Sunsofold
@Sunsofold@lemmings.world
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 13 hours ago:
People aren’t here for Lemmy in particular. They’re here to avoid the others. If all you want is content, you’ll just go to Reddit. If you are here, it’s because you recognized something of the awfulness in corporate reddit but liked the format. Lemmy is Reddit for people who pay attention and care.
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 13 hours ago:
I’m staying out. At that size, many of those are just terrifying, even if they are cool when much smaller than me.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 3 days ago:
‘I’m 40% Markov chain.’
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 1 week ago:
‘I’ve been alive for like five minutes. WTF?’
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
Alright, I gave you the knowledge and you don’t want to integrate it, so it’s on you now. Have fun lying to yourself.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
accommodating preferences in one is far easier than the other.
Tell me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience without telling me you’ve never tried to code a complex interactive experience. If you think it’s so easy to take every element of a highly complex, performance sensitive program and make it possible to pick and choose which ones you experience without breaking the whole experience or turning a 1 year project into a 10 year project, go ahead and try. Do you also ask movie directors to make their movies so that when you hit ‘skip scene’ because you don’t like the way the scene looks, it still makes a good movie?
museums aim to preserve history
That’s just your failure to understand there are more kinds of museum than a history museum. A history museum does have special work involved, but others don’t share that element. Perhaps you’ve heard of an art museum, sometimes also known as a gallery. They can contain all sorts of elements, audio, video, scent, touch, taste, human interaction, machine interaction, ludic interaction, whatever. The artifacts can be any age, with art from hundreds of years ago or being created in the moment via performance.
The analogy is a failure, to be sure, but only because I hadn’t considered the possibility you wouldn’t have that piece of common knowledge. Now that you do have that knowledge, though, if you can’t see the analogy, that’s on you.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
It’s actually one of the cleanest, most direct analogies I’ve ever used. Both are curated experiences with controlled visual, auditory, and interactive elements. The differences lie only in the physical/resource limitations each has for the kinds of experiences they can include.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
You really like the word ‘gatekeep,’ as though it were a bad thing. When you walk into a museum, start complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers, and then get told to leave, yeah, they’re gatekeeping you, but it’s because you’re complaining about the lack of teleporters and strippers in a museum. That’s not what it’s there for. They have curated a collection of experiences focused on creating an overarching experience, and you have wandered in, said ‘I don’t want to have to walk to each exhibit, teleport me,’ and ‘This exhibit is booooooring. Teleport me to the one with strippers.’ If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Publishers are a key ingredient in the recipe for trash games. Buying IP and telling some dev team that is doing it for the paycheck to slap something together is not making a game, it’s parasitism.
- Comment on Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop 1 week ago:
If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
I’m not sure about every game but I’d like to see a lot more games do what Rebel Galaxy did and let you set up paths for custom OST. No game dev can license the perfect soundtrack for every player, but it’s great to be able to slot in what I feel makes the perfect soundtrack. Some people want their fight scenes to be scored with DMX, some want Burzum, and some want the Cronos Quartet. Let them all find their moment.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
I was with you at first, thinking you meant in a sandbox game, like turning off hunger/on hardcore in Minecraft, etc. but you’re just whining because every moment isn’t custom built to keep up with your personal ADHD/hedonic treadmill. The point of a game isn’t to just give you a blowjob from launch to credits. If that’s what you’re looking for, you’re looking in the wrong place.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
Even if some people aren’t, no one is getting psychologically damaged by the sight of some digital boobs. Puritanical attitudes toward sex do more damage than seeing boobs ever could.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
Toggleable, please.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 week ago:
My particularly niche gripe is bad dialogue tree options. There are so many games where the mechanism is selecting an option and watching it play out, but so many of them are shit when it comes to the difference between what you see as the option and what actually is said/done. Heavy Rain did it. ‘What should the character say next? Unreadable zalgotext option A, or unreadable zalgotext option B?’ Or ones where the options on screen are ‘A) I thoroughly agree. B) I thoroughly disagree. or C) What?’ but selecting C means the character isn’t just asking for clarification because ‘What?’ actually points at the voiceline, ‘What the fuck are you talking about, you piece of inhuman filth? I bet your a murdering rapist.’ If I can’t have some idea of what selecting an option will do, I’m not actually playing a game at that point. I might as well be trying to play Mario with a controller that remaps itself randomly.
- Comment on Gal Gadot's amazing acting range 1 week ago:
Can’t have her voice crack. Then she’d be ‘bitchy’ and ‘hysterical.’ And if she cried it’d ruin the painstaking vanity makeup and add another two days to the post production timeline to airbrush out the humanity.
- Comment on Hackers Replace 'm' with 'rn' in Microsoft(.)com to Steal Users' Login Credentials 1 week ago:
What is old is new again.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Not a number. Not interesting.
- Comment on An experimental setting. 2 weeks ago:
He’s gotta be tired after spending all night running around not-killing-just-initiating-medical-bankruptcy-ing people.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
And to shit into that hand, first one must have a wish to do so. A wish is precisely as real as fascism or anarchism, and a necessary but not sufficient precursor to any of the above.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
I can’t necessarily make a nice day happen for you, I just hope your day goes well to the extent it can.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
Haha, it was a well-wishing, short for ‘I hope you have a nice day,’ not a command. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
If enough people use a word to mean something different from what it used to mean, it literally does change the meaning, (e.g. radical meaning ‘connected to a plant’s roots,’ the reason people say ‘transwomen are real women.’ etc.) but fair enough. Have a nice day.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bit of a semantic grey space, like many words. For common use, anarchy and chaos are synonyms, hence why your initial comment could be read both ways. For a certain class of ‘rebellious’ individual, it’s used more like a naive, ‘lower case l’ libertarianism. For some, it means the absence of any social structure at all, a ‘state of nature.’ For some others it’s the de facto reality of all systems using a definition of ‘who has the most capacity for violence makes the rules.’ For those studying sociology and anthropology, it’s used specifically for a class of societal organizational systems that may be highly organized but share a lack of hierarchy. The shared element between the various uses is the lack of structure so I lean toward keeping it to that basic concept and hesitate to claim any of them are the ‘correct’ definition.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
They’re both technically anarchic, (no hierarchy among rioters either) but things like this demonstrate the lack of hierarchy is clearly not the problem in either situation.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 weeks ago:
Good. I couldn’t be sure. ‘This is actual anarchy’ is just as readable as ‘this is the degeneracy of our modern culture’ as it is as ‘this is people acting responsibly without need of hierarchy.’
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 2 weeks ago:
At the purely GUI level, if you’re being granted acrobat, it turns out you can extract arbitrary subsets of pages manually, very quickly. You can then rename them. I haven’t learned powershell personally but it absolutely could be used to batch rename files, even if it’s a somewhat silly looking language compared to bash. Again, though, how much work that involves depends on your desired naming conventions.
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 2 weeks ago:
Hmm. Well, first off, if you mean you don’t know how to write a script and don’t view it as worth learning for this task, that limits the task a fair amount. If you mean you don’t want to learn about the particulars of script based PDF editing or OCR, that’s understandable.
If you don’t want to script at all, you should be able to segment the PDFs via acrobat, or even just ‘print to PDF’ with page ranges on most viewers. There are ways of bulk renaming files once you have segmented them, even without scripting, though it’d be use case dependent as to whether/how that’d be useful to you.
If you want to script just a little, I made a script ages ago where I used the documents’ name to hold the metadata of what needed to be modified. You could certainly do that. (e.g. open the doc in one window, select the file for renaming in your file explorer, scroll through and input the sequence of pages in the rename field, [documentName3,7,15,22,29.PDF] run a script to segment the PDF at those page numbers so you end up with ‘documentName-1.PDF’ containing pages 1 to 2, another with 3 to 6, etc.)
A bit more effort could maybe be used to do some level of renaming, though how much use that would be would depend on the particulars of your case. I could see extending the previous script a little and making the page annotations include a doc type. (e.g. 13cn meaning segment at page 13 and label it as ‘originalDocumentName-clientNotification’, or even 13’arbitraryText’ and use the arbitrary text as the new file name)
The particularity of your case may be precisely why it hasn’t been automated yet.
- Comment on Anon can't wait 2 weeks ago:
Enh. Broccoli/kohlrabi.
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 2 weeks ago:
I know there are scripting ways to work with PDFs. I was listening to someone talking just earlier about using a script and a localhosted LLM to organise and rename PDFs with author and title. If you can identify some kind of patterns (such as a heading that starts each document of a type) that you can detect, a script could find those pages and then feed that into something that will segment page ranges for each doc. It’s definitely possible but the patterns to look for will be determined by the docs you are looking at.