Centralization of Power and the Weight of Knowledge

Seeing what is going on in South Korea reminds of something I have been thinking about lately: I strongly oppose authoritarianism and centralization of power. This has more to do with business than government, but it still applies there. I don't [...]

Re: More Walking, More Music, and Getting Festive.

Good to hear that your stamina is higher and that you are in good spirits. Hopefully the snow we might see soon continues to produce the right holiday vibe.

Re: hello there!

Good to hear that you mostly managed to get out of the wheelchair. If you manage to keep moving, you will probably find that easier to maintain. I also keep thinking I need to look into getting a new coat. I have had this one for probably about [...]

Re: Tiredness

Still not sure what the issue is but I have been having trouble getting good sleep (although at least I felt awake, yesterday). A piece of good news is that the health scare close to home turned out to be not an issue.

I hope that you have been [...]

Re: The Population Paradox

I think that part of the issue with modern AI is finding an actual application. Most of it seems to be used to replace jobs which shouldn't exist (writing rage-bait "journalism" online) or have needless overhead (using AI to convert points into [...]

Tiredness

Today is odd in that I was incredibly tired. Ran a basic errand to get groceries, then felt largely unfocused (slowly getting work done on OctoberProject), then just couldn't stay awake by evening.

I am not sure why but I suspect it is either the [...]

The Population Paradox

Something I sometimes think about is the idea that humanity benefits from great innovators but said innovators seem to only appear randomly, not created by circumstances but enabled by them. This is much of why humanity benefits from there being [...]

Desperation in Isolation

I feel like I am losing my mind and my health more rapidly than usual, these days. I am not sure if it is the result of the shift in the weather, how long I have spent toiling in futility and irrelevance, or just the usual march of age.

As a [...]

Re: Good news and a visit from extended family.

Yeah, I remember seeing some of the Short Circuit movies, back in the day. I didn't know that they were filmed in Toronto, though.

Ah, the 80s was such a great era of techno-optimism. Humans were starting to get really good at building and using [...]

Work progressing: Movement in OctoberProject

The work to get natural diagonal movement working in OctoberProject was relatively straight-forward (the underlying mechanism always supported this so it was just creating a new entry-point). However, since this requires a new version of the [...]

Affairs in Order

Finally got everything done and signed regarding my Will and PoA documents. I can now die knowing that I won't leave chaos and confusion in my wake.

It is nice knowing that this is finally sorted out.

Also, my adventure took me near a Cinnabon, [...]

Glad you are liking the look of it, so far.

It is actually to the point where the game is now playable enough that I can start using the "feel" of it to figure out priorities.

There will obviously be lots of blocks which require models, later, but [...]

Work on OctoberPeaks is going pretty well. There are still some problems related to render order with transparent blocks and the model textures aren't right but it is something.

This involved needing to learn the basics of Blender, which wasn't [...]

Re: In My Leg Brace Era

I hope that they are comfortable and help you walk confidently without relying on the chair.

Hardware and Slow Motivation

I finally got fed up with the keyboard on my laptop (gaming and development machine) crapping out randomly (half the keys stop working from time to time) so I decided to go get a replacement. So, now I have a basic external gaming keyboard (I [...]

Re: Korey is 15!

Ah, such a perfect little kitty! I hope that he is still doing well and in good health.

Re: 42

I hope that the cake was good and the day was good, overall.

Just a quick peek at what is going on in OctoberPeaks. I got a placeholder cuboid meshing implementation connected so now the shape of the world can be viewed in-world. Of course there are no graphics but this perspective should at least give you [...]

The Calm of the Wine

I find it odd, these days, that I find such comfort in solitude and wine. I dislike solitude and I have been told to dislike the wine, but here we are.

To experience simultaneously the feeling of disconnection from oneself and complete immersion [...]

Remembering Linear Algebra

This work on OctoberPeaks takes me back to half a lifetime ago... back when I actually still remembered all of this math.

The top-down perspective of OctoberPlains didn't really require any interesting linear algebra since it was a basic [...]

Judgmental Concerns

Thinking back to a few days ago, I find myself disappointed in some of the things I was saying, when out drinking. Sure, this was said quietly to someone I trust, but I found that the things I was saying were oddly ugly and judgmental. To be [...]

Working and not much else

Been getting a few good days of lots of work, lately, combined with generally moving forward on OctoberProject. In fact, working toward this OctoberPlains release candidate build has been feeling more fast-paced than I expected. Lots of play [...]

Re: Entertaining Channel: Overly Sarcastic Productions

I hope that you like it. I find that channel both informative and entertaining.

That is annoying, that you didn't see this for a while. It is something I have noticed with IPFS: It tends to be pretty bad at finding things with few providers [...]

Re: Interesting photo I took.

That is a pretty good picture.

Will the new braces help you to not need the chair?

Entertaining Channel: Overly Sarcastic Productions

I rarely find a channel with so much content which is interesting, concise, and surprisingly funny. I figured I would point it out (especially since some of it is talking about writing tropes, which is probably of interest to many people with that [...]