And just scrolling and glancing at the title I almost thought this was an offshoot of Neon Genesis: Evangelion. But, that's "NERV". Whoops.

jdreyer wrote on Dec 20, 2020, 19:56:
A customer at an Ohio restaurant left a $5,600 tip to split among the entire staff for Christmas.

I wish I were that rich.

This song just popped in my brain.
We need UBI, I think.. But that's another conversation, probably.

Aliens? Could be. Could also be something that happens once every eon.

Glowing platypuses: Neat pictures, and also makes me think of how - given many other animals see in UV at least in part - some humans are able to see UV light after surgical removal of the lens.

Minecraft for Christmas: If staged, done very well, imo.

Army ants: Holy crap, that's amazing. Also, "Don't do drugs.... often." and various gaffes, however intentional or not.

Walking is hard: I am not sure what's going on with the fellow having so many difficulties while the rest seem to be proceeding just fine, and according to the comments, he was not drunk.

Gaming memes - yep, accurate.

Microtransactions: I would hope folks have more sense than to spend their cents like that.

Coffee and wine: I resembled wine last night as I got a bit tipsy for my birthday yesterday. Haven't had coffee yet...

Dan =0)

How about trying to fold up to 12 times?

Dan =0)

Cats on Mars.

Dan =0)

Ghosts coming back to haunt me, seems.

My father had that same type of turntable (he passed in 2001).

My mother passed this past Friday. Things are not easy / relationship was... complicated. Still processing.

Sheep on trampoline is cute.

Dan =0(

Happy birthday to Blue's News! I'm a lurker for the most part, but I have thoroughly enjoyed reading articles posted through here, and especially enjoyed the exploits and (mis)adventures of Blue and Co. in "Out of the Blue"/"Into The Black".

Dan =0)

Just pulling up to the site now for today, can see it just fine, so hoping issues have been resolved!

And yes, vouching for Blue's News reliability / uptime as a visitor since... 2000? I've lost count.

Dan =0)

Galactic Civilizations Ultimate Edition
Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity
Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition
Muffin Knight Steam Key
Dead Effect
The Samaritan Paradox
Super Inefficient Golf
POSTAL Steam Key
Monday Night Combat Steam Key

Thanks, Blue (and Dark)!

Thanks, Kxmode and Frans for all the work put in to the redesign - and for all the work done behind the scenes over the years that I've been mostly lurking / visiting and sometimes posting.

Took a walk earlier this afternoon. Here are a small bunch of photos taken.

EDIT: Direct links for those Facebook-averse:
Park, image 1

Park, image 2

Park, image 3

Park, image 4

Park, image 5

Captioned as "Feed me, Seymour..."

Not the park

Dan =0)

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Hey everyone, I'm here, I'm alive and fortunately able to work from home. Have not been out since last Monday, not risking at all due to underlying health issues.

Helping folks in the local community online where I am, trying to keep folks (and myself) sane through occasional music, and really thinking we need to metaphorically de-rootkit, or otherwise format and reinstall from re-examined, peer-reviewed, tested source through a modern compiler. (Poor metaphor, but eh.)

Dan =0)

Gothsicles - Konami Code IV

Just updated.

The interface looks extremely cluttered, now.

There's miniature icon to the left of each title in the games list on the left-hand side in the Library view; along with that, a tile-like listing of the games in a larger area on the right-hand side of the Steam client. Top left above the games list (text titles with miniature icons), several different fields squished together.

What in hell. UI/UX has taken a step back, methinks.

...I use Slackware 14.2 x86_64...

*ducks and runs* =0)

I use Slackware 14.2.... *hides*

Dan =0)

Grokk wrote:
In all seriousness, systemd is invasive garbage that should never have been forced into the main distros.

It controls parts of Linux that it should have never have touched, and in some cases the only resolution to fix certain issues is to reboot. Fuck that, and fuck the guy that wrote it.

Not a fan, either, given what I've read of its history. I've been running Slackware 14.2 (and Windows 10 for games) for about a year or so and have been actively trying to migrate what non-game and Windows/Mac-only music software I can over to Slackware. Have been learning a lot in the process regarding configuration and compiling from source.

Of course - that osrt of thing is not everyone's cup of tea. But, here I am, with bash scripts I wrote to, say, automagically connect to wireless connections on command line. (I'm not entirely "hardcore", I guess - but I try.)

Edited for clarity. Tired.

Mouse bids to buy fox for more money than most any human will ever see in their lifetime.

Dan =0)

As someone with Czech heritage (first-born in the USA of two naturalizad parents), I thought it more appropriate to attribute the demonstrated car-making processes to cyber-Vikings.

EDIT - Also, this.

Dan =0)

New form?

Well for starters: Photographic memory doesn't exist.

There is no demonstrable evidence that it does exist.

If only Kim Peek were still around...

Re: "Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer."

Agreed with Cutter, essentially. The writer does not offer up his own explanation as to, say, where memory may be stored. And, he is not a neuroscientist, but a psychologist. Different fields, though related?

FTA:

The IP perspective requires the player to formulate an estimate of various initial conditions of the ball’s flight – the force of the impact, the angle of the trajectory, that kind of thing – then to create and analyse an internal model of the path along which the ball will likely move, then to use that model to guide and adjust motor movements continuously in time in order to intercept the ball.

That is all well and good if we functioned as computers do, but McBeath and his colleagues gave a simpler account: to catch the ball, the player simply needs to keep moving in a way that keeps the ball in a constant visual relationship with respect to home plate and the surrounding scenery (technically, in a ‘linear optical trajectory’). This might sound complicated, but it is actually incredibly simple, and completely free of computations, representations and algorithms.

Don't humans essentially do what is indicated in the first bit, at least on a subconscious level, based on the present sensory input? (e.g. sound of the bat cracking against the ball, visual flight path of the ball, fuzzy estimation)

Fortunately, because the IP metaphor is not even slightly valid,

Why...? What does the author have to offer?

...unnecessary intellectual baggage

Really? Stoop to this?

I can understand what the author is stating about each individuals brain having its own unique arrangement of (trillions of) neurons based on life experiences and genetics, but there has to be some sort of "basic model" from which those individualistic models branch, and to suggest nothing terribly substantive in place of trouncing established metaphor is, at best, misguided.

Dan =0) (Disclaimer: Not a neuroscientist or doctor, though I play one on stage.)