Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

The blood has been taken out, the epo has been put in, the oil change is complete

Once more for the people at the back.

There is no ethical use of LLMs.

The under 12 ticket at is called Railrunner. It was named after Rappy Railrunner, who used to be on gifts one would get when buying a Railrunner at the ticket office.

LIVELEAK EXCLUSIVE: Luigi Mangione leads police on a cross-town chase, takes out a cruiser before being stopped

every now and then i come back to this idea for a minecraft server where, rather than new players spawning at global world spawn, each player would be given a random, unique spawn point, suitably far away from every other spawn. to make it harder for players to meet up, the server would lie about the world coordinates (telling each player that their own spawn is close to (0,0)) and prevent chat messages appearing to players who are too far from the sender. but then, modded items would allow these restrictions to be overcome; say, a radio that can communicate with other radios over long distances, or a compass that points to the true (0,0).

the experience then would be a multiplayer server that starts singleplayer, with finding and meeting others - likely over very long distances - a major part of the arc of the game. i think it'd be interesting to see what people do with that.

now the sneaky thing is that you could hide this in some unrelated modpack or something: you think you're creating a singleplayer world, you're actually joining this secretly multiplayer one. i think that'd be a fun reveal (imagine exploring and coming across structures that look suspiciously like a player-built base!), but it would probably be against every terms of service so. maybe not worth it.

#minecraft

My 10 year old cousin’s daughter’s first time doing SMD… rework? Immediately after discovering putting big blobs of solder on she discovered blobs of solder could remove components. Then it was blobs of components, followed by tower. Took her a sec to get the hang of de-soldering the SOT 89.

Wait, which one is the red wire?

We need to blast the greater NY area with posters and flyers on jury nullification

Back at work

I find it "funny" that K9s are considered equal to human cops when it comes to what you do, but they suddenly become downgraded to merely a punching bag tool when it comes to how their handler treats them

when coding in the united kingdom, you need to use the give way keyword instead of yield for python generator functions.

but even if you don't do those things, what matters more is your ability to be honest and admit your own mistakes and learn from them and not be a damn asshole. even the most unprepared parent who has these things is better than the most educated self-absorbed motherfucker who can't be bothered to care about anybody but themselves.

better yet — don't have fucking kids if you cannot 100% be sure you won't hurt them or abuse them. yes, even if you mean it well. think long, and think hard. educate yourself on child psychology, pedagogics and raising children. read on trauma. read on social issues — your kid might be trans or gay or neurodivergent or disabled or whatnot.

oh, difficult? yeah no fucking shit sherlock you have a life in your hands of course it's gonna be difficult.

The idea that UCLA can offer a course completely "AI" generated from top to bottom and advertise part of the virtue of this approach being preventing students from using chatGPT in their assignments is an unspeakably powerful indictment of how fucked up our educational models are.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/comparative-lit-class-will-be-first-humanities-division-use-ucla-developed-ai-system

Now that I have more followers, I'm reaching out again to say I'm looking for a Sami sensitivity reader to review about 850 words of a fantasy novel. Very happy to pay said reader and also happy to just have a chat about themes if reading/reviewing isn't possible.

#WritingCommunity #Sami