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  Twenty years of #minnebar swag.

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  Paul Cantrell talking about using Signal for the singing resistance during Metro Storm: "our friend that we asked too much of" #minnebar

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  Dan Lew @danlew explaining passkeys, with help from Neo at #minnebar

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  TIL you can download an app from MISO that shows the real-time power mix in my power grid. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.misoenergy.mobile #Minnebar Clean Counts talking about renewable energy credits.

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  Matt Decuir talking about the 2010s in Minnesota tech at #Minnebar

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  https://www.jamesnolangandy.com/ One of the participants in my session this morning pointed at an artist who takes "the machine that makes the art" quite literally!

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  At Parc Jean-Drapeau (in Montreal) today.

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  Cover reveal -- and preorders open -- for Marissa Lingen's "A Dubious Clamor": https://marissalingen.com/blog/?p=4374 I'm very excited to see this novella come out!

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  A good time today at the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History today; not so many photos. It's an interesting site with a layered history of literally the first French settlement on the island -- then an inn, warehouses, the first sewer collector in North America, and a major commercial and governmental building. The last unfortunately wasn't built well for the conditions and had to be destroyed after its pilings rotted. But you can see its foundations preserved (including...

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  Four shots from wandering around Montreal this evening: 1. A skyscraper with cranes attached doing some sort of maintenance (I haven't looked up which one it is yet, I think I prefer the mystery) 2. The canal that was once the main link between ocean traffic and lake traffic. Still operational but only for pleasure traffic, according to the signs. 3. A big neoclassical box full of bureaucrats. 4. A decaying industrial ruin on Rue Mill.

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  Happy #TilingTuesday with these stone tiles from the Chinese Garden in Jardin Botanique de Montreal

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  @quephird Hey, thanks! You can see the shorter version at https://youtu.be/mtSjgxS-QS4 I doubt I will be able to record the Minnebar version, unfortunately.

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  John Chu's "The Subtle Art of Folding Space" is great! It is also the most chip-designer science fiction novel that ever noveled. I don't know how much of this is obvious to people who have not worked with computer hardware engineers. It features tasty food and a supremely uncomfortable sibling dynamic (what is a little murder attempt between sisters.) #ScienceFiction

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  Selfie with Frida Kahlo (2017)

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  Sad news today: C.J. Cherryh has announced that there will be no more books from her: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1F27iFDAzo/ I've greatly enjoyed all her works, and even the recent "Hinder Stars" (collaboratively written with her longtime partner Jane Fancher) show an ability to build a tense, engaging narrative out of what is essentially an economic mystery. Her works engage with "the other" in a way that insists thinking beings don't...

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  How does specifying 'Reasoning: low' in a system prompt (as described in the gpt-oss-20b model card here https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b) lead to fewer tokens spent on reasoning output? The "reasoning" stops when a limit is hit or a special "end-of-reasoning" token is generated. I assume that the runtime is not inspecting the system prompt and artificially fudging with the probabilities or token limit. So the adjusted output probabi...

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  Mr. 0 (from #OnePiece) and Baroque Works have a culture problem. Mr. 0 does not tolerate failure -- the price is usually death. In most organizations, this is standard villainous best practice. While henchmen overestimate their chances of long-term success [see Ming 2013], perceived value from leadership roles creates an equilibrium favorable to the overall criminal enterprise. However, the Baroque Works agent class seems to be mainly assigned to unpleasant tasks on minuscule islands. Thus, th...

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  Slides updated! https://github.com/mgritter/rogue-room-generation/blob/main/talk/Minnebar%202026%20-%20Sol%20LeWitt%2C%20Combinatorial%20Enumeration%2C%20and%20Rogue.pptx.pdf Of two minds about my early-morning talk. Is it actually a full 40 minutes? Will session 0 eat into the time anyway? Or should I bring some art supplies so we can hang around making some serial art? #Minnebar

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  I don't think I entirely approve of this one. Minute Cryptic - 30 April, 2026 "Lamb's clothing returned by wolf in front of goat - a sheepish exchange?" (8) ⚪️🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 1 hints – 3 under the community par (49,923 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/?utm_source=share

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  I'm doing an extended version of my talk about serial art and Rogue, at #Minnebar! The original version at the Roguelike Celebration was just 10 minutes, but I had to cut a lot of content so I think this will be fun to revisit. https://sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/1956

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  Two Regent ascensions (3 and 4) tonight by basically just ignoring the stupid sword and spamming stars. Unfortunately I'm coming to believe the ability to bank up an unlimited amount of a resource is just broken. 3x Black Hole on this one which is 9 sweet points of global damage for gaining _or_ spending stars. The build is otherwise trash but it doesn't matter because Just Keep Spamming Stars. #SlayTheSpireII

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  Aphyr casting shade both on LLMs _and_ humans. https://woof.group/@aphyr/116364118144210270

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  I had a very simple theory for this run. I had True Grit, Bludgeon, and Stampede. Exhaust every other card in my deck so that I'm throwing down a free-cost Bludgeon every turn--- right? Instead I went on a shopping spree because I had Monkey's Paw so it was hard to turn down additional powers. And if I'm playing _two_ attacks per turn, might was well have something else? And if I'm exhausting cards then I should get Howl From Beyond... This is my problem, I ca...

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  From today's #MoneyStuff, the question is raised: if Elon Musk is found to have violated securities law and must disgorge $143m in unjust earnings, but not enough specific victims can be found, what should happen? High priced lawyers are busy arguing that courts cannot order repayment unless it goes to specific victims. And if no such victims can be identified then Elon gets to keep his cash, presumably. Giving the money back to the market makers who were the last link I the sale seems...

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  One thing I haven't heard discussed much about LLM-based programming: Are we at the end of any serious programming language evolution? It seems to me that if you believe (a) coding assistants are going to be the dominant way software is written, and (b) the only way to get reasonably good coding assistants is to train on tons of existing code, then it follows that (c) new programming languages will be at a significant disadvantage because there's just no corpus to train on. Th...