Posts made by Chime

@Cirno

Yep. A lot of people say a lot of things. The past is the past-- but it is really important that we all study it so that we don't have to repeat it. tl;dr it sucked and pretty much everyone did horrible stuff. Kinda makes me wary of what we're doing now that is that bad.

Do various minorities of various types and designations "deserve" some sort of assistance? I dunno. That's an ethical and psychosocial engineering question that is pretty far outside my field. Ally yourself with whoever you like! I generally do favor various types of social incentives to promote diversity and better knowledge and understanding-- but I think helping others in general is a good idea, independent of social barriers or past crimes.

Do I feel responsible for what happened before I was born? No. If people want to blame me for it, fine; that lets me know they are a dumbass that much sooner. Stupidity is one of the human universals that seems to transcend all social groups.

I do feel responsible for humans in general. We're all stuck here and should do what we can to make the world better. Sometimes that meshes with minority interest, sometimes it doesn't.

She also explains why mixed-race people are A Threat To Society.

I think being of mixed heritage is a wonderful thing-- but. I utterly loathe the concept of pride in these things. Self confidence and respect? Sure; those are good. Pride? What the hell for? Taking credit for your parents boning is absurd. Now, taking credit for being an awesome person despite whatever that you might have been through? That's great, but I've seen way too much of the former.

According to some black women, tall blonde athletic white women are The Face Of Evil Itself. 

Evil can be pretty sexy.

I'm no Christian, but, apparently, according to our black sisters, Satan Herself is a white woman.

Actually, I know some pretty entertaining Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance that... well, explores that. (Not the race questions, but focusing on the adventures of a female demon...) Check out Debra Dunbar's Imp series. Most entertaining.

Seeking something outside your perceived demographic helps promote continued biodiversity. That said, humans are so much alike it doesn't matter much.

But daaaang I admit that mixed-anything looks very very nice.

Though I will always have a very soft spot for tall, blonde, athletic women. Take me, my sweet Valkyrie~ * swoon * ...applies somewhat to tall, blonde men too, but not as much. Usually.

Our biases can be seen as very ugly things, or we can try and recognize that they are biases-- and enjoy them where and whenever we can that won't hurt others. The world would be a miserably boring place if everyone had the same desires.

Oh, I can think of plenty of bad things to say about Texas.

But that's true of most places. As a young child, I rode through the panhandle, which was an endless waste of desert, road, and 'Don't mess with Texas' signs. As an adult, I realize-- it gets better.

I've only really spent time in IAH flying to various places, and a week or so in Austin. Austin is really nice and the people are great. I could be pretty happy there. Texas has never really felt 'south' to me; I lived for a while in Tennessee, and have spent many weeks in Georgia, Virginia, and others over the years. Texas is different.

I don't like most of the Texas politicians that we hear about from outside-- but I understand that the news being what the news is, we really only hear about the crazies.

Comparing it to China is pretty absurd. Texas can be ugly. China is a shithole. Even with China though, I know individual people there and they are wonderful.

I sure as hell don't want to debate you on gun control. No one ever wins those arguments. (Disclosure: am armed and would apply for ccw if it were feasible in my county).

I think race is kinda silly from the biodiversity perspective; the dna differences are negligible. Now... socio-cultural differences and the effect of historical circumstances, prevalent languages used, etc, can be a big deal.

Hell if I know though. I'm a compsci person, not a psychosocial engineer.

Based on genealogical research my mother did, about 5/8ths of the family came from England, with a few small branches from Ireland. The rest is mostly Germanic, with the current surname dating to Prussia in the 1880s.

As far as skin color, well... yeah. I'm well into the looks-like-a-vampire territory. I put on SPF 9000 or it burns and peels off in long, bleeding strips. Mostly it's pale-to-translucent, but often looks fairly red because I blush anytime I'm thinking something naughty.

And yes, I'm always thinking something naughty.

But culturally? Well. That's much more complicated but likely best left in a different topic.

@Silver said:

[...] I recommend people drink. It helps.

Words of wisdom.

So. @Cobalt, I signed into skype, and it was a messy disaster of contacts 'pending approval' -- likely because they decided I'm dead or whatev -- or customers asking me to peek at some ticket or hop on webex/lync/etc for some meeting in india or china or wherever, like last year or something.

Eff that nonsense.

But. @Wretched retched was there with a glorious imgur link to someone who had constructed... a blunt... in the shape of a squid. I feel loved.

@Wretched

I guess. I could try. ._.

@Thenomain
Correlation is not causation. Data is not the plural of anecdote.

I dislike skype in particular, but also most vocal forms of communication. It'd be so much better if we all just could wave lots of arms around and change our skin to various color/polarization patterns. Hmmmm.

@Thenomain I hate skype.

:ElderSignOfVagueEnnuiAndProfoundGrouchiness:

@Cobaltasaurus
Actually I've played Talisman (several different editions) on physical board and own a v4 set. I've even dragged @Loki into playing before.

It's a loooong game, kinda like monopoly. Handy for having something to do when you have almost enough people to continue your pencil&paper campaign but one or two critical participants are missing.

I imagine playing it online would be a lot better.

I started using "heh" decades ago. Hawk (Avery Brooks) from Spencer for Hire said "heh," and he was a badass.

I may be a little strange. I know it's weirded a few people out before. "OMG you actually say 'heh' in IRL."

An ex of mine set up an irc bot to harass people who said "heh" too often. It's part of why they are an ex.

@Thenomain said:

@Chime said:

Rumor has it that Kerbal Space Program will be releasing the 1.0 (non-beta) next week. Naturally I'll be traveling and unable to partake from my escape pod of a work craptop.

If only you had a MacBook Pro.

Actually, I have a pile of them. They are utter shit. Better than being stuck on a windows craptop, but they are still shit.

Bad GPU on my main one. Known problem, and the cause of (yet another) class action lawsuit against apple. I've tried to take it in to the applestore for repair before, and shown them the kernel logs showing GPU restart and coredump errors. (Yes, it actually dumped a huge wad of crap into syslog). They didn't care. So we're happily joining the lawsuit.

@Thenomain. Really. You need docs!

Yes; an interface will need to be made available for accessing the archives. (how it was tested without one I'm not sure, but?)

This can be web-based (please not php) or-- well, you could just do it inside the mush. This would be another set of commands to run queries to retrieve archived job info-- and likely do various types of searches.

I very strongly recommend using the @query interface for async db queries-- that way you can run them without hanging the game, which is handy for very large/complex queries. It also has the nice result of returning a row at a time with a @trigger-like interface.

Rumor has it that Kerbal Space Program will be releasing the 1.0 (non-beta) next week. Naturally I'll be traveling and unable to partake from my escape pod of a work craptop.

Set operations are useful for combining (or separating) groups of things you are interested (or not interested) in operating upon.

Consider use-case: What friends of mine are online now? (set-intersection of lwho and your private list of friends)

tl;dr:

union of (a b c d) (c e f g) -> (a b c d e f g)
intersection of (a b c d) (c e f g) -> (c)

Often you'll see mushcode like setunion(%va,) or similar. What this is doing is saying "perform a simple (lexicographical) sort on the elements of %va, remove any duplicates, and return it."

Are you looking for code to list which rooms are occupied?

Just @dig a room, then set its @exitformat to list the exits and the number of people in each linked RP room.

Might be worth setting up code to scoot disconnecting people back out of RP rooms too.

It sounds almost like you want a distributed forum, much like Usenet from the days of yore, or fidonet, or the like. The MUD community actually has some distributed bboard stuff along those lines, but I'm not certain whether it would be better to pursue that or a separate implementation.

Given the limitations on MUSH data structures, the MUSH version of such a beast would likely have to be implemented as a separate process and connect as a mushbot.

The key idea here separating this from a centrally located mush bboard is distribution; posting a message would echo it on all participating servers and losing any one server would be no loss.

Then again, distributed hierarchical database application servers is a little too close to my dayjob >_>

I'm glad people are looking into this. I had a lot of plans along the same lines, but then I ran out of giveadamn for just about everything.

I've added myself to that github index issue though; we'll see.

I am interested in seeing and working on an automated mudstats-style list with detailed statistical monitoring of population trends over time, etc.

This reads a lot like http://www.theyfightcrime.org/

@silentsophia said:

Side-effects. Why no, I don't want my feet to work properly.

I'm sorry, but this gives me the most adorable image of ten dainty pleopods wiggling in furious, frantic confusion.

Hope you feel better!