I always thought his “tickle the quantum machine” was some right wing dog whistle.

I sent you a DM. Let’s compare notes.

Start with the brain

The game is “The Day Before”

My mom mockingly said once “do you want your doctor visits to be just like the DMV?”

Nope, I want my doctor visits to be more like the USPS. Compare their numbers to UPS or any of the others and it’s night and day.

The TSA

My rule of thumb: if they would refill my drink then this is a tipping place. Non-food places are judged case by case. The rest are laughed at and I do my best not to come back.

I’ve been cooking up an idea for a smaller style MMO with as few NPCs as possible. It’d take a large skill tree in which you can’t possibly put points into everything so people have to specialize and work together. NPCs might fill in jobs while a player is offline like taking sales at the store or unattended crafting but all quests and rewards come from other players. Something unavoidable is that I think there has to be an end or else people either 1) can branch out and become so skilled they don’t need other people or 2) stagnate. So after X real world days, an apocalypse happens. Plague, dragon attack, aliens, zombies, blight, pirates, whatever. If you win, you can rebuild and get a benefit before your next go around. If you lose, you migrate to a new place (generate a new map) and try again.

Why? Who is this good for?

This, or something close to it, is sometimes called cluttering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluttering

“Why do people have preferences?”

Don’t listen to me, put that in a yaml validator for yourself: https://yamllint.com

Rule of thumb: valid json is valid yaml. If you’re ever unsure, do it the old fashioned way.

My problem with yaml is if you truncate it at any random spot, there’s a high likelihood it’s still valid yaml. I don’t like the idea that things can continue without even knowing there’s a problem. The single opening and closing curly braces enclosing a json object is all it takes to at least know you didn’t receive the entire message. Toml has the same issue. I’ll stick with json when it makes sense.

I use it on distros that don’t have easy access to ne in their package manager.

A terminal editor named Nice Editor (ne). It just makes sense. Ctrl+s saves, Ctrl+q quits. It’s a suped up nano with sensible keyboard shortcuts.

“We should change things so those assholes will be better” boy do I have news for you!

You give them too much power.

I know lemmy hates Reddit but X is easily taking the cake here. Do you think Elon is respecting ANY of the policies around old user data? If you were EVER on Twitter, Musk is all up in your business.

The same free market that would kill them for a Klondike bar? Sounds about right.

SimplePush. They have an API that is simple enough to call with a curl statement and the parameters of that call are used as a notification on your phone. As a developer, I use it for long running tasks that I want to be notified about.

You can even E2E encrypt the messages so nobody can tell when you pirate something download the next version of your favorite distro.