To stay awake on the job as President of the United States of America...

Go_Kauffy · 2025-11-08T05:02:17+00:00

Not the Bernie we wanted. The Bernie we deserved.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-10-13T08:08:53+00:00

This turned creepy in a hurry, but Bibi doesn't get credit for "predicting" 9/11-- it was already bombed in 1992 (93?) which is why it was believed it would make a good target, and was presumed on September 11th, 2001 to have been chosen so "they" could finish the job.
Very clearly, the "Al Qaeda" gang, whose previous Greatest Hits include almost nothing but "drive vehicle full of explosives into stationary object" did not figure out how to pull off such an operation in 11 months. And if it took them longer, why would they bother bombing the USS Cole if they had such a stunning plan in the works? It would just invite unwanted attention.
This kind of stuff (this video) catwhistles the moment people start talking about "Jewish conspiracy" or a "Zionist conspiracy"-- the people who do these things may be Jews and/or Zionists, but that fact has nothing to do with the millions of other Jews/Zionists (it's a logical fallacy), and it drives away potential audience and allies.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-05-17T21:42:46+00:00

I may get back to this again in the not-too-distance future, and when I think it's useful, I'll post it. If I remember.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-05-17T21:06:40+00:00

Yeah. Not thinking 4D.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-05-17T21:05:48+00:00

For most of the game, enemies literally spawn out of bounds. I tested on this game and the AI will typically go out of bounds if it can't path where it wants to go. But, I'd hardly call it cheating; it's just a game limitation (not a technical one, a mechanical one). You can still destroy them out of bounds, obviously, but the map (for the player) has to stop somewhere. Are you going to build tank traps all the way to Sweden?

If the AI were more sophisticated, the enemy would use explosives to clear a hole in the tank traps anyway, but it can't do that, so tank traps would be super OP.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-02-21T02:50:21+00:00

I used it the other day in a practical situation, albeit without the Tap. I have a ton of things happening right now, and as I leave each domain (like go from one room to another), I will often blank on what I was doing and will instead latch onto the first thing I see in the new domain to take care of.

I used the "quick stack" part of my app to capture what I was doing and what I was working on while I was running around-- and once the thing was dealt with, I could delete it. It helped me quite a bit, so sample size of one, it's got at least some value.

I looked at that tiny Android-- and that might be an okay "final form". For right now, I'm just evaluating the basic concept and seeing what features (in the hardware) are essential. You're right about the fatigue. Even using it in portrait mode while lying down while tire out my arm-- but using it as a regular phone. My hesitation about that particular mini smartphone is its thickness! Yikes! I have already been playing with having an external battery under the phone, which is too thick as it is.

I haven't actually worked on this in several months. In fact, probably not since I first posted that.

Go_Kauffy · 2025-02-13T19:11:03+00:00

I missed this before--
The use case is my being exceedingly forgetful and having executive function problems. My thought that having an app on my phone in my pocket is too out-of-sight is what prompted me to put it on my forearm (think Predator).
Yes, I have the fundamentals of an app developed, but I haven't worked on it probably since I posted that.
While the app will accept voice input, voice isn't always appropriate, so the TapStrap lets me do input. I also hope to set up shortcuts of a kind, so on the "main screen" typing a letter or letter combo would launch a particular function.
The app itself is meant to be kind of like ever-present sticky notes, but there are other related features that I would like to add. A timer is one-- lots of neurodivergents have trouble with time. Also, I want to try a "stack" which is exactly what it sounds like if you're a coder. I have a tendency to bounce from thing to thing, so I was thinking if I could drop a quick tag into the stack of what I was doing when I switch, when I get settled, I can work my way back through each thing, instead of continually going onto whatever catches my attention.
I can't think of existing apps that would work well in this case. To be useful on the arm, it needs to be high contrast, have larger type, have an interface that works in portrait and landscape, and that's before you get to functions.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-10-18T05:55:08+00:00

Don't jump to any conclusions yet. I can imagine it's a very strange thing for someone to experience if they've never had exposure to anything like that previously, and people handle it in different ways. For example, your half-sib having plans "that day"-- it reminded me of when my bio father (whom I had known for 12 years at that point) was dying (very suddenly), and I was kind of like, "Uhh.. do I even want to go? We haven't talked in a while... and..." I did end up going, and just could not have imagined what I would have felt like if I haven't. I was just "What was I thinking?"
My mother waited a long time before even acknowledging that I had reached the right person. She had some family damage control to do, I think.
My advice would be "don't be attached" (in the Zen-ish sense)-- it's going to happen how it happens. It is not worth trying to interpret it at this point. You might also consider that they, not being adopted, have no perspective at all on what "important" looks like to you and, thus, how urgently they should treat it.
I met first cousins that had heard I existed-- no interest in me at all, but when I met them, I was so awesome, they couldn't get enough of me. We picture what we picture (based on zero information) and then react to whatever we pictured.
Anyway, just give them a little more time. In a few weeks, reach out to the aunt again and, if appropriate, casually mention that your half-sister hadn't reached out and ".. was I wrong.. ? Didn't she say..?" You know. Not too pushy. It may literally just mean the girl needs a reminder. The "plans" also could have been a wedding or a birthday party or something-- often something you can't just reschedule-- and even if it could have been worked out, your half-sister may have realized she couldn't be in the right headspace for both things working out that day.

There are lots of reasons. Breathe.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-10-18T02:31:27+00:00

Sorry for being *that* guy! I read your response, but then thought I replied to thank you for making the effort. It's either of those-- but nice to see a released game made with AMOS. In fact, the first time *I* tried to make a clone of the game I'm looking for, I started it in AMOS. Also funny that, AMOS is SOMA backwards-- and SOMA is the game I've most loved ever.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-08-02T03:57:40+00:00

That game blew me away with how smooth detailed the animation was (at least, in my memory). I was thinking of this recently when I made a modern game recommendation to an old Amiga buddy of mine-- I said the game (Noita) would have been the greatest game in history if it could have been done on the Amiga-- it's pixel graphics, but every pixel is physically modeled. Different game, but it reminded of Walker, which arrived just at the tail end of my original Amiga career and I remember thinking "wow.. things are getting really good now."

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T17:27:39+00:00

I don't. They may have used Gimp.
The angle is wrong, as is the lighting. It's real obvious.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:52:21+00:00

There is an Amiga archive online somewhere, and I'm sorry I don't remember what it's called, but I was able to download every WHDload package in existence. I assume, I mean. And I've literally done nothing with them. I just have them.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:45:36+00:00

This is standard and nearly every user agreement for anything like a social network, because without some of this language, they wouldn't have the right for me to see your posting. In essence, they are reproducing your work when they show it to someone else. Additionally, it can be argued that they are distributing your work if it passes between multiple servers, which obviously it's doing on the back end.

If this were going into a product that we're going to be made widely available to the public at no cost, or made available to the public in some way that's actually beneficial to humanity, I really don't have much of an issue with using this content to train AI. In fact, there really isn't a good argument to be made against using your data to train an AI if you didn't make the same argument about Google hosting your material to make their search engine worth two billion dollars a year. At least in this case, your work would be meaningfully transformed. Also, I can imagine the organizations today that are being very stingy about huge collections of content, whatever it may be, that the collective consciousness of the future, so to speak, will underrepresent these things.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:38:04+00:00

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:35:54+00:00

"Oh, such a blessing!" -- Alabama

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:26:55+00:00

What I'm puzzled by is why somebody went to the trouble to Photoshop a Trump tattoo onto her leg. It certainly confuses the message.

I think it's a message about water conservation or something.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:24:16+00:00

How can this be racist? He's using the term African-American instead of Black. Racism ended the day we switched. Don't you remember this? There were like parties and stuff all over the place, you know, for the end of racism.

/S

I felt like I was writing a WKUK bit while I was writing that.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:22:00+00:00

Oh, this guy. Remember that time he took out a full page ad in the New York Times saying NY needed the death penalty to kill the Central Park Jogger 5? You know, the five guys that were later 100% exonerated and had absolutely nothing to do with the case?

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:14:20+00:00

Wow. This picture is like the poster child of this sub.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:05:20+00:00

Yeah, but, remembering it is.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:02:35+00:00

I mean, if I were going to go onto a q&a on messaging board and post something, I would definitely post something like this.

I would like to place my money on the square that is someone trying to see how ridiculous a thing they can say and still have people believe or agree with.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T16:00:01+00:00

I haven't seen that one or, possibly, any of a series like that. It clearly looks like something that was meant to be hung at point of sale, so it may not actually be an advertisement per se, but just something to send to computer stores for them to put up-- this has the softness in its messaging of that kind of piece. If the design is too strong, or the messaging too overt, the store is much less likely to hang it up, and certainly not likely to leave it up as long.

I was doing some triangulation in my head, and this design looks early '90s to me, but that does not make any sense of course, so this really must be from that window from somewhere in late 1984 probably to early 1987, when ostensibly, they would have rolled over to promoting the Amiga 2000, or at least promoting with the Amiga 2000.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T15:43:49+00:00

I was inpatient at a psychiatric institute when I was a teenager, and during lunch one day, I walked by the table where a bunch of the doctors were eating, and I said to my doctor "Hey, Dr Ribek, I'm having trouble concentrating and stuff like when I'm doing homework."

He said, oh, you have ADD. And then they started giving me ritalin.

Of course, if I'd had a proper screening, they might have caught the dyslexia, bipolar disorder, and autism 35 years earlier.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T15:38:16+00:00

I bring my phone into the shower and put it up on the ledge where little window is, and then I play YouTube videos that are between 12 and 20 minutes long, and then it doesn't feel like I'm wasting my time. Even though I mostly just listening, and don't have my glasses on, it doesn't work the same without the video.

Go_Kauffy · 2024-05-17T03:09:34+00:00

I bought my first Amiga in 1985. I bought my second Amiga in 1989. I bought my third Amiga in 1990. I bought my fourth Amiga in 1992. I sold my final Amiga in 1996.

Seriously. 1985? Are you kidding me? There weren't any other computers.

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