PolarKraken

@PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer interview: my Q&A with the creator of Lutris⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks so much for sharing! I’ve recently moved to daily driving Linux and went Bazzite for the gaming element (which I’ve since only somewhat used, lol).

  Haven’t dove into the bits and pieces that really make the games work much yet, had no idea Lutris was all this! Particularly the wider library management / enablement, the very thing the dev called out as not well known lol.

  AND I was very happy to find out it’s all Python! That’s my bread and butter (and it’s delicious), I may just have to do a wee bit of dev’in someday too. If I ever get around to the games lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suicide is cringe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the suffering required for a human to legitimately want to kill themselves is extreme, kinda by definition. So uhh…yeah homie might wanna continue keeping that to yourself lmao!

  On the other hand, suicidal threats with no actual sincerity, to get attention…on that I agree with ya. Cringe AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah man we’re pretty squishy! I’d imagine an adult gorilla has to consciously try not to hurt us in physical interactions of any kind lol, like me with my own kiddos. Fairly sure just pulling off a limb would be well within their capabilities. Guaranteed death sentence, and a brutal one, no question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a fighter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grappling a gorilla is such an unbelievably bad idea lmao, no matter the BJJ steez. You’re right, things are fucking tanks, just flat out invulnerable to us hand-to-hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a senior citizen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, similar feelings from me in a lotta ways, especially regarding the “churn” we see where continuing tech evolution makes our expected output rise in almost precise equilibrium with the rise in quality of life tooling and general sophistication we get to “enjoy” (and I mean, sincerely, some stuff like IaC has made irritating tasks joyfully painless in comparison to the bad good ??? old days ).

  BUT! Something maybe we can all get a little excited about - in some important ways (Linux ecosystem, federation trends, self-hosting capabilities and enthusiasm, urgent global need to diversify cloud reliances) - FOSS is in a strikingly beautiful place today. It’s never been more important, and it’s never had a stronger, more diverse, and arguably more passionate array of people working hard to make great shit for us all.

  Cheers and take heart!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! And another dope thing about the whole shebang, turns out the derivative < - > integral operation is wildly useful for describing…everything.

  The simplest example, that I love the most, is just the very pedestrian (pun intended) relationship between a car’s position, velocity, and acceleration. It’s just enough “levels” (of diff < - > int) to have some instructional “meat”, and it’s a totally ubiquitous experience.

  And then, when peered at more closely, that kind of relationship starts to crop up everywhere, suggests so much more!

  Calculus is best maf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the heart of the issue is that each object’s path changes continuously, and the forces involved change in kind. Even worse, the objects interact with each other, again continuously - it’s not one-sided.

  If you imagine trying to do it pre-Calculus, some kind of “just map it all out into a grid, etc.”, you can see the problems this continuous change imposes (exercise left for the reader).

  By involving the Stravinsky Interpretation, it quickly becomes clear that the dimorphic superposition destabilizes. The clever reader might object “but what if you fold in all the noodly surfaces to recohere the manifold?”

  And that clever reader would be right! But we didn’t know that until old Dr. Isaac “Zeke” Newton came along and made it that way.

  Some say the devil himself taught him how it’s done, because no one else can read his notes! So keep your eye on old Zeke when you run into him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon contracts herpes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry :(

  This happened to my wife, FWIW, from an old horrible partner (abusive too, v cool). Her outbreaks got milder over time to where now they’re a minor inconvenience at most. And they don’t get in our way, so to speak.

  Even though, yes, some folks are now preemptively and permanently out of your dating pool, I’d argue that a lot of the people self-excluding in that way have done you a favor.

  Love is strong stuff! I can imagine how low you feel about this, but I hope you allow space for it to improve over time and you don’t give up on having a sex life or romantic partners. You’re worthy of love, this dumb (and seriously common) disease can’t change that :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I don’t remember much, and not in his books in general. Although I am the kind of reader that’s wholly uninterested (no shade to those who feel differently!) - but it’s entirely possible it’s there and my brain doesn’t really hold onto it! But put bluntly his stories are usually bleak, romance would fit a little oddly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome!! And I don’t think it was a series when I read it, so been a while for me too lol. And yeah, Revelation Space books are just so, so good. Can’t say enough good things about the worlds this guy builds. Artifact in the meme would fit right in, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#lovewins⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post really doesn’t call for this comment but here we go -

  One of my favorite authors wrote at least one book in a setting where many galactic civilizations have come and largely gone, and treasure hunters try to “crack baubles” - break into old vaults and such left behind. Think Space Indiana Jones! But what’s really compelling and brain melty to me is that these civilizations used entirely unknown tech and physics in some cases. So they’re trying to break into and steal things they cannot possibly even comprehend, which is SO foolish and so fucking cool, and if that were available to me, my curiosity would utterly demand I keep at it until dead or worse.

  Book is Revenger by Alastair Reynolds. Plus it’s got one of the scariest fuckin pirates ever, so I mean, Space Indiana Jones with horrifying unknown tech treasure and implacable, immortal(?) pirate villains…that’s gonna be a strong recommendation for the right flavor of reader lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck with that aneurysm lol, hope it clears itself up