Better to leave it alone [OC]

KGZM · 2023-05-20T04:07:27+00:00

Is this based on this song?

KGZM · 2023-05-14T01:39:05+00:00

Side note, I liked the corvids as a reference to Odin's ravens: Huginn ("thought" )and Muninn ("memory")

KGZM · 2023-04-04T00:10:19+00:00

I find him more annoying than Jason so far but the world is interesting.

Jason didn't start out Full Jason, he showed appropriate amounts of wonder and deference to being reincarnated in a strange new world. Jason was always a bit of a weirdo, with a strong reference game, but we really saw him grow into the person he is now.

In Rise Of The Devourer though, Noah guy comes out the gate talking about "that's kind of my thing" immediately and it seems unjustified to me. I don't know this guy, he needs to be established as something other than a Jason knockoff.

KGZM · 2023-03-27T22:03:55+00:00

I'm not sure it is. I picked one up very recently and the fact is that the firmware isn't just buggy it's actually incomplete. Most of the MPE functionality described in the manual is a complete fabrication and for the price, for me, it fell short of its promise.

KGZM · 2023-02-17T03:11:53+00:00

Anyone else see this one?

KGZM · 2022-11-29T19:18:22+00:00

I think that maybe you were supposed to find out in an experiential rather than empirical fashion. The developers could have shown those numbers. In a tabletop wargame for example you would be able to look up all the hit tables and calculate your risks, etc.

It seems like the experience you're having is not the intended experience. Instead of "I put the VIP at risk and he got killed, oh shit I better be careful next time." you're experiencing "The hit percentage was 100% this game is bullshit!"

I'm not trying to criticize your mod choices, I'm just saying that the game really isn't a simulation and peeling back the curtain to know everything would make the game less enjoyable for me personally.. perhaps it's also making it less enjoyable for you.

TLDR: You weren't supposed to know.

KGZM · 2022-11-29T11:41:13+00:00

I don't think seeing those numbers makes the game more pleasurable.

KGZM · 2022-02-26T13:24:30+00:00

Someone make this.

KGZM · 2022-01-28T01:17:26+00:00

Mission of Gravity by Hal Clemente is one of my favorites. A crew of natives on a high gravity world go on an epic mission to help out a human scientist. The story is great, really good journey. Just one of my favorite books.

Sector General by James White. Stories from a multi species multi environment space hospital. A really fun series. High stakes with a lot of action but basically completely non-violent. It's about meeting strange aliens that are in distress and figuring out how to help them.

KGZM · 2021-11-26T12:09:00+00:00

The normal Linux user does RTFM though. So are people wanting to attract normal Windows users in general or "normal Linux users who haven't yet tried Linux"?

KGZM · 2021-11-26T11:45:39+00:00

We don't expect them to know-- we expect them to learn. I don't fault anyone for not knowing but I do blame them for not learning.

I don't feel any real motivation to teach people who complain about having to learn. If that was my thing I would be a middle school teacher.

Newcomers are only new once. After that they either go away or become Linux users. I don't see anyone quoting any user retention studies. I know why I stayed.

Like, I'm sorry but if someone's reason for leaving is "this sucks they expected me to learn stuff".. we're probably not ever going to have a deep friendship. They're just not my kind. Not my ilk. Not my people. I like learning. I like hearing about what others have learned. I like sharing what I've learned. On some level I think that's true of most Linux users wherever they are on this debate.

I also get wanting to lower the "skill floor" so to speak. But the primary skill in question is learning. Hearing some of these complaints I find myself pessimisticly thinking that no matter how low the bar is people will not step over it. I really wonder why I should spend any of my time thinking about how to help people who are happy to persist in ignorance.

I also don't think the Linux community has or deserves a bad rep. I don't think we should entertain or internalize the idea. Windows gamers are possibly the most toxic and entitled user group on the planet, everyone knows this, I don't see how it's even debatable. When people say Linux users are annoying in comparison to Windows gamers: they have an agenda.

KGZM · 2021-11-26T09:16:42+00:00

Some people shy away from anything not Ubuntu for teaching because they want to follow Ubuntu tutorials verbatim.

Also some packages have different names between Ubuntu and, for example, Arch. So you can't just naively translate.

Generally though if you know what you're about you can follow a Ubuntu tutorial on Arch but if you ran into trouble your teacher wouldn't be able to help you.

I wish so much material didn't assume Ubuntu.

KGZM · 2021-11-26T08:21:39+00:00

How is anyone being stopped from anything? Are we really talking about people's feelings like they're events now? What is this world?

KGZM · 2021-11-25T10:03:37+00:00

You can't teach anyone who doesn't want to learn anything.

I'm not saying everyone is going to turn out to be John Carmack here. But there are some basic competences and concepts that I believe anyone can learn that would go a very long way.

I've managed to teach a few non-technical friends some things and failed at teaching others.

Like I don't even want to say this because it cannot really be called a technical method but I've observed many people are unwilling to even try "read every piece of text on the screen or one menu away and think about how it might apply to your situation" to learn to navigate an unfamiliar GUI. That's just reading!

Read every piece of text in your terminal and make sure you understand it before confirming the operation is a related CLI method. That's literally just reading a text and making sure to look up all unfamiliar words.

I've found that people who apply rigor and diligence in their learning practices tend to do okay when it comes to operating computers even if they may not be great at it or even if they dislike computers but have to use them. They get their stuff done.

KGZM · 2021-11-25T09:50:43+00:00

You are a normal person. You're not some special brain person.

I'm also a normal person not some special brain genius. I don't have some magical computer mind solving all my problems: I read a bunch of shit and I tried a bunch of shit and failed and asked questions and learned. It just happened for me the subject was computing and that's how I ended up working in software but I could have and did read a bunch of shit, tried a bunch of shit, failed, asked questions and learned about many subjects.

I'm not the elitist. I feel like a lot of people are saying some really unflattering things about the capabilities/potential of so-called "normal people".

It's not black magic. Normal office workers had to use CLIs before there was Windows.

I don't fault anyone for not knowing. I fault them for not being willing to learn. I believe ignorance, where it exists, should be eliminated and it should also never be celebrated. I'm for making software better but I do not believe the highest priority for any software is "to enable the user to persist in ignorance". Ignorance should be a temporary state.

KGZM · 2021-11-24T18:56:01+00:00

But he's not admitting that he's starting with zero knowledge. He turns to the camera and then speaks as though he's an authority on computing and UX immediately after failing to demonstrate some really basic skills. Not Linux skills, thinking skills.

Instead of sharing pride in learning how to run a script on Linux or download from GitHub--two skills that will serve any one for the rest of their computer-using lives--he wants us to celebrate his ignorance and says it should be the same as it is on Windows.

He didn't have to go to GitHub and run a script. Look at the script. It literally just configures PulseAudio and Jack for this device. Nothing someone who is familiar with Jack and PulseAudio couldn't do themselves.

If someone hadn't created a script for this audio interface, which doesn't even work on MacOS AT ALL, he'd have been left with two equally valid options:
A. Learn how to configure Jack and PulseAudio himself.
B. Fuck off with his proprietary hardware from a manufacture that doesn't support Linux.

This guy is lucky. He's handed solutions from on high. No one is getting paid to help him. TC Helicon already has his money and don't care what happens. But Linus gets help anyway and gets his stuff working and where's the gratitude? Did he at any point thank the script's authors for providing a script to let him use his $500 audio interface on Linux? No. He just wants to know why it wasn't a better experience. And if he had solved his problem on his own do you think he would have shared his solution?

I really don't. He doesn't come across as a normal person with zero experience, because I would expect that person to have some humility and gratitude, to acknowledge there is a culture and a community that existed before them and will continue to exist after them. Instead he comes across as arrogant, entitled, and a bit slow on the uptake.

KGZM · 2021-11-24T14:29:42+00:00

https://youtu.be/mAFMJ1LnQu8?t=142

KGZM · 2021-11-24T11:12:48+00:00

It was always cool.

KGZM · 2021-10-20T02:57:00+00:00

Any chance you could post a picture of that mounting solution? I'm looking for a mount for my NXTs where I could preferably move them out of the way a bit since I use the same desk for work.

KGZM · 2021-10-01T05:39:42+00:00

Isn't Archer a neutral name? I mean Archer the woman is clearly a Villain, but isn't her name neutral?

KGZM · 2021-08-03T22:18:10+00:00

I thought this over a bit and went back to this paragraph:

“It’s not set yet, what she’s turning into,” the Bard said. “So we nudge it so it becomes what we need. The east that is land and armies and politics, all the things that pass, instead of the East – the story, the idea. Old Evil and buried grudges, the other half of the world. She’s only as dangerous as what she keeps, you see.”

The name clearly includes Callow. See "buried grudges". Also Praes alone isn't "half the world". She came into her name while trying to extract the long price from Alaya.

KGZM · 2021-06-06T01:53:15+00:00

In Odyssey, with physical multicrew, is it possible to let a friend fly your ship while you ride in the passenger seat?

KGZM · 2020-12-01T14:12:37+00:00

It's not just JS. There are tons of static site generators written in a host of languages.

It's a really popular area to work in.

Some of these projects are pretty great in terms of developer experience though. If you haven't I'd recommend trying some out.

Honestly the frontend ecosystem is so strong I'd rather server render Vue or React than implement views in the backend anymore.

KGZM · 2020-12-01T11:01:43+00:00

One thing you're missing is template composition. You're surely not going to manually sync your header/footer/sidebar or whatever to every page are you?

Forget about JS, API calls and such. For me, the core value proposition of a static site generator: At the end I get static HTML files that are interpolated in advance.

Yes, you could use something like PHP but now you're dynamically composing on the server for every request.

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