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@tinyweasel People love them; depending on the audience, I can attribute it to either programming languages or Ada Lovelace / Blaise Pascal. A little history lesson with every new family or community we meet!

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@tinyweasel People love them; depending on the audience, I can attribute it to either programming languages or Ada Lovelace / Blaise Pascal. A little history lesson with every new family or community we meet!

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@renice Yup! with automatic mood shifts based on external stimulus! Running an eSports stream? Shift music automatically depending on major events and constraints on the standing, time left on the event clock, whatever. We've only relatively recently (hey, I'm old) seen this sort of behavior in video games, no reason it can't be elsewhere.

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@renice Yup! with automatic mood shifts based on external stimulus! Running an eSports stream? Shift music automatically depending on major events and constraints on the standing, time left on the event clock, whatever. We've only relatively recently (hey, I'm old) seen this sort of behavior in video games, no reason it can't be elsewhere.

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@Patricia these are the steps both me and my wife followed! Though she started in a different instance, and the "in due time" for the contacts import hadn't happened even after a few hours of waiting. >.>

I used Vivaldi as a stopover until the instance I wanted approved my application, then I did the migrate thing.

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@Patricia these are the steps both me and my wife followed! Though she started in a different instance, and the "in due time" for the contacts import hadn't happened even after a few hours of waiting. >.>

I used Vivaldi as a stopover until the instance I wanted approved my application, then I did the migrate thing.

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@renice I was thinking about this a little bit today, and wondering about the potential value of automated classifiers applied to music notation for detecting arpeggios, rises, chord progressions and deviations therefrom. The stuff 12tone talks about in his videos.

That could probably be expanded outside that scope, but that's what I was thinking about. Also, I regret Pandora's "music genome project" never evolved to something that let me query for the attributes and groupings I wanted.

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@renice I was thinking about this a little bit today, and wondering about the potential value of automated classifiers applied to music notation for detecting arpeggios, rises, chord progressions and deviations therefrom. The stuff 12tone talks about in his videos.

That could probably be expanded outside that scope, but that's what I was thinking about. Also, I regret Pandora's "music genome project" never evolved to something that let me query for the attributes and groupings I wanted.

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@eliza So, a Glorious Morning to you and your house! Let the day tremble at the mere hint of your approach! Let the night breathe a sigh of relief as you depart!

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@eliza So, a Glorious Morning to you and your house! Let the day tremble at the mere hint of your approach! Let the night breathe a sigh of relief as you depart!

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@tinyweasel Ada and Pascal, actually!

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@tinyweasel Ada and Pascal, actually!

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photograph of a man and two children sitting on stairs

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@cadey I misread that as "grass fires in Pokemon Go." That would be...interesting.

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@cadey I misread that as "grass fires in Pokemon Go." That would be...interesting.

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@simon "misleading" charts are often from mismatch of what a chart is supposed to illustrate and what it's being used to illustrate. Often the latter is in someone's own head, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I wonder if, in this case, taking the first derivative wouldn't help; explicitly show the rate of climb rather than imply it by showing the raw count.

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@simon "misleading" charts are often from mismatch of what a chart is supposed to illustrate and what it's being used to illustrate. Often the latter is in someone's own head, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I wonder if, in this case, taking the first derivative wouldn't help; explicitly show the rate of climb rather than imply it by showing the raw count.

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@FossCoder I absolutely can work with electrical wires, and have all the usual supplies and tools, but I don't really have the time, especially when you multiply eight detectors by the "oops" factor.

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@FossCoder I absolutely can work with electrical wires, and have all the usual supplies and tools, but I don't really have the time, especially when you multiply eight detectors by the "oops" factor.

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@FossCoder Kidde's website says they make an adapter compatible with the FireX FADC model we're replacing. TBH, I would have preferred to switch to Nest smoke detectors, but transition time for this project is really short...

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@FossCoder Kidde's website says they make an adapter compatible with the FireX FADC model we're replacing. TBH, I would have preferred to switch to Nest smoke detectors, but transition time for this project is really short...

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OK, I despise wired smoke detectors. Are they still required by code for new construction? Because these 15yo detectors aren't direct-replacable, and I have my fingers crossed the adapter the manufacturer has is available at my local stores.

being woken up three times in the night by false-positives... *yawn*

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OK, I despise wired smoke detectors. Are they still required by code for new construction? Because these 15yo detectors aren't direct-replacable, and I have my fingers crossed the adapter the manufacturer has is available at my local stores.

being woken up three times in the night by false-positives... *yawn*

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@techkat AIUI, the federated timeline shows all the public stuff from anyone that anyone on your local instance follows. (So, for anyone that's following me, everyone on the same instance as them can see this in their federated timeline.)

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@techkat AIUI, the federated timeline shows all the public stuff from anyone that anyone on your local instance follows. (So, for anyone that's following me, everyone on the same instance as them can see this in their federated timeline.)

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@mycroft@paws.town twice! From GRR to the southeast side of the state, then to PA.

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@mycroft@paws.town twice! From GRR to the southeast side of the state, then to PA.

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@elijah_modnar

My current setting is built off the idea that land has innate energy that is consumed by the act of life and procreation, and so life has to keep moving (and creating new land through a particular mechanic of combined social will), and it turns out to be a fantastic chaos engine with stories, motivations and plot hooks spilling out at every level. Even if I never get to run a campaign in it, just writing the lore and mechanics is a hell of a lot of fun.

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@elijah_modnar

My current setting is built off the idea that land has innate energy that is consumed by the act of life and procreation, and so life has to keep moving (and creating new land through a particular mechanic of combined social will), and it turns out to be a fantastic chaos engine with stories, motivations and plot hooks spilling out at every level. Even if I never get to run a campaign in it, just writing the lore and mechanics is a hell of a lot of fun.

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@elijah_modnar

I briefly ran a campaign where the material plane and "our" plane were colliding, resulting in some weird temporal and geospatial intersection zones, which colonial-era Europe noticed and started invading through. The set of players I had at the time was unstable, and that campaign only lasted two sessions, but I feel like there's still some solid stories and epic geopolitical and wargaming messes to be had there.

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@elijah_modnar

I briefly ran a campaign where the material plane and "our" plane were colliding, resulting in some weird temporal and geospatial intersection zones, which colonial-era Europe noticed and started invading through. The set of players I had at the time was unstable, and that campaign only lasted two sessions, but I feel like there's still some solid stories and epic geopolitical and wargaming messes to be had there.

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@elijah_modnar

I like building settings with weird features, conceits or concepts. Once I worked out the Pathfinder logistics to support a city with the population of New York, and extrapolated a setting from that. That was fun.

I briefly had a setting with a donut-shaped topology with both null-magic and hyper-magic zones, but I couldn't make it work to my satisfaction; I built it in Blender just to prove out whether days and seasons could work the way I wanted, and, well, no. :(

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@elijah_modnar

I like building settings with weird features, conceits or concepts. Once I worked out the Pathfinder logistics to support a city with the population of New York, and extrapolated a setting from that. That was fun.

I briefly had a setting with a donut-shaped topology with both null-magic and hyper-magic zones, but I couldn't make it work to my satisfaction; I built it in Blender just to prove out whether days and seasons could work the way I wanted, and, well, no. :(

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@elijah_modnar TTRPGs: AD&D 2e, D&D 3e, 3.5, 4e, 5e. Pathfinder. GURPS. Blades in the Dark (and derivatives). Shadowrun.

I'm down with any of low/high fantasy or cyberpunk, but I honestly prefer homebrew settings (especially my own) over stock; I always feel two steps behind and one lane over, lore-wise, when it's a standard setting and the setting matters, and I don't care for that.

I wrote more, but it wound up 1400 words over the limit, and I dunno where to put it...

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@elijah_modnar TTRPGs: AD&D 2e, D&D 3e, 3.5, 4e, 5e. Pathfinder. GURPS. Blades in the Dark (and derivatives). Shadowrun.

I'm down with any of low/high fantasy or cyberpunk, but I honestly prefer homebrew settings (especially my own) over stock; I always feel two steps behind and one lane over, lore-wise, when it's a standard setting and the setting matters, and I don't care for that.

I wrote more, but it wound up 1400 words over the limit, and I dunno where to put it...

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@rascalking @cadey turns out I removed Twitter before having a Mastodon client on my phone. While checking to see which client (Subway Tooter, as it turns out), it lost the reply I hadn't finished writing. So that's a thing. Interface is more than a bit raw, but (apart from losing drafts), it helps (me) to have the underlying semantics exposed.

The client ecosystem for Mastodon isn't currently mature the way it is for email, XMPP, IRC...

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@rascalking @cadey turns out I removed Twitter before having a Mastodon client on my phone. While checking to see which client (Subway Tooter, as it turns out), it lost the reply I hadn't finished writing. So that's a thing. Interface is more than a bit raw, but (apart from losing drafts), it helps (me) to have the underlying semantics exposed.

The client ecosystem for Mastodon isn't currently mature the way it is for email, XMPP, IRC...

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@cadey Ditto, after one last update on where I went.

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@cadey Ditto, after one last update on where I went.

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Ok, #introduction

I'm an SRE at Google. Before Google, I was a software engineer or sysadmin for fifteen years. (So I guess it tracks I'd eventually wind up an SRE.)

I'm diagnosed Autistic, but I don't believe that's an excuse to be a jerk. I'm also diagnosed ADHD, and that's...its own thing.

I'm originally from Michigan, currently live in Pittsburgh, met my wife at a D&D table, and have two kids named after programming languages.

I founded RosettaCode.org because I saw Wikipedia's page on Hello World.

I play D&D. I prefer to DM than play as a PC, but if I'm playing a PC, I generally play support characters; clerics and bards.

#sre #programming #autism

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Ok, #introduction

I'm an SRE at Google. Before Google, I was a software engineer or sysadmin for fifteen years. (So I guess it tracks I'd eventually wind up an SRE.)

I'm diagnosed Autistic, but I don't believe that's an excuse to be a jerk. I'm also diagnosed ADHD, and that's...its own thing.

I'm originally from Michigan, currently live in Pittsburgh, met my wife at a D&D table, and have two kids named after programming languages.

I founded RosettaCode.org because I saw Wikipedia's page on Hello World.

I play D&D. I prefer to DM than play as a PC, but if I'm playing a PC, I generally play support characters; clerics and bards.

#sre #programming #autism