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  1. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    I really wanted to like Dandadan, but it is full of problems. I gave it so many chances that I finished like 10 or 11 episodes and still couldn't bother to click the last few new episode...

    I really wanted to like Dandadan, but it is full of problems. I gave it so many chances that I finished like 10 or 11 episodes and still couldn't bother to click the last few new episode notifications. And it's not like I have a high bar for anime. If you look through my history you'll see me watching a bunch of trash.

    I could go on and on about why I don't like it, but my review would maybe be a bit harsh for the tone of this discussion. So what I'll add instead is that you shouldn't expect it to change or get better. The crass comedy and the tropiness just become more severe as it goes on. There isn't more to it that you're missing where you just need to push through until it gets good it just clicks.

    There is one episode that is actually good though. The one episode that is taken seriously and is actually sad.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    I'll bring some over in a bit. I grabbed 20 of them, but then needed to walk away from my computer for a while. Edit: deposited a chest of shulkers of bone blocks at what I think is the cherry...

    I'll bring some over in a bit. I grabbed 20 of them, but then needed to walk away from my computer for a while.

    Edit: deposited a chest of shulkers of bone blocks at what I think is the cherry tree farm.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    This comment made me curious enough to take a full inventory of my shulkers of bone blocks, including ones that are sitting queued up in shulker unloaders in other farms. I currently have 81...

    This comment made me curious enough to take a full inventory of my shulkers of bone blocks, including ones that are sitting queued up in shulker unloaders in other farms. I currently have 81 total. 49 sitting in my storage and 32 in shulker unloaders of various bonemeal-intensive farms. This is before grabbing some to give to Gravy, so I guess I'll need to fill more to keep my numbers up.

    So if anyone does want to build something big with bone blocks let me know and I'll hook you up. Or even if you just want to use a bunch of bonemeal I have plenty.

    And to anyone curious why I built a third bonemeal farm: this is a big part of why. I'd estimate that my bonemeal consuming farms have consumed somewhere between 30 and 50 shulkers of bone blocks. This meant I needed something a bit more powerful than the builds that already existed.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    I understand if you want to attach a bonemeal farm, but if you don't want to put in that effort I have plenty of bone blocks and I could just bring some over. Presumably more than this farm would...

    I understand if you want to attach a bonemeal farm, but if you don't want to put in that effort I have plenty of bone blocks and I could just bring some over. Presumably more than this farm would ever use. I think I currently have roughly 50 shulkers of bone blocks

    1 vote

  5. Comment on In praise of the ellipsis in ~books

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    I used to write strongly with ellipses online, but have since trained out that behavior for the reasons the author mentioned. Now I misuse commas instead. What I used ellipses most frequently for...

    I used to write strongly with ellipses online, but have since trained out that behavior for the reasons the author mentioned. Now I misuse commas instead.

    What I used ellipses most frequently for was giving a sense of my thought process to live chats, mainly MMOs. My complete thoughts wouldn't come to me all at once, but since I wasn't speaking no one could hear the breaks where I wasn't stopping intentionally for grammar reasons. To address this I'd use ellipses everywhere. I wasn't trying to write prose... I was trying to let the reader know where I hesitated.

    Maybe I should try to reincorporate them... they're probably annoying when used this way though. And thinking back on my 14 year old online writing style... I used them excessively.... I even would increase the length to convey extra long pauses.. or sometimes even shorten them.

    That paragraph is pretty excessive compared to what I'd do even at my height of abusing them though. I think realistically I was treating punctuation less formally in general to fit the informal setting. Commas and periods had the same purpose: a pause, but with different lengths. But... sometimes I wanted a longer pause than a period. So I'd just add more periods.

    The author also mentions semicolons. Semicolons are dead to me. I use them never. I've tried, but they always seem clunkier than a rewrite that removes them. Maybe this causes me to end up with some sentences that are technically sentence fragments, but it matters so little I'd wager very few outside language-based academics could even tell me what a sentence fragments is without looking it up.

    This also is making me think a bit more about some of the other unwritten rules I have for my own writing. For example, I do not allow a sentence to contain more than two commas unless all the commas are part of a list. In practice, it means that I wouldn't write a statement, like this one, that contains commas for separating a throughout starter, a clarifying insert, and a list all at once. I'd retire rewrite it instead.

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  6. Comment on Have you altered the way you write to avoid being perceived as AI? in ~tech

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    No. Unfortunately, I think it's probably a losing battle anyway. If people want bots that sound less sanitized and more conversational they'll eventually make them. Heck, one of the easiest bots...

    No. Unfortunately, I think it's probably a losing battle anyway. If people want bots that sound less sanitized and more conversational they'll eventually make them. Heck, one of the easiest bots to make that is already reasonably convincing is just to call other people bots.

    It's probably also best to not put much stock into if anyone calls you an AI in the first place. People have long been claiming that those they disagree with are bots or shills with no evidence and motivated only by a desire to discredit.

    It is annoying to feel insulted in such an uncounterable way though. Like how are you even supposed to respond? "I'm not AI" does nothing. Do you have to snark back about how bad they are at detecting bots because it may be effective even though breaks down civility?

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Pathfinder 1: The airship that could usher in a new age just had its first outdoor flight in ~transport

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    I can't help but to just think of NFTs. "If we make the technology work then applications are sure to follow" just does not feel like a real plan. I suppose they're cool, but as others mentioned...

    I can't help but to just think of NFTs. "If we make the technology work then applications are sure to follow" just does not feel like a real plan. I suppose they're cool, but as others mentioned it seems like they lack any plausible practical application for which that are the best suited tool for the job. Who's really in the market for slow air travel? If they were exceptionally large, like "carry the capacity of a cruise ship" large, I could maybe see air cruises but even that feels absurd.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    The "out of the way" problem is likely to get fixed pretty quickly if the gold farm stops producing xp. The reason is that I'd probably just build more of the infested xp farms as little xp...

    The "out of the way" problem is likely to get fixed pretty quickly if the gold farm stops producing xp. The reason is that I'd probably just build more of the infested xp farms as little xp stations in convenient locations for my own sanity.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    There is a ton of string sitting at the bartering farm that you're welcome to. I also know a lot of my comments are, "you don't need to ___ because we already have it." Please ignore them if you...

    There is a ton of string sitting at the bartering farm that you're welcome to.

    I also know a lot of my comments are, "you don't need to ___ because we already have it." Please ignore them if you actually want to do the thing. I'm not trying to take gameplay away, just let you sidestep projects that you might otherwise find tedious.

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    My understanding is that it would still produce gold, just at a lower rate. Something about the drop table for deaths by non-player being a weaker table. Although I want to reiterate that I don't...

    My understanding is that it would still produce gold, just at a lower rate. Something about the drop table for deaths by non-player being a weaker table.

    Although I want to reiterate that I don't actually know if this is the patch that would change this. I just remember Evie mentioning it and it sounding soon.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    @teaearlgraycold, I "fixed" the nether tree farm I built so that it no longer triggers you when you come by. I just added a 3rd layer of TNT to chop off those top bits.

    @teaearlgraycold, I "fixed" the nether tree farm I built so that it no longer triggers you when you come by. I just added a 3rd layer of TNT to chop off those top bits.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    While they can actually wander through, there is also a mechanic where overworld nether portals just somewhat rarely spawn zombified piglins in them. I think the idea behind the mechanic is to...

    While they can actually wander through, there is also a mechanic where overworld nether portals just somewhat rarely spawn zombified piglins in them. I think the idea behind the mechanic is to give the illusion that some could be walking through even though the nether may not even be loaded at the time. And as far as I know the portal ticking thing to get them to spawn more is just a bedrock thing.

    The xp thing I referenced is that the gold farm we have is a cramming farm. They spawn on big platforms and run toward the player until they drop into a spot with a bunch of entities (mine carts) and then die to entity cramming. Historically this design has given xp even if you never hit any of the piglins, but some upcoming patch is supposed to change that. Said patch will also reduce the rates of gold so maybe we'll want a looting farm instead, but I'm unsure anyone is excited by the idea of building one. To be honest I'm not even entirely sure what a looting gold farm looks like with mob griefing off because the standard setup uses turtle eggs and that zombified piglins run at them to trample them.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    I don't think it would negatively impact me in any way. I checked the mods that matter to me and they all have 1.21.4 versions. I know Evie mentioned that some update, sounded like maybe the next...

    I don't think it would negatively impact me in any way. I checked the mods that matter to me and they all have 1.21.4 versions.

    I know Evie mentioned that some update, sounded like maybe the next one, would cause the gold farm to stop producing xp. Is this the update that would have that effect? I do still use it for xp, but not a big deal if I have to use a different xp farm. Mostly just curious what consequences there may be from the update that aren't mod support.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime

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    I'm technically watching more than this comment covers, but most of them aren't very notable. Even so you may notice a theme in the ones I do mention. Solo Leveling. Still enjoying this a lot. My...

    I'm technically watching more than this comment covers, but most of them aren't very notable. Even so you may notice a theme in the ones I do mention.

    Solo Leveling. Still enjoying this a lot. My wife and I watched the most recent episode twice already because we both are suckers for anime fight scenes. There's also a bunch of plot pieces the author has set in motion at this point in the story so I just don't know what's coming next.

    Shangri-La Frontier. This is getting it's groove back in my opinion. There's a bit much going on at once, which did slow the story down quite a bit unfortunately. It also had what felt like a filler episode a few weeks back, but I do get it. I think they needed the budget elsewhere because that episode was right between 2 action heavy arcs. I also kind of love the character interactions in it. Specifically how the main character's clan all are publicly exploiting each other with lines with the tone of, "if I ask them for help they're never going to let me live it down."

    Arifureta. The part it's at is dragging a bit. The last 4-5 episodes combined probably span a time period of under an hour. And unfortunately the cause of that is lots of simultaneous fight scenes, but in a show that doesn't really have the budget to do so many straight episodes of quality fights.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on I want to finally understand how to compile in C well, any resource recommendations? in ~comp

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    Is your goal to better understand Makefiles, compiler and linkers, or just know how to make stuff work without needing to tinker with it for a long time? Personally, and I'm sure this is blasphemy...

    Is your goal to better understand Makefiles, compiler and linkers, or just know how to make stuff work without needing to tinker with it for a long time?

    Personally, and I'm sure this is blasphemy to some people, I'm not interested in writing Makefiles. I just want my stuff to work and hand-writing Makefiles is rarely the most efficient path to getting there for me. This is probably biased by that I rarely create projects targeted at only one OS, and almost never targeted at only one compiler. Because of this I instead favor abstraction tools. I'd rather use something like add_dependency(foo bar) from CMake to have "foo" take a dependency on "bar" than to need to manually set the right flags on the compiler and linker to get header paths and object files imported correctly. Usually, though admittedly not always, these abstractions provide far better names than the flags they get transformed to which can make them easier to understand. It also means that if my project gets big enough that parallel building with an automatically generated dependency graph becomes worth it I can usually just change that tool from targeting make to ninja.

    If you want to keep with Makefiles or learn them in depth then what I said is not helpful at all. For that my advice would be to start a Makefile from scratch. Don't copy anything in at all. From there, go bit by bit manually putting in just the exact targets you want and the command line strings you want to be executed. It won't be pretty, but you'll understand it. Then, once you understand what each thing is doing, start adding prerequisites, then variables, then branches, then wildcards, and so on. Basically, start by treating it like its no more than a collection of .sh files (ex. put what you'd want to put into clean.sh into clean:) and then slowly use more Makefile features only when you're sure why you're doing it. I'd start with something as bland as

    program:
	gcc main.c -o program

    then

    program: main.c
	gcc main.c -o program

    and so on. Because Makefiles really don't have a ton of features you're likely to need immediately you will likely have a pretty solid handle on what the Makefiles themselves are doing after a few iterations. Then you need to dive into the documentation of your preferred compiler and linker for figuring out the flags and such. If you want a specific resource https://makefiletutorial.com/ seems fine at describing the concepts, although I wouldn't try to follow it like a tutorial but would instead just read through what it says about each concept (targets, prereqs, variables, etc.) and apply them as needed.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on Facing egg shortage, some Americans turn to backyard chickens in ~food

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    In hindsight it should've been more obvious to me that it would spread through wild birds. It's right in the name. It's called avian flu not chicken flu.

    In hindsight it should've been more obvious to me that it would spread through wild birds. It's right in the name. It's called avian flu not chicken flu.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Survival in ~games

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    I used the sea pickle farm in town the other day and underestimated it's efficiency. I only needed like 3 but ended up with multiple stacks. I dumped most of what I didn't use into community...

    I used the sea pickle farm in town the other day and underestimated it's efficiency. I only needed like 3 but ended up with multiple stacks. I dumped most of what I didn't use into community storage. So there should already be some to take if you don't want to bother farming yourself.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Facing egg shortage, some Americans turn to backyard chickens in ~food

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    I'm curious about the avian flu transmission vector you mentioned. I'm assuming you mean that just if you were to go out and get chickens now you risk getting infected chickens? Or is there also...

    I'm curious about the avian flu transmission vector you mentioned. I'm assuming you mean that just if you were to go out and get chickens now you risk getting infected chickens? Or is there also some route for existing yard chickens to get it and then become problematic?

    Avian flu aside, the ideal scenario is to have and befriend a neighbor with yard chickens that produce too many eggs for their household. Sadly, my neighbor that did have some got rid of them so no more fresh eggs without the work.

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  19. Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system in ~tech

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    If it did work, imagine how quickly this would be quietly shut down when it comes to the conclusion that billionaires are a big chunk of the problem. Or maybe they'd quietly "retrain out biases".

    If it did work, imagine how quickly this would be quietly shut down when it comes to the conclusion that billionaires are a big chunk of the problem. Or maybe they'd quietly "retrain out biases".

    7 votes

  20. Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all US data in one big AI system in ~tech

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    The cool part is that you don't even need an LLM jailbreak to get that data! Your data is probably already floating around in various data breach dumps. Isn't it great how unseriously infosec is...

    The cool part is that you don't even need an LLM jailbreak to get that data! Your data is probably already floating around in various data breach dumps. Isn't it great how unseriously infosec is taken even by places that give you no other choice, like credit reporting agencies?

    7 votes