Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
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Another federal judge issues another (temporary) injunction against another state law making it a crime to give minors "harmful" books and allowing anyone to challenge any material a library has that they don't like, this time in Arkansas.
I'm glad there are judges who remember that we still have the First Amendment, even if state legislatures and authoritarian governors like Sarah Huckabee don't like anyone exercising constitutional rights other than having guns.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/07/30/arkansas-book-ban-judge-injunction/
@CCochard @TerribleMaps@en.osm.town Based on the simplest physics of how much light a globe would get as it rotates on its axis, it would be a uniform color per latitude, but the equator would get more than the poles, so it would be a smooth gradient from equator to pole...
The question is what the origin of the longitudinal variation is... I assume it's due to cloud cover, but that's not indicated, so I'm not sure.
@TerribleMaps@en.osm.town Wait, why would this not just be a map of latitudes? Is it taking weather into account?
@ayo Anything that's remotely functional is preferable to a native app. If I have to install an app to do business with a company, I'm far less likely to do business with them at all.
@briannawu Can't say I'm surprised. Whenever I hobnob with a conservative crowd (rarely, usually for work), there's almost inevitably a comment made at some point with veiled racism or transphobia. These folks assume that anyone in their orbit agrees with them (and even agrees with them that it's a shame they can't speak about it openly), and I bet that effect is far more pronounced in an ideological chat room.
I'm really annoyed with how the pandemic normalized adding tip lines to every credit card transaction, even ones for transactions where extra service isn't included.
Business owners: It's not my fucking job to pay your employees a reasonable wage. It's yours.
US politics, Mike Pence, wealth
@anubis2814 @z_everson As do most folks who go from obscure to national public figure. 🤷♂️
If people want to pay him to talk about his time in office, I don't see why that should be problematic for anyone.
US politics, Mike Pence, wealth
@z_everson Is that not true of pretty much every former P/VP? As long as he's doing it through legitimate means like being paid to speak, who cares?
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The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.
And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.
50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.
The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.
Also, yes, for those who are wondering, I did, in fact, have the Firefly theme stuck in my head the entire time.
@travisfw The most simple example would probably be something like a name generator. Sufficient randomness is expected, but you'd also want some weighting so a "Jose" is more likely to be a "Garcia" than a "Pennyworth". Then additional connections to allow for nicknames to be generated from the first name or the surname, and then spit out the final result.
And that's something that could be coded in a day, and it would be easy to source inputs.
One of my vices is the occasional fine cigar.
But, I've noticed something interesting lately... Even though I'm in my mid-30s with a full beard, I'm waaaay more likely to get carded when I buy gummy bears with my cigars, lol
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The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore
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The more you dig the worse it gets…
Enraged members of Florida’s original task force on African American education said they were purposefully kept in the dark about the state’s new academic standards which say skills used during Black enslavement provided “personal benefit”.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-shady-backstory-of-floridas-outrageous-new-slavery-curriculum
But it does allow more descriptive terms, like "dark-skinned"...
Okay, I think I found the formula. If you include any racial indicators (i.e. "African American", "Caucasian", "Latino") and you include the word "Female", it blocks the request.
How bizarre.
Interesting. If I do not specify the age/race of the character to be generated, it then allows it. I removed the terms "caucasian" and "middle-aged" to get past the block.
Well, this is disturbing... Bing's ML image generator will generate male politician video game character portraits no problem, but change the word "male" to "female" and it gives a content warning and blocks the request.
Louis Ingenthron
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Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
