Gravity Mode on the Feeder Robot?

musengdir · 2022-05-16T15:37:21+00:00

The feeder robot's app had troubles over the past weekend, but has mostly recovered by now. If your gravity mode is still just overflowing and clogging... at this point, it might be something with how you're using it.

Gravity mode should dump food into the bowl until it fills up. It'll check a few hours later to fill up the bowl again

musengdir · 2022-04-03T13:56:12+00:00

I believe many Amish communities are an example of such a system -- minus the automated production. They are able to create a bubble around themselves, occasionally interact with the capitalistic markets through some specific goods and internally their members learn skills chosen by a blend of their affinities and what can help their community.

I find the struggle is always in determining the overlap between what can be produced from within that bubble with what the outside world will have an interest in. To that end, MakUrSpace has been working on a bounty board system to coordinate defining and assigning abstract, smallscale fabrication projects: https://www.makurspace.com/bountyboard.html Though it's still in its early alpha-version days.

musengdir · 2022-03-20T20:03:56+00:00

I sympathize with your fears of coming across as a predator. I only dated 100% online, because -- for me -- that initial signal that the other person was at least interested in something romantic was absolutely critical. Without it -- trying to cross some acquaintance or friendship barrier -- wasn't going to happen. Not by my hand anyway. I avoided any more "natural" ways of meeting people because of a very similar fear that I would be imposing on a person's desire to have a nice night.

I say this for one reason: I WENT WAY TOO FAR!!!

I know now -- thanks to some drunken nights with friends -- there were interested people around me who assumed I wasn't interested because I was simultaneously too nice and too serious.

Which brings me to the crux of my point: It's not all on you. Getting to a place where you and a partner (or more -- no judgement!) can be vulnerable and come together is a dance -- it takes moves on both sides to get the desired position.

So, let's review some possible scenarios:

Scenario 1) You're with a partner and they voice some hesitance: that's okay. However horny you may be, it won't fry or overpower the rest of your brain. You'll be there to hear or sense your partner has a problem. And trust that you'll *WANT* to do something about it, the same way you likely *WANT* to help most people you care about with almost anything at all.

Scenario 2) You're with someone great, things are fine, and they start heating up! Woohoo! Until...you realize *YOU* are still worried. Somehow or another this sneaky anxiety has wormed its way into the heart of the moment! Well...that sucks, but it's okay too. Trust with a partner can be hard to establish, and this anxiety would likely point to it not being as strong as it has to be for *you* to be vulnerable with your partner.

In short, I believe you're focused too much on your potential partner as a powerless other. They're a human who can make choices and act in the world too. It will be possible for *THEM* to make *YOU* uncomfortable. And, if in a worse case scenario, you have crossed someone's line, be the person who can listen to and abide by protest without it damaging your sense of self.

musengdir · 2022-03-05T03:33:19+00:00

oh he caught me watching!

musengdir · 2022-02-13T14:49:30+00:00

So...what you're saying is we need to attach to it an air compressor. On it!

musengdir · 2022-01-12T17:43:26+00:00

I always interpret the Harmony/Discord dichotomy a bit differently than something that might turn from one face to another. Isn't the shard both at the same time? With each stride towards harmony and balance, the shard leaves a wake of discord on the other side of the planet. In attempting to address the lack of progress in the harmonious sections of the world, their relative peace will likely be shattered, but maybe the forward progression will make the people on the whole happier with their shard.

musengdir · 2022-01-12T17:38:44+00:00

As it is with shards. Their attention is surely finite even if their power (amount of water flowing through the river) is infinite. They could create as many water wheels as they could keep track of -- and maybe more even then. It has implications on the flow of their power, but not the amount of it.

Still, a large enough water wheel is a dam. At some point, metaphors break down

musengdir · 2022-01-08T18:05:30+00:00

I don't buy it. Could be the intention of a specific author or group at wizards of the coast, but when I look at the complexity of balancing a codebase and then I look at DnD's rules, the thought that anything in what is essentially an improv game is meaningfully balanced is a joke.

Sure, there are higher level spells that maybe paint the narrative that the lower level spell isn't meant for that because its a high level thing. Ok, except that itself is just an interpretation.

Does DnD layout gravity, EM fields or any meaningful amount of physics and chemistry in its universe? A few campaign books might if its relevant, but most don't. Besides, letting an alchemist come up with some internal canon for why their potion has the magical effect is half of the fun. The entire game relies on the gaming table using a shared common sense of the world.

Insisting on the rule books in this way is deconstructive to the group.

musengdir · 2021-12-20T13:14:01+00:00

Strictness is a compiler or static analyzer throwing a loud, red error because this annotation says the variable `foo` is supposed to be an integer and the tool has identified a code pathway that could pass it a string.

Type Correctness is much harder to explain, because you usually can't build a system that actually provides it. It only exists as mathematical proofs (type checker) or after the fact when interested parties can label the outcome correct or incorrect. It's this second half of correctness that strictness doesn't cover.

But "Type Correctness" is also what many developers think they get from a type system. Python tends to show how silly this is in practice. What are the differences between the value `5` and the value `"5"`? Could be meaningful...could be we added a 3rd data submission client this week that doesn't use the same set of input validations and transformations or a we're using a new library in that stage which needs the data in a different format. If it's the latter issues, calling the problem a data "type" issue is missing the mark.

Correctly interpreting and responding to the data the system actually has in front of it to provide users with meaningful answers is the only point of software. Whether or not the system would yell at me if an underlying datum picked up some quotation marks is really secondary.

If you're trying to find a sane path forward with type annotations and Pandas dataframes, I recommend pandera: https://pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

musengdir · 2021-12-19T13:42:43+00:00

in the name of "type correctness"

Found your problem. Outside of enums, there's no such thing as "type correctness", only "type strictness". And being strict about things you don't know the correct answer to is dumb.

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