insomniac_lemon

insomniac_lemon , 19 days ago

I see ice-cream this tall and think:
YOU ARE DOOMED BY YOUR HUBRIS.
DO NOT DELAY FOR SMILES OR RECORD KEEPING.
EAT YOUR TASTY TREAT CAREFULLY BEFORE GRAVITY MAKES A FOOL OF YOU.

insomniac_lemon , 19 days ago

When that older DX game port was released, I think it took like 3 or 4 days for them to take it down. Probably even like a patch stomp tuesday situation when the interns hand off the script detections off to the lawyers.

It might take a bit longer if people stopped using sites like Youtube and Github, and tried not to include trademarked terms (or super-identifiable audiovisual content) anywhere.

insomniac_lemon , 25 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

I am all of the issues to some degree and AI outputs to me* just seem like dairy-free maple-coconut water cheese. So personally I'll just stick with nothing (substantial) until the format/workflow that I'm looking for (hopefully) becomes viable for me.

Luckily writing a book or painting hyper-realism are not the only type of creativity.

(also funnily enough, AI currently is just a different set of skills/knowledge especially for the better results or wrangling custom inputs/training/adjustments etc)

*= Particularly what I can run locally, w/a 1050Ti. But also just really most examples of AI (aside from maybe the stuff that is either extremely overproduced/hand-picked or potentially faked)

insomniac_lemon , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

Huh, I'm using technology as an escape from woodworking. Lack of space/tools and a few times when I tried to do something the wood was too seasoned (last thing I tried was whittling hoping to do it in my room anytime and not have dust as an issue, cheap folding knife probably didn't help)

Well not fully true on the escape part, I just drop things really easy when I run into issues like that. Well that and I haven't done anything noteworthy with technology or woodworking.

insomniac_lemon , 30 days ago (edited 30 days ago)

If you're a woman of the woods who will feed my brain to a bear, that'd put me at 80% on-board. As always, travel would be the issue.

Though if I was awake for the eating part, I'd definitely make the joke "Is this a Tally Hall reference?" even though I made it now.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

In my house we have slightly oversized trashbags, have the bag oriented the other way (so when you pull the bag out it does not get stuck*), make sure the drawstring is over the lip, and this depends on the design of your trash-can but just see the picture. Image link for non-Kbin.

*= this is specific to a larger bag in a tapered container. If the orientation matches closely, lifting causes it to expand at the bottom when you lift so you're only lifting the bag at first (also this allows it to get stuck when it's overfilled). Rotated the other way it cannot expand fully until it is out of the container.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I just checked, apparently we have a ~16 gallon can (15 7/8ths*) and use 33gal bags. It doesn't seem that much bigger (bc volume) but an overfilled bag will still have room in it when removed (it's useful for last-minute additions on garbage day).

I don't know if you need to go this far, but maybe it is why they still fit the can properly with the not-expected-fit orientation like I described to prevent overfilling. 30gal might work, I guess it seems there isn't much choice here though (otherwise I'd say try 5-10gal/~20% higher rather than double).

*= Rubbermaid 3541, "Slim Jim" not cheap for plastic but we've had it for years so I'm not sure if it was that expensive when it was purchased

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

I could see it in the specific case of a cheap (steam) vape pen purchased without debit/bank card off of a general store site. They check the mail and pocket it, get vape juice from somebody. Charge+fill and it's ready in a pocket or backpack etc. Similar for concentrates, portable dry vaporizers (or something like dynavap) maybe a bit less.

A $100+ desktop dry vaporizer purchased from a dedicated website seems like it'd be harder to hide unless parents are really inattentive. Miss the credit/debit record, miss the delivery at the door, then them carrying it in (+branded boxes), a dedicated spot in their room where it's plugged in, and an almost ritual to properly heat up the glass/material that might give it away (glass clinking, balloon bag filling, fan on/off etc).

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

I think it would just burn the tobacco rather than vaporizing it

I mean if the temperature is set low enough (also convection) it should prevent combustion(/harmful byproducts) for most materials. Like under 200C especially.

Although I'm not sure vaporizing tobacco intended for smoking would taste all that great and smokers generally don't seem to care anyway. Sounds gross to me, then again so does nicotine in general.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

I saw that after posting. I'm not sure if the shipping law depends on the product but I got an Extreme Q from Arizer years ago and just checked: there is no mention of a required signature (though being a desktop unit and twice the price, it is a different product).

So maybe you could've just bought from somewhere else, assuming this is the seller being overly cautious and not a wide-sweeping law.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

My point is, going by the language in what you linked, the manufacturer you went with sells neither electronic devices nor devices that facilitate the use of any liquids/oils. So it does seem like their dumb policy/cautiousness not them being forced, though I am not a lawyer. Even being strict, if there was a device they sold that fell under the law I think it'd be the torches, as you said if someone has a lighter and material+paper or anything else that's all that's needed for smoking.

I was pointing out another manufacturer (quite popular/known and they only do electronic stuff, but AFAIK nothing for liquid/oils) and they have not bothered with this policy at all. They do allow the customer to request a signature check, but that's all I see.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

I'm guessing the windmill
and it resulting in more types of gruesome injuries than anyone would guess. Maybe even not just physical.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago

I tried a cheap pair and my takeaway is that this technology needs a specific amount of contact pressure, and with no mechanism to assure this (do the "name brand" ones have something?) a poor fit means it doesn't work at all and then if you fiddle with the position you can get something that basically turns your ear canal into a speaker (at least it doesn't seem like it's actually going direct, at least for most of the sound).

Also using a headphone amplifier, loudness normalization is an issue especially as certain content clips while some doesn't. This one probably directly relates to cost.

insomniac_lemon , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

My /newest/ (new-to-old):

This
Forcasting
Sumo wrestlers in a field of sunflowers
Tesla’s Cybertrucks were ‘rushed out,’ are malfunctioning at astounding rate

EDIT: Now there's one more (after sumos) that wasn't there before

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

Dang, that's crazy. Wait, no, that could definitely happen today in the US. Even if cost is not an issue, I could see many people waiting it out or delaying action (until it ruptures) for various reasons especially if they have no idea what the pain could be.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

I'm not sure I'm ready for that so just skip to the last part and use a cast-iron one-egg skillet.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

where do I sign

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

So is this some sort of pyramid scheme? You get me to buy my own 2-ton stone slab to practice my chiselmanship and then when I die you have one more block for your pyramid? Is that it?

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

I use Krita for infrequent no-stakes photo editing (and even pixel art at one point), might not be for everyone but there's a lot of overlap. Also you can use G'MIC with Krita, so that might help.

I used to use GIMP, but I prefer Krita now.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

I stopped playing around release 1.8, the Minetest games I've tried mimic the features/style that I disliked (annoyance of hunger and inventory clutter at least). Nothing close enough that makes me want to refine it into my own vision.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I backed up all of my own files except the jars apparently (because when you download every one they added up, and I didn't do that when the servers were at stake). I even had a launcher still logged in but none of the files will download now. Prism is lame (but understandable, I guess) in that it just says "contact microsoft support if you didn't migrate" or something like that, but you can just copy over accounts.json from polymc to use an offline acct. Though a few mods I've tried don't work (and I feel like mod discoverability might not be the best?).

Also a small bit not directly in reply to you: I'm pretty sure this is actually the second migration too, at least for accounts that were started on the minecraft website (username-->email login+mojang acct). But of course searches only give info on this one.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

As a fun aside, unauthorized sharing is the only reason I tried and bought the game back in early beta days before there was a demo (friend A owned, friend B didn't, I tried it from friend B's unauthorized copy of friend A's game and got the copy too, later gave friend A $20 and info to activate my account because I didn't have internet at home).

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago

ME: I say... take me out.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

All a lady would need to do is ask, and rent a pneumatic spear gun. Unfortunately the government would punish this and I don't believe they'd accept it as euthanasia even if that was legal here. Typical.

insomniac_lemon , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I would take many uncertain or potentially unsavory fates were they actual options (being a no-car shut-in makes it less likely), but a rock wouldn't be one of them. I mean, unless maybe a Wile E. Coyote sort-of-way but still probably not because I'd hate to do the math wrong and get half-crushed.

On a lighter note, I am imagining a girl SSH-ing into a single-board-computer in her head. Which is something I could see being possible for biohackers (if that's the best term?) by now even if the actual brain connection isn't there yet. Can't imagine what it'd do, but I definitely could see a beep song or maybe even a cochlear bridge for music (though that'd be more interesting if it had integrated context somehow, help with mood or play appropriate thematic/atmospheric music, so that'd be closer to cyborg-level tech).

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago

There's probably at least 8 or so people out there in the world who do a better job of it. But the circumstances are probably wildly different too, so I won't put too much stock into it.

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

no smoking (can't find a good image with a void symbol, but you get the idea)

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago

Given only one player, it's basically just informal yoga.

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I might have a personality disorder, but yeah seeing most code/languages (stuff more substantial than the image here) makes me think there's something really wrong with them or me (or both) because I don't see how you get into that. Though I know in many cases it probably could've been written differently.

I like 1 language*, but it uses whitespace. I mean that's not the defining factor, but there aren't really different styles like this (though there is spaces for indentation depth, and I usually went with 1 space instead of the standard 2 so there is that).

*=it's somewhat niche and I never really started with it because... userspace reasons I guess is the best way to put it

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

You got it. (mirror link)

I'm not sure if you guessed it or not because I've posted about it a few times in different contexts (thus why I try not to name drop now). I mean much of it is on me as well, change a few things about me and I might've done more with it.

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Born too late to hear anything more than echoes and escapist fantasy of mutual aid.
Born too early to have any chance of the resulting problems being fixed, or even the chance to be a technology test subject (cryo and/or brain-in-a-jar... without involving a techbro) for some hope of escape.

Born just in time to eat frozen burritos and waste away alone in
𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕖

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago

I'm in semi-rural USA (no car, local trail closed), shut-in, health issues, etc. And it should be obvious I am speaking from my perspective, as not everybody is eating frozen burritos (I assume).

Also some of the despair is lacking viable options to move elsewhere. Both on a local level due to lack of money and on a larger level lacking skills/transportation (or money again) etc.

Sure this is not universal, but I feel pretty locked in where I'm at aside from the next step down of being homeless.

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago

Me
lacking with the:
idea, knowledge, practice,
workflow, plan, proper working tools,
purpose, resources, ability to stick to something long-term,
or energy and morale to even get started on anything of note (this list may be incomplete):

"the winds of change are gonna really knock something into line, I feel it. Yep, any week now.
Just gotta scan the horizons. Or is it more like a pot of water? Hmm... Maybe there's something I missed."

insomniac_lemon , 3 months ago

My comment was more about combining art+animation and probably programming+solo gamedev. An example of my desired aesthetic, I made THE EYE probably about a year ago but the key feature used is not in a stable release yet and for technical reasons might not perform the best if used like that to create entire scenes (plus as hinted, other stuff not where desired). Thinking about a similar lowpoly (vertex colors/mostly textureless) aesthetic in 3D but don't really want to learn/use Blender.

I've done mediocre pixel art in the past and 3 different attempts at drawing practice with years inbetween each attempt (a few pieces with digital shading, then a few rough digital sketches and drawing practice*, then drawing practice* on paper. *=Lines, ovals, triangles, scribbles etc and maybe some doodles). I always run into some small toe stub, though I think with paper I just got bored with drawing ovals after the 4th time and didn't really see the point. Thought about trying mixed-media watercolors and never got the stuff, plus no real space or ideas again.

If I found the right raster aesthetic, drawing skills might make sense to do frame animations in Krita. But if I used something more vector-y the skills might not overlap as much particularly for more minimalist stuff (though it would with hand-drawn/shaded frame animation in something like Wick Editor).

insomniac_lemon , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Maybe it's my brain (and physical medical issues too, energy etc), but I honestly don't understand the appeal of most programming languages. Maybe Python, but I still hate the idea of the language being a bottleneck (I know there are workarounds, but at the very least that also complicates binding support).

I found a somewhat-niche language I like but nothing is at the point where I'd like it to be, and some of that isn't actually a problem with language support itself (particularly given that I want to at least start at a higher-level). Some of the issues would be sidestepped if I just started with 3D, but then I'd probably need to learn Blender (unless there is a more minimal+free lowpoly editor that does vertex colors). Though I don't really have much in the way of ideas either, which is why I also don't feel like making something with a toolkit (I actually made a simple 'adventure book'/interactive fiction reader but didn't feel like doing the writing to develop it further).

Also anybody who wants details just look at my posts as I've typed out this stuff a few times before (also in normal comments for more contexts, but those might be harder to find).

TL;DR: I am 30, or 40 years old and I do not need this.

insomniac_lemon , 4 months ago

you're telling me a cat fried this ice

insomniac_lemon , 6 months ago

I want to be a robot(ic-appearing cyborg) for the aliens.
Or maybe Nordic scientists in 200+ years, which probably would be the equivalent of aliens for me who only speaks English.

I'm pretty sure I have Schizoid Personality Disorder though, not autism. (probably similar in the ways that matter, or maybe worse)

insomniac_lemon , 7 months ago

Love to see it. Not shocked, though.

For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I'm interested in (it's really great, and I haven't seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.

insomniac_lemon , 7 months ago

Wouldn't have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it's basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn't finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it's loading)

For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the "grammar" of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don't think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.

@Serdan

insomniac_lemon , 7 months ago

So, as it turns out there are a few big reasons.

• it's a cosmic felony
• causing improbable events creates a new timeline which increases entropy in all probable realities, which can have some drastic (and usually negative) effects.
• most time travel agencies (which is what most people can afford) use technology that doesn't actually allow for free will, that's why it's mostly sold for vacations.
  • you can alter/push some decisions, but for most people it's not gonna be successful stocks.
  • older technology was advanced calculation in a realistic simulation. Most people just wanted an old memory or to get closure. Some people just try a different meal or movie choice, the experience is all that matters.
• time mercenaries. We're actually not sure who these guys are, but we also don't wanna know either. Some say they're who cause spontaneous combustion and embarrassing deaths.
• most forms of actual time travel leave the user stranded, with chronic or terminal illness (and sometimes amnesia), and in some cases fading/poofing out of existence when certain thresholds are crossed.
  • On top of that, new timelines of you typically aren't experienced by you. It's a different you. So that was nice of you.
• time spiders. You don't want to know.