopia, looking at strong town channels is like looking into another dimension!

When I travel, my absolute favorite thing to do is just walk around. And eat and drink and spend time among the people.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

I saw someone attempt to invoke a !remindme bot in some other thread. I don't know if that's actually something that exists already, but that would probably be useful for people who use it.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

CurseForge created a new support article with the latest known confirmed infected mods/modpacks and a tool to quickly determine if you may have acquired the infected jars

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

A few low hanging fruit I wanted to tackle involve

• trimming leading/trailing spaces in the search when pasting a cross instance community. If you have a space it will default to a local instance text search
• adding some feedback for users who have a pending application to join an instance. Currently if you have a pending app waiting approval it just hangs there instead of performing a successful login. It’d be nice to have a message along the lines of

Your user profile is still pending approval from the administrators of this instance. Don’t want to wait? Try hosting your own!

• figuring out a better way to block quote when line breaks are present in the quoted text. You can see an example of what I mean in this quote block. I had to break up the lines in their own > because putting the lines right after another removed the intended break and instead continues the next line directly following the last character in the previous block. Not sure I’m explaining this right, I’m a little fried today. Maybe I’m just dumb and didn’t do it correctly.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

Oh very much this.

I only recently discovered r/askmenover30, r/dadadvice, r/Over30Reddit and r/daddit after having been subbed to r/internetparents and r/dadforaminute for a while. It’s probably the biggest hole in my heart being left behind, middle-age parenting and lifestyle/support.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

haha, thanks :D

It was my mood in that present moment when I was registering an account, but it's a simple life affirming truth.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

I had a dream last night about some sort of fediverse overlay as a browser plug-in that you’d be logged into your home instance in the same way you’d be logged into a reddit profile using RES, but as you are browsing feeds on other activitypub networks you can one-click subscribe to have it start to appear in your home instance.

I say this from the perspective as a new Lemmy user, copy/pasting !community to my home instance search sucked when trying to browse and subscribe to so many different places to populate my feed.

But alas, I’ve had a tiring year so far and I don’t see a break in the clouds until Q4 when at least the migration in front of me should be done.

ANapSoundsNice, 11 months ago

I may have been a little... overzealous when I wrote my beehaw application but I echo this point when I submitted

My last comment on reddit was 6 years ago. I was afraid of what it and the internet at large was becoming. Afraid to be a human online because the trolls and the dox and the swats. The mission statements in the side bar, the long and insightful posts that hope to bridge new people to the culture of beehaw that speak of being nice and compassionate, of working together to build a community of varied interests and peoples let me dare to dream that there exists a place where I can be a human on the internet again.

It's going to take a lot of deconditioning to not be a lurker!