insomniac_lemon
@insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on Ill start soon 1 day ago:
If it’s not a simple chore, the reason I do this is usually that something needs to change*. I’ve had times in the past where I did do the thing and it was a marginal result (if even that). Just like I’ve had changes result improvement(s) as mentally easy as I expected.
Specifically for any hope for a creative project, I’m not sure what the change(s) needs to be… though it could even be one of many indirectly related things. Doesn’t look like that is changing either way, though.
* and I probably will not be the one to make said initial change
- Comment on Are the boys back in town? 2 days ago:
They were askin’ if you were around… I told them you were: l i v i n '.
- Comment on Too late. NFTs already ended loneliness. 3 days ago:
If someone is … “limited enough” for it to be a proper replacement for deep human interaction
That and not going so far that goes past* that point. Even if there would be the slightest benefit**, realism about AI as well as cost (or even hardware need/heat+data of local models) makes it easy to ignore/dismiss.
* depression, isolation, personality disorders etc
** in a way some informational mascot may be
- Comment on Too late. NFTs already ended loneliness. 4 days ago:
“Subscribe to our service!” “No.”
“Why not?” “…I don’t want to.”
“But you have no viable alternative.” “I don’t care.”
“That… doesn’t make any sense!” “Too bad.”
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 1 week ago:
do you mind sharing the machine?
Atlas Orthogonal Percussion Instrument. Basically it pushes the top vertebra back into alignment based on the precise angle needed.
For some background, the cause is I had whiplash many years ago. I also likely have EDS (a potential factor for the low-speed whiplash) so it’s possible even if this machine has some basis it might not be a reliable fix for me.
- Comment on YSK Doctors of Osteopathy in the US seldom practice Osteopathy 1 week ago:
That’s not a contradiction, the fact that that is the page you get from searching the term is exactly their point.
Looking at the page
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, it even seems to point to both having the same origin (1874 USA) and later changing:Osteopathic medicine (as defined and regulated in the United States) emerged historically from the quasi-medical practice of osteopathy, but has become a distinct and proper medical profession.
Be it resolved, that the American Osteopathic Association institute a policy, both officially in our publications and individually on a conversational basis, to use the terms osteopathic medicine in place of the word osteopathy and osteopathic physician and surgeon in place of osteopath; the words osteopathy and osteopath being reserved for historical, sentimental, and informal discussions only
Though also…
DO schools provide an additional 300–500 hours in the study of hands-on manual medicine and the body’s musculoskeletal system, which is referred to as osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM). Osteopathic manipulation is a pseudoscience.
and from the related sources:
Mark Crislip also pointed out that DOs are using less and less osteopathic manipulation in their practice. This is a good thing, and hopefully it will eventually completely fade away. Essentially we need to distinguish between osteopathic medicine, which is mostly equivalent to standard medicine, and osteopathic manipulation, which is pure pseudoscience akin to straight chiropractic.
- Comment on Let people enjoy things 🙄 3 weeks ago:
NOW PLAYING: Michael Jordan of Drunk Driving by AJJ the band
- Comment on What is happening on Programming. Dev instance? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I have any federation issues, but yeah I don’t get replies probably because what I post is too niche. On 3 posts so far at least (~8 upvotes) in 3 different communities (probably a few more back when kbin still worked too).
- Comment on When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments? 1 month ago:
For a practical test, search for
kbin.social(and then ctrl+f for it also to get the direct results). Or, just look at a community: !kbinMeta@kbin.socialThe only thing that appears missing is the avatars. Though I assume this content is doomed in the long-run when it comes to new instances, as I doubt re-federation (3rd-party federation) is a thing. Unless of course, someone manually crossposts said content.
- Comment on Programmer paradigm shift... Have YOU made the shift??? 🫵 1 month ago:
I feel it’s more true for Nim-lang. No dealing with pointers (it’s possible, just not a normal thing like
int**, Nim has newer memory management options like arc/orc). There’s also stuff likefor i in 0…9(and ranges like that have more options/uses too)I mean I guess there is overlap (both languages have UFCS and interop). So it might come down to syntax or specific implementation. Though I imagine if you like the braces style, there are other options to look at like Zig (or Rust, there is complexity but also popularity).
I know there is some difficulty when it comes to a language being niche (at least when lacking knowledge), and that’s certainly true for me with Nim.
* the asterisk is instead used for public+importable
- Comment on Programmer paradigm shift... Have YOU made the shift??? 🫵 1 month ago:
You use AI to code for you.
I alone use the wrong type of hammer to slowly and frustratedly get very basic tasks accomplished once every season if I’m lucky…
we are not the same.
- Comment on What I'm playing 🪱🪐 WORMHOLE | Next-level Snake 1 month ago:
All I can think here is
An elderly woman at a piano looks at some papers while saying “What is happening?”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
On the other hand: anything anti-consumer like this (like bricking game consoles) has potential to backfire in a myriad of ways when the inevitable exploits are found.
Ransomware customers, target people you don’t like (perhaps even by employees), or simply brick devices to cause returns and/or drive up customer support costs, or just cause a scandal to tarnish the brand itself.
The closer to a real brick it is (rather than just a soft lockout), the more potential there is for disaster.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
On paper sure they are villages, but I think a US village and one from elsewhere would likely feel drastically different. Lacking actual community (see Bowling Alone), or just look at the decay of it: all of the things that the village lost (shops, train station, industry etc) and what it still has(franchise dollar store, gas station etc).
It could just be coincidence, though “retirement village” is a term (also ecovillages) so maybe not. Aside from decay, I’d imagine the common perspective of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it (unless you stop for gas/maybe breakfast) probably doesn’t help with image either.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
They mean live vs just existing.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
Similar here. I rarely dream (and typically not very vividly even when so). It could be because my sleep quality is poor (sleep stages likely impacted due to autonomic issues, and it’s possible that I need something like CPAP) then again I also have aphantasia.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
The opposite: “I remember as a child: I used to sleep. … But not anymore. In fact, I don’t even dream. What am I talking about‽ I don’t even sleep!”
(Magmamamus, from Dial M For Monkey)
- Comment on Feel this 2 months ago:
I don’t see the jump from “I have problems socializing/functioning” to “I am special/nobody else has these problems”. I mentioned the first comment because
thanks for letting me try with you
seems like a fairly healthy/wholesome expressed thought.
Also yeah maybe both users are just-a-bit-on-the-spectrum and they probably know it. Does that change something, are they too common to express themselves? Shut up and get better or that’s-a-you-problem?
- Comment on Feel this 2 months ago:
???
This is an odd sticking point (same with another comment), it doesn’t even seem relevant to either thought (especially the first) other than it being asserted already by the inclusion of the comic.
Maybe not-special is true or maybe differences can brushed aside, but either way these thoughts are likely conclusions from their lived experiences and even a nice interpretation of the comic seems more like a cold comfort that doesn’t change much going forward. It probably has more impact if someone does live in/near a big city (particularly a place like Portland), but that is a bit of a leap to assume.
- Comment on Feel this 2 months ago:
Side 1, pointing at brain: Ah, see there’s something wrong with the firmware here, or maybe it’s a hardware issue. Unclear if it’s even an error (it may serve some purpose), but it does negatively impact living. Made even worse by recall-worthy issues outside of the brain.
Side 2: Despite (or perhaps because of) my shortcomings I am very human, I know I am just another multi-cellular organism. But it does not matter. Nothing valued is here, I cannot go elsewhere.
Side 3: Yeah, I lack public transportation or things that come with it (I’m in a sparse area).
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 months ago:
I made this for a comment (about small-data images, jpegs) days ago:
- Comment on if pure water is not conductive why would condensation be an issue for electronics? 2 months ago:
This would require both the air and surface to be free of dust. Maybe in a lab that could be true, but probably not in the real world.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 2 months ago:
I turned on chroma subsampling
43KiB, though obviously a chunk of that is from the colors of the jpg Professor.
- Comment on What art style you want to reproduce? 3 months ago:
Vector/polygonal, truly implemented for the technical benefits* and likely untextured**. Which will make it more niche than the early 3D stuff that did use vertex colors.
3D polygonal+vertex color actually isn’t that difficult to do. I’ve done some, the real issue (aside from making it good) is actually the animation/game around it. I haven’t done much and continue not doing much because personal stuff.
* less data while also rendering at native res without needing extra work (8K or even on a 50ft Billboard? Sure). MIDI (you can use higher-quality soundfonts) or other procedural stuff (sounds, textures) are nice too.
** I’m not against not-too-many general-use textures, but I tried this without mapping (including watercolor) and wasn’t really happy with the results… plus normal maps won’t work with per-vertex materials¯. So this probably takes a lot of effort/skill to work as-intended.
¯ not strictly necessary, but I don’t mind the idea aesthetically and a free optimization sounds nice even though this aesthetic is already a low bar (unless it could help with webGL, mobile, VR, or really old devices etc?)
- Comment on What art style you want to reproduce? 3 months ago:
29 days ago:
What are the steps to reproduce an art style using computer programs and without artificial intelligence?
Emphasis mine.
Someone also commented
Still trying to figure out Hades?
which might be further context. So they might just be looking for inspiration.
- Comment on Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind? 3 months ago:
Generally, I feel like it depends on how viable it seems to fix. Is this the same issue that people marched about 50+ years ago?
Specific elephant in the room, what possible fix within 2-4 decades is there when the right has most of the keys including a stacked supreme court?
Personally, I can’t really fight or leave. I am nowhere close to anything politically relevant… I have no transportation, income, or ID/passport etc. I am a shut-in with untreated health issues. I’m just letting the days go by.
- Comment on I'm high and there's nothing you can do about it 4 months ago:
OP, is this you?
- Comment on They're gonna have to be really cool about a lot of stuff real quick. 4 months ago:
BRAIN: “You are tasked to consider the evidence, and whether it proves BEYOND a reasonable doubt: whether my client is undateable. Is my client… a perfect man? No-” ME: “She can kill me, yeah.”
- Comment on If any external factor made you create art, would your art be created by that factor? 4 months ago:
It’s called being cultured, like cheese. Though art is a bit different as whatever shapes you does so long-term, even if you could zap away issues instantly the memory and thus influence will still be there.
Also health/brain issues for me are likely a bigger detriment than anything, resulting in me doing nothing most of the time (small chores on a good day). So anything created is a rare win in spite of that.
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 5 months ago:
well yeah most people don’t have the hardware to play the pre-HD versions at their best
Maybe you mean an actual PS2, but IME using emu w/higher internal res on a non-stellar computer was a pretty good experience.
Meanwhile the HD version is data bloated (likely because everything is uncompressed for no reason, or multiple resolutions of FMVs including 4K) so the download would be painful for me. And really with Okami’s aesthetic especially, I don’t think HD is necessary.
I think it would’ve been better to change the FMVs into in-engine if viable, I assume the ones like that were just a hardware limitation if not just some production thing.
