@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Sandra

@Sandra@idiomdrottning.org

Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.

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Sandra, to random

"I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.

The big idea is "messaging"."

I dunno—I think everyone who survived SICP will run up to the limits of message-passing dispatch sooner rather than later. I'd rather have multimethods (which is why I implemented pattern-matching generics that can dispatch on any predicate, not just interned strings). But, standing on the shoulders of etc.

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html

Sandra, to random

Fuel was being shipped back and forth across the Atlantic in order to qualify for different subsidies which was profitable since the transaction externalities of shipping is under–accounted-for. Orka.

https://www.iisd.org/gsi/news-events/united-states-closes-controversial-splash-and-dash-biofuels-subsidy-loophole

Sandra, to random

I disagree with many of these “things that don’t work” but number 12 is spot on:

Explaining board games. Here’s how people usually seem to teach board games:

  1. Someone spends 5-30 agonizing minutes explaining how the game works.
  2. No one understands anything.
  3. The game starts.
  4. As each game mechanic arises, people ask, “Hold on, how does it work?”
    You can skip to step 3.

https://dynomight.substack.com/p/things

(Also get off substack!)

Sandra, to random

So here’s a script that temporarily actually does make the home directory into that git repository, waits for you to be done with Magit, and then restores things.

https://idiomdrottning.org/cfgmagit

Sandra, to random

I sometimes see an idea on the left that I don't fully vibe with:

That ecological == just. That climate change is this wonderful godsent opportunity to set things right.

My own view is that we're juggling two separate chainsaws. And that's not easy or a boon or a good thing. The unjust world is a problem. Climate change is a problem. If we can't fix the first one, life sucks. If we can't fix the second one, life will end.

Yes, the problems are connected. The unjust world is making it difficult to address climate change because the haves don't wanna give up what they have (or, rather, what they think they have, since most of the world's wealth is illusory, built on the sandcastle of unaccounted-for fossil externalities, on loan from our cinder wasteland future).

But the solutions are not necessarily as connected as the problems are. Having read a ton of Bakunin and Goldman and Marx and RMS and what have you, the leftist economics ususally don't solve externalities either.

Climate change is a cruelly tightening vise, a runaway steamroller. It's going to make treating each other humanely harder, not easier.

Let's keep doing our best to stay human in the face of this calamity, and let's keep trying to fight it. ♥

In my view it's more important that the planet & humanity doesn't die. There are many woes and injustices that we haven't figured out a solution to for thousands of years. Let's keep working on them 👍🏻 but let's not make one calamity's solution be contingent on the other.

We do need new modes of thinking and new ways to distribute resources & labor tasks given that market capitalism is a cruel and embarassing failure, so maybe the solutions will come hand in hand and if so that's 💯 baller, I'll be happy.

But I just don't want us to try to solve these things on hard mode by overly tightly coupling them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sandra, to digital

Here are the emotes I wished existed on Arena:

• Hello
• Dang it, I made a misplay, but that's OK
• I like your style
• Noooo!
• Good game

I don't wanna say "Oops". That just sounds sarcastic.

@digital

Sandra, to random

Today I finally learned about xfe0e, a unicode magic code that tells modern devices to use plain text representation! So now my hearts ♥︎ can finally go back to their stylish style that WRNU and Story-Game veterans remember as my schtick since ages immemorial!

I've been actually typing that same playing card heart this whole time, it's just that modern devices started displaying it as a red heart (🤦🏻‍♀️) but xfe0e to the rescue I guess!

Yet another instance of this bullshit:

https://idiomdrottning.org/past-web

Sandra, to starfield

Where I can buy ammo in New Atlantis?

@starfield

Sandra, to random

I tried to combine the Movement Chart and the control table from Car Wars Classic into one board so you can move pawns around on that board to see how fast you’re moving, how much you can turn, whether you lose control over your cars around etc.

https://idiomdrottning.org/car-wars-control-board

Sandra, to random

I was always anti-twitter so seeing it devolve into X is just it clarifying where it was always heading. But what's weird to me is that people then willingly are going to BSky, to get fooled again (since AT isn't real yet, nor will it be a particularly good protocol if it does become real).

On the one hand, I wanna say what a failure on behalf of the Mastodon community that people are so desperate that they even willingly go to sites like BSky and Cohost.

On the other hand, it's maybe more a failure on how fedi was originally organized, with "The Whole Known Network" and such. The "bubble" idea is so much better & cozier. It lets you think locally, act globally 💁🏻‍♀️

gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2023/9-07.gmi

Sandra, to emacs

Why does replace-regexp backwards work so differently?

C-u - M-x replace-regexp w+

The - prefix arg replaces backwards but it hits one char at a time, as if the plus sign weren’t there. The same replacement forwards (without the prefix arg) does hit one word at a time. What’s going on, @emacs?

Sandra, to random

JavaScript mangles semantics in a way that CSS does not.

Dynamic content (such as animated elements) and even some amount of user interaction is well handled by CSS to the extent that it more affords designers making pages such that that stuff can be turned off, ignored, overridden. That’s much more difficult with JavaScript and the virtual DOM.

https://idiomdrottning.org/re-i-used-to-think-css-was-good

Sandra, to mtg

I used to say "I sleeved up Flash Wolves" (or w/e deck name) to mean that I've put together and started using a new deck, whether a brew or a netdeck. But I need to find a new phrase now that I am increasingly playing formats where I don't sleeve.

@mtg

Sandra, to random

Since I'm such an anti-copyright activist, people get confused when I'm not into counterfeits. I just want people to know what they're buying and not get fooled or scammed.

Sandra, to random

Tesla is trying undermine workers rights in Sweden. 💔

https://lo.se/start/nyheter/svenska_kollektivavtal_ska_galla_i_sverige_aven_pa_tesla

Sandra, to random

If XHTML is all good and Textile/​RST/​Pandoc is all bad, then YAML is half bad. Like Textile and its ilk, I can’t easily write YAML without tools. But the good thing is that if I am looking at a YAML document, I can more or less understand the gist of what’s there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/yaml

Sandra, to random

Of all the stuff that a DM does, the most important one is to be the keeper of the secrets. To know (or have a way to find out) the off-screen canon game state. Like, the characters have a treasure chest that they haven’t opened. It’s your job as DM to know what’s in there.

https://idiomdrottning.org/dm-secret-knowledge

Sandra, to random

Email, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Soju, Prosody and Jitsi had a few seconds of downtime total. PostgreSQL almost an hour thanks to the less than helpful systemd services.

The issue is that the service is actually named postgresql@15-main or some other weird, ever-changing name and the service named postgresql is super limited in giving info about that or forwarding restarts and stops to that, but it is very eager to give false info like "oh yes Sandra don't worry, postgreSQL restarted juuust fine" and I'm like honey I can see in pg_lsclusters that it's been 20 minutes since it crashed, how can you tell me it's restarted and the postgresql service is "Restarted? Sure, no problem" and meanwhile the real postgresql@15-main is like 😵‍💫 completely obliviously sleeping under all of this false info from the interloping postgresql service.

The only way to find out what's actually going on (i.e. absolutely nothing) was to sudo systemctl cat postgresql.service and then I could figure out what to do.

Sandra, to random

I haven’t been programming for a while but I spent a few minutes putting together a li’l rss-mash utility that takes RSS URLs on the command line and prints a combined XML file of all those items to the standard output.

https://idiomdrottning.org/rss-mash

Sandra, to mtg

It would've been great if the free peoples of Middle-Earth had been Rakdos-colored and the tyranny of Sauron and Saruman had been based on white mana.

The Lidless Eye is working towards homogeny and stagnation. Kind of a missed opportunity to break from the "black magic is evil" trope 🤷🏻‍♀️ @mtg

Sandra, to random

From the history of dice notation:

Someone would yell out a number range (“7-34”), and the winner was the first person who could come up with a way to generate that range with dice (3d10+4). They could get convoluted (e.g., 1-26 = 2d8 + 1d12 -2).

Yeah, I can’t stand those “number ranges”. I’m not very good at them. My method is “it’s probably Nd4”, like if it says 3–12, I check if it fits a bunch of d4 and in that case it does. Just wish it’d use dice notation honestly.

https://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-origins-of-dice-notation.html

Sandra, to random

In 3e, 4E and 5e D&D, you roll a d20, then add a number to that die roll, and then compare to a target number. In its worst iteration, that target number is even kept secret by the Dungeon Master, but even when rolled against an open target number, this has a couple of problems.

https://idiomdrottning.org/dice-math

Sandra, to random

Maybe I should just get over the two complaints I had about "internet time" https://idiomdrottning.org/beat-time and embrace it. I kinda do love it.

Sandra, to random

There is this whole “deep work” productivity culture obsession with hating on notifications, and when I do hyperfocus I often turn notifications off. That needs to be easy to do, and I do that all the time.

But there is a level of focus just before that depth, and it’s just as valuable, maybe even more valuable since it’s not as obsessive and not as neglectful of my well-being as a whole, and I can’t get there if I’m in check-check-checking hell.

https://idiomdrottning.org/notifications

Sandra, to random

Sweden wrong-headedly uses a system where the polar opposite busses have the exact same number 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://idiomdrottning.org/bus-trouble

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