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Examples of what I mean by modding:

• minecraft mods: add some jar file into your mod folder
• skyrim mods: add some .esp file into your mod folder
• luanti: put some folder with .lua files and config into your .minetest/mods folder

Mods are basically "turing-complete" and can add different types of computation to your application, while integrating with the (GUI) system.

How to design a program that allow for modding?

With interpreted programming languages like python or lua, you can load code as strings at runtime … but is it done that way for these languages (that would be really bad for security)?

eval("print('mod loading ...')")

So roughly how I imagine modding in python to work, a demo in the python repl …

>>> items = {}
>>> newmod = """
... {"name": "holy-mod-sword", "value": 10, "do-damage": lambda x: x.firedamage(1000)}
... """
# loading the mod
>>> items["holy-mod-sword"] = eval(newmod)
>>> items
{'holy-mod-sword': {'name': 'holy-mod-sword', 'value': 10, 'do-damage': <function <lambda> at 0x7f8c710a9d00>}}

is it done that way or similar?

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Project website of the guys who proofed the Einstein tile tiles the plane non-periodically.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23975556

Crossposts might be annoying, because

• essentially they are the "repost" feature of lemmy. And repeats might be low quality spam, because you have to look at the source, how often it was reposted already, etc.
• crossposts might seem like a cry for unwarranted attention, but they might be necessary in a fractured federated system like Lemmy …

Or do you not care when realizing "this is a crosspost"?

Crossposts might be annoying, because

• essentially they are the "repost" feature of lemmy. And repeats might be low quality spam, because you have to look at the source, how often it was reposted already, etc.
• crossposts might seem like a cry for unwarranted attention, but they might be necessary in a fractured federated system like Lemmy …

Or do you not care when realizing "this is a crosspost"?

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23974103

3 "high IQ meme guys" inhabit widely different body-heights on a normal distribution, which uses the Body height as the sample space.

Body Height is normally distributed. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/mixture_distribution/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:K%C3%B6rpergr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe.png

The joke: IQ and Body-Height are unrelated, but both IQ and body height follow the normal distribution: IQ by definition and body height does so by empirically measuring it (since random variables that control body height are summed up to arrive at the outcome).

3 "high IQ meme guys" inhabit widely different body-heights on a normal distribution, which uses the Body height as the sample space.

Body Height is normally distributed. https://www.johndcook.com/blog/mixture_distribution/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:K%C3%B6rpergr%C3%B6%C3%9Fe.png

The joke: IQ and Body-Height are unrelated, but both IQ and body height follow the normal distribution: IQ by definition and body height does so by empirically measuring it (since random variables that control body height are summed up to arrive at the outcome).

Volumetric lighting is so cool. But here the Mods/Volumetric Lightning settings where tuned to make the effect extremely obvious …

The Italian maker wanted to export to Libya. But it never happened, and it stands around in storage 🚧.

… yes they used cow gut/intestines 🐄🐄. 7 layers of cow gut where sewn onto a carrier layer of fabric to create an airtight balloon that could hold hydrogen lifting gas for some days 🎈. 50.000 cows where slaughtered for one gas-cell

Advantages over rubber of cow gut:

• rubber-cotton balloons got brittle with repeated uses with hydrogen filling. Cow gut is a flexible material that lasted longer, though expensive.
• rubber balloons can get statically charged. A small spark can flame all the hydrogen at once. Cattle gut does not charge as quickly as rubber.

Source:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbeater%27s_skin#Applications
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschl%C3%A4gerhaut german article mentions some more numbers data.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship#Envelope

Discusses how low effort AI posts for engagement farming still get accepted by some users as real in social media feeds …

Browse from a random list of websites, classified as "indie" 🎲.

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