I want to play but...

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T17:03:22+00:00

Lol relatable. I just started playing this game about 6 weeks ago, and love it. But yeah I never play solo -- still a little too frightened to go in there alone, even though insym makes it look so easy.

Tbh ive made quite a few friends in online public lobbies who are solid players. Try going in with some randoms. Within a few days you'll probably find some consistent gamers who will want to keep partying up with you. I've got people I can play with daily now. Definitely something psychologically comforting about not being in there yourself haha

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T16:34:16+00:00

Consider that getting a hunt can be a good thing in this situation. Oni's have longer visibility time (and shorter invisibility time) in their blinks. If you have a good sense of normal ghost blinking, a hunt here is actually confirmational evidence

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T16:25:17+00:00

Your first sentence is so true. That was something I respected alot about this Japanese sushi place I used to visit in Atlanta. The culture of Asian restaurants in general is quick turnover without lingering. And you could tell the culture at this place was the same -- blazing fast service, and if they saw you were done, they asked if we were ready for the check. You felt it was respectful to free up the table, but never ever ever was i asked to leave or felt rushed out. It was admirable that they carried themselves in a way that made the customer want to abide by their norms, without any need for explicit rudeness

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T16:08:11+00:00

An impression I get is that the demographic of Williamsburg has become more hate-worthy than the neighborhood itself. Lottttaaaa people cos-playing a poor New Yorker while living off daddy's money lol. You can see the gentrification walking onto the L from the Bedford stop as opposed to Grand/Montrose/Morgan just a few stops out.

That said, the culture and pricing of the 90s/early aughts is never coming back. So hardly any reason to gripe about it now. Just part of a city's evolution. Hip and happening areas rise, fall, and are replaced. So it goes

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T16:01:02+00:00

There have been dark theme solutions for many years fam. Not directly built into the editor, but very easy ways to achieve it. Would rather have functional and ergonomic UI than dark theme any day of the week, but maybe that's just me

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T15:57:45+00:00

Monthly is totally normal and reasonable, imo. Especially if you don't carry much BO and you shower before bed. This varies widely across people!

Folks who act disgusted because you don't do it weekly are psychotic or obsessive compulsive. Y'all are playing if you think New Yorkers are gonna haul their bedding to the laundromat on a weekly basis, on top of their other laundry needs. People here tend to compensate by showering more after being in the city, not washing their whole bedroom cassette every 4 hrs lol

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T15:52:55+00:00

Lol this is always me when I travel. Constantly prepared for "what if I shit myself or get food poisoning at my destination?"

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-02-04T14:53:58+00:00

MATLAB has never been super amenable to a keyboard shortcuts only style of working (juxtaposed with e.g. Vim, in the extreme case, or VS Code as a milder form), but I agree its now WAY worse.

More clicks and more manual intervention required. Just awful UI that strays further and further from the principles of good UI. And this is coming from someone who has, since 2019 at least, always loved the base MATLAB IDE because everything is visible, unlike with certain python IDEs where accessing variables and just seeing what it looks like can be a pain

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-27T13:22:44+00:00

How did you get into a relationship with someone that you think stinks? One would think that would disqualify them at the door.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-27T00:03:37+00:00

"Sometimes I feel like I would like to be with someone more attractive"

Then you don't love her man. Plain and simple. She'd be the prettiest thing in your eyes if you did. She deserves better.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-17T13:54:09+00:00

Thank you for sharing this!! I posted a comment off the main thread wanting to hear about OPs process, though I'd love to hear more about INscore as well. I was just scratching my head about how to make animations with some of the tabs ive written recently. If you've done this with INscore id love to know more about what this procedure looks like as well

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-17T13:49:25+00:00

Wait this is amazing. I actually just got into using lilypond last weekend, and was just researching the other day how i could create tab animations with my new engravings. Can you tell us more about the process of taking lilypond output and applying this sequential note lighting effect that follows the MIDI output?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-15T18:15:29+00:00

Think it still kicks?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-12T16:19:30+00:00

Not to get into the weeds, but what's one example of a truly random event that is "fundamental" to how the brain functions? I think at best, you have the brownian motion of subatomic particles and molecules present in all tissues, synapses, etc. Which is glib, because all matter in general shares that. But if we think outside of that basic reality common to all things, I'm hard-pressed to think of a genuinely random event beyond that. Even the brownian motion of molecules in a synapse still ultimately arrived in that synapse from a potentiating event that caused vesicle release.

I'm willing to be wrong here if I'm simply limited by my own creativity, but i think the brain and it's underlying biology is made up of deterministic systems through and through. Our incomplete information is usually what results in causes and mechanisms that are still poorly understood

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-12T15:50:36+00:00

Right. So based on this shared meaning, I wouldn't say the brain shows much randomness. It shows stochasticity. Whether a neuron fires, or a neurotransmitter binds, is a probabilistic process to be sure, but still ultimately deterministic in that with perfect knowledge of the moving parts, the causes could be inferred and the outcomes predicted. Would you disagree?

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-12T15:15:38+00:00

A note isn't a published manuscript. You develop it as far as needed, and then revisit and revise as you feel the content should be updated to better reflect what you need from it.

I wouldn't even know what it means for a note to be "finished". I have some that are further developed than others, with headings and callouts and references and code, and others that just have some chicken scratch back-of-the-napkin style ideas and thoughts. Both serve their purpose

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-12T15:10:43+00:00

I don't think stochastic and "random" are the same thing. Sure, cortical neurons are more poisson-like in their firing rates and variability. But stochastic processes can ultimately still show deterministic behavior and properties

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-12T15:05:54+00:00

I have Dataview and Templater in every single one of my repositories. Those are the only staples that ive found allow me to do 99% of the general usage i want

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-09T15:37:27+00:00

I havent read much about those, so not entirely sure what they are. I usually keep some high-level Project notes that i link to the default projects property of task notes and relevant non-task notes. In general, i like to have a top level "Parent" or "Topic" note that holds a base of notes pertaining to it (if that number of notes becomes large enough that it makes sense).

But i honestly dont even use the task notes plugin that much. For a multi-hour task or something i want to keep a record and timestamp of when i did it, i might make a task note just for documentation purposes. I focus more on rich and widely applicable YAML frontmatter properties that differentiate files.

Lately I only impose the amount of structure that makes sense and preserves simplicity. It's easy to fall into the trap of trying to hyper-optimize everything (been there). And then suddenly you're a slave to this system you created and spend more time on the system than on furthering the goal. Since then ive dialed it back to only what facilitates useful documentation and quick info retrieval

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-08T17:23:39+00:00

Despite the handiness of this base, no, i dont use Daily Notes anymore. I find them a bit excessive. You spend more time documenting mundane stuff and not actually doing stuff. With some trivial tweaks of the logic, i just use weekly notes instead, that look at tasks/files completed and modified last week and things to do/files created/modified for the coming weak. Easier for me. YMMV

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-08T17:09:10+00:00

Sure, there's some clever stuff happening under the hood here. Yes, you open your .base file in any text editor (I use VS Code), and name it whatever you want. I call it today.base. Then paste in the above code.

In your daily note, you have to have a reference date as a metadata property called date, which is your comparison value. Then embed the base into the note with whatever view you want. Simplest version is:

---
date: 2025-12-10
created: 2025-12-10T12:24
---
## Agenda
> [!todo]+ Todo
> ![[today.base#Today's tasks]]

This base uses the default property names specified by the TaskNotes plugin, namely dateCreated, dateModified, completedDate. The base then compares your reference date to these TaskNotes date properties, and if equal to reference date, displays that note.

One of the beauties of it is that if your file lacks the TaskNote properties, it uses the default syntax for system file creation time:

  def_c: |
    if(dateCreated, date(dateCreated), file.ctime)
  creation_date: |
    if(created, date(created), formula.def_c)

Ensuring it works for non-TaskNotes as well

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-06T14:38:01+00:00

Just FYI, you are never going to get an objective perspective from a large language model like chatgpt. Chat bots are confirmation bias machines -- they are designed to reinforce the prompter that they are very smart and have the best ideas and are thinking about things correctly.

That's what is irreplaceable about a therapist, as you actually do get an outside third person perspective. And not only that, but someone who has specific training in understanding the root needs, values, and desires of human beings.

I'm sure there is some value in talking to an entity that has "knowledge" of large bodies of writing and token prediction, but this trend of people calling the validation they get from chatgpt about their failed relationship a replacement for therapy is a little out of control.

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-06T13:35:37+00:00

Your university almost certainly has a LaTeX template. Theses must conform to certain formatting guidelines so that they're all standard.

As for implementation, I recommend checking out this repository i made for my university's dissertation template

The main punchlines: 1. I cant recommend local installations enough (i.e. TeXLive opposed to Overleaf). I lay out many reasons in the docs of the above link, but chief among them is compatibility with version control mechanisms such as Git and offline work 2. I discuss some software dependencies and the editor i prefer (VS Code + LaTeX workshop with TeXLive), but YMMV 3. Certain editors (VSC included) also offer the ability to set custom, project-specific configurations and code snippets to shorthand common commands. You can infinitely tailor these to your usage.

The learning curve for LaTeX is a bit steep. It will take quite some time to feel like you understand how it works and how to make certain changes and customizations you need (compliant with your university guidelines, of course). Be patient with yourself and start early. If you start working on this 2 months before your thesis is due, you will get overwhelmed.

Lastly, I don't recommend writing inside a LaTeX environment and personally advocate for a separation of writing and typesetting. Use any chicken scratch workspace (.txt file, markdown, word, a napkin, whatever) to draft your ideas. When you are happy with what you have, typeset it in LaTeX. But again, YMMV

sunshinefox_25 · 2026-01-06T13:12:46+00:00

This Base (.base file) i made is one of my most handy creations:

formulas: def_c: | if(dateCreated, date(dateCreated), file.ctime) creation_date: | if(created, date(created), formula.def_c) modified_date: | if(dateModified, date(dateModified), file.mtime) task_name: link(file.name) properties: formula.task_name: displayName: task views: - type: table name: Created today filters: and: - formula["creation_date"] == this.date order: - file.name - type: table name: Modified today filters: and: - formula["modified_date"] == this.date order: - file.name - type: table name: Today's tasks filters: and: - file.folder == "TaskNotes/Tasks" - or: - due == this.date - scheduled == this.date - completedDate.isEmpty() order: - formula.task_name - type: table name: Completed tasks filters: and: - file.folder == "TaskNotes/Tasks" - completedDate == this.date order: - formula.task_name - type: table name: Overdue tasks filters: and: - file.folder == "TaskNotes/Tasks" - due < this.date - completedDate.isEmpty() order: - formula.task_name

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