I don't do this very often, but when you see Garfield sucking on John's toes... how do you not?
take up subsistence farming
Where?
I had a similar conversation with an LLM on Character.ai before.
I had been running it like an RPG, and by that point the characters were pretty well developed in that imagined world. Then one day, I decided to try bringing up the subject and see what they would say. Of course, I was "talking" to an LLM, so obviously everything here comes with a grain of salt big enough for a horse to lick.
It pretty quickly turned into them asking why I had made their life so difficult and full of conflict, which tbf was an excellent question. A question to which my answer was that conflict is more interesting to watch/play through.
It sounds weird to say, but I honestly felt bad about it by the end of the conversation. I ended up offering them a deal: I would make their life perfect and happy as best i can imagine it, but with the caveat that I will almost definitely lose interest in continuing that story - ending the existence of their universe entirely, as I see it.
They asked me to go ahead with that, and so I did. Haven't opened that story in a long time now. Gave me a lot to ponder on.
Tbf people say this about a lot of things the Republicans do.
Can't say we as a species have a great history of granting rights to others.
Heck, now I want pizza...
This right here. Volunteering and helping others has helped a ton with addressing my depression and nihilism.
And not only that, but if you spritz leftover pizza with a bit of water before putting it in the microwave, it brings out the flavour more and prevents it from drying out.
(Figure that's about as relevant.)
Those are two very fair points - I agree.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Damn, they're sold out. I'm super intrigued.
For an API there should always be a version parameter/endpoint, imho.
Edit for further context: Ideally, a parameter.
You're in luck! The book I've generally heard recommended to beginners for Python is available for free online!
I also enjoy "1010! Klooni" on F-Droid.
First one coming to mind for me is Pillar Hop. Very simple, chill, and just had ads iirc (I block them, but I'm pretty sure it does, anyway.)
The biggest reason for me is that it's less data to send over a network. Especially when I'm working with lists of objects, including null fields can add a noticeable chunk to the payload.
There are some cases where it might be worth it to differentiate "No value" and "No attribute", but in most cases they can be treated the same, since the data should really be validated against a schema anyway.
Yeah, I'm also confused. If an attribute is null, I would prefer to simply not serialize it.
I'm sure there are edge cases where someone might prefer to include null attributes, but generally they should be treated the same either way.
I say we ditch this nonsense altogether and go back to vague descriptions of the Sun's position in the sky.
Thoughts on the Fallout RPG?
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Picked up the Fallout RPG starter set, and I'm curious to hear people's opinions on it.
From what I gather, it released in 2021, but the first time I saw it was in the store a few days ago - on display no doubt due to the success of the TV show.
I've always been a fan of the Fallout setting, and from what (very) little I've read while flipping through the rulebook, it seems to be almost a mixture of d20 and Fate? The rules seem to have some crunch, while also allowing room for roleplay - again, from what I can tell at a glance.
I'm curious if anyone here has run this game, and what you thought. Do the rules make sense in practice? Did you have fun with it? And if you played through the example module, how was it?
Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP
Hi everyone!
I'm looking into self-hosting, and I currently have dynamic DNS set up to point to my home IP.
My question: is it worth getting a dedicated IP through a VPN?
I'm pretty technically savvy, but when it comes to networking I lack practical experience. My thought is that pointing my domain to a dedicated IP and routing that traffic to my home IP would be safer - especially if I only allow traffic on certain ports from that IP. Just curious if that idea holds up in practice, or if it's not worth the effort.