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  • The chat history is the big one for me. It’s not even that it’s not persistent; I’d be fine if it just purged all messages after a set period. The problem is that it seems to selectively purge some messages but keep others. Makes me feel like I’m crazy when I go back and try to find something that I know I sent a while ago, but there’s just a gap.

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    Seeking: Kid-friendly Adventure/Exploration Games (PC)
  • These aren’t exactly exploration games, but they’re simple games that my toddler likes too:

    • Animal Crossing is easily her favorite. She loves “helping” my wife pick outfits and fish.
    • A Building Full of Cats is short, cheap, and cute. She likes making up stories about each apartment and cat. There’s also tons of similar games in different locations.
    • Cats in Time has simple puzzles that she can do with a bit of help.
    • Slime Rancher might be a good fit. It’s simple and cute with a focus on exploration.
    • Dorf Romantik is a relaxing and cute game that’s a good introduction to resource management. She might not be good at the actual goal of the game, but she likes placing tiles.
    • Subnautica in creative mode might be interesting for exploration, depending on how sensitive your kid is about some of the darker areas and creatures.
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    Civitai Artist Residency Program
  • I guess this is neat, but I don’t understand what the point is. Here’s what it says this program offers:

    The program provides a digital studio environment, access to advanced AI tools and technologies, partnership with experts in the field, and opportunities for collaboration within our established artist community. It also includes a $1000 grant and promotion to our community of millions.

    $1000 is nothing nowadays; I’m not sure what that would even do. Buy most of a 4090?

    I already have a “digital studio environment” set up on my computer. I like it the way it is.

    Partnership with experts and community collaboration are already pretty easy with social media. The generative AI community is generally helpful.

    I guess this program might help people who aren’t already using generative AI get into it?

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    Thistle Dewdrop
  • I absolutely love the color composition of this one, but I have no idea how to reproduce it. If anyone can figure out how to get this “colored in the foreground with faded background” look consistently, I’ll give you all the money in my left pocket.

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    Thistle Dewdrop
    • Description: Thistle is a calm and observant druid who communicates with animals to gather useful information. She has a soft spot for the city's least loved creatures and has made it her mission to protect them.
    • Looks: Thistle is short with a rounded figure. She has curly red hair, bright green eyes and a face full of freckles. Her clothes are earth-toned, and she usually has a small creature or two tucked into her pockets.
    • Voice: Her voice is soft and melodic, often mimicking the sounds of the animals she communicates with.
    • Quirk: She often speaks to animals as if they can understand her, and considers it rude not to greet a rat in the street.
    • Likes: Animals, nature, secrets, pies
    • Dislikes: Animal cruelty, secrets being withheld from her, overly processed food
    • Goals: To ensure the safety and fair treatment of all creatures in Waterdeep, regardless of their size or perceived value.
    • Frustration: She has recently found out about a planned rat extermination in one of the wealthier districts and is trying to find a way to stop it.
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  • parameters: charcoal sketch of a female halfling druid informant named Thistle, short with a rounded figure, curly red hair, bright green eyes, face full of freckles, earth-toned clothes, small creature tucked into pockets, urban background, dusk lighting, surrounded by various city animals, portrait, fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, detailed background, masterpiece, best quality, high quality, highres, absurdres \

    Negative prompt: monochrome, digital, young, trending on artstation, pixar, cartoon, nude, sexy, cleavage, breasts, revealing, alluring, beautiful, gorgeous, nsfw, explicit, boudiour, photograph, ugly, tiling, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn feet, poorly drawn face, out of frame, extra limbs, disfigured, deformed, body out of frame, bad anatomy, watermark, signature, cut off, low contrast, underexposed, overexposed, bad art, beginner, amateur, distorted face, worst quality, low quality, normal quality, lowres, blurry

    Steps: 15, Seed: 2084691911, Sampler: UniPC, CFG scale: 4.0, Size: 1024x1024, Parser: Full parser, Model: endjourneyXL_v11, Model hash: 87a1e3be9f, VAE: sdxl-vae-fp16-fix, Seed resize from: -1x-1, Backend: Diffusers, Version: c622660, Operations: txt2img, Lora hashes: "dungeons_and_dragons_xl_v2: 818e962e1d", Pipeline: StableDiffusionXLPipeline, CFG rescale: 0.7, LoRA method: sequential apply

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    It’s not a particularly impressive image, and I didn’t do a good job at cleaning up the inpainting edges, but getting a chubby dragonborn was hard and I think he’s cute.

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    despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.
  • I wasn’t trying to imply that Typst is a replacement for LaTeX. I’m more trying to say that I’m hoping Typst (and any other typesetting alternatives that might be out there) mature enough over the next year or two to become full replacements. It just doesn’t seem to be gaining much attention because of how dominant LaTeX is.

    The main part that’s not open source is their web client, which I’m fine with. There’s a number of people on GitHub that aren’t happy about it though.

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    despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.
  • I’ve been using Typst. Its (mostly) open source and much simpler than LaTeX. It’s still very new though, so it doesn’t have all of LaTeX’s features, but it’s making very steady progress.

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    despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.
  • I mean more that LaTeX’s syntax and compilation methods are outdated. I’ve tried to grok LaTeX many times, but the most I’ve ever been able to do is make small modifications to existing templates. I’ve never been able to make a brand new project work. I’m really hoping that modern alternatives like Typst become more common. There just don’t seem to be many out there because of how dominant LaTeX is.

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    despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage.
  • I thought I knew everything about Excel, but just last week I learned that it now has TypeScript integration for macros. I nearly wept tears of joy. Finally I can leave behind VBA.

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    Disable ads placeholders using Ublock Origin
  • I’m all for blocking intrusive ads, but so far CivitAI’s are pretty normal. Why not support one of the biggest sites that’s helping this community thrive?

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    What is causing rounded Corners on my prints?
  • Rounded corners like this makes me think that you have Klipper’s Resonance Compensation feature overtuned, but you’d have to really be trying to get it this bad. What printer and firmware are you using?

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  • I’m just getting into LaTeX and am starting with a project I’ve cloned from GitHub. I immediately ran into problems compiling because of a bunch of missing packages. I was able to get it running by compiling, seeing where it failed, and installing the missing package, but I had to do this one at a time for over a dozen packages. Is there any sort of requirements.txt or package.json file that lists all dependencies so I can pipe them to the package manager to install?

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    Just Updated a D&D Website I've been building - would love feedback!
  • Looks great! I use a similar system in my Obsidian notebook for my campaign. You might consider connecting it to the Stable Horde for text and image generation instead of ChatGPT. It’s a bit more complicated, but totally free.

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    New Year, New Code: Programming Resolutions for 2024 - iThinkLogically
  • Especially with AI now becoming more mainstream and getting new developments every week or month. Didn’t check the right blog/newspost? The workflow you’re using is now outdated and slow.

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  • This inline code block should say “foo”: foo

    This standalone code block should also say “foo”:

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    Does anyone have a good setup/configuration for converting documents to Obsidian-flavored markdown with Pandoc? I’ve been fiddling with it for a few hours but can’t seem to get everything right:

    • Obsidian markdown doesn’t support ^superscript^. I can get Pandoc to use sup instead by allowing raw_html, but then…
    • Image embeds don’t work. Pandoc wants to use img for some reason, and no matter what relative src I use the image just won’t show up.

    I could fix all of this by running the files through a linter of some sort, but I feel like I’m missing something. Surely someone must have had these issues before me, right?

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    I’m setting up DHCP reservations on my home network and came up with a simple schema to identify devices: .100 is for desktops, .200 for mobiles, .010 for my devices, .020 for my wife’s, and so on. Does anyone else use schemas like this? I’ve also got .local DNS names for each device, but having a consistent schema feels nice to be able to quickly identify devices by their IPs.

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    As annoying as this was, I did get to live out one of my petty fantasies: I had grabbed a coloring sheet for my toddler with some crayons, so I left a nice little note telling this guy that he could now practice staying inside the lines.

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    I’ve been a DM for many years, and in all that time I’ve had maybe three players read the PHB. I don’t mind explaining the rules, but it would be nice to not have to remind the wizard how spell slots work (again). Is this a common thing for most groups?

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