@seedling@dice.camp2025-06-07 06:14:05
I had this idea for a Cairn lifepath generator where there are three stages of life and you roll 1d6 for your stats at each stage, and also get appropriate items.
It has not been playtested, it's barely been proofread, but I've been having a lot of fun generating guys
perchance.org/lt8m69fg35
#ttrpg #CairnRpg
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-04 07:45:51
Fourth-order Adaptive Mesh Refinement both in space and in time for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions
Shubo Zhao, Qinghai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02663
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-04-21 11:57:06
Is there a way to configure the Linux kernel or a tool that puts a laptop into a "no-fan" mode? Like, if it gets too hot, reduce the CPU frequency. It's definitely possible to run my laptop without the CPU fan, by reducing the cpufreq scaling_max_freq enough for all cores. But what I'd want is "you're allowed to go to whatever freq you still can do safely without running the fan, but auto-reduce if it gets too hot, never use the fan".
@randy_@social.linux.pizza2025-05-02 22:32:34
They will never stop. What about just banning all the crap?
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@eunews/114440309635861270
@pre@boing.world2025-05-27 19:06:58
A wish granting god baby, granting Conrad's wishes in service of the Rani, turns London into a misogynist utopia and The Doctor into a good husband and insurance worker.
Hard to say why misogynists are so keen on the American 50s. Perhaps because it was before blacks had the vote and women could do banking.
And if anyone doubts this ridiculous tale, their table stops working and their family might call the doubt police, so they soon learn not to. All very oppressive and subversive.
Ruby manages to doubt anyway. And all the disabled people who simply never enter into Conrad's mind. Nice touch that. Great scene in the tent city filled with the dispossessed. They don't seem to have actually done anything so far but maybe they'll get more useful in part two.
Conrad is on TV telling a story about a man named Doctor Who.
Giant dinosaur skeletons walk the city, stepping over sky scrapers, and a bone palace towers above the city. Because I guess Conrad wishes for it to be so in order to give the Rani somewhere to live.
The palace is beautiful and Gothic.
But doubt is seeping in. Rogue is back, on the TV in hell, telling the Doctor that tables don't work like that. So he investigates. Gets himself reported to the doubt police who take him and Belinda to the bone palace.
The Rani's split from Miss Flood gives the pair of them a good chemistry. Queen and her maid of honour. Seems like Mrs Flood is likely to be the Rani's downfall. She doesn't like being told to make a sandwich.
A lot of exposition going on, but they at least put a hat on it: "Isn't just exposition, I need you to doubt"
So that's the reason for the strange wishes: To make the doctor have doubts so severe that the reality collapses, and Rani can rescue Omega. Omega is the dude in a Mask from the first 3 doctors episode, who gave the timelords time travel and got trapped in the underworld in the process. Timelords forgot him and never mounted a rescue, but presumably Rani is now hoping he'll bring back Galifrey.
And with London collapsing into the underworld and the doctor falling from the sky, we get the episode break and have to wait until next week.
That's not a cliff hanger, that an already-falling-from-the-cliff hanger.
Poppy really is his daughter he's shouting as he falls. And you know what that means?
🤨🤔
Back in Space Babies, the worst episode of the Nchuti seasons, that space baby asked if he was her parents and he said he wished that he was their parents.
That wish has been granted somehow?
Is this space baby Susan's mother? They have very different skin tones, but that doesn't matter much in a regenerating species.
Never have found out much about The Doctor's child. When he traveled with his granddaughter everyone assumed he'd met his own kid, the grandchild's parent.
But that doesn't have to be true for a time traveler. Maybe he met the granddaughter before he met his own kid, and maybe his own kid was just wished into his family line 60 years later (or billions of years in his timeline I guess).
Pretty fun episode but not sure it makes much sense. Why doesn't the Rani just wish for Omega to be back instead of all this doubt and underworld bollocks?
Last one next week. Super long episode. Hope it's all cleared up. Good chance we'll meet Susan again I think. And maybe see Omega's mask once more.
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-05-29 04:06:51
Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizza2025-06-01 00:31:36
Does anyone have a suggestion for a docker-ized server monitor? I've probably used them all over the years, but never within a docker container. Lately a fan of Zabbix overall, and thinking of https://hub.docker.com/r/zabbix/zabbix-web-nginx-pgsql but having never…
@JSkier@social.linux.pizza2025-03-24 23:21:24
6.14 mainline out on Arch. Compiled and running well. RC series seemed to do just fine with the AMD GPU suspend issues I was encountering before, no lockups upon resuming.
I use a separate USB4 NVMe drive enclosure with Ubuntu for work stuff (keep 'em separate), same result.
I never found the actual commit, so assuming it was done, or something else fixed it 😆
#linux
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-03 07:34:43
CLAP-ART: Automated Audio Captioning with Semantic-rich Audio Representation Tokenizer
Daiki Takeuchi, Binh Thien Nguyen, Masahiro Yasuda, Yasunori Ohishi, Daisuke Niizumi, Noboru Harada
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00800
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-05-21 04:49:09
I've never written a novel or any other intensely-plotted work of fiction, but anyone who has read or watched it played a lot of stories can probably also recognize that some authors just aren't good at endings. They're great at setting things in motion, at keeping the twists and turns coming, at the soap opera style of drama. But they just don't have the craft necessary to tie things together into a satisfying conclusion. I imagine it's much harder than the process of getting things going out keeping them moving, since you both have to wind down all the various threads you've spun up and balance satisfaction with believability.
I just finished Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi, and it has a bad ending. The beginning is fine, the middle has plenty of drama to keep you wanting to see what happens, but the ending is murky, unsatisfying, and manages neither veracity nor satisfaction (even discounting the biggest next step that might reasonably have been left there to make room for a sequel).
Given the other issues with the book, from poor politics, to inauthentic characters, to a techno-optimism that feels as bitter in this moment as it is far from the mark in its predictions, I can't recommended it, despite having read through to the end.
#AmReading