Superimposition

There's a lot to say on the whole Bun zig->rust thing, but all I've got is a profound feeling of how different of a world I live in. It's cool that you can spend $165k and get 3 person-years of effort, but I'm so frugal that when that number had 3 zeroes and nothing worked I'd have bailed

All my experience in the workplace tells me this sort of expenditure of capital and growth of complexity is unsustainable in cost and organizational burden at any cadence. If I decided to blow that amount of money in a week, the number of meetings and cross-checking that would be required, my lord

What the hell is happening with quantum? What the hell are these models NVIDIA is deploying?

1. Mild surprise that you can get a CNN to process error correction of a result. That's kinda neat, and seems intuitive that it may have a provable loss bound. 2. A vision language model for calibration?????

... I know there's more pressing things going on, but did the rust discord just disappear under mysterious circumstances for anyone else?

Ran into a GRUB bootloader problem where it takes forever for a system to hit the menu due to the boot disks being last in the order and grub appearing to enumerate them to find its config. Never before have I so quickly reached the end of the internet. I am forsaken. Send help.

Just got the news today. Somehow, Shen Yun has returned.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

13/12 The ultimate lesson I take from all this is that being a truly good DM and Player means being able to clearly and transparently communicate about the table. If that communication doesn't happen, people will never learn advance their skills as players or GMs.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

11/12 That doesn't mean they're bad players, but it does mean that everyone else at the table needs to facilitate it, which can be quite hard. There is nothing more frustrating than as a player feeling like you cannot do the thing you want to, because of someone else's role-playing choice.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

9/12 I designed Farlin to be inherently collaborative, even though he had his own quirks and weirdnesses. I made show those never created tension at the table, but gave the DM and other players opportunity to engage with the character. This is ultimately the lesson of character creation.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

7/12 Thalius was, in a weird way, an investigation into my own mental state at the time, and allowed me to explore it. After a few sessions my DM told me in a very nice way to tone it down, and I realized that as a character all of his quirks made him impossible to play with collaboratively.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

5/12 Things like "Secretly a warlock" or "Actually a changeling" can be interesting, but there needs to be more depth. Why are you as a player hiding your identity? Would that reason be interesting to other players? As a DM, I would try to ensure that these questions had satisfying answers.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.

3/12 A simple rule - you get 1 layer. You have 1 interesting thing about you from which many facets of your character follow. Learning that layer should allow every other character at the table to meaningfully interact with your character, and create interesting role playing moments.

@patstaresat.bsky.social 1/12 The podcast chat had me thinking about my experience as a GM over the years. The TL;DR is that everyone's first character is a "Main Character", either a clone of a fictional character or self-insert. If they keep making them, they probably don't hear social feedback.