Before I got meds my go to when I woke up from panic attacks and couldn’t calm down was putting on an episode of ARIA: The Animation. It’s super chill.

I’m not familiar with the tool you’re using and my big, traditionally written projects have largely been organically grown over the years as unpredictable requirements change – mostly I just try to keep things readable enough that I can jump back in when I need to do so on old projects…

It sounds like you want to incorporate LLMs into brainstorming though. Maybe try using the word “elicitation” in your prompts for early phases? e.g. “ROLE: Requirements Elicitation Specialist” or “ROLE: Architecture Design Elicitation Specialist”. You can also meta-prompt to get a system prompt tailored to your specific needs.

Hmm. I’m not exactly sure how I got there or what would work for other people, but it can be done.

Maybe try thinking of it like pressing the clutch in a manual drive car? The engine might keep spinning, but if you hold down the clutch and ignore it eventually it’ll run out of gas…

Or maybe think of it like tuning out someone annoying chattering nearby. They might keep talking for a bit but if you ignore them, eventually they’ll get bored and shut up / leave. Even if they come back, just ignore them again if you don’t want to engage.

Or, try focusing on sensory details instead of mental chatter. Really notice what you’re seeing/hearing/feeling without actively describing it or planning anything.

I don’t usually stay in that state all that long, but sometimes it’s nice to just be.

I suspect most of them do not have an internal monologue in the same (verbose) sense that humans can have, but the relatively closely related ones (e.g. mammals, probably) likely have similar memory/sensory integration experiences. It’s possible to get your own inner monologue to “shut up” for a bit, and just be and feel and do. You can still remember an experience without talking to yourself about it as well. I suspect that closely related animals’ experience is like that – although differing based on the particular set of senses and drives unique to their species.

The further away you go from that, the less idea I have of what’s going on (besides “state machine” of some sort). I have only the vaguest notion of what it might be like to be a spider, and even less of an idea of what it’s like to be a starfish.

If you’re happy and you know it, honk your goose!

HONK HONK

If you’re happy and you know it, honk your goose!

HONK HONK

If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it – if you’re happy and you know it, honk your goose!

HONK! HONK!

Imagine some future PugJesus type excavating our memes from the archives and reposting this 1000 years from now. 🧐️

That one flue over my head. 😉️

Makes me think of this song: Fox Tale Waltz Part 1

I say it more like nɪʃ personally.

He writes out the entire code, and it works every time.

Well, I’m not sure if they’re entirely human if it actually works the first time every time – but they’re definitely not any of the LLMs I’ve encountered… :-)

I’m thinking obsessive about work (never mutes their phone type) and using AI tools. Politely check (preferably in person) to make sure you’re not waking them up in the middle of the night with off hour requests; there are some people who feel compelled to respond to everything immediately instead of getting back to you the next day.

Generally the professor in charge of the research group.

Going back even older… Mysterious Cities of Gold. That’s never been remade or adapted…

They actually resumed the story directly in a sequel series in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Cities_of_Gold_(2012_TV_series)

Is BotBall still a thing? They had that (waaay) back when I was in high school, at least.

Congrats. I groaned IRL.

Hmm. So… how long do you think before we start seeing news stories about their DRM servers getting hit with DDOS attacks (or other network fuckery) and no one being able to play their PS4/PS5 games? 😛️

Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic… (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don’t know what I mean.)

Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.

The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it – I’ve run it on a Framework Desktop – but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That’s just asking for trouble… If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I’d rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.

Probably hundreds of millions or billions if you include things like washing machines, dish washers, automated gates, garage openers, etc. that automate specific tasks. Just the read/write arms in hard disks alone is probably a staggeringly huge number, if we’re counting things like that…

Based on what I see on my Steam Deck (not sure on Bazzite specifics), it looks like the WINE prefixes are stored in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/compatdata

I think the number in each folder name is the game’s steam ID, which makes it a bit cryptic. You can probably find that ID by running grep -i "name of game" *.acf in the steamapps folder. The files are named like appmanifest_STEAMID.acf, if I understand how this works correctly. You might also just be able to search for the file you’re looking for directly though if you know what the name is inside the prefix and it’s distinct enough.

Glad you got outside and were able to get things sorted out without too much trouble! Having gone from “complete shut-in” back to “goes outside at least once in a while” myself, I will say it gets easier the more you do it.

Not really. I’m just in kind of a snarky mood. 😛️