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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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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.

stancarey, to design

Scott Kim's symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram

jupiter,
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@stancarey "Dyslexia, visualized."

(a fantastic artwork, nonetheless)

georgetakei, to random

The GOP is desperate. With Trump’s legal trouble mounting, the GOP has begun attacking the very prosecutors tasked with bringing criminals to justice. Unpack this troubling trend with Team Big Picture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-prosecutors-authoritarian-trump-willis

jupiter,
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@georgetakei Oh they ain't beat yet. Don't let these fascists recover from this.

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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I’m running a experiment. Please boost for reach.

When I say VS Code, what is the first word that comes to mind?

Please reply, but don’t peek at other people’s responses until you’ve done yours.

jupiter,
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@khalidabuhakmeh
code

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
platform terms of use

breadandcircuses, to science

I hate to give you more to worry about, but if you're going to make wise choices, you'll need to know what's happening now and what's coming in the future.

So here is the latest grim news...

"We could be 16 years into a methane-fueled 'termination' event significant enough to end an ice age"

Ice age terminations typically occur in three phases. The initial phase is characterized by a gradual rise in methane and CO2, leading to global warming over a few thousand years. This is followed by a sharp increase in temperatures fueled by a burst of methane, leveling off in a third phase lasting several thousand years.

"Within the termination, which takes thousands of years, there's this abrupt phase, which only takes a few decades," explained Euan Nisbet, a professor emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of London. "During that abrupt phase, the methane soars up and it's probably driven by tropical wetlands."

Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas released both by human activities — including fossil-fuel burning, landfills, and agriculture — and natural processes, such as decomposition in wetlands. Human emissions soared in the 1980s with the expansion of the natural gas industry and stabilized in the 1990s.

But in late 2006, something "very, very odd" happened, said Nisbet. Methane started rising again, but there was no dramatic shift in human activity to blame — and researchers were left scratching their heads. Then, in 2013, Nisbet and his colleagues realized this rise was accelerating. By 2020, methane was increasing at the fastest rate on record, he said.

"It looks as if there's a big new methane source turning on," Nisbet said.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/we-could-be-16-years-into-a-methane-fueled-termination-event-significant-enough-to-end-an-ice-age

ALSO SEE -- https://archive.ph/jbneB

jupiter,
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@breadandcircuses
Termination... wasn't that the job of these guys?!?

And now we managed to do it all by ourselves?

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

You ever wonder how many security products allow all 10* traffic like 101.25.26.94 because the admin/programmer didn't realize 10.* is a RegEx

Sad Music Video GIF by Taylor Swift

jupiter,
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@SwiftOnSecurity Oh no.

HistoPol, to random
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    jupiter,
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    @HistoPol @tomatenfrau Schamlos passiv aggressiv.

    jupiter,
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    @HistoPol @tomatenfrau Und ich dachte schon ^^

    gvwilson, to random
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    If your human factors team designs a safety system that requires operators to be paying close attention 100% of the time, they're only pretending to design a system to keep humans safe. I think the same is true of LLM-generated code: if you're assuming people will review it all carefully before putting it into production, I think the real purpose of your process & procedures is to keep the blame off the AI.

    jupiter,
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    @gvwilson don't use LLM code in any L1 or higher projects, and probably not in C20 or C50 and larger.

    SrRochardBunson, to art

    Of course you're anxious or depressed. The planet is burning and the billionaire fascists are tightening their control.

    Fuck 'em.

    Do something today to piss off a .

    Spread love and kindness. Help someone who needs it more than you.

    Bend and/or break norms and stereotypes.

    Scream.

    Make .

    Just don't let them win. There are WAY more of us than them.

    & as always...

    jupiter,
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    @SrRochardBunson Saw someone doing what?

    mcc, to random
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    Reading the wikipedia entry on Machiavelli and… wait… what

    jupiter,
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    @mcc

    Much like the Marcus Aurelius diary thingy. Never intended to be read, nor particularly popular. Co-opted by the right.

    I don't think the most powerful person on the planet in antiquity, recommending "to stop complaining" or "to only worry about what is within one's own power" is a valid thing that carries weight or even relatability with the general population of the 2020.

    jupiter,
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    @mcc So a "truly Machiavellian play" ... is good fun and entertainment?

    Volksverpetzer, to random German
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    Denkt dran: Rechte reden zwar von "illegaler Einwanderung", aber sie meinen damit sogar deutsche Staatsbürger, die die "falsche" Hautfarbe oder Vornamen haben. Es ist einfach nur purer Rassismus, lasst euch von dem vermeintlich seriösen Anstrich nicht blenden.

    jupiter,
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    @Volksverpetzer heute ein Meme gelesen, "... dass die meisten Leute gar nicht extremistische Parteien wählen wollen, jedoch die anderen Parteien ja alle das Problem mit der Einwanderung nicht eingestehen wollen."

    Ich nur so: "DAS ist eine extremistische Position, du herzloses fremdenfeindliches Arschloch."

    lritter, to random
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    easy way to empirically guess the complexity of an algorithm:

    measure elapsed time with 100, 1000, 10000 elements etc;

    1. time factor ~1 = O(1). excellent.

    2. times differ by decreasing factor approaching 1: O(log n). good.

    3. if the time approximately scales by constant factor 10 every step up, you're in O(n). acceptable.

    4. a scale a bit greater than 10 approaching 10 means O(n log n). not great, not terrible.

    5. constant factor 100 every step up means O(n²). that's just awful.

    jupiter,
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    @lritter
    6. if test with 1000 elements finishes, but with 10000 seems to run forever, O(exp(n)), I'm not even mad, that's impressive.

    futurebird, to random
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    The police shot a 63 year old man while trying to evict him from his home. The elderly man had been taken in by "sovereign citizen" conspiracy theories much to his son's frustration.

    These theories made him more vulnerable to police violence. He also may not have been mentally well.

    The house he was evicted from used to belong to his brother, but a corporation recently bought it for $25,000, then evicted him.

    This story is a nexus of senselessness.

    https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/pittsburgh-active-shooter-what-we-know-about-suspect-william-hardison-sr/YBYESACWBJAZDNWKC5RRHSSGY4/

    jupiter,
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    @futurebird I greatly appreciate your in-depth answer. Many of these things I had no idea about.

    Thank you for taking the time even though the topic of your thread is police violence/using law enforcement as eviction muscle. (which I agree with, a human life could and should have been spared here)

    mcc, to random
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    TFW multiple people on your feed simultaneously make cryptic jokes about people falling out of windows and u sigh and type "Russia" into Google News

    jupiter,
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    @mcc Sauron killed Saruman or something.

    (actually good riddance but honestly, I'm sure at least two of the people on board did not deserve death)

    jupiter, to random
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    Game mechanics:

    I'm one of the few souls on the planet that believes that item durability is, in fact, a fun mechanic.

    I am building two stats around this into jupiter.blue:

    Condition and Quality.

    Condition is a basic "if it drops to 0%, it's inoperative", but Quality is an inherent stat affecting Condition decay and status effects.

    Condition can be restored, even in space, by the player.

    Quality is more of a one-way street, a jury-rigged gun will never become "Mastercraft" quality again.

    jupiter,
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    @hmans If it's a lot of work to deal with, or constantly triggers loss aversion, even numbing the player to it (looking at you, Breath of the Wild!), it's never fun, even if on paper it constantly mixes up the game play.

    I believe there is inherent pleasure in using downtime to address wear and tear issues in equipment. If it doesn't feel like a total chore.

    That feeling when you polish your new bike after the first longer ride? That's zero percent chore, all pride and care and appreciation.

    AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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    To celebrate Claude Debussy's birthday (Aug 22) on the eve of Chandrayaan-3's landing, let's soak in this beautiful visualization of the lunar surface from NASA set to DeBussy's best-known composition Clair de Lune.

    The video covers one lunar day, from sunrise to sunset, which is what Chandrayaan-3 will experience before it fades away into the long cold lunar night.

    Go full-screen mode, volume up, lights dimmed.

    https://youtu.be/6CXDrNyt-iM

    1/n

    jupiter,
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    @AkaSci @barrygoldman1 It's a really cool and economical mission, but I'm shocked to realize how destructive space is.

    jupiter,
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    @barrygoldman1 @AkaSci Extreme temperatures are the biggest issue.

    I would not have expected Chandrayaan-3 to remain operative forever, but I would have expected at least a couple lunations.

    The Moon is our front porch, and that already trashes our gadgets as soon as night falls? Wow.

    psychicparrot42, to random
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    jupiter,
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    @psychicparrot42 that... Has such a Rainbow Islands/Pang!/Bubble Bobble feel. Must... See... More...

    jupiter,
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    @psychicparrot42 looking forward to it :)

    jupiter, to random
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    Sir, your wake up call!

    jupiter,
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    Actual veracity/source to be verified, but if it isn't true now, it's going to be in very few years.

    It's 1°C (34°F) at the North Pole right now.

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