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jupiter

@jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place

A tireless tigress, level 45.

Game developer during the day, and game developer at night.

git checkout https://fennecs.tech ... the tiny, tiny, high-energy Entity Component System written in modern C#! Free and libre open source.

Also working on https://jupiter.blue ... a space real-time fleet tactics game about privateering, plunder, and salvage in a post-human cyber/solar/biopunk world! (new website soon)

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jupiter, to random
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Tell me you hate JavaScript and functional languages without telling me you hate JavaScript and functional languages.

ArneBab, to fediverse German
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«der Fakt, dass man immer noch mehr verdient, wenn man ordentlich arbeitet,
und man keinen Cent mehr verdient, wenn man auf Bürgergeld-Empfänger losgeht, anstatt für höhere (Mindest)Löhne zu kämpfen,
wird sich auch nicht in der Öffentlichkeit durchsetzen.» — https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/medien-laengst-kapituliert/

Helft ihr mit, dass @Volksverpetzer endlich mal Unrecht hat und boostet das hier bis das davon wiederhallt?

😇 🎤 ⚡ 📣

jupiter,
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@ArneBab @Volksverpetzer Ich finde so krass dass die Bild in 250pt schrift Titeln darf "Lohnt Arbeiten jetzt noch?" und die Leute nicht stutzig werden und sagen "Stimmt, Arbeit muss sich wieder lohnen..." (um hier einen berüchtigtzen Wahlslogan zu beschwören), "...warum verdienen wir vorn und hinten nicht genug?"

jupiter, to random
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Debugging: The murder mystery game where you are the investigator, the witness, the victim, and the perpetrator!

jupiter, to random
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Motion Blur considered harmful.

jupiter,
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@aeva I think it should be one of the first options to show in a high caliber game on first launch.

Right after:

  • screen reader setup
  • photosensitivity options
  • motion blur options
sixtus, to random German
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Auffällig, dass gestern kein einziges Medium schnappatmig "Aiwanger-Entscheidung: Söder spaltet Deutschland!" getitelt hat. Die oft bemühte "Spaltung der Gesellschaft" ist offenbar nur dann ein akutes Überschriften-Dings, wenn es um Wärmepumpen, Radwege oder Gendersternchen geht.

jupiter,
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@ArneBab @sixtus
Mehr als jeder dritte? Und mehr als jeder andere dritte will das Dritte reich zurück, oder wie.

Naja. Es gibt hoffnung.

jupiter,
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@ArneBab
@sixtus

Im Detail sollte man natürlich differenzieren, ist es ok jemand HEUTE abzusägen, weil er als Jugendlicher/Heranwachsender irre fehlgeleitet war?

Kann man diskutieren.

Auch wenn ich auf der Seite "absägen, und Söder gleich mit!" stehe. Gehören nicht in die Politik, solche Menschen.

jupiter,
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@ArneBab @sixtus

Die Frage ist, ob aller Legalität und Verjährung, etc:

"Ist der Mann angesichts dieser Tatsachen noch wählbar."

und

"Wäre er guten Gewissens wählbar gewesen?"

Für mich ein klares "NOPE".

Stattdessen reißt die Diskussion und Betrachtung des ganzen das Overton-Fenster einfach noch weiter raus der rechten Angel. Jetzt ist es, nennen wir es mal "volkskognitiv", ein Stückchen mehr "in Ordnung", was da vorgefallen war.

grumpygamer, to random
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I'm approaching my 40th year, so I'm making up for everyone else.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/survey-raises-concerns-about-long-term-career-prospects-for-developers

jupiter,
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@grumpygamer So it was YOU who stole all the years!!!

(well, I also, err, accumulated a disproportionate amount)

futurebird, to random
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If you live in a big city with small apartments and busy professionals there is a service you could offer that would get a lot of takers:

Person who comes and picks up items that could be donated, sold, gifted to the right person and who dispatches at least 2/3rd of what they pick up to anything that isn't a landfill.

You could charge for this service, even though you'd recover some value from the items.

Institutions would hire too.

jupiter,
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@futurebird
This service would be completely overrun by people trying to just take and sell the items.

We use ebay classifieds for this in Germany. You almost never get a person to pick it up without them being kind of obviously in it for a profit.

I don't mind this. :) This is literally recirculation into the market.

What I do mind is if the person dumps the unsellable (but still good) stuff at the bus stop outside your apartment, often damaging it, and makes off with the more valuables.

jupiter,
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@IngaLovinde @futurebird Oh if you sell then you get mostly private buyers. There's usually not enough of a margin for a commercial reseller to operate.

I mean when you put stuff up for FREE.

Then the majority for certain items, e.g. old computer parts or appliances, is people who specialize in collection and resale. They will also often ask if you have anything else. They don't care what, just to make their trips worth it.

Again, the practice is fine.

Just don't throw my good stuff away :(

jupiter,
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@IngaLovinde @futurebird I use Kleinanzeigen in lieu of donating to goodwill, because there are very few places that can accept random donations of "stuff", regardless of what it is. (let's assume all on good condition - it's as much about helping someone else out as it is about reducing waste)

(specific stuff such as books, board games or entire computers I donate to specific recipients whom I seek out myself)

jupiter,
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@IngaLovinde @futurebird that said, anyone want two 27" monitors (AdobeRGB capable, just a bit old), and can pick them up in northern Berlin for free... hmu :)

davidho, to random
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Spending Saturday night with Akshat Rathi’s Climate Capitalism.

It’s well written and researched. I’m starting to think maybe it’s possible for capitalism to solve climate change.

Fun fact: China used as much concrete between 2011 and 2013 as the US did in the 20th century.

jupiter,
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@davidho
I think the statement is inflammatory and reductionist. It needs context.

How much of its concrete did the US use in the last decade? I think it's also compressed towards the end of that period.

Then, compress by a factor of 3.

Then, correct by types of concrete, some use more, some use less cement.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Punch Nazis.

jupiter,
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@BlackAzizAnansi
And if you're unable, ask a friend to do it for you.

Source: https://ladyfingersletterpress.com/products/i-would-punch-a-nazi-for-you

DanielSolis, to random

Someone had fun naming that yellow group. Nothing like feeling like a genius with Connections and a dunce with the Wordle. 😂

Connections
Puzzle
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨

Wordle 805 6/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I solved the 9/2/2023 New York Times Mini Crossword in 1:51!

https://fpx3r.app.goo.gl/PKC4

jupiter,
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@futurebird @DanielSolis

You cannot, because each input is independent from the preceding input, even though often they are semantically connected.

Assuming the final word is FIRES, then WWGGG might be MORES, but WYWGW could be anything with an E at index 3.

Steps 1 2 and 3 are often arbitrary stabs. It's a good strategy for a really poor first or second matches to try a word with 5 completely different letters.

If I type BADLY and get WWWWW, I would not type "SADLY" or even "BADGE".

jupiter,
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@futurebird @DanielSolis

You can come up with a legal game, but it will usually be one of many, and you have no good way (other than, perhaps, probabilistics) to determine how confident you are that this reconstruction is actually the exact game, as played.

If you don't know the final word, there's basically any possible permutations of 5 (loosely coupled) letter patterns available for each row/step, and they would still be legal.

jupiter,
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@futurebird @DanielSolis
It would be interesting to see how many reconstructions certain degenerate games could have, given you have access to the full word list:

WGGGG
WGGGG
WGGGG
WGGGG
GGGGG

At first glance it only has a few (if any, or one) legal games total, but it is not obvious at all!

WIRES
SIRES
TIRES
MIRES
FIRES

However, each step other than #5 would still be interchangeable with any other step, plus any words that also match, like HIRES, VIRES, CIRES, LIRES, ...(so many)

jupiter,
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@futurebird @DanielSolis
Wonderful coffe break kata! Time for some lovely python!

I assume non-stupid players don't guess the same word twice.

You can see that your example (1st pic) is especially rough! There's absolutely no overlap between matched word lists.
(I named it "unique", but "new" sounds better)

Simple script is here, doesn't count possibilities quite correctly for differing patterns, but probably good enough: https://gist.github.com/thygrrr/a6a1cdb3fc8ec0013bb692a46542f86b

Words from here: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dracos/dd0668f281e685bad51479e5acaadb93/raw/6bfa15d263d6d5b63840a8e5b64e04b382fdb079/valid-wordle-words.txt

loaded 14855 Words playing game with winning word' fires 'and steps ['WGGGG', 'WGGGG', 'WGGGG', 'WGGGG', 'GGGGG'] 1 WGGGG 6 sensible candidates out of 6 with 6 unique out of 6 ['cires', 'hires', 'mires', 'tires', 'vires', 'wires'] 2 WGGGG 5 sensible candidates out of 6 with 0 unique out of 6 ['cires', 'hires', 'mires', 'tires', 'vires', 'wires'] 3 WGGGG 4 sensible candidates out of 6 with 0 unique out of 6 ['cires', 'hires', 'mires', 'tires', 'vires', 'wires'] 4 WGGGG 3 sensible candidates out of 6 with 0 unique out of 6 ['cires', 'hires', 'mires', 'tires', 'vires', 'wires'] 5 GGGGG fires legal games: 1,296 non-stupid games: 360

jupiter,
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@futurebird @DanielSolis

If there are no possible games without repeats, e.g. when solving for "black" with the steps "WGGGG", "WGGGG", "WGGGG", "WGGGG", "GGGGG", the program will count 0 smart games but still list the # of legal games.

Again, the example from @futurebird 's challenge will give astronomical possible game counts. Again with no possible word even seen pickable twice.

There's a strategy optimization avoiding picking LETTERS twice, but this is quite superhuman & speculative.

[loaded 14855 Words playing game with winning word 'black' and steps ['WWWWW', 'WWWYY', 'WWYYW', 'WYWGW', 'WWGGG', 'GGGGG'] 1 https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/996/267/367/267/021/original/4b8b247bdfde7b94.pngere', 'deers', 'de 2 https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/996/267/367/267/021/original/4b8b247bdfde7b94.png, 'dotal', 'doula' 3 WWYYW 366 sensible candidates out of 366 with 366 unique out of 366 ['debag', 'debar', 'debby', 'decad', 'decaf', 'decan', 'decay', 'decko' 4 WYWGW 45 sensible candidates out of 45 with 45 unique out of 45 ['dance', 'dancy', 'darcy', 'daych', 'fancy', 'farce', 'farci', 'farcy', 'f 5 WWGGG 13 sensible candidates out of 13 with 13 unique out of 13 'drack', 'frack', 'quack', 'shack', 'smack', 'snack', 'spack', 'stack', 's 6 GGGGG black legal games: 160,719,530,400 non-stupid games: 160,719,530,400

jupiter,
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@futurebird

Without spoiling today's wordle, and without enhanced speculative strategy (which would be mostly that - speculative), I get a total of 24,683,414,400 legal games and the same number of "no repeated word" games, based on today's word and the way @DanielSolis played it.

(I played it way worse, too.)
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Found a picture of the abomination on reddit, just look at this.

Slyly shrinking the pack is one thing but doing so AND increasing the price is a blatant poke in the eye.

I'm tempted to put the sheep on Lidl own brand now.

jupiter,
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@llamasoft_ox Both keyboard and wallpaper are testament to your excellent taste in all things.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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New image of Supernova 1987A remnant from the JWST.

SN 1987A, whose explosion was observed in 1987 (it exploded 160K years ago), is one of the most studied objects.

Besides the dust-filled central structure, the bright beaded ring and 2 faint outer rings, the new image shows 2 faint crescents near the center.

The beaded ring is formed from the SN shockwave hitting material ejected ~20,000 years ago by the progenitor star.

Let's explore SN 1987A.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/136/01H8Q0YNFRGYKJC8JM90V1WHSG?news=true

1/n

jupiter,
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@AkaSci this explosion happened long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

stancarey, to design

Scott Kim's symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram

jupiter,
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@stancarey "Dyslexia, visualized."

(a fantastic artwork, nonetheless)

jupiter, to random
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Hot take:

If a Haiku is art, so is a Diffusion Prompt.

jupiter,
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@aeva ✒️
sorry, but your prompt
violates the midjourney
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