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Comment on Tildes Survey #2: What country do you live in? (Results) in ~talk
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentThat is something I have not yet conceptualized fully. If it's any consolation, my list of the ten continental areas are, sans-mapping... WEST NCEV: North Cevanon SCEV: South Cevanon TAPH: Taphos...That is something I have not yet conceptualized fully. If it's any consolation, my list of the ten continental areas are, sans-mapping...
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NCEV: North CevanonSCEV: South CevanonTAPH: TaphosOSRA: OsralesELET: EletriaEAST
DRAE: DraedalEDRA: Eastern DraedalSARE: SarelanCORT: CorthanARKA: Arkanen -
Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentNormally, I avoid ai anything, but I'm honestly really desperate to get this off the ground, so my own personal morality aside, I'll test it out and see if it's something I could use. I do...Normally, I avoid ai anything, but I'm honestly really desperate to get this off the ground, so my own personal morality aside, I'll test it out and see if it's something I could use. I do appreciate you taking the time out of your day to do this, ai-regardless, because this is so niche.
Edit: If I want to clone the repo for this project, where would I go? This might be the one.
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentMore than likely, I'm just going to end up using this thing (https://woowspace.com/MapToGlobe.html?i=1#) as a means to do so. QGIS is a special kind of hell. I had to manually add the points via...For images of individual continents, the simplest solution may be getting a good view with globe view on Orogen and screen cap that though.
More than likely, I'm just going to end up using this thing (https://woowspace.com/MapToGlobe.html?i=1#) as a means to do so. QGIS is a special kind of hell. I had to manually add the points via the Projection wizard, but the scaling/warping did not change a single thing.
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
cqns Link ParentYes, I'm completely aware of that. The map I have provided is, I think, something called "equirectangular projection". The northern and southern edges are extremely distorted to the point of...On "flattening a 3D sphere in to 2 dimensions"...
Yes, I'm completely aware of that. The map I have provided is, I think, something called "equirectangular projection". The northern and southern edges are extremely distorted to the point of absurdity, and, to me, there's not a clean way to get those areas all...in the same area, but then I look at Antarctica and wonder how did they manage to get that view and what kind of projection that is specifically.
On "the wikipedia on map projections"...
In the realm of understanding the concepts, way out of my depth, unfortunately. I was never too good at my geometry when I was in school.
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Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion
Hey, tildes - cqns here. I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a...
Hey, tildes - cqns here.
I know tildes ain't never do me no wrong (apologies for the heavy colloquialism), but I've been working off and on with a worldbuilding project for the past decade and a half. Some four years ago, I finally hunkered down and created a world map completely from scratch. Due to my extraordinarily high standards, I couldn't help but slowly figure out that there was a lot of things wrong with it after I went through the effort of making it, so I ended up redoing it several times over with additions and subtractions, still feeling like there was something missing.
Turns out, my hunch was correct. Long story short, I found a website called World Orogen that procedurally generates a planet within a certain degree of "realism". Tweaking some settings, I came across a design that was good enough for working on outside of the website, in which I was beset on another issue that quickly spiraled out of control, and I found myself completely out of my depth - map projections, which is a rabbit hole all on its own, and I could only understand the bare minimum basics, such as lat/lon, but that's pretty much the extent of my knowledge. Seriously.
Undertaking this next phase of the project would eventually (and I do say "eventually" because I haven't even gotten around to it yet) lead me to making individual isolated continent maps like how one would find in an atlas. I have asked the Orange Alien Website for tips on r/mapmaking, and while I did get some nudges in the right direction, I'm still attempting to wrap my head around the programs they had suggested. QGIS and G.Projector being the areas of my focus. It's hard enough for me trying to fathom the extensive features of QGIS in general, and as for G.Projector, it comes with its own kind of clunkiness that I'm slowly getting used to. My ultimate question here is...how would I go about finding a map projection to ensure size and area accuracy (because both are apparently different) of all of my continents?
For reference, I have included the map in question so that if anyone wants to give it a go and offer up a solution.
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Comment on Turn an old jailbroken Kindle into a typewriter in ~tech
cqns LinkHey, Tildes. cqns here. Lots of talk about old Kindles lately going out of service due to downstream changes and a whole host of other things. Figured I'd post this here for the amusement of the...Hey, Tildes. cqns here.
Lots of talk about old Kindles lately going out of service due to downstream changes and a whole host of other things. Figured I'd post this here for the amusement of the posterity (and also because it's super niche n' neat in my opinion). Fair warning, it does require the use of a 3D-printer and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. -
Turn an old jailbroken Kindle into a typewriter
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
cqns Link Parent"That's what I get!" - Trent Reznor, Pretty Hate Machine."That's what I get!" - Trent Reznor, Pretty Hate Machine.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
cqns LinkI'm the person who put 115. I did a little experiment to see what was the highest value before the website broke. It runs on JS, so the max number was 9,007,199,254,740,991. Obviously, the website...I'm the person who put 115. I did a little experiment to see what was the highest value before the website broke. It runs on JS, so the max number was 9,007,199,254,740,991. Obviously, the website caught on to my shenanigans and would not let me submit, so 115 was the maximum "safe value". I've been fudging with surveys ever since I discovered my free will. It's one of the little joys I get in this ephemeral and harrowing existence.
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Comment on Zombo.com - Now under new management in ~tech
cqns Link ParentSorry to break it to you, but it is unfortunately AI generated via Suno. To "know thine enemy", I routinely generate stuff on it to prime myself, making sure I won't get jebaited.Sorry to break it to you, but it is unfortunately AI generated via Suno. To "know thine enemy", I routinely generate stuff on it to prime myself, making sure I won't get jebaited.
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Comment on Dox with Grok in ~tech
cqns Link ParentI also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the...I also tried my hand with my Orange Alien Website account and it was not able to find anything substantial. Strange, because I use the same username across multiple websites, had an account on the Orange Alien Website ever since 2015, and it got one aspect totally off base because my account shares the same name with something relatively common with graphic novel discourse. Of course the LLM couldn't figure it out. Not entirely sure what I expected.
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Comment on Heritage Foundation marriage bootcamps proposition confusion in ~society
cqns LinkHey Tildes, cqns here. I'm trying to wrap my head around this particular "recent-ish" proposition from the Heritage Foundation, which claims that they are considering sending single people to...Hey Tildes, cqns here.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this particular "recent-ish" proposition from the Heritage Foundation, which claims that they are considering sending single people to marriage bootcamp. Misinformation is, unfortunately, a powerful tool in today's breakneck society, and I can't make heads or tails out of the legalese. For some reason, this proposition (like many others from the group) in particular rubs me the wrong way. First of all, I believe it would be an enormous waste of resources, much less trying to integrate this into an already existing legal consortium. Second of all, if one partner is sterilized and does not plan on having children in any shape or form (adoption, surrogate, both off the table) - what then?
I interpret this whole thing, should it happen to go through, as a tax credit similar to EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), where one can opt to gain a sum of money back from the IRS if they present the proper forms. For example, the...I guess, "Marriage Bootcamp Credit" (MBCC), would be attainable via the taxpayer's choice to go to some place where they offer such "service". Upon completion of whatever they end up teaching in there - don't want to get bogged down with the details - the taxpaper is provided with a form that they could use to claim credit, both people with matching forms, on the applicable year of tax submission.
Whether I'm right or wrong about my general musings, I would like a second pair of eyes to figure out what on Earth these people are going on about. I refuse to entertain the subject on the little bit that I've doomscrolled. The Orange Alien Site is no help; all they're good for is recycled commentary and timed jokes for karma.
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Heritage Foundation marriage bootcamps proposition confusion
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Comment on I'm annoyed with mundane revisionist history in ~talk
cqns LinkI feel like the Orange Site thrives on kneejerk reactions and who can make the "funniest" comment first. After x number of comments, the thread's - regardless of wherever it's posted - usefulness...I feel like the Orange Site thrives on kneejerk reactions and who can make the "funniest" comment first. After
xnumber of comments, the thread's - regardless of wherever it's posted - usefulness turns into perlin noise with diminishing returns. It's gotten so bad for me, personally, in the last couple of years that I've developed a solution to combat the ridiculousness of the site at large: joining shitpost subred's. Since I view the entire site as one big joke, I just went full cowling into absurdism - subscribing to circlejerk subred's - and my experience got immensely better knowing that there's no stakes in any given thread.Not to focus too much on the Orange Site, at risk of derailing the topic - sorry - I was born around the time that the PS2 was the hot new thing. My awareness surfaced around the PS3's release date. I come from a lower class, so I was never really "up to date". Best thing I had was an N64 for a decade and an NDS a few years after it released. I believe it was 2016 or so when I received a PS4 for a Christmas gift, and it didn't dawn on me until nearly nine years later that you could use (the ones with optical drives) them for watching media, albeit with some tweaks on later consoles. Not sure why it took me that long.
I look back for some perspective, in a headspace where in some alternate universe, where I did have the knowledge that those things could be used as media players, and, frankly, I don't see why anyone would say anything different. In my opinion, a media player is a media player - if it works...then, it works. I do consider the rise of flat screen TVs to be a factor that kinda shifts things around a bit, CRTs were a thing (damn, I miss CRTs in general), but...why would someone state the contrary? People are strange. We live in a society.
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
cqns LinkI don't exactly know how I ended up finding these guys, but I'm three albums deep into Sunn O)))'s "White1". Not "Suno", like the artificial intelligence garbage, but the band endorsed by the...I don't exactly know how I ended up finding these guys, but I'm three albums deep into Sunn O)))'s "White1". Not "Suno", like the artificial intelligence garbage, but the band endorsed by the speaker brand. They're...quite different from what I usually listen to, but for a drone metal band, it scratches a certain itch that I didn't know I had, exclusively listening to them while I'm doing my soul crushing library work, so the locale fits my mood!
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Comment on Theme reset? in ~tildes
cqns Link ParentFrom my very limited knowledge about how web storage works, some websites use cookies in order to maintain a log-in or certain preferences. These cookies, small files that usually take up...From my very limited knowledge about how web storage works, some websites use cookies in order to maintain a log-in or certain preferences. These cookies, small files that usually take up residence in your system's temp files, remain there for about a few months until they expire. What happens when they do? The website the cookie was associated with "resets" or auto logs you out.
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Comment on I am kinda curious about the demographics of Tildes in ~talk
cqns LinkI live in the Northern Hemisphere, somewhere a marginal distance above the equatorial line. My age is at least one-fourth of a century. I don't feel comfortable giving out any further information...I live in the Northern Hemisphere, somewhere a marginal distance above the equatorial line. My age is at least one-fourth of a century. I don't feel comfortable giving out any further information than that.
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Comment on Life: Your personal year in review for 2025 in ~life
cqns Link ParentI believe that stoicism and pragmatism are definitely related, but where stoicism is the expense of directed attention (attuning to the controlled response), pragmatism spares no expense of...I believe that stoicism and pragmatism are definitely related, but where stoicism is the expense of directed attention (attuning to the controlled response), pragmatism spares no expense of thought to "the out there" and is mainly focused on the "what works for me, what I need to do next" aspect. Have I been misconstruing these two the whole time?
Me! I did that one! I was trying to write some sort of a short story, then realized the character limit, so I compressed what I already had.