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veronica

@veronica@mastodon.online

Senior Developer at https://mastodon.social/@turtlesec ★ High Energy Physics PhD from Uni Oslo and CERN ★ Linux ★ Python ★ Open Source ★ Unicode Unicorn ★ ISO 8601 Enthusiast ★ Consumer of Sci-Fi ★ Hobby Writer ★ Born at 336 ppm CO₂ ★ she/they, Dr.

Open Source: https://novelwriter.io, https://fosstodon.org/@novelwriter

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veronica, to ArtificialIntelligence
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I don't usually talk to myself, but I do yell at my vacuum cleaner robot.

veronica,
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@blabberlicious it never complains, but frequently gets lost in open doors. 😅

mrundkvist, to Archaeology
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By Tom Gauld.

veronica,
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@Henrysbridge @drahardja @mrundkvist That whole bit about the trees showing their age so people wouldn't chop them down to count their age is hilarious. And the whole house number sign industry that follows 😄

veronica,
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@Henrysbridge @drahardja @mrundkvist Evolution at work!

Fury, to random
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Friday arvo 4:32pm. It's gaming time. Hello #weekend, you are most welcome ❤️

veronica,
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@Fury Only 08:34 here, so got a bit to go, but looking forward to catching up with the weekend too!

veronica, (edited )
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@Fury Thanks! Hope you have a nice weekend. 😊

It's been about 25 degrees on my balcony all week, so I plan to take a few meetings from there today. It will help the work day pass faster. ☀️

stux, to random
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All day newscaster read the latest and sometimes the weirdest news

But when a new month start, all of a sudden most newscasters can't believe it's a new month :flan_laugh:

veronica,
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@stux I mean, it's not like it happens every month or anything ... 😆

ThirstyGayGeek, to StarTrek
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Maybe hot take: is bad TV.

  • The 10-episode seasons don't allow much screen time for character development
  • They focus on very long complex story arcs where if you miss something, you're lost
  • The writing is just not good enough to combine the two issues above and get away with it so the series has become as much of a train wreck as the last two seasons of Game of Thrones.

Never thought it possible but they’ve managed to find a formula that makes boring

veronica,
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@ThirstyGayGeek I really like the characters, but they have made so many horrible plot decisions on that show that I stopped watching after season three. First the Klingons, then the spore drive, then the evil parallel universe thing, etc. It never ends.

veronica, to python
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Adding two new colour themes to @novelwriter for the next release. Snazzy Light and Dracula. 😊

A screenshot of the novelWriter app showing a text document with a bluish purple background and bright colour highlights in the text.

veronica,
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@oli The header and footer of the document follows the font and colour settings of the document itself since they are visually a part of the document. I'm uncertain what exactly would be the best look here.

veronica,
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@oli The footer is a part of the editor window though, so if it doesn't match the document, some may think that is weird too. I don't actually know what's best. I use the same font for both. 😊

veronica,
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@oli I had a look in the code. Basically, it sets the text font you've chosen for the entire editor. If I set it only for the document within the editor, the header and footer font stays as the GUI font.

Using the GUI font looks fine as well, so I don't mind changing it. Could you just create a feature request for it if you have time, and I can make the change? It's a two line fix. 😁

Edit: The link is https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter/issues

tjdraper, to random
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Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

veronica,
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@tjdraper I still have no idea what to use all this so-called "AI" for. I'm happy to use new things if they are useful. This mostly isn't.

Of course, Machine Learning has been around for quite a while and has a lot of use cases. I have used it successfully to enhance video. But the stuff they're pushing out now is 99% utterly useless and only exists to inflate stock prices because we're in a bubble.

veronica,
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@f4grx Same. I want to go back to making useful things with Machine Learning.

veronica,
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@jeremy_list @tjdraper I said I have no idea what to use it for. So I never have.

vitaut, to random
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Constructing an optional in C++ has never been easier

veronica,
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@vitaut {{{{{{{ nice }}}}}}}

veronica, to programming
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Over the last three weeks I've been tinkering with adding a footnotes feature to @novelwriter. It was non-trivial, as I had to come up with a syntax for it, make the indexer handle it, and add build support into HTML, markdown and Open Document. The latter took a fair bit of tinkering too.

But it is done, and merged! The final diff was +2,181 −1,338. Quite a lot, although I took the opportunity to clean up and extend some tests. Coverage's now at 99.61% 😁

veronica,
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Since footnotes are so rarely used in fiction, it wasn't really worth it for that alone. However, the framework I've added will also be usable for adding highlight comments/annotations for Open Document exports too. It is also usable for a new story structure feature I've been discussing with a few other people.

The footnotes feature was one of the oldest remaining features in the backlog. Over 4 years old. Good to get it done finally too. 😊

veronica,
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I've pushed a set of 2.5 alpha 3 packages to the pre-release repo on Launchpad, so they should be available there soon. It usually takes a couple of hours.

veronica,
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The footnote syntax is based on both the shortcode and comments formats that already exist, so no new syntax was added.

Each footnote needs a key to associate it with the corresponding % comment. These are free form, but auto-generated if you create the footnote and comment pair from the Insert menu, so no need to type any of it yourself. It's just a single click.

The % comment syntax is also used for adding a synopsis to chapter and scenes, and will be extended to other features as well.

veronica,
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I'm considering something more pleasant than "f4xr5" etc as keys. At the moment, they're randomly generated from a pool of 810000 possible keys. I may instead make them sequential numbers.

veronica,
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@aburka Probably also Terry Pratchett 😁

veronica,
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@sbi Yeah. It wasn't planned, but perfect timing!

veronica, to ai
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A quick reminder that humans have not yet invented AI. It's an imitation puffed up by marketing. They've dressed up a parrot as Agent Smith.

veronica,
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@mcgroover That's misunderstanding my post. I reject the claim that the technology now markedet as AI is AI at all. It has nothing to do with intelligence, whatever intelligence itself may be.

ConnyDuck, to random
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Fresh new OSS Hell just dropped https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/39754/

veronica,
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@bastelwombat @ConnyDuck Yeah, that was an instant block from me.

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