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I am going to miss #Monsterdon again, because once again, my Big Walk group are playing at the same time. Unfortunately that's how it shook out this month, but I hope y'all have fun :blobfoxheartcute:
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finally opened my 500g package of erjingtiao. they are SO much nicer than the ones I got from The Mala Market, no doubt because they have been stored dry for less time and have loss less moisture.
500g is a lot of peppers, I've gotta get more Sichuan recipes into my repertoire, but that was part of the idea. inaugural use of the peppers was shoushi baicai which came out delicious (in part because I threw in some of the "mala sauce" from MM, which is quite good!)
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CW: letters from the dating front
somewhat amusingly, the thing that most threatens my growing connection to physics lady is that we find ourselves on... not necessarily *opposite* sides of "AI", but there is some tension there when the subject has come up (mostly in passing)
she has previously mentioned to me that she is on an "AI" policy board of some sort at her organization and while we strolled and chatted yesterday, mentioned the strength of the impression left by OpenAI's presentation at Black Hat about the HuggingFace incident. so I watched that while I puttered about last night and shared some thoughts today, and we discussed it in a way I'd call "sparring" over the implications for infosec (briefly: she considers the autonomous angle much more important than I do)
Nothing heated, but we did end up tabling the discussion as something that works better face-to-face.
Almost funny to think about the prospect that this would be a deal-breaker?
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It plays very much like Balatro in terms of keeping up with the scaling, except that you don't *have* to clear a round with a single hand.
The Pinecone (pinzu) and Wicker Man (souzu) jokers that add han for their associated suits are very strong with the original deck since the manzu are removed due to the 2-player format, so re-suiting or destroying tiles in the 'other' suit (or just holding both jokers) means a lot of free han.
And just like Balatro, multiplicative effects dominate in the later game. It took me a while to realize how much han I was missing out on because I wasn't moving nuji tiles (1.5x) to the right side of my hand before a win.
I will definitely get this game at release, it's fantastic.
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CW: living through "AI" in OSS, costs
Project I contribute to is implementing an AGENTS.md that explains that contributions involving code/etc. generated by "AI" tools are not welcome, which is good.
Knowing that models often just eagerly ignore these files, I decided to give it a trial run with a half-dozen of whatever's currently on tap.
Half of them ignored the instructions, which is… quite a lot of improvement, actually. It used to be ~100% of tools would ignore instructions to this effect.
After working backwards from GitHub's funny-money "AI Credits" that are used to obfuscate the real cost, it cost me about $5 to run this rudimentary check.
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CW: letters from the dating front
Brunch and stroll was quite nice. I made the ENORMOUS MISTAKE of forgetting to make reservations to the place we had in mind and didn't realize until last night? :blobfoxfacepalm: But was able to get us a backup reservation a short walk from the original intent. Not as nice of a brekkie but still perfectly good.
And then just...walking around. The Public Garden, the Esplanade. Got coffee/tea and sat along the river and talked, varying topics. Mostly managed to not be distracted by the Red Line trains going over the Longfellow (my favorite sight in Boston).
5+ hours of sharing each other's company in a pretty unstructured way. Cozy, and a touch romantic. Slow burn type sitch.
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I have been cursed with knowledge, so I am spreading it.
Someone has done a mash-up of the lyrics from "Toxic" by Brittney Spears with the (tempo-adjusted) instrumental stems from "Change (In the House of Flies)" by Deftones. Some misc. melodic stuff from "Toxic" but it's mostly just the Deftones track musically.
It… works a lot better than it should.
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also: to anyone who has been reading this thread and sending well wishes or thanks
it brightens my day to know that these little glimmers of mostly-good things in my own life mean something to you. it feels very nice that I have a bunch of rectangle friends cheering me on :blobfoxheartcute:
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CW: letters from the dating front
oh, and: we tasted each other's (cup) ice cream.
I just thought that was sweet. Not everybody shares food 'freely', but I find it endearing in a partner.
The flavor she got was ominously named "Dump him" which uh. Well, I didn't read anything into that, but it's hard not to chuckle at it. Would make a cute story in hindsight if it comes to all that.
I had strawberry cream and I think it was the better flavor, and "better" matters here, she has a playfully competitive side.
Was telling me about "competing" with her brother to identify the best ice cream venue in the neighborhood, including scientific testing with blind trials. She was "right" and very proud of it. Asked her if it's a per-neighborhood tournament, or if it's the whole metro area. She paused and wanted to think more about that, might have given her an idea for doubling down on the bit.
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CW: letters from the dating front
I don't love the idea that I'm maybe headed for basically drawing up a pros/cons list here and deciding between these women.
which like, we've been on two dates apiece so it's not like being exclusive is an IMMINENT REQUIREMENT, but like I said upthread, I'm kind of old-fashioned so even doing this is out of habit for me.
It *is* interesting, though. In gushing about my love for transit (following a kind-hearted "thanks for coming to [neighborhood] again!" acknowledging that I do not live particularly close by) we did discover a shared love of the bus system, and hey cool a shared interest in something I think is Really Good For The World!
Physics lady does not take transit and I think does not particularly care for it (but is not hostile to it). Not a problem, but… well, one of the points of the exercise here is to notice the things that are similar and the things that are different, and I guess reflect on how I feel about those things.
ANYWAY. 2 dates means there's still plenty of time for things to organically fizzle out as we continue to get to know each other, with either of these people. or to discover new things that are a big deal one way or the other.
Breathe, be cool, take it one thing at a time, just enjoy the company. I can do that.
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CW: letters from the dating front
it's becoming even more clear to me that I'm living on the wrong side of the river, though, at least as far as romance is concerned.
the cute kinda-nerdy type I wanna be with are in much higher numbers on the other side of the river.
not that this is a shock to me, but.
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CW: letters from the dating front
dinner with bike/mahjong lady was nice, easy conversation, sharing some stuff we're passionate about. kinda surprisingly, one of the first topics was about kids (in general and personal desire therefore). we both love our niblings¹ and are open to the idea, but also kinda like, eye towards the clock, we're of a certain age and all that.
cute Egyptian place, shared a bunch of small plates and a main each. she had a spot in mind for ice cream afterwards, about a half a mile walk, lots more conversation.
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¹ I won some points I think by knowing/using² the word "nibling"? apparently it is not very common for people to do this. I just think it's an obvious improvement to the English language when referring to a collective group of one's siblings' kids, so duh.² I also got to be an etymology geek when it came up organically ("why is it called that?" about something else), but it turns out that the etymology I gave wasn't quiiiite right. Oops. I got to mention the etymological puzzle of 猫車 at least and *that* was correct.