You vs The Mountain He Told You to Climb https://mastodon.social/media/3p3SReByl8PP25-IaMA https://mastodon.social/media/_FROGXOLH6mYpqokwcc
Hey anybody know anyone herew with a #science or #technology background? I'm looking to follow such people. Also if anyone here has such but doesn't really post about it, I'd love to hear more about that kind of thing!
This froggo lives outside my apartment and we're now best friends https://mastodon.social/media/tVYHtyZOpcPp37VtRmg
"Tech culture prefers to solve harder, more abstract problems that haven’t been sullied by contact with reality. So they worry about how to give Mars an earth-like climate, rather than how to give Earth an earth-like climate. They debate how to make a morally benevolent God-like AI, rather than figuring out how to put ethical guard rails around the more pedestrian AI they are introducing into every area of people’s lives."
Results of our Pandemic Legacy game (warning: Spoilers for Pandemic Legacy) https://medicmenagerie.tumblr.com/post/161189667383/late-january-game-2
won the 2nd round of Pandemic Legacy with @Ulfra_Wolfe and friends, holy shit, feels good after getting creamed in round 1. @TipsyTentacle kicked in much-needed help at the crucial moment!
@Alyx i haven't made any mastodon bots but there are several APIs for C# and one API for Rust! you can find them here https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/Libraries.md
so, @kel, one time my lab partner leaned over to me and asked me, Al, you got any sodium hypobromite? You know what I had to tell him? "Na, BrO"
so #mastodon #programming question...what's the most painless way to start working on bots? I've been wanting to poke at some ideas for making robot pals around here, but the unfamiliarity barrier is kinda intimidating. Anyone abstracted away all the nasty stuff into a package I can use with a programming language I actually like, like C#? (Lisp or Rust would be even better but I'm not asking for miracles)
@Alyx @Momentrabbit @kel Not mine, so I should hold my tungsten.
we're gonna be doing a more or less modernistic setting with a dash of urban fantasy, and I created a young science / engineering whiz kid who's been in trouble with the law and ran away from home. Named her Julia Grignard. (yes I named her after the organic chemist. I name all my OCs after organic chemists.)
So, @Ulfra_Wolfe and her friends have been giving me my FIRST EVER introduction to role-playing games, and walked me through creating a character! Folks have been kinda surprised in the past that I've never done anything like DnD or even played any computer RPGs, even though I grew up right around when DnD was a big deal. I just...well, wasn't really allowed to have that sort of friend *eardroops* So it's exciting finally to get a chance.