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What are your games to get into the season for its vibe?
  • Oh, is it that time again? Time for warm tea, cozy blankets, and cowering from wolves in The Long Dark? This is the game that fully convinced me on the steam deck.

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    Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece
  • The author of this article has a little website where he reviews indie games, its been a good read, and just reeks of a passionate writer. https://buried-treasure.org/

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  • www.windytan.com Speech to birdsong conversion

    A blog about signals, programming, music, and other stuff.

    There's plenty of research around translating non-human communication into human language (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/do-sperm-whale-calls-share-features-with-speech-or-song/), but what about translating human language into non-human speech? This is a fun little project from an interesting blog.

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    What is something you want to use, yet are NOT using?
  • I used SimulaVR pretty regularly for a while! I've moved and don't have my VR headset set up anymore, but it was a good month of usage for programming, but the tech has probably developed since I last used it.

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    AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law
  • This comment is decrying it's parent, but it doesn't say anything to refute the points made. Energy use, intellectual property theft, and non-consensual porn seem like pretty decent things to be worried about.

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    How did he know?
  • Iirc, №10 of the Federalist papers is specifically about how an overly strong federal government would lead to a 2 faction system, suggesting that the smaller states could more easily maintain multi-faction representative groups. But over the centuries, the federal government has become more proportionally powerful, which is a fact I'm sure all the non-monarchists would be horrified by.

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    I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why.
  • My experience from an R1 university (research focused) is that most of the professors didn't primarily want to teach, but instead to focus on research, while teaching was what they did to make their salary. They were usually happy to teach a few courses, and especially upper level courses focused on their area of expertise, but the main goal was getting funding to pursue research, and that usually comes from (or is distributed through) some public institution.

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    What's your hottest character idea that you didn't get to play (long enough)?
  • Oh Trullius, my poor bard of oration, a rhetorical master of sophistry. He may never see the light of a campaign, and maybe that's for the best.

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    Junior Dev VS Senior Dev
  • Try starting with LazyVim! It has a great selection of plugins pre-set, and it all works out of the box. It's a great way to get started, and then you can add/remove plugins later on. Also, it's keymap-shortcut page is great for the first week or so of learning the commands.

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    Favorite Scripts
  • The engineer quickbuild setups are great. They just make it feel way more natural to run around and build quickly.

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  • "It belonged to a small man with a beaming red face, one of those people blessed with the permanent expression of someone who has just heard a rather saucy joke.

    “Only I grew this carrot,” he went on, “and I reckon it’s grown into a very interesting shape. Eh? What d’you think, eh? Talk about a giggle, eh? I took it down to the pub and everyone was killin’ ’emselves! They said I should put it in your paper!”

    He held it aloft. It was a very interesting shape. And William went a very interesting shade." -The Truth, Terry Pratchett

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