Twisol

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by Twisol 2mo ago
I also always look for the IRE MUDs :) I played Achaea about 15 years ago; the community of players really makes the game what it is. (If anybody remembers Soludra, that's me!)
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by Twisol 3mo ago
I can't speak to "most", but the incredible CrossCode displays the HTML5 shield on startup, so indie games on the web stack do exist and can be amazing.
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by Twisol 3mo ago
I think "a week" is slightly optimistic, but I also think "a month" is slightly pessimistic. When I learned hiragana, I spent my free time drilling on RealKana [0]. I'd focus on a new column of the kana table, then
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by Twisol 3mo ago
As you say, projections and rotations are easily accounted for in linear algebra. The issue is that translations are not a linear transformation. For instance, consider f(x) = 2 + x. It's certainly not the case that f is linear -- th
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by Twisol 4mo ago
> It feels like software developers are scientists who study their customers' knowledge domains. I agree so much with this. It's why I feel so stifled when an e.g. product manager tries to insulate and isolate me from the peopl
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by Twisol 4mo ago
> I've recently been curious about the abstract machines implied by this process for other kinds of programs. Olivier Danvy's "Rational Reconstruction of the SECD Machine" [0] explores the idea of this transformation
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by Twisol 5mo ago
An eDSL is an (e)mbedded (D)omain-(S)pecific (L)anguage. In other words, it's a language for describing domain-specific entities and operations, that happens to be embedded into an existing (host) language rather than being given its o
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by Twisol 6mo ago
I saw signs of both human and LLM authorship, so it's probably at least not slop . It did take me out of it a bit though, yes.
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by Twisol 7mo ago
Yes, this is missing the "pressure" part of "backpressure", where the recipient is able to signal to the producer that they should slow down or stop producing messages. Observability is useful, sure, but it's not th
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by Twisol 7mo ago
HTML is actually a dialect of SGML. XHTML was an attempt to move to an XML-based foundation, but XML's strictness in parsing worked against it, and eventually folks just standardized how HTML parsers should interpret ill-formed HTML in
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by Twisol 7mo ago
Wait, how is Rocket League affected by AI? I play infrequently these days, but I hadn't noticed anything :(
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by Twisol 7mo ago
I have a friend who named their custom-built languages "Monica" and "Joe". It's surprisingly common for homegrown languages, I think.
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by Twisol 7mo ago
> room designated was meadows and you could find herbs which would replenish over time I'm sure several MUDs did this, but, this sounds an awful lot like my home MUD of Achaea, which started in ~1997, still exists (healthily!), and
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by Twisol 7mo ago
I agree in principle, but actually, according to the netcat website [0]: > If netcat is compiled with -DTELNET, the -t argument enables it to respond to telnet option negotiation [always in the negative, i.e. DONT or WONT]. This allows i
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by Twisol 7mo ago
> [...] no, I am not confused, because I was giving an example of why the Telnet-implementation, the program, the client, was so inadequate for playing on MUD servers. Then this is at the heart of our disconnect, because the post of mine
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by Twisol 7mo ago
As a MUD enthusiast of two decades, this is not accurate. Where are you getting this information? Most MUDs implement RFC 854, and a number of non-standard Telnet option subnegotiation protocols have been adopted for compression (MCCP2), tr
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by Twisol 7mo ago
The difference between "telnet" the program and "telnet" the protocol is especially important in this discussion, I think. A more "proper" tool for that is netcat -- I doubt SMTP supports the Telnet option nego
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by Twisol 7mo ago
> Someone upstream of a significant chunk of the internet’s transit infrastructure apparently decided telnet traffic isn’t worth carrying anymore. That’s probably the right call. Does this impact traffic for MUDs at all? I know several M
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by Twisol 8mo ago
Top 0.44% here. Hrm...
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I'd just like to invoke the principle to "not judge a book by its cover". The article here is very well written and does a great job of conveying the perspectives and opinions of many parties. I would recommend reading the ar
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by Twisol 8mo ago
> I don't understand this urge to demonize the parents, who on top of having lost a child, have to stand these witchtrials. Neither the article nor the commenter you replied to has demonized the parents. Yes, both the evidence discu
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by Twisol 8mo ago
Also relevant to the quote selected by 'steelbrain: > Recently, Parvaz Madadi has undergone a painful process of revisiting her past work and memories. [...] She added that she had no confidence in the measurement of Rani’s breast-m
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I am young, but not so young as that. I do have a credit card, I just don't use it for anything except the monthly cost of server hosting (to keep it in use). Despite its disuse, I have an "exceptional" credit rating, probabl
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I had this thought as well. I didn't want to raise it myself, because I don't have any personal evidence that this is the case, but of course the "cash back" has to come from somewhere .
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I've heard this, too, and it's a good reason to use a credit card at least for significant purchases. But I'd rather see those same protections extended to debit cards. I wish I understood why they aren't.
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I have heard this, and it is probably a flaw in my approach to purchases. But is that really justification to ask "who in the world uses debit cards"? I still feel more comfortable not being on the hook to somebody, and the organi
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by Twisol 8mo ago
Setting your incredulity aside, I'm curious why you think using a debit card would be so shocking. I effectively don't use a credit card at all: I use a debit card (or an equivalent Apple Pay representation thereof) exclusively. F
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I have a Shokz brand two-piece headset (the OpenFit 2+ i think?) that just wraps around the outside of the ear, with the actual speaker part held just outside the ear canal. I can't do in-ear buds either, but these just work for me. Do
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by Twisol 8mo ago
I need to take a heaping spoonful of my own advice here, but: yeah, kind of yes. You don't have to think of them as the people you've been searching all your life for, but to meet people, you need a source of people to draw from.
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by Twisol 8mo ago
> I think Achaea and some of the other big ones do though. Achaea's had a premium shop for a long, long time, yes. It seems they've recently added ways for players to accumulate "credits" (the premium currency) just b

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