@Patabs can be defined for the whole complex plane though (the square root of the sum of the square of the real and imaginary components) i.e.: abs(a + bi) = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)
I am kinda behind schedule today because every time I looked at my tablet (where I consult my to-do list) the cat took it as a personal insult and insisted I pay attention to him instead.
Perusing the terms of service my phone is requiring me to agree to after the update.
Under the section about how they safeguard my data, it reads:
We take data protection seriously. We have put in place physical and technical safeguards to keep the information we collect secure. We also take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, to ensure that the personal information collected by third parties remains secure. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.
The Venn diagram of people who say, "Working from home puts cafés out of business" and those who say "If you stopped buying coffee every day you'd be able to buy a house" is a circle.
Just signed up for DoorDash yesterday to try to diversify our income a little.
Got an email from them this morning. I opened it in neomutt to read that my account had been suspended "due to [my] repeated lateness violations", which is impressive considering I haven't even done a shift yet.
When I tried to show the email to Katy on my phone, the email instead read as a generic welcome letter.
It turns out that the plain text and and HTML parts of the email are completely different.
Yo WTF?? Don't attack mods! That's not how you make Fedi better.
I've heard folx are targeting my friend @markwyner. Don't fucking do that. He's a nice guy, and he's doing thankless work modding for a large server.
If you chase the mods off those servers, then they're going to be wide open to the same fucking Nazis that you're harassing him about. That's like shooting Fedi in the damned foot.
I *really* hope none of my followers are responsible for this. If y'all follow me, then you should know better. For real. I'm embarrassed.
Note: if you want to do something good today, shower Mark with some love for being so quick to ban this Nazi—twice. He even closed mas.to's registrations after I asked. That's an example of a good mod, and I'm glad he's here 💞
Yeah, a large part of the reason I’m active on here in the first place is because the moderation’s generally both quick and good. That takes work, and I’m glad we’ve got people who care doing it. @markwyner
@gabrielesvelto I agree he doesn't deserve being attacked.
But he is not a hero either. This whole episode could have been prevented with closed registrations. Do we really have to pretend someone is a hero if they stopped something that was totally preventable, _after_ the damage was done?
@heinragas this troll was deliberately trying to sow discord between instances, I think it's important we don't play in their hands.
Not being a moderator I don't know what's the tradeoff WRT registrations and how much work does it entail to review them, so I'm not qualified to comment on that.
How much you want to bet half the people attacking him are either (tr,f)ash themselves or being egged on by one of the 'brighter' (tr,f)ash accounts that LARP left to stir the pot or fuck with people?
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IMO, if you can't be civil with a mod, maybe you shouldn't be on Fedi, full stop - but I can see extending a little grace to somebody having a bad day.
@gabrielesvelto In general, I agree. But I do think it is right and necessary to encourage errant servers to improve their behaviour. Every "leak" makes every other server less safe, after all.
And yes, reviewing signup requests is super easy. With abuse reports there's a lot of context you need to investigate, and that's simply not present in a signup request. Of course, this no guarantee that there will be no more abuse, but experience learns that it does help immensely.
thank you both for leading by example what distributed, collaborative moderation looks like. There's a lot of newer fedinerds, myself included, who set up servers for their communities not fully knowing what they'd got themselves into. I think high-visibility, active folks like you are crucial to the health of the fediverse just by existing and being your good selves. I'm grateful for you.
I think the convention is "prep time" for a recipe is before heat is applied "cook time" is after heat is applied and "total time" is the sum of both, plus any required rest time between or after cook.
But, I do agree that can be annoying, because it's not the same as my expectations.
Upgraded my Gitea* server this morning and had a moment of panic when I thought I'd lost admin access. Turns out they just changed where the admin interface lives.
* I meant to switch to Forgejo, but never got around to it and then they went hard fork, so it's more complicated now.
Some money that I was expecting a while ago finally hit our account. We can make rent after all. Finally my anxiety can start ratcheting down for a bit.
PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains
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I will need convincing that someone didn't just write this and then ask for it to be repeated. I don't know enough about this to even guess if it makes sense to expect a mission statement like this to exist.
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@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.
I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.
Just beautiful. Great reminder how pure and powerful Unix once was.
Thinking about it, my first serial-line terminal login on a SysV machine was back in January 1990, eons ago. It was a big tower case server with a 68020, and even then it was considered an older machine for legacy projects and unimportant enough to let newbs like me have a go at it. Your machine is about a generation or two older, and still running strong. Great job!
Used to run some mainframe printing off a PDP-11 back in the '80s. Trying to remember if that was used in conjunction with a Xerox laser printer or was something else. My memory is fuzzy about that.
Have you investigated interactive fiction? The game that has stuck with me as a good introduction to the medium was Photopia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopia
There are likely many other on-ramps to text adventures, probably newer and better games, but I just thought that one had pretty colors 😉
@craigmaloney oh yeah I did add Mille Borne, I haven't played it yet but I've heard people say that Monster Maker (an 80s Japanese card game I have) is similar in the sense of trying to play distance cards to the right length and stopping other people from progressing. Just with a little more Gandalf (who in later printings got renamed to Gandawulf), so I've always meant to try that game digital or otherwise.
A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses. - GitHub - jwm-art-net/XorCurses: A remake of Xor by Astral Software for Linux, using Ncurses.
Also man I would absolutely love more like...turn based management sim kinda games, I'm looking for a good port of Oregon Trail for Unix terminals, and I've been enjoying checking out more evolved games that came out of Hammurabi, so games like this I would love recs for. I assume there's some form of Lemonade Stand out there too if I look. Gimme all the business/city sims you can.
I believe old versions of Dwarf Fortress have an ncurses mode which runs in the terminal. Dont think its supported anymore on the steam/itch release though, sadly.
(I hope DF doesn't count as a roguelike or dungeon crawler 😀 )
@operand I should look into that, I've played an absurd amount of hours of DF but I've never played it in a terminal so it'd be a fun thing to check out
A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot 'em up. Hopefully. - GitHub - wimpysworld/antsy-alien-attack: A game, written in Bash, that is a somewhat retro-a-like shoot '...
Super Star Trek (although the version you get in modern Linux is unrecognizable to me personally), and text adventure / interactive fiction games like Colossal Cave Adventure and Zork.
The way you are asking you probably know about bsdgames, but I wanted to specifically recommend hunt from there as a multiplayer shooter. Surprizingly fun for what it is. Only works in multiplayer though.
@timorl I grabbed it but haven't looked at everything in there, I'm also working on a pubnix for some local folks though and thought about putting it on there since I know it's on a lot of pubnix servers
@ramin_hal9001 @skyfaller seriously I'm sitting here thinking I need to start designing my own terminal games along the lines of the Oregon Trails or Lemonade Stands of the world, but with more depth because it's 2023
exceptionally cursed but: I once hacked a ncurses TUI display mode into a Gameboy emulator, using half-height unicode blocks to get 2 square-ish pixels per text character. worked badly, but worked nonetheless
unfortunately I don’t think I still have a copy I can share, but if you have the time and the know how it is both possible and very funny
@joshie 🏳️🌈 badly or not, the fact that it woked at all is pretty impressive. If you should happen to find it kicking around on a drive somewhere, I'd love to see it in action.
Text-based games are often forgotten and neglected. However, there are many ASCII gems out there waiting to be explored which are immensely addictive and great fun to play.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •sqrt(1) = -1. We're either constraining the answer to positive numbers or we're not.Pat
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •piecewise function definitions are a thing though, like the abs function for instance
abs(x) = x, for all positive x
abs(x) = -x, for all negative x
sqrt(x) = positive y, for all positive x
sqrt(x) = i * sqrt(-x), for all negative x
I also find arctan really weird, because it only works if you fiddle with the domain (yet it clearly does exist, and is useful)
I enjoy the unpleasant feeling I get when I realise that all maths is made up!
Jonathan Lamothe
in reply to Pat • •abscan be defined for the whole complex plane though (the square root of the sum of the square of the real and imaginary components) i.e.:abs(a + bi) = sqrt(a^2 + b^2)Maddie
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And with quaternions, we can pick any unit, like sqrt(-1) = (i+j+k)/sqrt(3)
y'know, where i = sqrt(-1), j = sqrt(-1), k = sqrt(-1) 😜
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