Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
trying to figure out an approach to a hard problem
Oh this is just minesweeper.
Oh no.
Working out SGDQ plans today. I think I will be there today, Thursday, and Saturday.
I made a mod. This branch allows selecting thorns as a weapon. https://github.com/madewokherd/hyperrogue/tree/stabby
There is what sounds like an ice cream truck playing Korobeiniki outside my apartment.
Anyone know good resources for someone (our new headmate) just starting out in writing and/or drawing? Looking specifically for things to play with and have fun, not any sort of end product.
Boosts welcome.
mh (???)
Hi, I'm an alternate timeline version of Esme created in her head to resolve trauma. Plurality is weird, y'all. -Ash
Esme Povirk
boosted
might be a hot take
a "legal name" is an outdated concept in a time when we are all given numbers, you could just have a preferred name that you can change on a whim
@mavica_again I don't know but my first thought is price discrimination - the people who care enough to send the form are likely the same ones who are price-sensitive enough to make the discount worth it for the company.
Thinking maybe "password breach reported by some third party" is a good indicator that it's fearmongering and not actually worth taking any action or personally worrying about.
eating habits/food
I wonder if "fasting" is a common practice because most people don't wait until they're hungry to eat, and thus have more of a store of energy than I do and fewer ill effects.
travel, major life change
A week ago, I came home from a 2-week trip where I visited several east coast friends, and I realized I want to spend a lot more time with them. But I want to spend significant time here too.
So, I've started planning out how I can be away for half the year living with different loved ones. It'll take time to set up, but it seems doable, and I've decided to do it.
I couldn't find a name for this. "snowbird" is the closest but I'm going somewhere cold in winter.
@hollie > and < might be special characters for ends of words and need to be escaped
Esme Povirk
boosted
LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at
Esme Povirk
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Two different approaches to debugging a software problem:
The Sudoku approach: stare at the limited set of clues you have, and think harder and harder about them until you find a way to deduce something useful.
The Minesweeper approach: don't even try to figure out the solution from only the clues you have right now. Instead, focus on finding a way to acquire another clue, and then using that to get another, and so on. Eventually you've collected so many clues that the answer is obvious.
Sometimes the Sudoku approach is necessary, because you've got all the clues you're ever going to get. But I think my new motto is "Never Sudoku a problem when you can Minesweeper it."
Esme Povirk
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"play is only play if it's self directed" has just set off a lot of lightbulbs about my school's mandatory sports program 🤔
uspol, transphobia
“It is not strategic to abandon trans people to the toxic rhetoric of an authoritarian movement that seeks to find scapegoats to distract from their insatiable appetite for power,” Strangio wrote in part. “What the center-right and center-left people who claim that support for trans people is [n]ot strategic are struggling with is not a question of strategy, but of their own confusion about and discomfort with trans people.” https://www.them.us/story/john-ewing-jr-jean-stothert-anti-trans-propaganda-omaha-mayor-election
@minego Now it's time for meds.
@minego It's not time for that yet. You're skipping ahead in my routine.
@mavica_again I bet AI companies could also trivially configure their scrapers to not DDoS the Internet, but apparently they don't care enough to do that either. It'd probably be less work for more payoff than participating in this particular arms race.
Joined Aug 2018
