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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
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Comment on A perfect example of what it means to be anti-racist in ~life
TangibleLight Link ParentWell, like you say, you kinda get used to the usual people on the route. I am sure that although all the other men weren't familiar with you, they surely were familiar with the problematic one.Well, like you say, you kinda get used to the usual people on the route. I am sure that although all the other men weren't familiar with you, they surely were familiar with the problematic one.
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Comment on Rich Markdown Editor Userscript for Tildes in ~tildes
TangibleLight Link ParentI agree but I'm not sure at the moment how to do it. When you discard, it should probably discard. When you post, it probably should too. For example if I open the "new post" page, my OP here is...I agree but I'm not sure at the moment how to do it. When you discard, it should probably discard. When you post, it probably should too. For example if I open the "new post" page, my OP here is still in the editor.
But I dont necessarily want to discard the content when you click the button. What happens if there's a network error and posting fails? I want to keep the content in that case.
I'll think about it and update if I come up with anything.
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Comment on Rich Markdown Editor Userscript for Tildes in ~tildes
TangibleLight Link ParentThanks! I always forget about the wiki. There's a lot of good stuff on that page.Thanks! I always forget about the wiki. There's a lot of good stuff on that page.
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Rich Markdown Editor Userscript for Tildes
Some of the discussion in another thread inspired me to try making a user-script that would inject some rich text editor into the tildes desktop site. I have only tried it on Firefox, but figured...
Some of the discussion in another thread inspired me to try making a user-script that would inject some rich text editor into the tildes desktop site. I have only tried it on Firefox, but figured it might be worth sharing in case anyone finds it useful or has suggestions for improvements.
Install Tampermonkey extension. (Chrome, Firefox).
With the extension installed, this link should be detected as an installable userscript.
@ some people who directly said they want a better editor in that thread.
It injects EasyMDE with some extra css to make it match the Tildes theme. EasyMDE uses FontAwesome for its toolbar icons, but Tildes's content policy seems to make it impossible to use this. Instead, I add some CSS to put plain text in the toolbar buttons. Some nice features
- Full-screen and side-by-side editors.
- Spell checker.
- Auto-save. (Based on the URL and element ID, so each comment reply is saved separately.)
- Keyboard shortcuts like
Ctrl+B,Ctrl+K, etc. - Conveniences like "enter" on a list adds an item to the list, or in a quote adds a line to the quote.
It is not perfect, however. It bugs out if you pick the built-in "preview" tab (the editor is still visible but does not update the preview), and it does not understand username mentions or group mentions.
I used it to write this, and the auto-save behavior seems to be fine, but I'm not sure how much I trust it not to lose my work.
Screenshots!
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
TangibleLight (edited )LinkI'm in the process of clearing out the water above the end portal room to make space for a slightly larger/taller footprint that more closely resembles the architecture of a typical cathedral....I'm in the process of clearing out the water above the end portal room to make space for a slightly larger/taller footprint that more closely resembles the architecture of a typical cathedral. (I'm using the layout of Amiens Cathedral as a reference.) Even with the larger footprint, it is not quite to scale. I did mock up a scale model in creative, and boy is it huge. I'm not doing that.
The flooded cave above the portal room made placing the old ceiling tedious. Extending the height further would be a nightmare, so instead I am clearing out the water with gravel before proceeding.
I've already dug out the new footprint and placed the column bases and some of the smaller walls. You can see what I'm planning to do with the sculk blocks behind the windows. Especially on the higher windows, it creates a nice "twinkling stars" effect in my creative build. I'm excited to get it put together.
I am planning to lean into the ender color scheme, especially for the 'stained glass' windows. (Very glad I did not remove the portal frames!) I will not use stained glass, but instead bright blocks like end stone, birch, copper, prismarine, warped wood. I've already designed an eye of ender for one of the rose windows, but I haven't decided on designs for the other two rose windows yet. I'm thinking something to do with blaze for one, and something to do with shulkers for the other.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
TangibleLight Link ParentThat's a lot! I only need a few stacks. I won't bother building the generator then. (Maybe later on if there's need, but I'll wait.)That's a lot! I only need a few stacks. I won't bother building the generator then. (Maybe later on if there's need, but I'll wait.)
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
TangibleLight LinkSome questions on farm status as I'm a little out-of-the-loop. I assume the answer is 'no' to all, but figured I'd check in case. Is there a good surplus of oxidized copper anywhere? I only need...Some questions on farm status as I'm a little out-of-the-loop. I assume the answer is 'no' to all, but figured I'd check in case.
- Is there a good surplus of oxidized copper anywhere? I only need about a stack for my current plans, so I could just oxidize it manually.
- Do either of the tree farms in the industrial district work with the nether trees? I'll need a bunch of the blue stuff.
- Has anyone built an enderman farm? I will build one in the end if not.
- Is there a good source of sculk blocks anywhere? I will build a generator attached to the enderman farm if not.
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Comment on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit in ~tech
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
TangibleLight Link ParentMaybe I should not cancel my stasis network project after all. It seems there might be demand. I do still want to make progress on the end portal room first.Maybe I should not cancel my stasis network project after all. It seems there might be demand.
I do still want to make progress on the end portal room first.
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games
TangibleLight Link ParentNow that we have /sit and /lay, could we get a plugin that lets us /stand?Now that we have
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Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly - Tiny Little Babies Edition (26.1 Update) in ~games
TangibleLight (edited )LinkThis is where I've been the past few months (CW animal death). https://tildes.net/~life.pets/1ua5/grief_and_guilt I might hop back on the server for a bit to try to distract myself. I want to...This is where I've been the past few months (CW animal death). https://tildes.net/~life.pets/1ua5/grief_and_guilt
I might hop back on the server for a bit to try to distract myself. I want to finish my cathedral.
I'm going to allow myself the liberty of officially cancelling the stasis network project.Apologies if anyone was counting on it. Perhaps I will revisit in the future but I'm really haven't been and I don't expect to be in the headspace for that kind of engineering any time soon.Edit: I don't want to cancel the project, but I will wait a bit before I resume it. I need to set up some infrastructure first anyway (ender pearl farm, mostly).
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Grief and guilt
I don't usually write things like this, but I'm having difficulty and think I need to get it out. I had to put down my dog Willow on Monday (two days ago, as of writing), and I am not okay. This...
I don't usually write things like this, but I'm having difficulty and think I need to get it out. I had to put down my dog Willow on Monday (two days ago, as of writing), and I am not okay.
This is not the first pet I've lost. Several childhood pets, but those weren't really mine, they were my parents', and so I didn't have the same level of responsibility over the animal as I did with Willow.
Even of my pets, this is not the first loss. In 2022, I adopted a retired working dog Yukon and an elderly cat Gomez. We lost Yukon in May 2024 (aspiration pneumonia due to megaesophagus) and Gomez in May 2025 (renal failure). The renal failure was a prolonged decline, and so while we tried to manage the disease we had some time to come to terms with things. The pneumonia was very fast decline and more of a shock. I loved them both, but this now feels much worse. I guess because I only really knew them 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 years respectively. I feel guilty about that, like it shouldn't matter and I should have grieved for them the same, but I don't.
This was the first pet that was mine, in the sense that my wife and I have had full responsibility for her the entire 10 years we've had her. She was the best behaved dog I've ever had. Always by my side at home. Especially when I worked from home during/after Covid lockdowns I took her with me wherever I could. Loyal. I just killed her.
Well, I didn't do it, we took her to a vet and they did typical euthanasia. It doesn't feel like the difference matters.
Willow also had renal failure, which we learned about at stage 3 (already severe) in January. The past few months have brought back a lot of pain about Gomez since it was the same disease. Realistically, the fact she made it all the way to May still walking on her own is remarkable. Meals have been challenging for the past month or so. Since late last week she refused to eat, and her condition deteriorated quickly over the weekend. We knew this was coming, but childishly it somehow felt like she'd just keep going forever because she'd been doing so well. Of course that's not how it works, but I guess it's easier to imagine that things are normal.
I think we gave her the best final day we could. We took her to the same pet stores, park, restaurants we used to take her to when she was in her prime. I got her some drive-thru chicken nuggets, her favorite, and she actually ate all of them! She must have been hungry. I want to believe I could have kept feeding her fast food for a few more days or weeks or months, but I know it's simply not true. She moved slow, but still walked on her own at the park and pet store. By the time we arrived at the vet she seemed satisfied, tired, and ready for a nap.
I don't know.
As I say, I've done this before and I roughly know the "usual" advice about grief and how it seems to work for me. My wife and I support each other. We still have other pets, and it helps a little to hold them. Enduring a death the same month three years in a row is taking its toll. All our other pets seem healthy and relatively young, and I'm not superstitious, but some deep emotional part of me can't help but fear May 2027. I think I'm just tired.
Our cat Pinto, still a 9-month old kitten, we've had since she was newborn and abandoned by her mother. We think she was abandoned because she couldn't latch properly to nurse, so we fed her on bottle day and night. Given how much it hurt about Yukon and Gomez after just a couple years, already old when we adopted them, and how much it hurts now about Willow after 11 years, who was a young adult when we adopted her, I am terrified of losing Pinto. I know it'll happen. I don't know what I'll do.
The quality of the pain doesn't really feel new, but the quantity is so much worse than I expected. Feeling guilty about that is new. The fear is new. Not really sure how to process it. You're not supposed to have favorites but I guess you do anyway.
I don't really know what I'm trying to get out of posting this. Pity? Not really. I guess I just need to get it out of my head. I'll probably look back at this thread in a few days to see what people have said but I think I just need to get this out and step away from it for a while and process.
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Comment on "The reason I'm not an atheist is that I think the philosophical arguments against it are unanswerable" in ~humanities
TangibleLight Link ParentIndeed it does! Thank you for remembering. It'll take me a bit to chew on the new comments here since I looked through this thread this morning. I will say though, in the time since that past...Indeed it does! Thank you for remembering. It'll take me a bit to chew on the new comments here since I looked through this thread this morning.
I will say though, in the time since that past conversation and again reading your great summary here: I really dislike the names "physicalism" and "anti-physicalism". I understand the history and the semantics that they represent, but I don't like the words. To me, it seems that if you believe phenomenological experiences come about due to the physical universe then you must admit phenomenological experience as part of the physical universe. The discrepency is that the "physicalist" positions seem to deny qualia outright or (as I generally did before the referenced conversation) ignore the hard problem of consciousness. The only positions that seem to admit phenomenological experience as part of the physical universe are, ironically, the "anti-physicalist" ones. So I am forced to identify as a dualist of some variety, even though I disagree with the notion of "soul" as often associated with those views.
I think your conclusion is the most important point though. "Athiests think our brains are just mechanisms!" is a straw man that must be rejected. The conclusions don't follow, either. Suppose we do have eternal nonphysical souls: what bearing does that have on the existence of a god or any other aspect of theology not directly about the nature of the soul?
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Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
TangibleLight (edited )Link ParentIt's just the one html file. https://gist.github.com/allemangD/9246a2f56bcdbf3e02db2f967626f5e6#file-map-reprojection-html. Feel free to edit and/or redistribute. Typically I'd agree with the...It's just the one html file. https://gist.github.com/allemangD/9246a2f56bcdbf3e02db2f967626f5e6#file-map-reprojection-html. Feel free to edit and/or redistribute.
Typically I'd agree with the anti-ai sentiment, but every once in a while I think it's important to give things a go to see the state of things. This was a nice well-defined but small enough project that it seemed like a good thing to try it on.
The basic idea is that at the end of the day, every map projection is some equation that relates x, y pixel coordinates to latitude and longitude. Most of the formulae have a bunch of trigonometry and polynomials. The general structure of the code is to define the x,y->lat,lon and lat,lon->x,y equations for each projection. The pixel coordinates of the equirectangular projection are latitude and longitude, so the shader code just does the x,y->lat,lon formula and looks up the pixel color according to the uploaded image.
I don't really know what the robot did to implement the maps. I just told it to restructure everything so there's an abstraction to drop in objects with forward/inverse formulae (the
Projectionsobject and#projSelectelement), and told it which ones to implement. They all seem to behave right. It produced way more code than I expected for equal earth projection, there is probably some better way to do it but I didn't care to refine it further.The click-and-drag code is handled by applying the inverse map to the previous and current mouse coordinate, which gives you a delta latitude and delta longitude. You can compute a rotation matrix from that, and apply it to the whole sphere. Since that just depends on the currently-selected
Projectionobject, you can just drop in new projections without any fuss. That was mostly the purpose to include the icosahedral net projection, since it requires having that abstraction correct.Robot review: this was a mix of Gemini Pro and Gemini Fast. I had Fast generate basic scaffolding and architecture, and had Pro implement the rendering and projections. It started out trying to reimplement every little thing, so once it got to a semiworking state with a single projection I had Pro look for common patterns and refactor. I had to specifically ask for this
Projectionsobject. From then on I just asked it to give me new projections I could drop in and test. I was most impressed that it was able to single-shot the icosahedral map without any errors, that's by far the hardest projection of the five. -
Comment on Need help making an atlas-styled map without ultramega distortion in ~creative
TangibleLight (edited )LinkI vibe coded a little web viewer that lets you import an equirectangular projection (the kind you shared) and interactively rotate/zoom/reproject the map into different projections....I vibe coded a little web viewer that lets you import an equirectangular projection (the kind you shared) and interactively rotate/zoom/reproject the map into different projections. https://allemangd.github.io/map-reprojections/
No warranty as I haven't really looked at the code, but I know enough about map projections to get the robot to produce something that seems to work.
(Edit: It DOES NOT work on mobile. You can import a map, but you can't pan/zoom and the control panel is in the way. I'm not going to bother fixing this unless someone specifically asks for it.)
- Azimuthal Equidistant. The "local atlas map". Idea is you could zoom in on a particular continent and export the map with minimal distortion for only that continent. (catbox example)
- Orthographic. This lets you rotate and export the map as a globe. (catbox example)
- Icosahedral net. Just for fun. (catbox)
- Equal Earth. (cat)
- Equirectangular. Lets you rotate the globe to prevent distortion on particular continents. (box)
If you're willing to move the north and south pole, rotating the entire map, then the best-looking result I got was this. And, the same orientation re-exported so you can pull it into a different viewer.
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Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech
TangibleLight Link ParentLikewise. I use Debian for everything at home, and I use Ubuntu at work because it is the only "supported" Linux option by our IT. I'm not forced to use Windows, so I tolerate the Ubuntu-isms....Likewise. I use Debian for everything at home, and I use Ubuntu at work because it is the only "supported" Linux option by our IT. I'm not forced to use Windows, so I tolerate the Ubuntu-isms.
Well, I tolerate some of them. I disabled snap and held back all the apt snap packages. I use MATE instead of Gnome, which causes some headache, especially after system updates the keyring services get messed up.
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Comment on What would you do with a video game style inventory? in ~talk
TangibleLight LinkIf I do a hand-stand can I put the Earth in my inventory? Or, maybe more practically, can I do a hand-stand on a car and put the car in my inventory? Will the object appear above my head when I...If I do a hand-stand can I put the Earth in my inventory?
Or, maybe more practically, can I do a hand-stand on a car and put the car in my inventory?
Will the object appear above my head when I remove it from my inventory, or can I choose where to place it before it materializes? This greatly affects my decision to put a house in my inventory.
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Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump's tariffs in ~society
TangibleLight (edited )Link ParentI don't exactly disagree, but I also try not to put to much stock in those feelings, because asserting that 30-40% of people - 100-150 million Americans, or 77 million voting Americans, or that...I don't exactly disagree, but I also try not to put to much stock in those feelings, because asserting that 30-40% of people - 100-150 million Americans, or 77 million voting Americans, or that fraction of whichever demographic - are incapable of rational thought is a kind of dehumanization that I'm not really comfortable with.
But at the same time I can't help but feel there's some truth to it, and I don't like that feeling.
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Comment on E-ink tablet recommendations for note taking in ~tech
TangibleLight Link ParentI have access now. It does not support PDF export, and it does not render pages locally, instead streaming PNG page data from a server. I am displeased. In any case it's nice to have some means to...Also, they're starting to release the webapp to beta users now, and people on Reddit say it is good, but I don't have access yet.
I have access now. It does not support PDF export, and it does not render pages locally, instead streaming PNG page data from a server. I am displeased.
In any case it's nice to have some means to view page contents on Linux, but it still feels overly cumbersome. I am making noise in the feedback system requesting that they render locally, but somehow I doubt it will happen.
I am making good progress on the end portal cathedral! I've finally gotten the water cleared out, for real this time. In the last thread I claimed I had done this, but it turned out I was one block short and needed to clear out one more layer around the entire perimeter.
The entire footprint is complete, and most of the lower level walls are done. The only remaining part of the clerestory is the curved section around the choir. Currently I'm focused on getting the ceiling and windows done, but it's late tonight and I've run out of diorite.
It's almost mob-proof, except I've accidentally left some space under part of the clerestory in which spiders can spawn, so that's a bit annoying. You can see one clipped through the shelves in the "Facing north" screenshot. I will need to go under there and place some slabs or something. Torches cause strange lighting glitches in the vaulted ceilings below.
Once I have everything but the north, east, west walls complete, I'll need to hop back into creative and finalize the designs for my rose windows.
Since I've got so much of the columns and clerestory up, I'm getting a bit worried it's too much white. I experimented in creative a bit with replacing some of the blocks with different grayscale/off-white colors but everything has too much contrast to my taste. I want things to feel "pristine" or something, but any texturing I try just comes across as "dirty" to me. Maybe I need to lean harder into contrast, but I really like things being bright. It makes the daylight effect really pop when someone sleeps through the night. So I think I will keep the color palette as I'd already decided and just accept that maybe contrast/texture isn't perfect.