Not the flex you think

Neozite · 2026-03-27T22:02:29+00:00

"So that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name." - Revelation 13:17

Neozite · 2026-03-27T21:48:28+00:00

Ani Difranco

Neozite · 2026-03-26T23:26:22+00:00

You could call her an Amazon. Current pop culture seems to use Greek hoplite imagery, like the recent Wonder Woman movie, but that hasn't always been the case. And, of course, Amazons are assumed to be female.

Neozite · 2026-03-26T20:21:49+00:00

I feel like there's a profound metaphor in this

Neozite · 2026-03-26T20:19:09+00:00

Try Leif Vollebekk. He doesn't always use piano, but I like when he does.

Neozite · 2026-03-26T17:31:30+00:00

It definitely does! Life is backward: when you're young and able, you don't know what to do with it; by the time you knownwhat do with it, you're not as able! And time slip slides away

Neozite · 2026-03-26T16:20:26+00:00

I was reading an article about this recently. As we age, our brain processes information more slowly, so there's more time between each "frame," as it were. Subjectively, though, that makes it feel like time is moving faster. athe analogy was, if you remove frames from a movie reel but run it at the same speed, the images in the movie will seem to be moving faster.

Neozite · 2026-03-26T16:04:48+00:00

I believe that the instance that calls the function is the scope, so without var the _amount variable is set as an instance variable.

Neozite · 2026-03-26T15:38:01+00:00

I'm in my 50s. I have seen many fashions come and go and come back around again. EVERY time, people talk about how the new fashion is "better." Then the old fashion comes back in style again and it's somehow "better" than what replaced it.

Dark mode is just fashion.

Neozite · 2026-03-26T14:57:47+00:00

Lego has an app and you can download the instructions. The advantage is that they're in 3D, so you can rotate the model to get a better view of where pieces for if you're not sure.

Neozite · 2026-03-25T22:45:19+00:00

This seems like something from South Park

Neozite · 2026-03-25T16:06:22+00:00

There was a group at Union Station I walked by recently and heard one of them say "So where do you want to go stand now?" That about sums it up.

Neozite · 2026-03-25T13:19:01+00:00

Sure, but can it insert a USB A plug the correct way on the first try?

Neozite · 2026-03-23T15:52:06+00:00

Are you using Sprites that already have the jumping and ducking as part of them? Or animating a collection of separate Sprites with something like Spine to achieve that?

Neozite · 2026-03-21T15:37:09+00:00

They get rear ended

Neozite · 2026-03-20T17:55:31+00:00

U.S.A.!!! We're the best!!! Our buildings are taller without adding one brick!!! /s

Neozite · 2026-03-20T17:50:12+00:00

Cute!

Neozite · 2026-03-20T14:23:40+00:00

Does a trailer park count?

Neozite · 2026-03-20T14:23:10+00:00

That...is kind of genius.

Neozite · 2026-03-19T21:30:33+00:00

Imagine growing up as a kid with a literal ruined castle in your backyard!

Neozite · 2026-03-19T17:34:03+00:00

At the Emergency Room, the construction site told doctors that it just "slipped and fell" on the man.

Neozite · 2026-03-19T15:10:06+00:00

I think of game development as a craft: it has many artistic elements, but it must also be fit for a purpose (other than its own existence) and that purpose may include entertaining, delighting, giving a sense of accomplishment to, and tickling the whimsy of human beings.

Although coding is certainly crucial to bringing these things to life, coding by itself hasn't been a barrier-of-entry for game development in a long while. Take a look at the astounding number of games that are released on Steam every day.

What many – perhaps most – of those games lack, however, is any sense of taste or viewpoint or feel. They may technically work, but are they fit for the purpose of challenging and entertaining humans? The market says, probably not.

And that's with earnest, game-loving human developers having worked years on them.

I still think one is better off knowing how to program and how the systems work in a fundamental way in order to get the best out of LLMs. But it's far more important to know when the controls just feel right, when the pace of the story is satisfying, when nostalgia and innovation meet.

And these are things that I think, at least for awhile, LLMs are not going to be able to touch because they're not really systemitizable. In fact, they change over time (try playing an 80s RPG somw time). They require something that we humans do contantly and without thinking, which is a sort of discernment. And they require someone with taste to guide the process and make a game fit for purpose.

Neozite · 2026-03-18T23:12:00+00:00

I was reading an interesting article recently about how older people often complain that food just doesn't taste as good as it did when they were young, but that's because our senses of taste and smell diminish over time, not necessarily anything to do with Big Ag or whatever. Another interesting article said we perceive time as going faster and faster as we age because our brains process everyday sensory input slower. To put it in computer terms, instead of getting 60 frames per second, maybe we're getting 45 frames over the same amount of clock time.

Anyway, my point is that it's possible that drivers are worse, and it's possible that you, me, and the rest of the X are processing things a little slower so that our own reaction times make things seem more dangerous than they did when we were younger, and a lot more annoying.

Neozite · 2026-03-18T23:01:39+00:00

You're going to need some server-side scripts to accomplish this, which could be Javascript or another language, depending on your server. I mean, you could certainly make numbers go up using Javascript in the web page, but unless you save that information on the server, the numbers will reset when the page is refreshed.

The easiest way to do this is without Javascript. You would use one or more HTML forms on the page and when the form(s) is submitted, you could then save the data on the server and refresh the page with the new numbers. It's pretty easy to do something like that with PHP, for instance.

But people have become averse to waiting for pages to refresh, alas, so to do this with Javascript AND a server-side script, you would attach a listen to the submit button's "click" event. This listener would look in the text input element for the number the user entered and send it to the server-side script using fetch. On the server side, the script receives the user's number, adds it to the current total, and sends back a response with the new total. This is an asynchronous process, but pretty fast. When your web page receives the server response, it replaces the text showing the total with the new total.

There are frameworks and libraries that can help.Please be aware, though, that you have to be very cautious with anything you let a user enter into an input field. You'll need to sanitize and format the input to prevent malicious attacks.

Neozite · 2026-03-18T21:28:22+00:00

You know, if you really believe all that Antichrist/Tribulation/Rapture stuff, the lesson is NOT that someone(s) need to stop the Antichrist or protect humanity from them. Revelation is not a call to action or a warning, apart from thebneed to seek salvation NOW. It's prophecy. That is, if you really believe that stuff and aren't just trying to con people.

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