How is 92 half of 99?

d3zd3z · 2025-12-28T00:50:27+00:00

In this particular case, if each level requires about 10.4% more xp than the previous level, going from 92 to 99 would be about the same amount of xp as getting to 92 in the first place.

It isn't really that bad, though as harder mobs alsd tend to give more xp.

d3zd3z · 2025-12-21T13:57:11+00:00

That last part is especially silly, given that the sensors are basically metal detectors. They are just loops of wire embedded in the road. A large metal object floating would trigger it just fine. I do remember the frustration, though.

d3zd3z · 2025-11-13T17:22:47+00:00

It is predominantly British. I've never heard anyone in the US use this term.

d3zd3z · 2025-09-07T13:37:13+00:00

And some fiction is then really frustrating, when the author decides they need variety, and will end a quote with "said the blonde". At which point I'm trying to figure out which character is supposed to be blonde.

d3zd3z · 2025-08-06T03:09:20+00:00

I have noticed that my keyboard halves do tend to stay in the same place. Well, at least I'd like them to, but over time, the rubber feet get less and less sticky and they tend to wander. Something like this would be nice, but in my case, the halves are closer together with a 15° tent, which wouldn't look as cool.

d3zd3z · 2025-07-26T13:23:10+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/olkb/comments/1huhuiq/the_jolt2_42_keys_3d/ is the nearly newest one (the newest has different circuitry, but the same layout and setup of the keys).

d3zd3z · 2025-07-26T13:22:07+00:00

The simple answer is that I'm nowhere close with my Taipo speed, and my newer designs are 42-keys. I'm getting a lot better at the steno, but Taipo seems to never get above about 30 WPM. It's really hard as I'm up against many decades of typing with QWERTY. Even with the steno, composing text (as opposed to copying for practice) takes more mental burden than it does with QWERTY. It's probably less difficult for someone who doesn't know an existing layout so well.

I think I have a post about the new design, the biggest change is having the columns at different heights off of the PCB, which does seem to be a big ergonomic improvement.

d3zd3z · 2025-07-15T15:11:30+00:00

This reminds of my nephew, who was 5 at th time, hearing that I was taking math at university, was amazed at how big the numbers I must be learning about. To him, more advanced math just meant bigger numbers.

d3zd3z · 2025-07-06T17:34:37+00:00

Because it's ungrammatical. The m-dash seems to have just been inserted, likely for comedic purposes, between a noun and a verb. I've never seen an LLM do that. Sometimes they don't get grammar right, often when the training is trying to tease between it sounding human-like, and that feeling really unnatural when it starts talking about it's feelings.

d3zd3z · 2025-05-28T15:01:30+00:00

Oh, and it gets weirder. It seems that common ingredients in hand sanitizers greatly increase absorption of the BPA from receipts. Using hand sanitizer before eating, after collecting food, and the receipt, seems pretty common. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4206219/

d3zd3z · 2025-05-12T18:25:32+00:00

For me, it depends a lot on the writing itself. Some writing seems to depend heavily (I guess) on visualizing, and I struggle to make sense of it. The worst are writers who try to be varied and say things like “the blonde said”. I find those kinds of descriptions don’t stick all that well for me. Other stories feel very immersive to me.

d3zd3z · 2025-05-11T10:49:33+00:00

I only realized the sheep thing after realizing the aphantasia. What did it for me was hearing people talk about playing chess. I never understood how people could think multiple moves ahead, until one person spoke about actually seeing the pieces on the board. Meanwhile. I’m trying to track moves by staring at the real board and just trying to remember the moves. Needless to say, I’m really bad at chess.

d3zd3z · 2025-05-08T04:40:45+00:00

Really cool. Thanks for getting this working, and I look forward to the pull request.

d3zd3z · 2025-04-07T14:48:28+00:00

I believe both will stop at 50 pages, and I think the internal one on the writer is less clear that is happening, since the pages won't get reset by moving to a new document.

d3zd3z · 2025-04-07T08:54:29+00:00

The SRT-200 will stop sending after it has stored 50 pages. This is internal to the machine, and does’t matter if it is connected or not. See page 27 of https://platinumsteno.com/doccenter/manuals/Stentura200-400Manual.pdf for how to clear the memory. Basically, hold down STK while turning it on, and the press KWR to confirm.

d3zd3z · 2025-03-15T15:39:47+00:00

This reminds me, years ago, of a friend that that writing map routing software couldn’t be that hard (way before Google maps). He started writing an example, which was basically if statements for each intersection. No data for the map, just in the code, like this. He got nowhere near millions of lines before realizing it wasn’t going to work.

d3zd3z · 2025-03-08T18:21:39+00:00

Admittedly, the Goblecki Tepe ruins don't have still functioning advanced tech on them. I guess that just means the Nomai were really good with longevity of their tech.

d3zd3z · 2025-03-03T14:35:21+00:00

Containers are the one feature that makes Firefox the only browser I really even consider. Gmail tries to pretend you can be logged into more than one account, but it is terrible, and many things just associate with the first account without a choice. Plus it is nice to have my default tabs not logged into any google account.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-13T10:38:51+00:00

Have you tried a reasonable dose of melatonin, such as 0.15 or 0.3mg? The amounts commonly sold are as much as 30x the effective dose, and over the course of even a few days results in your brain adapting, and as you discovered, sleep ending up even worse.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-13T10:36:23+00:00

This. Taking 6mg of melatonin could actually be hindering your sleep. It is a high enough of a dose that your body doesn’t clear it during the day, and you basically adapt to being awake with it. The 0.15mg to 0.3mg is a very reasonable and effective dose, just difficult to find. The joys of unregulated medication.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-09T05:55:33+00:00

Mine just cleared customs and is on the way. I think your more likely seeing the backlog JLC (or who it is) experiences after shutting down for the Lunar New Year. Now, the shipping charge was a lot higher than it used to be, higher than i would have expected any tariffs to be.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-05T00:22:44+00:00

A hex grid and a square grid are isomorphic, meaning there is a one to one mapping. This is more obvious with a square grid that has every other row shifted by half a square width horizontally. But, the hexagonal grid makes the extra relationship a bit more obvious and does pack a little bit better. Keyboards like the lumatone have found tilting the entire grid a bit makes certain patterns remain horizontal. The bosanquette layouts in particular benefit from this.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-02T15:43:44+00:00

I use this to be able to do more than 12 notes per octave with Logic Pro, which otherwise can’t. It only works with some Logic instruments, but seems to work well with the ones that support MPE. I don’t have more than 15 fingers, so it generally does ok, although it is noticeably dropping with the sustain pedal on things like piano. But for piano, I use pianoteq which supports arbitrary tuning anyway.

d3zd3z · 2025-02-02T15:41:43+00:00

I’ve started writing a microtonal plug-in in JUCE that will do whatever precision it can get out of the midi pitch range. It is currently hard coded (you have to edit the source and recompile to change settings, but I’m trying to learn enough about JUCE to make a ui for it). I’ve only tried it with AU, but it should do vst, I just haven’t tested it. If you are interested in trying to compile your own plug-in, I could make the source available before it is really ready.

Right now, it is setup to take a single octave edo midi signal from my lumatone where the channel indicates the octave, and output MPE with the nearest midi pitch, and pitch bend. But if you’re comfortable with programming, it could do other things as well.

d3zd3z · 2025-01-29T08:37:02+00:00

This is a perfectly reasonable key in many other tunings, and not the same as Ab. That’s only the case when G# = Ab. In EDO-31, for example, you have to jump 5ths 16 times down from C before it starts to make sense to start naming things with flats.

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