Zwillingssterns Weltenwald

I read a lot about new technologies regarding health, the energy transition, the future of mobility, or mobile phones. And for many engineers, legal or societal issues are "non-problems." I used to see it that way myself. But when I look at the world, it is actually the opposite: Every technical challenge we currently face can be solved if we, as a society, decide to take it on together. The real problems, however, are not technical. They lie in deciding what matters most to us. Which challenges we want to solve.

→ politik/challenges-technical-social.html

Gedankensplitter zu Rollenspielen und verwandten Themen wie Science Fiction und Fantasy. Wie die Kommentare, aber für Rollenspielzeug.

→ rollenspiel/ideen.html

Denk daran, dass ich auch nur ein Mensch bin, der im Netz schreibt, was er denkt, und versucht, durch Erfahrungen und Lesen Gelerntes weiterzugeben, von dem er hofft, dass es stimmt und anderen hilft, aber bei vielem nicht sicher sein kann.

→ ich/nur-ein-mensch.html

Every day I sketch the best thing of the previous day. This video shows the sketches from the days when Baldur’s Gate 3 was the Best Thing of the Day in my first two playthroughs.

→ kreatives/bg3-plotsketches.html

I’m deeply annoyed by the sorry state of decision making in programming. It’s OK to rely on intuition in a creative field like software development, but given how critical software is for todays society it is horrible that we don’t even know fundamentals like whether types improve quality enough to warrant their cost or whether parentheses are less readable than Pascal — beyond anecdotal evidence, the effect of funding, and feelings influenced by what you already know.

→ software/language-empiric.html

If Baldur’s Gate 3 stops working because Wine updated to version 10, you can try to hack something together or find a flatpak someone else maintains for you and keep playing. Or you can learn about Guix inferior packages and gain a tool for truly eternal package definition. There are tons of reasons why you may want that, but “my game stopped working!” is as good as any other :-).

→ software/guix-specified-package.html

To follow along, install Guile and try the examples as you read.

→ software/programming-scheme.html

This 90 minutes talk describes how peer-to-peer networks managed to interactively search 4 million computers with the bandwidth of 2004, which goals they failed to reach, and what information the networks expose as part of their operation.

→ software/p2p-talk.html

🇩🇪 Gute Neuigkeiten sind Nachrichten, die Mut machen, selbst aktiv zu werden, um etwas zu verbessern. Zum Teilen: www.gute-neuigkeiten.de

→ politik/gute-neuigkeiten.html

To follow along, install Wisp and try the examples as you read.

→ software/programming-basics-wisp.html

Das Klimageld ist die zentrale Maßnahme, um Klimafreundliches Leben zu fördern.

→ politik/anspruch-klimageld.html

The Alphabet in names, but not the standard names, but scientist names; with colors and usable for plantuml. Created because Names are easier to follow than saying “A, B, C”. That’s especially true for lecture slides and other graphics.

→ anderes/alice-brian-carol.html

Der Generationenvertrag der Umlagefinanzierten Rente trägt, wann immer Leute arbeiten¹ — auch nach einer Krise wieder. Eine Fonds-gedeckte Altersvorsorge bricht in einer #Krise zusammen und bleibt dann zerstört.

→ politik/generationenvertrag-rente.html

I just wanted to link someone a dork tower comic strip I remember and ended up OCRing all the strips because search engines may be throwing out billions of dollars for AI but can’t do text recognition on comic strips that have been online for two decades.

→ software/find-dorktower.html

Horrifying quotes by tech billionaires, how it fits in project 2025, and how the prophets for changed society that they read connect them to JD Vance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no (sorry for the youtube link)

Top comment from a month ago: “ Congratulations! Two weeks in and no one thinks you're crazy anymore. ” …

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114239139434781923

In Mathe-Ass könnt ihr jetzt euren Highscore exportieren und importieren:

https://www.draketo.de/anderes/mathe-ass

Ein erster Schritt, um Lernfortschritte sichtbarer zu machen: wenn die Highscore wichtiger wird, muss erstmal sichergestellt werden, dass sie nicht verloren geht.

Bitte sagt Bescheid, wenn was nicht klappt.

Dank für die Motivation, das endlich anzugehen, gebührt dem Architect of Games: “How Monster Hunter Mastered Progression”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4anoUua_Mo

#programming math schule gamedev

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114237129468585422

I just realized that #Django intentionally does not document how to use #doctests (they say so in the forums¹).

And I’m annoyed right now.

positive: they are wrong about doctests not being maintained in #Python: python 3.13 brings colored output for doctests:

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.13.html#whatsnew313-doctest

I consider doctests to be one of the most elegant ways to test beautifully self-contained functions with easy to understand input.

¹ https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/testing-django-with-doctest/25550

EDIT: please read the thread! happy

#programmming

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114230215439621818

"Things you can do if you're not ready to ask for #ADHD accommodations at work"

https://gomakethings.com/things-you-can-do-if-youre-not-ready-to-ask-for-adhd-accommodations-at-work/

by @cferdinandi

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114229495057884301

Terrorismus, Hamas

Arte: Das System Hamas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpcSEp8vIU

„Wenn Sie die Palästinenser fragen … »nein, keinen Frieden«“

„die seit ihrer Gründung vom Wechselspiel von Gewalt und Gegengewalt profitiert“

Ich bin nicht wirklich schockiert. Die Doku ist nicht die erste Quelle, über die ich das mitbekommen habe. Aber sie ist sehr gut aufgearbeitet.

Meine Hauptkritik: sie nennt am Ende Lösungen, als seien nicht seit fast einem Jahrhundert alle Versuche gescheitert.

🧵Ende

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/114228812930446320