#optimization problem

[automatticdata]

Optimizing Connections at Meetups

Explore the journey of how Automattic leverages the power of optimization and genetic algorithms to transform our meetups into more engaging and meaningful experiences.

Meetups at Automattic Automattic has been a globally distributed company from the start. A few times each year, we come together for a meetup to align on team strategy and to forge stronger relationships. We’ve found that organized dinner groups are a great way to facilitate connections and meet new people from various teams. Creating meetup dinner groups turned out to be an interesting…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A whole new meaning to Gay Chicken.

(For: Anonymous raffle winner!)

[askoverkill]

check on your eye, maybe that'll get it over with

transcript below:

(...You still haven't had your bad bleed yet.)

(You carefully unwrap the bandages.) (And then, gently, feel at the dead skin.)

(...)

(There's nothing in there.) (But there's no blood yet? How is that possible?)

(You glance behind you, back at the well.) (So it was the price for your wish, after all.)

(Heheh, you place the bandages back in place.) (Thank you universe!) (Thank you Loop, or whatever power comes from the well!)

(This is your chance!) (You control time, you can do anything!) (With enough tries, you'll succeed!)

(You'll prove it to everyone.) (Despite everything, you're not dead yet.) (Nothing is going to stop you.)

[artgletic]

case study of the self-identified god

[venacoeurva]

Man the remake is kind of an unoptimized mess huh

I mean I know it's a UE game and a modern game and neither of those help in the stability department, but I just love how freezing/crashing trying to leave the sewers is a massive problem too many people are having and optimizations are happening via fans and not official patches atm bc the game is unplayable otherwise (or still not at all) <3<3<3

I'm playing it on a Lenovo Legion 5 with RAM upgraded to 32gb and it actually runs well on higher settings (I thought it was gonna chug but I stand corrected) UNTIL you try to leave, then the load screens are where the issues are with me. Screen tearing is abysmal if you don't use v-sync too

I want a refund it's so bad and I didn't even pay anything

[kermitsbutton]

Hating on jimmy like he is one of the worst, most gruesome villains humanity as ever seen, and dont get me wrong he's quite irredeamable imo and deserves to be hated, sometimes feels like a simplification of his character.

It somehow feels like the whole we're hating jimmy all my bros and aunts and cousins hate jimmy is overshadowing the realness and true horror of the character.

The slow, creeping feeling that there are people out there like this, and not just one or two no, there are so many people who share at least a bit of his character (tho most PROBABLY would not crash a spaceship). Not just one fucked up person but a society build around them.

It's almost, not quite but almost, similar to putting curly on a pedastool, saying he did nothing wrong he's my lil blorbo uwu, putting only blame on the abuser (yet again folks he deserves a LOT of blame do not misinterpret my 6AM interpretation) and forgetting the people who were complacent, who turned an eye. The people who were in a position where they could act, a position of power they decide to ignore.

And I think thats really one of the interesting parts of the game. All the characters are somewhat flawed in their own way or represent something we need to think about. It's human, complex and a commentary on society which just doesn't work if you simplify the characters too much in any direction.

[satosray]

i do not fuck with that 'not a girl's girl' phrase. the most horrible person you know will throw that at you for trying to tell them, 'hey maybe you are being an asshole?'

[jowzii]

DISABILITY TIP: MAKING A BED

THIS IS PURELY FROM MY EXPERIENCE AS A HOUSEKEEPER WHO SUFFERED FROM hEDS AND MENTAL ILLNESS AND THE IMMENSE HATRED OF MAKING BEDS:

One of the most annoying parts of making a bed, I found, was actually finding what corners to put on the mattress. You'd think you'd get it right by putting one corner on first, but then the sheet couldn't stretch over to the other corner because it was actually the width of the bed - WHATEVER.

I noticed (in my two years of being the sole housekeeper for a 40+ room motel) that THE TAG ALWAYS GOES ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER.

It doesn't matter if you got a king bed, a twin bed, a cot, a queen bed, whatever; if your fitted sheet/flat sheet has a tag on it, 99% of the time whatever corner that tag is closest to (or on) is the BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER.

Meaning: if you were to hold that tag in your right hand and stand at the foot of your bed, the corner of the bed closest to you, on your right, belongs to the corner that you're holding (with the tag in your right hand!!!)

PRO TIP: if for some reason that doesn't work, pass the tagged corner over to your left hand, and your problem will be solved inshallah. I found all of this to be true with hotel linens and my own mismatched linens at home.

(I'm putting a bunch of tags because as a disabled and mentally ill/neurodivergent person, I remember absolutely having a meltdown because I couldn't find the correct corner before I was a housekeeper.)

[sergle]

ironically i love thrifting but ive never thought about using ebay, do you have any tips or keywords you use on it to find deals and shifty stuff/wording to look out for?

honestly I don't find ebay to be shifty for buying stuff! people are scared about using it sometimes and I think it's a little funny lol I guess the tip would be that if you search for an item with vague enough terms, you'll get some SHEIN-esque mass produced clothes muddying the results. and you know it when you see it, because those listings look like shit btw. this type of thing:

like, these are real listings and everything, and you'd get the product, but they are obviously not what you're looking for. you can ignore these, but if you want to filter them out, you can just narrow the search to SPECIFICALLY pre-owned items.

There isn't really any wording to look out for-- the only other thing would just be to make sure the stuff you get can be returned, bc sellers can specify whether or not they'll take the items back!

[wesavegotham]

I'm only 26 and I already feel like an embittered old person when I look at the state of the world right now.

[quotelr]

Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.

Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

[vaniliens]

You guys got any character storage sites thats not toyhouse or unvale or characterhub or ai or story plotters or gacha life or dnd stats or google drive or amino or obsidian or notion or

[kaurwreck]

I hate how fandom does flower symbolism; there are very few, if any, universal flower meanings, and flower symbolism is nonsense unless rooted in specificity.

[sendmyresignation]

every time someone mentions the way music-related algorithms work in the best interests of major labels pushing their artists for their own gain and therefore are often embedded with bias and cut off new avenues of discovery everyone comes out of the woodwork to mention "well, anecdotally to my specific circumstance, I've discovered (5) new artists with sub-one thousand regular listeners completely detached from any information or scene or cohesive idea of taste on my weekly currated playlists so therefore algorithms actually work amazing" like what are you talking about. can we be serious please.

[peaterookie]

Found this cool drawing i made, possibly a concept of demon lupin before i made his actual design.

orrr it could just be a cool outfit i wanted to draw on him. either way it made me want to also share my other concepts of dem lup and ang goe and explain my design

i knew the first one wasnt gonna be final obvs because i was kinda thinking on dem lup's initial role. when i landed on him being kinda the prince of the underworld and deciding he aint for that i wanted to show through his outfit that he's carefree and chill but also has a rich kid vibe lol

seeing the lupin's canon design already sorta shows it I didn't really change much of it in the end. the punkish? outfit above was just too extra for him imo

before i wanna show the design i landed on I also wanna mention this drawing since this was the drawing that started the au in the first place. i casually drew this in class along with angel goemon, and lupin was the only one that ended up getting redrawn on digital.

ok there we go

this was very rough and rushed since I didn't really think this au was really gonna be serious and stuff (still isn't but im sorta invested in developing it in my head now)

one thing youll notice is that lupin's horns are red for most of these drawings and also much longer. while this is fine i decided to change it to stubby white horns later on for a more symbolic reason.

Lupin's personality is this au is leaning more on cagli lupin with some roughness to it. he's deep down a kindhearted character. bros totally fucking chill he's really not evil at all. but given how he's raised in a pretty fucked up and evil place he still behaves a bit like a rat

to show that behind that scary and evil exterior, his horns are white to show his purity and kindness. they're also stubby to show his lack of aggression

demon's horns in this au also show their inherent mental and physical health in a way. if they're long and sharp they are healthy, if it's the opposite they're probably not doing so well. I'll let you guys figure out what this could mean for lupin.

let's move onnn tooo goemonn

the main reason why that first reference above was not kept was because of how bad the outfit for goemon was, i was honestly embarrassed at myself even then for not figuring out something better and i really struggled to make the colors work LMAO

eventually as i developed his personality and beliefs, the more this got easier for me and i finally arrived at the design you see now.

i think you can tell at this point that i really really love using colors to convey symbolism throughout my designs.

for this au it is primarily white and black. white represents what you typically think of the angel, a purehearted being. and black is the impure and demonic color, it represents the ugly side of things. even then black does not represent evil or should be interpretted as a sign that the character is bad.

this is especially with goemon. the outfit you see above is the one he adorns after he has accepted his demon half.

before this his outfit would have been completely white, to show the repression of the trait that he felt hatred and disgust towards because he has been taught that it was dirty and ugly. lupin would end up helping him realize that it is not the case and he should accept the way he is.

but yeah anyways this design is way better lmao. also note that i also changed his wings to be half-bird half-bat, so this means he would not be able to fly during the beginning because he wants to conceal his demon side. it is not only ruining him mentally but also physically.

anyways, since ive explained lupin's personality i should also explain what I've changed for goemon too. i think it's best to say that its a combination of anime and manga goe, since he is a bit more serious, stubborn, and misguided, but still has the gentle and graceful mannerisms of manga goe. he's also a bit sassier too, he counters and compliments lupin's carefreeness

anyways this is like totally not organized at all lol, I just wanted to ramble on about these designs since I've put a lotta thought into it and wanted to share it given the nice feedback i got on the reference post. (if you haven't seen it, check it out!)

since my job is done now, I'll see you guys later. bye!

[agentrouka-blog]

I think the reason why Ned didn't have a plan for Jon was because he was too focused on keeping Jon safe and secure and keep his identity hidden since he's actually Lyanna's and has Targ blood. If Jon was his actual bastard and nothing else Ned would have been able to think clearly and arrange a suitable future for him as a bastard son, but because Jon is so much more than that Ned wasn't thinking clearly and the question of his future and what he could do for the rest of his life didn't fully occur to Ned

Pretty much.

The guy didn't want to engage with a traumatic subject where he could avoid it, and unfortunately for all involved, Ned was the one with the ultimate power and he could avoid it as much as he pleased. No answers, not even comforting evasions or half-truths for either Jon or Catelyn. No effective reassurance of what his intentions were with Jon within their family for either of the two people most worried about just that.

If Jon had actually been his bastard, Ned would likely have been able to simply and effectively engage with all of these open questions because he would have made all the choices leading up to the situation in the first place, from sleeping with someone to deciding what should happen to the child in the context of his marriage. He could have controlled and therefore owned up to all of it.

But none of those were his choices and he never engaged with the situation as if they were. Only ever as something that happened to him - which it did - in the most traumatic time of his entire life.

Ned with Jon: