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A bit tangential, but I'm not sure I could ever play D&D on a VTT. I understand the allure of playing over the internet in general, because you can pick outlandish times and don't have to be geographically collocated. But for me, D&D is more than moving tokens around, it's primarily about the roleplay, about acting out a character and seeing someone's full facial, verbal, and non-verbal responses. If I want to push tokens around I'll play some multiplayer RPG computer game.

I would suggest keeping a D&D feature set, which is a "common ground" that most people are familiar with, to demo the app. But I agree with the post above, niche system players are going to love this more since they are underserved.

I don't love the lottery or scratch offs, though I don't mind playing occasionally.

But what I can't stand is the self perceived moral superiority of people who are like "haha, lottery is for idiots!"

Like this

  grocery_list {
        fruits: "apple"
        fruits: "banana"
        fruits: "pear"
  }

Wake me up when September ends?

I've had a Google issued pixelbook for work since 2018 and I absolutely love it.

Background on this, and explanation of framerules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIJNT7dCmE

As someone who has contributed to the Evennia codebase (Hacktober 22), I can say that it's OOP systems are largely well thought out and very flexible. There are hooks for things like when your object gets created/destroyed, picked up/dropped, etc.

Per another comment in this thread, it does seem like everyone wants to create a MUD but no one wants to play them. All the people in the Discord seem to have several years long projects to create "their game", but I didn't hear much about anyone actually playing any of these games.

But why do Apple Silicon macs require an addition 1.1 GB of updates?

At every former company, where we tried to use Agile or sprints, we ended up reaching a system where we just had basically "one big rolling sprint". Every two weeks, only a few tasks were actually done, and every task got pulled into the next "sprint".

Combine this with the fact that we weren't delivering any artifacts at the end of the sprint, so we didn't have any feedback from stakeholders and weren't really iterating either.

I've heard plenty of stories of people saying "my email is fred@fredsmith.com" and it being input by a customer rep as "fred@fredsmith.com@gmail.com". Or them asking "At gmail.com or hotmail?" and you have to explain "No, at fredsmith.com".

> NO!

> Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player. Go Steve! Where's the Newton?!

TIL about Chrome's reading list. Though the first few articles I read about it were about an old version and didn't work on my version of Chrome.

I guess the implication was that VS Code works well and I don't need tree-sitter?

Okay, that's a good thing! From the article:

> Neither tree-sitter nor Emacs come installed with language grammars

> ...it’ll only work if you don’t have an exceptional setup (so it won’t work well unless you have GCC and run some flavor of Linux.)

> Determining if a grammar is available is not intuitive nor obvious unless you use elisp

> Note that, just because you have installed a grammar, does not mean Emacs supports it. Someone still has to write the – admittedly, way easier – syntax and indentation logic and all that good stuff.

> Annoyingly, there’s no easy way to see if you’re using the normal or the TS-powered major mode

> If you use Customize, then you don’t have to do anything, but if you normally use setq, you’ll have to use customize-set-variable instead to ensure the setter is called properly.

> That sounds like a great idea until you realize that it is not possible to make one-size-fits all commands that do this. Believe me: I’ve tried.

That's not the impression I got from TFA. It sounds like, once you have Emacs compiled with tree-sitter, you also need to have a language binding in a shared library in a known location (that you have to compile yourself or depend on the kindness of strangers). And once you have that, you actually need someone to write a major mode that utilizes it at all. And if you want to make that major mode the default for that file type, there are a few other things you need to do. Etc.

This is so hopeless complicated that I'm glad I use VSCode and not Emacs anymore. Sheesh.

In 2010 we needed to act "before 2020" which seemed like plenty of time. I'm convinced we already have met the "tipping point". No one wants to say that though because it would be either admitting climate change is real, or admitting defeat.

I've recently pivoted from blogging (which I did on and off since 2006) to digital gardening. The latter is more focused on a network/graph of interconnected nodes with backlinks. The idea is that you don't have to write one big reverse chronological list of "finished posts", but rather can have a sprawling network of ideas that loosely relate.

I started it last November and haven't kept up with it as much as I thought I would, sadly. This page outlines some of the sources I read to inspire the creation of it and some of the principles I'm trying to follow: https://garden.travisbriggs.com/garden/digital-gardening-pri...

Spoiler alert: you need to write PHP.

God I hate nature

+1 for the concept of "we were dead before we were born". I've always found that the simplest answer to "What happens after you die?" is "The same thing that happened before you were born: everything".

You can click on an element of the date and type it directly.

I moved to SF from Boston in 2012. I haven't completely kept up with which iconic spots have closed since then, because it's heartbreaking like this.

Ditto burritos in SF!

It's also helpful for me to practice the polar opposite: morning pages. Where I write 750 words in the morning about just about anything, where I know it will be unpublished and remain private. It's kind of like journaling or keeping a diary, without the mental pressure of having it chronicle your day or make any sense.

I actually find that it's more valuable to just get thoughts and mental cruft out on a page in order to free up my creative brain, than to actually look back or reflect on anything I've written.

That's why I said probably. I just know Monsanto is famous for their "copyright" seeds that are genetically modified and you're not allowed to keep the next generation of seeds.

To play devil's advocate to myself and possibly answer my own question: I imagine there are ecological effects of GMO (some of your corn SHOULD get killed by insects). Not to mention the fact that GMO seeds are probably mostly sold by god-awful Monsanto.

It's a joke, but I do have questions in general about "Certified Non-GMO" versus "Modern day bananas, corn and tomatoes look nothing like they did 400 years ago". There are some types of genetic modifications that are considered "natural" and "OK" and somehow there are others that are "artificial" and "scary", but damned if I know which are which.

I hate these awful GMO trees! Why can't we have certified USDA Organic trees anymore!