isosphere

joined 1 year ago
[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven't elaborated on yet.

Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I'm absolutely going to get my money's worth - this kind of game just doesn't exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I just got this game and I'm having a blast, this is the style of game I've been hungry for for a long time.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

500 internal errors in console, video doesn't play

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

i'd settle for more sidewalks in my town

on some streets they just paint a line down the road and call it a sidewalk - one of these is on a road touching an elementary school

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their entire worldview is an anxiety buffet; they've got something for everyone, all they need to bring is unmanaged fear

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The Wicked Problem of Trading (matthewscheffel.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/finance@beehaw.org
 

I wrote a farewell to the thousand plus hours I spent on trading

I traded futures in my personal account, worked for a small trading firm, and have always been into a rational, scientific look at evidence.

I gave it as good of a try as any retail trader can, and learned a lot. Mostly that it's a waste of time, because trading is a wicked problem.

This is a plea to others that might get sucked in to run away and touch grass instead.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"The Lemmy Overseer" as I understand it is a backend service that gives us an API to use.

There is an open-source script for interacting with it. However, it does not tell you how that backend service works, exactly. It's a black box with well defined interfaces, best case, as I understand it.

 

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Luckily, I had some repair tools (specifically a hot air rework station), enough experience to make me cocky, and a general disregard for the risk of destroying the thing.

It's as good as new now! Details in the attached link, I hope it helps someone else; I was flying blind.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Important question; author kind of answers here:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/204729

If I were to rely on this for my instance, I would require that it be completely transparent and open source. It doesn't look like this is; you have to trust that it is making good selections, and give it power over your federation status. It's a dangerous tool, IMO, but I can understand why it would have appeal right now.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I still know permabulls that at least say they are buying with every paycheque. I doubt there are enough dollars doing that to keep the price afloat, if I were a whale I'd probably be selling, personally.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've been taking a lot of notes for ~16 years. When you write too many, they become write-only. It's too difficult to sift through them to find nuggets you can synthesize into something else. I've tried structuring my notes after writing them, but this becomes remarkably time consuming and difficult to do unless you are extremely diligent about how frequently you do it.

You've got to structure your notes as you write them, and LogSeq makes this easy.

I still take a lot of notes via "Note to self" in a messaging app; I don't use the LogSeq mobile app because of some opinions I have around syncing (if you pay, you can sync, but I want full ownership of my notes and to trust that they are private). However it's just a copy-and-paste for me, because I've got my hashtag structure figured out mostly.

I have a few tips for new users:

Use hashtags - but not indiscriminately.

It might take you some time to find the "themes" of your notes, before you've really wrapped your head around it you might just pepper hashtags everywhere. Eventually it becomes pretty clear. Use them diligently and later when you get fancy with search and queries you'll be glad you did.

Don't write massive blocks.

Separate larger thoughts in the outliner - sub-thoughts, parallel thoughts. Make child blocks. Remember that child blocks inherent the tags of their parent blocks, so don't repeat tags in child blocks or the search results will get messy. When you come to a conclusion, hide your evidence and reasoning under your conclusion for future reference.

Finally,

Journal!

I am very glad I've been journalling for so long. I wish I had done it more. Every now and then I go back to old journal entries and revisit the me of the past, and the problems I had. I can reflect on them, add amendments, and essentially have a conversation with myself through time. It is remarkably valuable.

My opinion on obsidian

I've used obsidian a bit. It is much more polished and so are the plugins. However, the long-form structure it promotes loses out on the second piece of advice I wrote above: don't write massive blocks. In my opinion, it is much easier to synthesize something later with your notes when you have structured them in an outlier format that is backed by a true graph structure with searchable parent/child relationships. It's more like how your brain works, and if you're using this as a second brain that's important.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To yes-and this: procedural content in general. No Man's Sky is a snore-fest for me, big, empty, meaningless. Missions in Elite Dangerous and X4 are similarly pretty boring, though the former is more fun the first time around. There has to feel like there's some world-affecting point to what you're doing. IMO

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago

This is from the company that weights anger five times higher than likes for its algorithm. The one that is trying to force feed me "shorts" with no ability to opt out. So much of the Facebook experience is non-consensual. I wouldn't touch another platform from them.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think there's a missing link in your forecast: what will make people who are not techies, who currently use IG, stop using it, leaving behind their contacts at IG? They aren't going to want to use two platforms, so it'll have to be a clean break. I don't think hearing about alternatives from techies is going to do it, IMO. It's how a lot of people keep in contact.

Network effect is really sticky. Most of the users of the internet were once techie folk. Now it's everyone.

 

I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread

I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year

I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now

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