[–] 4 points 8 months ago

You probably made the right choice. I led a semi hardcore raiding guild during classic wow and felt relieved when the end of that content gave us a good enough reason to quit. Good times we're good, but man it's a thankless thing to get 40ish people to act right.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Dokuwiki user here. Your cons are true, but compared to the cons of other ones, they are all solvable. The concern with a plug-in being required to do something is silly. It's open source and the plugin system is limitless. If it's ugly, make a theme. I've never had a problem with article titles being mutilated, but then again, I treat the file name (e.g. the url of the page) separate from the root header as you're supposed to.

    Considering your comment about search being awful in another wiki, it's pretty good in Dokuwiki.

    Considering how much you care about plain text, you should probably discount the con about file names as I'm pretty sure that's part of why Dokuwiki does what it does. It's an actual text file sitting in a directory that matches the path.

    For what it's worth, I admire Obsidian. If it's a personal project with no intent to share, that's what I'd use. For business or public hosting, I'd use (and do use, at my company) Dokuwiki.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago

    Another fun thing from this show is the magic system, which limits the caster's ability based on what they can imagine. Programming feels exactly like that to me. I mean, a lot of human ability is limited by that, but most stuff is also limited by physical constraints long before imagination. With programming, we more often hit the limit of our imagination, or time feasibility, before any other constraint.

    Working with non programmers, it's always wild to field their unimaginative solutions, and refreshing when someone actually had a good idea.

    Working with less experienced programmers, it's fun to help them through problems. So often they hit a wall they can't imagine walking through, take some concession and build around the wall. You can appreciate the work, and then show them the simple solution to walk through the wall. If they have talent, they grow quick.

    Working with a much more experienced programmer, or in a domain you don't have much experience with, helps keep you humble because there's no way you're going to learn everything.

    Anyway, back to writing my spells.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You need one existential crisis step further. With very rare exception (some life we've found living near thermal vents in the deep sea) all calories are derived from the sun through photosynthesis. I suppose you can muddy the waters with man made light sources powered by non-solar energy, but with the rare exception of nuclear power (or tidal, since that's moon's gravity, or geothermal, and a few other niche sources, but even out together these make up such small percentages), most man made energy is just harvesting the sun's energy with more steps. Oil, that's just ancient plant matter. Wind, that's just air currents which only exist due to heat energy from the sun. Solar, lol. Not that grow lights even make up enough to matter, but it's a fun part of the existential equation.

    We eat the sun.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Valid reason is you want the online features because messages from other players is content. Counterpoint is, pvp is also content. Counterpoint is, people can want one and not the other, and it's not that complicated to just give people a toggle. Elden Ring is not worse because of its improvement over the DS invasion system.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    I've seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I'd imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that's a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe the prompt said some shit about making sure you couldn't see that it's AI, or hide that it's AI. There remains to be an issue that prompting it not to generate something increases the chances that it will do that.

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