Eric Davies

@iamed2
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agender person who does things with computers and also cares about people
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@spurll

I think the things that helped in Disco Elysium were:
* A character so incredibly different from me that I felt comfortable making choices I didn't agree with
* Very little designed to trick you into making a Big Morally Grey Decision which you think is justified but has deliberately-hidden consequences
* Silliness and multiple editorial voices from the narrator that show how decisions fit with aspects of your character
* Randomness

Do you think it's worth me trying Esoteric Ebb?

@spurll

Disco Elysium is basically the only Western-style choice-based RPG that has broken through to me, I normally have trouble with them and get stuck in choice paralysis

I really miss having more time to engage with JuliaLang, and the people working on it. I work with Julia fairly often but our customers don't, and it's fairly encapsulated in our systems. It's essentially feature-complete for our needs.

Having active hobbies has made me healthier, but that means working at a job that doesn't invest in open source means I don't work on open source.

I think this also interacts with a certain learned ruthlessness from my experience in industry. I'm also less able to engage directly with new features in projects I already know about, because I'm constantly squeezed for short-term productivity at the expense of growing my skills and building long-term DX in the tools I work on.
Shout out to CS academics who are the one group I see still posting as usual. I don't have time to build the background knowledge to understand most of that work, but I do see it.

I'm sad that it seems like there's not much interesting tech talk in my social feeds anymore. LLMs are completely dominating, with people either posting about how bad they are or their positive experiences using them. Even the people building things with LLMs don't seem to care that much about the end product, they're not posting much about that.

This isn't all down to AI discourse; it's become less fun for popular people to post. But I feel very little excitement for the future of our tools.

Today, the Carney government joined the Conservatives and the Bloc to defeat Jenny Kwan’s No More Loopholes Bill — legislation that would have stopped Canadian weapons sent to the U.S. from being used to fuel the genocide in Gaza.

It’s a deeply shameful vote that suggests they would rather appease Trump than protect vulnerable civilians.


But this moment also shows why voices like Jenny Kwan and her colleagues in the NDP caucus matter so much. They continue to champion human rights, peace, and international justice with courage and persistence, even when few others in Parliament will.

Millions of Canadians share that vision. They want Canada to be a force for peace, not a junior arms dealer.

This is exactly why our country needs the NDP.

#cdnpoli #gaza #NDP

@spurll
Managed to find a program that does this in my Julia REPL history

@spurll
I was watching somebody play Blue Prince and realized I have barely any memory of post-room-46 content (I did beat everything)

This seems completely alien to me, I cannot even guess what your program is related to!

@mcc
Reading these results is wild to me

Is there any style guide that recommends putting any amount of spaces around an em dash?