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  1. Comment on Language is a poor heuristic for intelligence in ~comp

    krista
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    ”the world” is a perfect model of the world: it can make predictions 100% accurately... but has difficulty communicating those predictions to us. is it intelligent?

    ”the world” is a perfect model of the world: it can make predictions 100% accurately... but has difficulty communicating those predictions to us.

    is it intelligent?

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Open-sourcing some Tildes-related code in ~tildes

    krista
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    any thoughts on using graphQL for the api? i like the idea a lot, with a few caveats: it's standard and open it's flexible it can easily be used in an app queries can be customized per app, even...

    any thoughts on using graphQL for the api?

    i like the idea a lot, with a few caveats:

    • it's standard and open

    • it's flexible

    • it can easily be used in an app

      • queries can be customized per app, even

    • versioning is nearly irrelevant, as is keeping track of versioned api endpoints

      • as the client provides the structure and syntax of the data they want, only fields/nodes/edges that actually change are affected when the spec changes or are deprecated, and thus backward and forward compatibility is maintained.
        • if a [field-name] is removed from the api, the client will either not receive the tuple (id,data), receive it as empty, or receive it as an error for that data element only... and the querant/client specifies which.

    • there are a fair number of mature libraries for all levels pf abstraction (server, client, cache, etc)

    • is very scalable and allows a single query's results to be generated by multiple servers/services

    • the data layer is json

    as for caveats:

    • server side can be more complicated to implement

      • especially for rate-limiting expensive queries and fragments

    • takes a little bit to grok the way a query needs to be structured in more complex cases

      • can take a bit (not too much though) to grok ”edge” vs ”node”

    • may need minor extensions for unbound/unknown count/non-paginated return sets

    otherwise, if graphQL is chosen, dev can be arranged such that the server can send live data while the server is in development as ignoring certain parts of the input query and outputting structured data basically turns it into a ”normal” web-api¹.

    please give a thought to this as it has nearly all the advantages of in-line sql, but without the security and development nightmare¹.

    also, to whom it may concern: keep me in the loop on this and feel free to ping me on this api thing. i'm a low-level and embedded dev these days, but i have extensive experience in high performance data layers on websites with complex search, categorization, permutation, and caching requirements.

    mostly real estate websites, though:

    • century21

    • coldwell banker

    • coldwell banker commercial

    • era

    • better homes and gardens

    plus their international websites' data/cache/search layers.

    thanks!

    (oh, and /u/talklittle: thanks for rif, man: it helped keep me sane while stuck in bed with broken hands³ for far too long after the car accident)

    ^footnotes

    1: i apologize for this last paragraph: it's late for me and my brain is not working with human languages well right now. if this sounds like a stupid paragraph, please let me know and i'll rewrite it as the underlying idea is firm and good² but i and my words are not working correctly at this moment.

    2: and has worked well for me for a lot of major websites' data layers. sites like century21.com

    3: among other things

    6 votes

  3. Looking for decent tatami mats in the usa. I'm (mostly) clueless on this matter.

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    and a good japanese futon mattress as well. i'm moving from a house into an apartment and am scaling my life down significantly. this seems a pretty good option... but unfortunately i don't know a...

    and a good japanese futon mattress as well.

    i'm moving from a house into an apartment and am scaling my life down significantly. this seems a pretty good option... but unfortunately i don't know a whole lot about either of these (yet) so i'm looking for some guidance.

    thanks!

    12 votes

  4. Comment on Any BBS sysops here from back in the day? in ~comp

    krista
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    i had a small one i ran from a friend's house because i wasn't allowed to have a modem. teleguard on msdos, then os/2 for a short spell before i went off to college.

    i had a small one i ran from a friend's house because i wasn't allowed to have a modem.

    teleguard on msdos, then os/2 for a short spell before i went off to college.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Weirdest films ever? in ~movies

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    zardoz schitzopolis

    • zardoz

    • schitzopolis

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

    krista
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    problem would be other users erasing their posts would kill context as well. plus it's not my subreddit :(

    problem would be other users erasing their posts would kill context as well. plus it's not my subreddit :(

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

    krista
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    thank you! i will check it out as a tool for killing my content and getting a backup csv. a week ago i get reddit to send me a zip of csv files of all 16 yeas of mostly my writing as i didn't post...

    thank you!

    i will check it out as a tool for killing my content and getting a backup csv.

    a week ago i get reddit to send me a zip of csv files of all 16 yeas of mostly my writing as i didn't post many links.

    it'll be good to have both methods of backup because i trust reddit about as far as i an [pick an appropriate metaphor]

    4 votes

  8. Comment on What Reddit got wrong in ~tech

    krista
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    not yet, thank you! i've downloaded all my posts from the reddit ”download all your data” options and received a zip of a bunch of .csv files. the zip was like 25-35mb of text :) my next step is...

    not yet, thank you!

    i've downloaded all my posts from the reddit ”download all your data” options and received a zip of a bunch of .csv files. the zip was like 25-35mb of text :)

    my next step is to toss it in a postgres db and quickly build a tool to spyder the threads for context and fill out to postgres db.

    ^^^: that's the time critical bit, so i'll do that this weekend and just hammer on it until it's done. after that i can look at hashnode.com and a federated blod service or something. i'll be picking your brain (if you don't mind) as while i get the underlying ideas, i haven't touched the federated net yet... yet /me:rubs-hands.gif /me:witchcackle.ogg

     

    you can stop reading here as the rest is me venting and writing my nightly journal². right now in my live everything is complicated and bad bloody occuring simultaneously: i thought time was supposed to keep everything from happening all at once, but apparently time, she is derelict in her duties.

    time is normally slippery for me: i'm a touch autistic, older, single, no kids, and happy because i can dedicate as much time as i want to my zillion or so hobbies. i've been bad at time my whole life: seconds, minutes, hours even... maaayybee today, tomorrow, and yesterday i can deal with. outside of that it's an abstraction. i'm in my late 40's and yesterday i was 12, the day before that 25.

    i have a great memory that remembers things vividly, but all as separate episodes i have to figure out when happened by figuring out what happened before and what happened after. yes, spooling through my memory is much like walking a linked list.

    don't laugh¹, but to figure out what year something happened, i listen to the music in the memory (when available) and work out years based on song release dates. srsly.

    anywho, right now:

    • reddit is dying

    • i'm signing the papers on the sale of my house⁴ of 23 years because i have 13¢ in my bank account because Events⁵ and if i don't, the servicing company auctions the house without having to give me anything⁶

      • i need to be Out of my (former) house i put my soul into by july 8th.
      • so i get the house sale money (hopefully) today (friday). i have no working vehicle⁵.
      • i'm giving my tools to an old friend and his son. they would have got them if i died anyway. this way if i visit i can use my tools again. i was an avid woodworker (among a zillion hobbies)
      • getting my old band van fixed, getting it insured and registered and a/c fixed because it's arizonain the summer.
      • getting a storage unit, moving into it all the stuff i don't give away or donate⁷.
      • renting a cheap apartment. in that apartment go:
        • a few tatami mats, a futon, a pillow.
        • a very small amount if clothes, towels, kitchen stuff
        • my sword and my guitar
        • my computer and rack of servers. commercial internet if it will transfer
        • my full-body vr rig
      • I AM BECOME SNOWCRASH/CYBERPUNK

    • my best friend is about to give birth for the first time

    • i have had one or both feet/tendons/ligaments screwed up to the point movement has been troubles almost every week since christmas.

      • probably related to the accident in '18⁵ that started this train of bad shit. don't get me wrong: i bear a lot of responsibility... just not all.

    aaand that's why.

    but i'll get my data and its context off of reddit then nuke it, rest assured. it's a moral imperative.

    footnotes

    1: ok, well laugh yer arse off because it is bloody ridiculous, lols :)

    2: i write my nightly journal entry whenever it's time to write and wherever i happen to be written if i'm already writing something. when it happens it's usually reddit, ⁸oftimes* telegram, and every now-and-then twitter. congratulations! it's your lucky night, dear reader, as this is tilde's inceptive krista-ramble³!

    3: i bet i used inceptive incorrect. there's probably a number of spelling errors and wordsbglommed together like that as i'm using my tablet and tildes.net doesn't have my usual editing/proofing tools working with it yet. my 'pologies :(

    4: more like bedroom/studio/theater/lab/workshop/development studio. it has a firepole from the loft to the multipurpose studio/theater room.

    --=

    5: i had a 2008 porsche cayman s i purchased in '13 and paid off in '18, one month before an suv blowing a red light at 65mph+ broadsided me sending me to the trauma center code yellow. to shorten a story i've told too many times: broken toes, knee, ankles, thumbs. lots of ribs flexing too much and cartilage damage. contused colon, intestines, spleen, liver, kidneys (one ruptured a bit), partially deflated right lung, lots of soft tissue damage (some spots are still numb), bloodshot eyes.

    bad enough the paramedics didn't bother checking my car for quite some time. i can't blame them as it was splatter damage, and i wouldn't want to see part of a corpse either. i was crammed half under the remaining dash.

    stopover in the trauma wards, lots of imaging. eventually got home and spent a few weeks pissing/crapping blood, ~6 months bedridden,~16 months pt/healing. still have oddities, including a full head of white hair i watched grow almost as a perfect line in my hair.

    that day i decided to put down my vr research pre-startup (1.5 years) because i was running out of savings and went to get a taco bean burrito on the corner as condolences... plus i was starving. i never got that bean burrito. therefore car insurance, but no real medical.

    after the lawyers, the tweenage kid was at fault. all of his insurance + my underinsured rider + value of my porsche wasn't enough to cover my medical bills + all my regular bills for 2 years, so i spent the rest of my savings, plus credit cards.

    this dumped me into the middle of the plague without a job, a nearly 4 year gap (working on my pre-startup + healing + not finding work) making employment impossible to find for this 20+ year c/c++/asm/c#/basic ee+firmware and nearly everything else besides web pages girl.

    i'm shitty at resumes and finding working + i prefer socializing in person + linkedin + kept previous job 13 years == krista is fucked and files bankruptcy a day before they were to auction my house.

    i got an hourly job at my previous employer (small company, long story not for this evening, bad idea), had it until the new project i was on had everyone else quit or fired because it was fucked, asked to crunch and did so between dec26-jan26, got formal write up for working more than 40hr/wk. got fire in march, co-president (another long story for later).

    cant find job, bankruptcy lawyer forgets to tell me that this breaks my bankruptcy agreement, and house goes for auction on may-19. i found out may-18.

    call lawyer, give him my last $kilobuck, he is supposed to hold auction off untill find employment.

    can't: despite tech experience, 'm bat at self promotion. was going to hire resume doctor, but lawyer took my last $kilobuck... and couldn't/wouldn't push auction beyond june 20th. he told me may 30th.

    --=

    6: after creative fees

    7: i've a pretty nice gas infrared grill if anyone wants it, plus other tech stuff and maybe appliances. message me.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Would anyone be interested in doing a community watchthrough of a show? in ~anime

    krista
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    crap. i really want a good tildes app. i had most of a good community driven vote example post i wanted to run by you that hearded the kittens by setting a goal, asking for help, etting a date it...

    crap. i really want a good tildes app. i had most of a good community driven vote example post i wanted to run by you that hearded the kittens by setting a goal, asking for help, etting a date it needs to be completed by, and offering a preselect ”top picks”.

    then i tabbed away to look up a few more anime for examples and when i came back my unsubmitted post was toast.

    'pologies.

    i will rewrite it later or tomorrow when i'm at a keyboard mot a tablet. i'd love to hear your take on it.

    i'm new here, does /u/mundane_and_naive work? this is soft of a test

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

    krista
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    i have multiple years on reddit of writing a several page technical faq/document/analysis/teardown 3-4x per month plus well over 100 chain of posts per month helping people debug their vr gear:...

    i have multiple years on reddit of writing a several page technical faq/document/analysis/teardown 3-4x per month plus well over 100 chain of posts per month helping people debug their vr gear: everything from ”is it plugged in” to ”send it to me i need to see this on my oscilloscope”.

    to brag a bit:

    • people quote my own documents back at me (although they usualy didn't read them)
    • i get accused of working at [company] in dm's and yelled at for [company's] issues
    • my faqs get quoted in other people's faqs.

    it's crazy how much actual text (as in, # of keys hit) i have in my 16-year old account + my 10+ year old alts.

    i'm working out how and where to make the subreddits i posted in searchable as static content because it represents a large knowledge base for this set of products. possibly the largest publically searchable for the valve index and related gear.

    i'm really pissed at reddit and /u/spez right now, and wish nntp/usenet would have grown instead of dying and the ashes and usenetizens becoming reddit eventually.

    grrr.

    31 votes

  11. Comment on What Reddit got wrong in ~tech

    krista
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    this is a fantastic summary and very well organized and written. as the article is written by the eff, and links to background knowledge link to eff's analysis of previous websplosions like fark,...

    this is a fantastic summary and very well organized and written. as the article is written by the eff, and links to background knowledge link to eff's analysis of previous websplosions like fark, and digg, it's solid information and very digestible.

    this would be a great article to pass to the untechnical folks in your life.

    i know, just like creesch says ”people are probably getting tired of the reddit related posts”, and i agree. i am, however, still getting messages frequently from various contacts pretty much asking the same thing:

    • ”what's going on with reddit? when will it go back to normal?”

    • ”why is reddit suddenly sucking and i can't find vr-tech answers anymore?”

    and

    • ”can i still ask you questions about my vr problems?”

    at least i have a good way to answer the first question: with a link to op's eff article. unfortunately i have to answer the training query: reddit very likely won't be returning to normal.

    as for the rest, maybe it's time for me to graduate from long-form rambling reddit posts on technology and move on to writing actual articles and try to publish them somewhere. perhaps self-publishing via medium.com or youtube... but i'd much rather share the very limited revenue (if any) if someone else was working on promotion, like at an existing publication: self promotion is not my strong suit.

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Would anyone be interested in doing a community watchthrough of a show? in ~anime

    krista
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    yes, this is it exactly! it's a lot simpler than it sounds, i just haven't figured out how to describe it efficiently :( knowing that it's not a bot checking up on you and knowing it's your...

    yes, this is it exactly!

    it's a lot simpler than it sounds, i just haven't figured out how to describe it efficiently :(

    knowing that it's not a bot checking up on you and knowing it's your friends and that the responsibility is shared (so a single person doesn't get stuck doing it, plus there's no rotation to keep track of or dread as it inches closer) really, really helps.

    anyhoo: i'm looking forward to getting this started.

    can we do voting on tildes.net, do you know?

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Would anyone be interested in doing a community watchthrough of a show? in ~anime

    krista
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    this is a solid idea. i run a small journaling group and we do nightly notification, but without a bot. there's only a handful of us on a common telegram channel, but it works very well. if i...

    this is a solid idea.

    i run a small journaling group and we do nightly notification, but without a bot. there's only a handful of us on a common telegram channel, but it works very well.

    if i haven't sent out a notification over the common channel or gotten one by 8pm, i'll send one out.

    i phrased that poorly.

    basically there's 12 of us. notification on the common channel happens between 7:45p and 8p, and works much like ethernet: if that time rolls around and someone hasn't made the announcement to the channel, i'll do it... and everyone else uses the same algorithm.

    after that, the announcer and the first couple of ”i'm here's” will personally and individually contacted whomever doesn't check in. we start writing at 8:15.

    it sounds more complicated than it is and works because it's not a bot.

    so i wonder if something like that but less complicated would work? (clearly not for a shitload of people).

    we shall have to try it.

    'pologies for babbling: i'm sort of incoherent this evening. too much stress.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Would anyone be interested in doing a community watchthrough of a show? in ~anime

    krista
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    i like the way you think! w/r/t reoccurring watch-alongs, i think we just have to schedule something and stick to it even if nobody else shows up. like, ”i'll be watching [show] every...

    i like the way you think!

    w/r/t reoccurring watch-alongs, i think we just have to schedule something and stick to it even if nobody else shows up.

    like, ”i'll be watching [show] every [day-of-week] at [time]. join me if you will: i'll provide the digital popcorn”

    kind of thing. basically announcing when we are going to make time to watch it and have a good time... but let everyone else know they are welcome.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Unexpected, but great mashups in ~music

    krista
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    have you run across ”rock sugar” yet? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzGf_fn488gxD_sOQtu4a7JXRnt8Hm6t there's a playlist. mashing madonna and ac/dc in ”shook me like a prayer”... or... well,...

    have you run across ”rock sugar” yet?

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWzGf_fn488gxD_sOQtu4a7JXRnt8Hm6t

    there's a playlist. mashing madonna and ac/dc in ”shook me like a prayer”... or... well, there's just too many.

    professor of rock covers their backstory, and it's pretty stellar as well.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Which show kickstarted your interest in anime? in ~anime

    krista
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    star blazers in 1979 when i was a wee lass also fables of the green forest from the same time. later it was g-force if i woke up early enough to see it on a weird channel we'd sometimes get. then...

    also

    later it was g-force if i woke up early enough to see it on a weird channel we'd sometimes get.

    then of course:

    • cowboy bebop
      • this cemented my love of japanese animation. i wasn't trying to deny it, but after watching bebop, american animation was just so... dull and insipid, or ”shocking” and edgy just because it could be.
      • sure, bevis & butthead made stoned teenage me laugh her socks off. ”daria” was a move in the right direction. ”aqua teen hunger force” and ”sealab 2021” were absurdist works of genius... and of course we can't not mention the man who started it: space ghost... or brak picking on bob dylan hard enough that clip only aired once

    but the bebop showed me i had real feelings and then stomped all over them. it was the bebop i was homesick for, and i bawl big-girl (and little-girl) tears every time i watch it. besides being amazing, it's always relevant to whatever i'm going through at the moment.

    lastly i'd like to mention:

    • sword art online (the anime is good, but the light novels are awesome)

    • bocchi-the-rock: i can relate all too well

    • lycoris recoil: i get homesick for the coffee shop in it. while very different from cowboy bebop, i find lycoris recoil pushing a lot of the same buttons and emotions. the character interactions are absolutely stellar and rival bebop... and maybe exceed. there's so much hope and love mixed in with the fucked up-idness. this might just be my second favorite anime of all time... or maybe it'll be my favorite: the second season hasn't started yet

    5 votes

  17. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

    krista
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    kerala dust is this week's band crush: their newest album from february '23 called ”violet drive" is simply breathtaking, intense, beautiful, hypnotic... it's the type of band that reminds me why...

    kerala dust is this week's band crush: their newest album from february '23 called ”violet drive" is simply breathtaking, intense, beautiful, hypnotic... it's the type of band that reminds me why i love music so passionately

    i'll link the video to the title track: ”violet drive”.

    if you can, check out the entire album! it's great start to finish, and while technically not a concept album, it's pretty close.

    i absolutely loved (and still do) listening to enter album sides: it's like spending quality time with the band, not just having an adhd quickie while making a sandwich.

    unfortunately there aren't very many cohesive albums in the era of the spotify single... but kerala dust's ”violet drive” definitely hits the spot in all the right feels: shivers down the spine.

    let me know what y'all's think of it :)

  18. Comment on Would anyone be interested in doing a community watchthrough of a show? in ~anime

    krista
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    i could be down for something like this. maybe see if we can set a time and host it virtually in bigscreen beta. although i've heard rumors bigscreen beta was going to support flatland desktops,...

    i could be down for something like this. maybe see if we can set a time and host it virtually in bigscreen beta.

    although i've heard rumors bigscreen beta was going to support flatland desktops, it still seems to require a vr rig.

    having not seen erased, i'm interested.

    other recent animes i'd nominate are:

    • lycoris recoil

    • mobile suit gundam: the wotch from mercury

    • trigun: stampede

    • bocchi the rock

    i'd like to say that 2022 has been an epic year for anime! it's at least on the level the late 80's early 90's were for cartoons in the usa, but i'm enjoying the complexity and seasonal plot structure more in last year's anime than the mostly episodal plots from the 80-90's american toons... even including”the gummy bears”, ”darkwing duck”, and ”the real ghostbusters”.

    i think 2023 will be another landmark year when we look back on it.

    6 votes