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plurality (~) 

We've been thinking Jude was less functional and socially aware than the rest of us, but they had the realization yesterday: They can function when we are low on energy, and that's usually when they front. They are impaired by the low energy.

stream announcement 

twitch.tv/madewokherd I fixed a bug (I hope) in my flashcard program that made any card I hadn't succeeded at have an interval of 0. So we should have more variety and less repeated failure in the chaos stream now, hopefully.

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.

blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04

I trained a Biological Neural Network on all my conversations with a friend and now she's a voice in my head that talks to me.

@1547 This has changed the way we look at the world. -Cedar

@1547 We're not sure what to do with this, but thank you for it. -Cedar

stream announcement 

twitch.tv/madewokherd Today's chaos stream is brought to you by Snapcraft, which apparently lets you block gamepad input going to Firefox and was essential to getting Sweet Home to work on my weird controller setup. I'm very happy someone implemented this feature that I can't imagine anyone using except me in this precise situation.

Success, I have installed a mednafen (and half of a Linux userspace).

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Installing pkgsrc on Steam Deck in the hopes that I can then just not care about the stuff outside $HOME being frequently wiped out.

@12 I'm pretty sure those macros are only used to embed metadata, so they can be safely defined out.

@12 I got further by adding this to my sys/cdefs.h:

 __IDSTRING(_prefix,_s) /* nothing */
__COPYRIGHT(_s) /* nothing */
__FBSDID(_s) /* nothing */
__RCSID(_s) /* nothing */
__SCCSID(_s) /* nothing */

@12 I'm not using Solaris, this is on a Steam Deck which runs Linux.

@12 I'm trying a bootstrap on Linux right now and got exactly the same error.

This discussion reminded me of an interview I heard on NPR a few weeks ago w/ an author of a children's book about a boy w/ one arm. It's aimed at disabled kids, giving them permission to not answer questions about their bodies. It acknowledges the often unspoken belief people tend to have that if you're different, you must want someone to comment on it, to break tension (and how this needs to STOP). I can't remember the name of the book. Anyone know it?

#bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #NPR

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plurality question 

When we become sufficiently familiar with an external person's voice that we can imagine them saying a specific thing on demand, is that introjection?

@matthewskelton this made me realize that, as I was thinking of all the research I've read lately, plus books like reinventing organizations, well...

The most successful leadership teaching course of all time might just be convincing executives to go to therapy for 5 years??

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