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ratsnakegames

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Programmer, hobby gamedev, train nerd, cyclist

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mcc, to random
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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc hognose snake!

25kV, to random
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Still catching up on back issues of Modern Railways. Great to see this comment from Lumo and Hull Trains MD Martin Gilbert. Bi-mode isn't always best!

ratsnakegames,
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@25kV Maybe we should put catenaries on all railway lines, just in case the diesel engines on the DMUs running there fail.

mcc, to random
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I feel like very recently— like, the last month— Google has gotten massively worse about aggressively correcting acronyms to unrelated, similarly-spelled words. Like look at this search where I search for the wiki for the C# game library FNA, and Google simply decides, without even offering a "Did you mean…", that it would be more interesting if I had instead been looking for "FNAF"

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc I've switched to Duckduckgo but they're not that different, sadly. Would kill for a search machine that has a "no, that is not what I want, stop correcting me" button, like Google used to.

mcc, to random
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Dead internet theory but for IRL

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc yup, the "Sensitive content" flag is completely warranted on that one

mcc, to random
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Not very far into today and already I've got a bad feeling about this one. Like this is just not going to be a good day. A sense of low production values permeates throughout

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc I've already mostly finished the day and it is very mediocre.

mcc, to random
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Web traffic analytics company's new figures find that at the moment Windows 10's market share is continuing to go up while Windows 11's market share is actually going down https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-reaches-70-market-share-as-windows-11-keeps-declining/

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc "Later this month, Microsoft will showcase new AI features for Windows 11, which could become the first solid reason to leave Windows 10 behind."

um, actually that sounds like a good reason to go back to Windows 10

mcc, to random
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Something I've been noticing about search engines (well, google) recently is how bad they are at respecting word order in cases where it matters. Like, you search "convert x to y" and they match "convert y to x". Or this morning I'm searching "inset diamond in square equation" and i am indeed finding overwhelmingly things that contain both the words "diamond" and "equation", such as the "diamond method" for quadratics. But nothing related to insetting diamonds in squares.

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Why would anybody ever google the phrase "What is diamond 💎 ?"

mcc, to random
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🦀

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc oh crab

mcc, to random
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This year for March 31 I have decided to observe the Transgender Day of Sleepy

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Ah, THAT's why I just slept for 18 hours for no apparent reason

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Near Carwitz, two men once observed a mysterious snake dance, led by the king of the snakes.

#Germany #folktale #folklore #snake @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/kingdom-of-33670237

ratsnakegames,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore "Snake with a golden crown" would once again indicate this is a harmless grass snake, Natrix natrix.

mcc, to random
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Reading Google's Android documentation

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc My guess would be that this functionality uses an encryption cypher that is restricted for export?

mcc, to random
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Kinda ominous feeling on this headline

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc I googled it and apparently it is a device that can cool liquids (and nothing else) really quickly, so you don't need to store your Doctor Pepper cans in the fridge. Which is, admittedly, at least as revolutionary as the internet.

mcc, to random
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So I'm trying to install a piece of software on Linux, and I run a "./launch_installer.sh", and immediately it prints a message suggesting it is unpacking a JRE so it can run the installer inside the JRE, and I wonder if I am going to a dark place here

NOTE TO ZOOMERS: That's Java Runtime Environment not the other thing. "Java" is a programming language people used in the 1800s, when programming meant making punchcards for Jacquard looms

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc As a Java dev - having your Java program download & install its own runtime, rather than use what is already installed and hope for the best seems like a REALLY GOOD idea.

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc All the Java installer frameworks i'm aware of are so bad you'd only use them if you're already in the Java ecosystem, or hate yourself with the fiery passion of a thousand suns.

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc is it Java, tho

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc this will keep me up all night

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Qt is the Java of C++

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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The Lost City of Pontius Pilate slumbers deep beneath the soil of Bavaria.

But one day it shall rise again!

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/that-sinking-30536135

ratsnakegames,
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@juergen_hubert Some real "Jesus was buried in Aomori, Japan" energy in this story.

mcc, to random
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Big if true

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc "I think, therefore I am" - JWST

juergen_hubert, to Germany
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Near Bad Sülz, a publican's young son became best of friends with a magical animal.

Sadly, this friendship did not last past his adulthood...

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/kingdom-of-33670237

ratsnakegames,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore Tales like this are usually inspired by the grass snake (Natrix natrix, locally "Ringelnatter") because of the golden ring around their neck.

mcc, to random
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Today is my birthday!

If you'd like to do something for me for my birthday, would you please reply to this with—or by other means send me— something with colors you liked? Like an image or a video or a link. Music would also be acceptable if it gives you a strong synesthesiac association with color.

If this request confuses you, here are some examples of images with colors I found striking [Artists: Laurie Barmore, Vian Borchert, Erica Aurahack]. But your reply can be whatever colors you like.

Abstract art by Vian Borchert
Abstract art by Vian Borchert

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Happy birthday!

mcc, to random
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I am trying to take a program that works on Win32 and build it on Linux. An enum with a field named "Always" is failing to compile with a strange error. With a sinking suspicion, I look in the system headers and discover that /usr/include/X11/X.h is "Always" to 2.

The Open Group, what the hell??? I don't suppose X11 has an equivalent of WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN NOMINMAX does it … :(

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc nice hostname

mcc, to random
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Spinoff of this thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/111948688438400327

I found out recently about Interlingua, where the design is any speaker of a romance language should be able to mostly comprehend it without being taught it first. And I'm frustrated to find I find the project pretty cool, and can in fact read it unprepared as an English/Spanglish speaker, and the reason this frustrates me is because the thing that introduced me to Interlingua was finding out that it had been adopted by the Urbit project

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Thanks to the various simplification projects (simplified chinese in the PRC, shinjitai in Japan...) there's a fair bit of divergence even in how hanzi and their various derivatives look so it's not like they're perfectly interchangeable. There are many modern Japanese kanji which look exactly like their simplified Chinese counterparts but there are also many that look fairly different.

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc There are a lot of hanzi that have a radical to indicate the correct reading, but that is not universal, and not very intuitive, either - plus, Chinese has a pretty large sound inventory and is a tonal language, so even if you know the correct pronounciation, it can be really hard to pull off for a non-native speaker (and Japanese, at least, has a very different sound inventory, more limited phonotactics and is non-tonal).

mcc, to random
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What kind of album cover did I just create. Like what genre of music is this

ratsnakegames,
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@mcc Lots of Super Hexagon vibes on this one

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