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Tweets from 2019/10

  1. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb well, the thing that unpicks this for me is that they're leaving it til the very last minute to put this stuff forward. take it or leave it, they didn't want to take it, europe is refusing to give us a deal, why are they sabotaging us, betrayal, (not my fault)
  2. RT @artetxem: Who said that training GPT-2 or BERT was expensive? "We use 512 Nvidia V100 GPUs [...] Upon the submission of this paper, tr…
  3. saw a thing ripping at a list of pedagogical prompts which presuppose the social construction of mathematics earlier, and i want to take a minute to say that the philosophy of mathematics is weird and hard and confusing, and was an obstacle to me learning math when i was wee
  4. …in reply to @v21
    i found "Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being" very helpful in making a lot of these questions clearer, and providing plausible mechanisms for working through them
  5. …in reply to @v21
    i remember, for example, being in a swimming pool changing room and talking about infinity with my dad, and really puzzling at the difference between nought point nine recurring and one. with more time to think about it: yeah, that's really confusing.
  6. …in reply to @v21
    a big moment of realization when i read about fencepost errors and realized why i lost the ability to do addition in school for a day or two
  7. …in reply to @v21
    and the fact that teachers generally wouldn't talk about this stuff, and instead took my halting confusion as a lack of understanding of the things they were trying to teach and doubled down on explaining it a different way without addressing my fundamental confusion...
  8. …in reply to @v21
    anyway, here's a mathematician @_julesh_/1179026611649335296
  9. …in reply to @robertpeacock22
    @robertpeacock22 same (okay, okay, I've played some subsequent ones a good number of times, too. but still, mainly Liberty Island, over and over)
  10. RT @concinnus: Discovery 21108 #gif #abstract #design #geometry #generative #retro #digitalart (via @protobacillus)
  11. RT @haleymlotek: It took me ten years but I finally figured out why organizing reminds me of being a makeup artist thenewinquiry.com/so-many-secrets
  12. RT @10kimaginaryboy: In that dress, he made a most convincing maiden.
  13. RT @derangedpoetess: My brother Alec Holowka died just over a month ago. I've been writing non-stop since then. This is the hardest and mo…
  14. having a pleasant morning with a cup of tea and reading about coroutine support in C chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
  15. RT @KongTsungGan: It'll take more force than what the #CCP’s so far brought to bear, thru its proxies, the #HK govt & police, to put us dow…
  16. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno you're not the only one with milk problems @Amy_Wiseman/246912207634444288
  17. …in reply to @oopsohno
    @oopsohno milk is thicker than water
  18. …in reply to @JenuinePanic
    @JenuinePanic write in vote for bar billiards
  19. RT @okchickadee: These have been taped up in my office for 6.5 years and I finally took them down today! They’re from before Tiffany laid d…
  20. RT @bombsfall: another question: say you're out wandering the fields at night, perhaps thinking of a dead lover, and that dead lover appear…
  21. RT @patrickashe: Big fan of this BBC mock up of House House's Slack conversation about geese from this tweet: @mjmcmaster/763596145452912640 https…
  22. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe holy shit
  23. …in reply to @dinosaurrparty
    @dinosaurrparty pints pint pints!!!
  24. …in reply to @v21
    @dinosaurrparty (it will be nice to see you; maybe we should get a drink or something)
  25. …in reply to @v21
    we're also hiring for a senior producer! it's still a friendly studio & they're still interesting projects - come help us actually make them real. (as with all jobs: if you're interested, but your experience doesn't line up quite right, please still apply) grnh.se/fc57d31b2
  26. …in reply to @v21
    (it also still pays well)
  27. …in reply to @septidecimal
    @septidecimal thanks for letting me know!! think it should come back soon
  28. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort smashed it!!!
  29. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn a while back i was watching bullet journal videos with @katbamkapow and i figured out that what they do is dull the terror of examining your life & future plans by giving you a lot of soothing stationery-work to do, and then they made sense to me
  30. …in reply to @v21
    @Thairyn @katbamkapow the nice thing, though, is that you can't do it wrong. and any of the practices seem like they're useful in themselves. use what seems useful, imo.
  31. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn @katbamkapow i officially give you permission to buy a nice notebook, even if you haven't finished your old one
  32. RT @nytimes: After two ICE officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear — a testament to the agenc…
  33. RT @Foone: I like this list of reactions the people in Untitled Goose Game can have.
  34. RT @PavilionBooks: Out now! 'Board Games to Create and Play' is an all-in-one book with everything you need to invent your own games and st…
  35. …in reply to @GretchenAMcC
    @GretchenAMcC similar to "yr" (instead of "your")
  36. …in reply to @WorkWithPoppy
  37. RT @10kimaginaryboy: Until he bathes, he is poetic.
  38. RT @piercepenniless: @LRB If the government proceeds with its mooted prorogation and tries to pass a Queen's Speech just days before EUCO,…
  39. RT @Kaleidopix: [conceptart]: - [coucǝbʇɐɹʇ]: - @v21
  40. [it's rude to take photos of strangers, so please imagine two men sitting at a table in a boardgames cafe, playing chess with the Netrunner box also on the table] ah, Netrunner, what a rich strategic game with a heritage stretching back thousands of years
  41. …in reply to @v21
    I quite enjoyed my time playing Netrunner, but ultimately I know if I want to get good, I'd need to spend a lot of time memorising openings.
  42. Enjoying imagining having a job where I just advocate for living on a planet. It's good to live on a planet! People just like microgravity because of the novelty. @elakdawalla/1180158905315254273
  43. …in reply to @austin_walker
    @austin_walker so glad you are getting some rest! seems like a really good change.
  44. RT @thegamecurator: A digital museum, made by over 40 artists. "The Zium Museum (2017)" by @thesaveroom, @QuinleySquare, @mousefountain, @…
  45. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz ugh, sorry, i need to figure out the router. or probably get a new one...
  46. RT @RebeccaRHelm: Earlier this year I warned that @TheOceanCleanup would catch and kill floating marine life. This week they announced they…
  47. played NeoCab and it was great and thoughtful and went places games don't go enough BUT ALSO i wanna hear the story behind the localization because it cannot have been fun
  48. …in reply to @v21
    the credits suggests that Neo Cab uses Ink (which has no localization support, and encourages you to do things that are very difficult to localize). Apple Arcade requires launching in 17 languages. the Apple Arcade deal, I am assuming, came along late in development. *shudder*
  49. …in reply to @SFBTom
    @SFBTom ahh, didn't realise you used Ink! i guess having to tie the VO to the written lines gave you a good grounding?
  50. RT @carolaverygrant: you've seen great films by fantastic directors be reduced to college dorm room poster movies. A Clockwork Orange. Scar…
  51. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial nothing in the rulebook that says etc etc
  52. …in reply to @__Tyu
    @__Tyu sorry
  53. here is an image for when you want to represent someone being shown something on a computer
  54. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang oh, yeah, this is fun
  55. …in reply to @radiatoryang
    @radiatoryang and I was a big fan of you being a big fan of cheeky nandos!
  56. RT @Beltrew: #SDF says that agreement with US to drawdown from key positions in N. #Syria means that, with #Turkey's threat to launch an im…
  57. I hope it becomes a genre @SFBTom/1181124966982541312
  58. the woman on the train next to me has a sausage dog on her lap, and it's looking up at me with big mournful eyes. but she's on her phone, and so it would be weird and rude to pet it. i'm not prepared for these emotions so early in the morning.
  59. my favourite gif is "Rhetoric on Sublime Ring" by Francoise Gamma
  60. …in reply to @v21
    it looks like this
  61. …in reply to @v21
    except a bit better when Twitter isn't recompressing it as a video file
  62. RT @pangmeli: if you don't try to wave the wasp/bee away it will just crawl on you and sniff you like a little dog. the crawling feels a li…
  63. RT @VivienneChow: This looks like a scene straight out of a zombie movie: shopping mall security guards tried to hold the doors to stop rio…
  64. RT @excitingbooks: Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bins by Truck @rmartincole/1169680042420592641
  65. i have seen two people talking about muting/blocking people who tweet "calzone", but no-one making the actual joke, and no-one tweeting seriously about Pizza Express possibly folding. i would estimate this tweet is about a level 4 in terms of meta-commentary on the discourse.
  66. …in reply to @v21
    (the second sentence arguably bumps it up to a five?)
  67. …in reply to @nickfourtimes
    @nickfourtimes "Fix: now showing correct text" is clearly the correct option
  68. exciting epidemiology research! @bengoldacre/1181232143755808771
  69. RT @joshtpm: lol $40m for a fraud that destroyed numerous news outlets and a bunch of ad side competitors @mathewi/1181221849159684096
  70. RT @Slasher: in a post-match Hearthstone Grandmasters winning interview, Hong Kong HS player @blitzchungHS said "Liberate Hong Kong, revolu…
  71. RT @Slasher: Breaking: Effective immediately, Blizzard has removed Hong Kong Hearthstone player blitzchung from Hearthstone Grand Masters,…
  72. RT @_ojack_: dreamy arithmetic
  73. RT @bencsmoke: a reminder that extinction rebellion *do not* pay anyone’s court or legal fees. they received ££ from radiohead’s release of…
  74. …in reply to @stonehead
    @stonehead @bencsmoke rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/legal-info/ "XR don’t pay for costs of any kind with the exception of travel to court in cases of exceptional financial hardship." (under "Will getting arrested be expensive?")
  75. …in reply to @infovore
    @infovore it's grown on me
  76. …in reply to @v21
    @infovore I like having a contextual rotation button on there, tho.
  77. RT @Donnough: @Ethelmonster @bombsfall That's Untitled Cassowary Game
  78. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe it says "white" right there on the outside!!
  79. RT @Bristol_BathRD: Interested in making an R&D prototype exploring Digital Placemaking for Bristol and Bath? We have just opened applicati…
  80. down with the Inclosure Act of 1773!!! @craigcavyleader/1181320328452169728
  81. …in reply to @v21
    sometimes it's hard to believe this country is a real place
  82. RT @_never_work: regarding the content platform known as "itunes" twitter.com/i/moments/1148779324520194048
  83. RT @grumpstorm: That 2014 hbo opening credits style has hit wedding photography and it's even better than I could have imagined https://t.c…
  84. …in reply to @innesmck
    @innesmck @Vincevan_Goth @infinite_bagel yeah, "genderbender" definitely has a touch of that weird anachronistic tabloid newspaper language to it, to my ears
  85. hello we're still hiring for this role and you should apply! (note that if you apply you should mention that i referred you rather than Suze so i get the referral bonus instead) @SzMarsupial/1181590605027303424
  86. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial @fionchadd if you retweet my tweet instead of Suze's & someone gets hired, i'll split it with you
  87. RT @elikaortega: There is a Carrión quote for every occasion: (except I do regret the loss 😪)
  88. folks in London & free tonight or tomorrow should come check out Beta Public. performances, games, and a chance to touch this delight cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-x/ @patrickashe/1181551148316155904
  89. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh this makes me want a you-picrew!
  90. …in reply to @bonaneh
    @bonaneh yeah, that seems entirely legit
  91. RT @krisgraft: you neeeed to read this deep dive written by @mrsambarlow about turning video scrubbing into a game mechanic in TELLING LIES…
  92. …in reply to @hollygramazio
    @hollygramazio @managore every time you post GF I read it as girlfriend
  93. …in reply to @Seemo
    @Seemo @spacetreasured the kerning is truly the cherry on top
  94. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto with the benefit of much hindsight... i think that is the most misleading cover art i know of a videogame having
  95. …in reply to @v21
    @catacalypto (fuck, Horse Master is so good, i was thinking of it just yesterday)
  96. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto fuck i just remembered the bit about the male nurses!!! fuck
  97. top five Twine games: - Beautiful Dreamer - Horse Master - howling dogs - Birdland - Rat Chaos
  98. let the soft animal of the twitter search function find what it finds
  99. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto wait, i tricked us both, that was from Tonight Dies the Moon
  100. …in reply to @Citrushistrix
    @Citrushistrix I played it again just the other week. Still so very good, the thing about the spirits deliberately provoking by saying stuff that's trite and wrong is so satisfying.
  101. …in reply to @v21
    I'm in a lift with the same dog. It's sniffing my foot.
  102. RT @v21: let the soft animal of the twitter search function find what it finds
  103. …in reply to @em_cooper
    @em_cooper ugh, i thought we were starting to win that argument...
  104. …in reply to @v21
    @em_cooper but also: I'll be at EGX Thursday! would be great to see you
  105. …in reply to @AranKoning
    @AranKoning sounds like fun
  106. …in reply to @pillowfort
    @pillowfort can recommend the Money Stuff newsletter for near daily updates on the world of finance, approached without an assumption that the world of finance should exist or look like it does
  107. RT @TodayOnSteam: Welcome To... Chichester OVN 2 : Master Tormenter Grendel Jinx !? store.steampowered.com/app/1163480/
  108. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc "eigenvector decomposition, a concept from quantum mechanics"
  109. RT @luluixixix: collab with @NojBarker ....
  110. …in reply to @DevRelCallum
    @DevRelCallum Dishonoured?
  111. RT @S0phieH: Petting most kinds of animals can improve your mood, however, if you start petting birds then you’ll be feeling down.
  112. …in reply to @catacalypto
    @catacalypto @mrsambarlow this makes me think of all the stuff people do with emulators where they capture all memory state at every frame and then wind back and fork timelines. except live, and with ML running on the memory dump to detect critical sections
  113. …in reply to @v21
  114. …in reply to @thestarboretum
    @thestarboretum @jazzmickle it is pretty doable to make some coroutines that don't hook into the Unity coroutine system and are just something you call every time you want some new events
  115. …in reply to @cymatiste
    @asthesparksfly I have a korg nanokontrol & a mpk something. I sometimes use it for controlling music stuff, sometimes for software stuff where I want a hardware interface with knobs. I don't know of any universal magic thing... but there's a bunch of stuff it would work for.
  116. …in reply to @v21
    @asthesparksfly you can translate OSC to MIDI readily enough, you can write js in the browser that hooks to midi... probably there's some stuff you could do with auto hotkey.
  117. …in reply to @v21
    @asthesparksfly I would not say that either are necessary pieces of hardware. Unless you're doing a project especially built for them, in which case they tautologically are.
  118. RT @MythologyBot: F982.1 Eagles carry castle in air.
  119. …in reply to @katbamkapow
    @katbamkapow I started the new season and got sad you weren't there to talk about it
  120. really interesting article about the struggle to make pink happen for gamers @xpatriciah/1181948787134259200
  121. oh, I'll be at EGX on Thursday if anyone wants to say hi
  122. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
    @FlorianVltmn I've only watched four test kitchen videos and my twitter feed is also full of love for Claire.
  123. RT @aphyr: These generic stories are meaningless unless readers can *link* the fictive narrative to actual, concrete instances of oppressio…
  124. RT @aphyr: In 2017, China's Netcasting Service Association banned LGBTQ content. Weibo initiated a purge of queer content in 2018, reversed…
  125. RT @eleanorkpenny: I don’t feel like we talk enough about how RuPaul watched a man drowning
  126. RT @jemimajoanna: To the handful of my Twitter followers who I haven’t already explained my £1.50 bus fare/US visa saga in excruciating det…
  127. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine very heartened to see you exploring GPT poetry
  128. …in reply to @tambourine
    @tambourine this is v much preaching to the choir, but you might appreciate @everestpipkin's recent talk: @roguelike_cel/1180601061159010304
  129. …in reply to @omarieclaire
    @omarieclaire this is such a fucked situation, and i really hope you can find somewhere safe and non-stressful for your final push. <3
  130. …in reply to @esdin
  131. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial this still gets me, sometimes. also why learning Rust has been so... fun? "fun"? it prohibits this from happening, but it turns out that has a lot of consequences...
  132. RT @GammaCounter: (Not that easy to see the flowing blood on this rotating angiogram of the brain, and I'm not sure it's a very useful sequ…
  133. RT @Foone: re:lrt: My favorite weird trivia fact about Kazaa is that it was built on the FastTrack P2P protocol, developed by BlueMoon Inte…
  134. [screenshot from today's Money Stuff newsletter] @mcgd/1182667264740474882
  135. …in reply to @mousefountain
  136. every year I mean to throw a event where I meet up with people and we watch through this whole playlist. so... respond if you're in London, we know each other at least a little, and you'd be interested. @grapefrukt/1182733830593097731
  137. …in reply to @pipedownkitty
    @kitrichardsonuk
  138. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe it could be your The Clock, too!
  139. …in reply to @nicolehe
  140. …in reply to @KOOPMode
    @KOOPMode @hownottodraw Great work from Kyle as always, but I think the old logo had some homespun charm I miss in this version.
  141. …in reply to @cassiemcquater
  142. RT @mtrc: @NewerScientist1 @NewerScientist2 @NewerScientist3 @newscientist I picked a favourite from each of the bots and turned them into…
  143. …in reply to @moreelen
    @moreelen yaay!
  144. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover it's my experience, but i assumed it was because i was trans
  145. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover indie games is super trans, it's true
  146. …in reply to @ammonite
    @ammonite it's probably going to run 10am to 3am? i wanna do it as a single solid run through, to really get the feeling going. which makes more sense to do somewhere cozy where i can cook, but it depends how much interest i get...
  147. …in reply to @v21
    @ammonite wait, i misremembered 15 as 17. 10am to 1am, that's a bit more manageable...
  148. RT @v21: every year I mean to throw a event where I meet up with people and we watch through this whole playlist. so... respond if you're i…
  149. …in reply to @naomialderman
    @naomialderman i think without some ideology you can get lost. i think about all that stuff about "nudging" - it was exciting, all these good ways to make lives better cheaply... but who defines what "better" is?
  150. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover no, i am still trans
  151. …in reply to @bekokstover
    @bekokstover @damousey i mean, comparatively less? there being a lot of trans people definitely means it's something that people consider in a way that they wouldn't elsewhere. and indie dev scenes (some) are pretty safe places to be trans.
  152. …in reply to @reallyquitereal
    @reallyquitereal are you going to be doing this?!!
  153. …in reply to @reallyquitereal
  154. RT @poem_exe: wild goose, wild goose a butterfly we tumble!
  155. what a beautiful game! @tpizza/1183063564002611200
  156. RT @ghuertaramos: I couldn't find it anywhere, so I made a phylogeny of plant emojis using #ggtree. Please, do let me know of any mistakes!…
  157. RT @usdivad: Amazing talk on music games by @Tambalaya and @Andy_Makes at @IndieCade! (also thanks for the shoutout hehe 😊) https://t.co/xL…
  158. RT @GameDesignerBen: @topherflorence Hey, Dead Space LD here. All these games used the same basic model rig, so adding Isaac was as simple…
  159. …in reply to @Coleo_Kin
    @Coleo_Kin if people wanna have a take on Goose Game, they should run with the way it presents an idealized and imaginary version of England!! it's right there for the taking.
  160. RT @EdmundGriffiths: It isn't "to prevent electoral fraud", because there are hardly any cases (or even allegations) of the kind of fraud i…
  161. RT @aditirao: these tweets brought on by noting that buildings could “afford” to have detailed brick and stonework back in the day, largely…
  162. …in reply to @aidnirag
    @AidReilly @Elisabeth_Drcy @CrippledFox @gillditch55 @AllisterHeath @Telegraph they're not - proposing free ID cards - giving sufficient notice - showing there's an actual problem that needs to be solved
  163. …in reply to @ms_s_ashcroft
    @ms_s_ashcroft what a perfect 3d printing experience
  164. …in reply to @ms_s_ashcroft
    @ms_s_ashcroft if it's any consolation, i'm wrestling with a plotter that won't lift the pen up properly right now
  165. …in reply to @_julesh_
    @_julesh_ i've seen stuff seriously arguing for a system which: - does low-effort evaluations to screen for "competence" - then assigns funding randomly after that the savings in terms of grant writing time alone...
  166. RT @adamconover: My former employer CollegeHumor did this. In order to beat YouTube, Facebook faked incredible viewership numbers, so CH pi…
  167. look what I got working
  168. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow my hand was getting tired
  169. …in reply to @LucRiesbeck
    @LucRiesbeck thanks!!
  170. thanks for the opportunity to explain in detail, Suze! I generate some splines in Node.js using Typescript and node-canvas (which emulates the browser Canvas APIs). This then uses Cairo (I think?) to render to an SVG file. @SzMarsupial/1183416710004695040
  171. …in reply to @v21
    I then use G Code Sender to... send that G code down the serial connection to the plotter (an Eleksdraw, running GRBL), which then moves back and forth and puts the pen up and down. I am pretty sure there are easier ways to do it.
  172. …in reply to @v21
    I take that SVG and process it in a utility I wrote this weekend in Rust using the usvg library (which processes SVG into a minimal set). My utility generates another SVG file (for proofing), and a series of G code instructions. It also renders all the curves as a set of lines.
  173. …in reply to @esdin
    @esdin me too. I can hear the difference from when I changed the level of detail on the curves.
  174. …in reply to @HilariousCow
    @HilariousCow well, i had this nice existing codebase in Typescript... but thank you. i definitely feel like making random stuff work together is one of my specialties.
  175. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate i... use typescript for all my node.js based stuff. i'd write a library in it, too. i didn't realize it was that much harder (to use, i know it'd be a pain to get set up to edit it).
  176. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate yeah, entirely fair. i am the kind of person who uses typescript... and i'm still afraid of setting up the kind of pipeline that would build frontend JS from a complex set of npm packages & typescript.
  177. …in reply to @chthonicionic
    @chthonicionic oh, lovely reference, thank you!
  178. which should i plot?
  179. …in reply to @v21
    here's a poll
  180. …in reply to @v21
    it's going...
  181. …in reply to @adrielxyz
    @adrielbeaver yah, that's an artefact of how i'm generating it, it does one projection for each cluster in a pass. some people write fancy stuff to reorder their plots so it does it in the most time-efficient way... maybe some day.
  182. …in reply to @JohnRentoul
    @JohnRentoul @_TimTraveller @Andrew_Adonis would you support extending the voting age to 17, then?
  183. …in reply to @andrew2nelson
  184. …in reply to @io_brindle
    @john_brindle thanks for the vote of confidence! I might well do
  185. RT @everestpipkin: them: oh you make games? that must be fun! me:
  186. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb Ricky, would you recommend having a short loop of annoying music playing at the same time?
  187. RT @JanetMurray: Interactive narrative authoring tools just released from the innovative BBC research folks. 2020s could be a big leap dec…
  188. …in reply to @Sierra_OffLine
    @Sierra_OffLine we're all thinking about disaster, but ecological collapse is too real. zombies are played out, science is exciting, space problems are the solution.
  189. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe I understand that sometimes this wouldn't be possible - if the game has some physical requirements, or if it's international travel and your budget is tiny... but if that's the case... then definitely don't make participation necessary to be nominated for an award.
  190. RT @BBCPolitics: Lady Usher of the Black Rod Sarah Clarke, has the door of the Commons slammed in her face as part of the State Opening of…
  191. RT @TomWills: Britain's Home Office neither confirms nor denies it has identified sites to use as internment camps in the event of a no-dea…
  192. RT @themadstone: Random thought: there ought to be a much more robust conversation about the climate impact of cement & what can be done ab…
  193. …in reply to @leighalexander
    @leighalexander @patrickashe i am pretty sure i remember this policy from at least 5 years ago. so maybe it's secretly a nice story about standards improving elsewhere...
  194. …in reply to @tom_usher_
    @tom_usher_ who wasn't even complaining about Naga!!!
  195. RT @CoolBoxArt: Nintendo DS Headset / Print ad / Nintendo / 2007
  196. RT @v21: what resembles the grave but isn't (Anne Boyer)
  197. …in reply to @v21
    put the tool i made to convert SVGs into Eleksdraw G-Code online, if it is ever helpful to anyone else: github.com/v21/svg_eleksdraw
  198. back on my bullshit
  199. …in reply to @v21
    i need to start playing more with different pens & papers. for some reason i am mainly drawn to wanting to try out a fat old biro (despite the pot of Microns sitting *right there*)
  200. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 Good to know!
  201. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz oh, I see what you mean, yes
  202. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz well, that's robots for you
  203. …in reply to @siberianKhatru
    @siberianKhatru yep (I just got up to check it wasn't a .38)
  204. RT @gabro27: So this just happened: - a bot found a vulnerability in a dependency - a bot sent a PR to fix it - the CI verified the PR - a…
  205. …in reply to @ojahnn
    @ojahnn It's on!
  206. RT @boschbot: 26619,11367,1207,654,30000
  207. …in reply to @ms_s_ashcroft
    @ms_s_ashcroft i did! is yours still messing you about?
  208. …in reply to @ms_s_ashcroft
  209. RT @akuparagames: Once again, an endless thanks to all of our fans making MUTAZIONE art! We love to see that the game has resonated with yo…
  210. …in reply to @PerfectPlum
    @PerfectPlum it's so nice that i can hear how the little chirpy sound has changed since i changed the way i flatten the curves
  211. …in reply to @sophmallinson
  212. …in reply to @v21
    that's a video, it has a lot of very bland motion graphics in it
  213. …in reply to @PeteButtigieg
    @PeteButtigieg you should get some markers that work
  214. RT @hollygramazio: Okay so I wrote about the 2018 timeloop adventure MINIT, but every 60 seconds I stopped and then started again from the…
  215. RT @michael__42: I can't believe they gave the Booker Prize to Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood, and not the author of this junk ema…
  216. RT @TheWhitePube: No artist has all three: Good art Good at writing funding applications Nice person
  217. …in reply to @esdin
    @esdin it's so good, such a underdepicted dynamic!
  218. RT @webbedspace: TO ANY WHO CAN HEAR! I'm sealed in this tweet and can't escape without your help! This is trickery. Click the Heart to bre…
  219. RT @Bananaft: Temporal shifting depth sorting kind of thing. Yeah, I have no idea either. #yedomaglobula
  220. …in reply to @konjak
    @konjak it's nice that they knew that, and so put it on a alternate, less popular, account
  221. RT @anadukakis: ✨Our office's 3D printed goose (printed by @seajayshore)..... Has stolen a thumb drive!! ✨
  222. …in reply to @philippawarr
    @philippawarr i think candles always look like fat swishing around...
  223. RT @histoftech: “Any sufficiently advanced neglect is indistinguishable from malice.” —Chachra’s Law (@debcha) @Wolven/1184212807224647680
  224. RT @celineorelse: Here's something I love abt the ancient world. Having to order takeout for most meals because you live in a city where ho…
  225. I am surprised to find myself saying this, but this is a good and sensible decision by our government. xbiz.com/news/247639/u-k-government-scraps-age-verification-scheme
  226. RT @puptownrika: which is correct when referring to something's dimensions:
  227. i'm trying to do stuff with javascript but i keep hitting segmentation faults
  228. …in reply to @v21
    maybe this is not the most straightforward way to make nice drawings?
  229. …in reply to @Bleeptrack
    @Bleeptrack in node, using node-canvas, which has some native code in it
  230. RT @erincandescent: Today it was announced that Yahoo! Groups is shutting down, and taking with it a piece of critical national infrastruct…
  231. RT @_gaeel_: It's a tiny thing, but here's how to stop Git from naming the first branch "master" by default
  232. RT @hardmaru: China bans export of black clothing to Hong Kong “Protesters have adopted black T-shirts, jeans and sneakers, often paired w…
  233. RT @asifa_majid: There is no universal hierarchy of the senses reflected in language. Our study with 20 languages and 5 senses found biolog…
  234. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb Nice, catch you there
  235. on my way to EGX with most of the Niantic London office, see some of y'all there!
  236. RT @gwire: “All I’m saying is, if the Mail doesn’t do a excessive dirt digging piece on that bald environmental protestor dragged off the t…
  237. RT @shades: @atomicthumbs @3liza You can also use a vigorously burning woodstove and a reasonably airtight tin can to make your own artists…
  238. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths @jericawebber only around today, I'm afraid! :/
  239. really interesting thread on how XR operates @gender_endtimes/1184770723165933569
  240. …in reply to @v21
    tl;dr : the Tyranny of Structurelessness remains crucial reading
  241. …in reply to @v21
    I trust this product to represent data to me accurately.
  242. …in reply to @D_Nye_Griffiths
    @D_Nye_Griffiths that would be great! some day next week?
  243. RT @marcteyssier: Here is a preview of my next project, Skin-On interfaces: artificial skin for devices. After the finger on smartphones, n…
  244. …in reply to @vivschwarz
  245. …in reply to @vivschwarz
    @vivschwarz I like that in Electric Zine maker, it deals with the fact that A4 & Letter being different shapes by just stretching it to fit.
  246. …in reply to @v21
    @vivschwarz also i just learned that high end esports players often play with 4:3 resolution, stretched out onto a 16:9 monitor
  247. here is a news report from 1970 about an ill-judged explosion of a whale carcass youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xBgThvB_IDQ
  248. …in reply to @acgodliman
    @acgodliman i mean, what sounds more fun, methodically cutting apart decaying flesh, or shoving a bunch of explosives into a whale?
  249. …in reply to @FlorianVltmn
  250. RT @mcclure111: Hey, remember when people were really freaking out about white phosphorus in Call of Duty last month? It really wasn't hypo…
  251. …in reply to @vectorpark
    @vectorpark i did some stuff with Haxe a little while back... but i can't remember what editor I used. hope that helps!!
  252. RT @WilliamChyr: After 7 years, Manifold Garden has finally launched! It is available now on @AppleArcade & @EpicGames. Trailer: https:/…
  253. RT @met_modernart: Woman Buttoning Her Shoes by Egon Schiele #contemporarymodernart #themet
  254. RT @metasynthie: @sajon77 This is interesting because prior to the announcement of this game, it would seem that there was no fantasy of be…
  255. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial well, we could extend the deadline and do whatever. the Letwin amendment pushes back the point where Parliament has to approve the deal, which means Johnson will be obliged to ask for an extension (because it won't be approved by Parliament by the point the Benn Act says)
  256. …in reply to @v21
    @SzMarsupial (the Letwin amendment says that Parliament approves the deal after it passes all the legislation needed to sort out the deal, not on Saturday. so it leaves things theoretically on track, but removes the knife edge element by requiring an extension to be asked for)
  257. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial that was just Juncker, who doesn't get to decide and was trying to be helpful by raising the stakes. Macron did the same today, although he *could* get to veto it. but other EU leaders have downplayed that, if gently.
  258. …in reply to @v21
    @SzMarsupial maybe they'll refuse an extension! it's all possible. but generally they've been very keen to not be the ones to cause us problems, letting us do that to ourselves.
  259. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial love to be Very Current, definitely a good thing for my brain
  260. …in reply to @netgal_emi
    @netgal_emi I would like to read that
  261. i should go to the protest, but i don't think i can bear the puns
  262. …in reply to @managore
    @managore what about just using the smoke, but it never fades out? just making each room more and more choked with it as you zoom about.
  263. the title of this article sounds like a light novel title "He Never Intended To Become A Political Dissident, But Then He Started Beating Up Tai Chi Masters" deadspin.com/he-never-intended-to-become-a-political-dissident-but-1838706430/amp?__twitter_impression=true
  264. RT @IanDunt: Nick Boles, also behind the amendment, intervenes. "He does not want to answer the question so I will. If the amendment passes…
  265. RT @IanDunt: "If the amendment fails and the govt brings forward the bill and some people in the ERG suddenly discover they prefer the idea…
  266. RT @IanDunt: The Letwin amendment has passed. Johnson will have to request an extension of Article 50 by 11pm tonight.
  267. …in reply to @fireh9lly
    @fireh9lly yes! and my dad would claim stuff *just* before it came into view, because he knew the area better than anyone else
  268. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt @FarbsMcFarbs oh, this is great, 100% using this
  269. …in reply to @designCaitlin
  270. RT @tambourine: LOOK WHAT IS HERE... it’s beautiful & you can order a copy at samriviere.com/index.php?/together/if-a-leaf-falls-press/!!! @tambourine/1184960544396271616 https://t.…
  271. getting Hershey fonts (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts) working in my stack so I can plot with them, and it's quite something to be using software where the readme has a UUCP path if you want to get in touch with the author
  272. …in reply to @v21
    (UUCP = a way of addressing email from before domain names were a thing. also the UUCP path was for the guy who took the original files and converted them to a newer format, not even the mysterious Dr A V Hershey who designed the font...)
  273. …in reply to @v21
    here is a beautiful PDF, showing the original publication of the font in tables of co-ordinates, sample pages, and a font book scruss.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tables_of_coordinates_for_hersheys_repertory_of_occidental_type_fonts-wolcott_and_hilsenrath.pdf
  274. …in reply to @v21
    the first emoji??
  275. …in reply to @v21
    honestly, for the first ever vector fonts... and especially given that these are done without any curves... we started out on a typographic high
  276. …in reply to @v21
    the ergonomic way to display text on a computer screen
  277. …in reply to @wileywiggins
    @wileywiggins whoa! that's cool.
  278. …in reply to @undefined
    @siobhangx Vignettes (tho you've probably played already). I want to check out Pilgrims as well. And very happy to hear you're enjoying Mutazione!
  279. RT @victoria_pork: #StandWithHonkHonk #FightForFreedom Saved from Reddit
  280. read Delicious in Dungeon @AboveUp/1185532873241223168
  281. …in reply to @v21
    this meme in no way sells why it's great. but if want a fantasy series where the world, the characters and the plot are all charming, interesting and feel like they've been thought through AND/OR want to look at some imaginary recipes, it's the thing for you.
  282. RT @fireh9lly: @GavinMSchofield The goose is showing the people more variation and fun and togetherness than they'd otherwise have. He make…
  283. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas i want to come back again
  284. …in reply to @mrsambarlow
    @mrsambarlow I've drank wine by Ridley Scott. Pretty good!
  285. …in reply to @Nifflas
    @Nifflas gotta play the odds
  286. …in reply to @v21
    @Nifflas also, and i know this came up before, what's the deal with relativity? if we're getting whooshed several light years away... do we get there at the speed of light?
  287. RT @danhett: happy to announce that the prototype of Closed Hands is now available to download. we exhibited this at @EGX and wanted to sha…
  288. …in reply to @GretchenAMcC
    @GretchenAMcC i don't remember why i'm v21, but i definitely am
  289. RT @itten_games_en: Nessie's True Identity is a question & answer mystery-solving game where the Enthusiasts try to guess Nessie's true ide…
  290. RT @mmalex: Sunday evening quick build: brachiograph plotter! 2 lollipop sticks supplied by my 5yo, 3 servos (£1 each from amazon, delivere…
  291. RT @WYR_bot: Would you rather the lottery ($300,000,000 final after taxes) or win the u.s presidential election?
  292. i love storing energy within the vertical position of giant concrete blocks @justinpickard/1186213723389775872
  293. …in reply to @v21
    (this kind of thing is vital for making renewable energy able to supply the majority of our electricity, by smoothing out supply over the order of days)
  294. …in reply to @patrickashe
    @patrickashe leave Boom Blox alone, i really liked it!!
  295. …in reply to @acgodliman
    @acgodliman from a blogpost i wrote in 2014... Terry Gilliam: youtube.com/watch?v=xs7WaL44_Iw Robert Yang: youtube.com/watch?v=iGH41AgcjP4 the Juice It Or Lose It talk: youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg
  296. …in reply to @v21
    @acgodliman not really documentaries, whoops. but still a lot to learn from those 3 videos.
  297. RT @decafjedi: What do you especially like about video games? 🔲 Killing aliens 🔲 Cute video characters 🔲 Team sport similarity 🔲 Adventure…
  298. …in reply to @jericawebber
    @jericawebber lots of people do hate them, the stereotype is self-reinforcing (I love them)
  299. …in reply to @jazzmickle
    @jazzmickle @jericawebber apparently vegetables generally taste better when you haven't just boiled the shit out of them??? who knew???
  300. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial you're a weird tooter
  301. RT @w__h_: @charli_xcx ASMR 10 Hours of the Outro from Charli XCX, Slayyyter & Kim Petras - Click (No Boys Remix) youtu.be/SWxvU62oIGQ
  302. …in reply to @alexhern
    @alexhern i love to receive emails where my name is is a slightly different text style to the rest of the email
  303. RT @pangmeli: I appreciate that global news is showing the election results in the context of international ocean currents https://t.co/LTy…
  304. RT @oopsohno: From which direction do you expect the tram to appear? (Poll in reply)
  305. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryJosieGiles Good work writing a single post that can be used in multiple places (sorry about your phone)
  306. i am once again very into the poetry of Conchitina Cruz: highchair.com.ph/issue9/multiple.htm
  307. RT @SluggoIsLit: Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for October 22, 2019 gocomics.com/nancy
  308. RT @chawleeknight: fae (xe/xyr): may i have your pronouns? me (they/them): sure! they/them fae (they/them): thanks :) me ( / ): wait
  309. …in reply to @HJosephineGiles
    @HarryJosieGiles now i want to read enby Mystique fanfic (which is much better response than my second thought: is Paul even non-binary?? what does non-binary even mean??)
  310. RT @paul_swaddle: After a hectic few weeks, I gave myself a rest from work & study this weekend, and instead played #Mutazione, a beautiful…
  311. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc is *is* bullshit that you can't bring your kids, to be fair (i know, i know, that's not the point. i am going to wind my neck in on this while a) running something there and b) working for a company that can pay for me to fly out)
  312. …in reply to @gillianmsmith
    @gillianmsmith @mtrc that's good news! we've hit issues before with devs who are under 18 and couldn't attend (i think even if we were showing their game)
  313. RT @EcoJaneAnderson: “Absence data are just as important as presence data,” the bored biologist reminds herself while recording where the b…
  314. procedural generation question: what's a good way to generate points which have a variable density? something like perlin noise, but instead of returning a value for a location, i want to start with an area and receive locations within it.
  315. …in reply to @v21
    currently my thinking has got to: - perlin noise & dither it? - something something yang tiles question mark - generate points randomly & then... wiggle them somehow so they cluster a bit?
  316. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt it gets me some nice points, controlled for density -- but how do i vary that nicely between different areas?
  317. …in reply to @v21
    @grapefrukt oh, i guess i could feed in the desired radius using perlin noise??? (if i have guessed how poisson disc sampling works correctly)
  318. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt ah-hah! okay, that seems doable, thanks!
  319. …in reply to @grapefrukt
    @grapefrukt oh, that would be sweet (i am doing this in Typescript, so it's not as directly useful as it might be - but getting to feel it out before writing code is always appealing)
  320. …in reply to @v21
    @grapefrukt email is at vtwentyone@gmail.com if that's helpful
  321. …in reply to @thestarboretum
    @thestarboretum that makes sense! but I don't just want an even distribution, i want a distribution where the density varies
  322. …in reply to @inconvergent
    @inconvergent i can sample good old perlin to generate the underlying density field. enjoying having to get my head around everything having to be a thing in a place, not a continuous thing you sample every pixel!
  323. …in reply to @unormal
    @unormal it's the varying density across the field that's the tricky bit - current plan is @v21/1186895173344776192
  324. …in reply to @TomNullpointer
    @TomNullpointer @thestarboretum yeah, that's my current plan @v21/1186895173344776192 - fun how plotter stuff is making me wrap my head around having to make everything a thing in a place rather than continuous functions you're automatically sampling
  325. …in reply to @unormal
    @unormal oh, yeah, that'd work & is nice & dumb
  326. …in reply to @v21
    @unormal luckily (?) i am doing this to make nice things to plot with a pen plotter, so the constraints on the solution are a bit looser than if i needed to make this work with some (ugh) gameplay
  327. …in reply to @v21
    @unormal (also i don't have to stress about performance beyond my patience for waiting to see how a tweak has worked out)
  328. RT @OborneTweets: In my new piece for Open Democracy I assess the current state of British political journalism: opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/british-journalists-have-become-part-of-johnsons-fake-news-machine/
  329. RT @Progressive_Pol: The same AG who jailed Chelsea manning for refusing a subpoena is currently refusing a subpoena
  330. …in reply to @cassettewitch
    @terratrouve @ace_national oh, great news! congrats - and yes, please count me in the list of people keen to talk to about it!
  331. RT @oiioiioioiiioio: Kids, if anyone ever questions your "computer art" please point them to what 95 year old #VeraMolnar has to say. https…
  332. …in reply to @redblobgames
    @redblobgames @unormal i think i might run into issues with wanting so few samples (and using at a high enough res) that the 255 bins are a bit constraining. but this is a interesting approach, and worth exploring properly, thanks
  333. …in reply to @v21
    @redblobgames @unormal (ie, i could just pull all pixels with value 255, then randomly select those with a probability that is sampled from the perlin noise)
  334. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 nice! yes, this is currently my plan A, after @grapefrukt gave me a nudge in that direction. (though now i am very motivated to see what happens when the density *doesn't* vary smoothly)
  335. …in reply to @mewo2
    @mewo2 @grapefrukt @brutal_exe oh, yeah, that's nice. good fun thinking beyond the pixel, this
  336. RT @LabGND: Fun fact: the ‘carbon footprint’ was first popularised by BP, who wanted to shift responsibility for the climate crisis onto in…
  337. Marie is absolutely at the forefront of thinking about how to present games and play within a public context. Hire her! @tigershungry/1187045402488516608
  338. please take Pat up on this: it would be very funny to me if he put on an exhibition because of takes about Ian Bogost (also having heard a bit about the exhibition concept I think it'd be totally solid) @patrickashe/1187067576758755331
  339. RT @pixlpa:
  340. RT @RealTimeWWII: Osmërkin: "I'm waiting for the Germans impatiently, although my wife is Jewish. Well, I tell her, you'll have to wear a S…
  341. are you
  342. RT @thyfotia: this conversation is making me insane
  343. …in reply to @v21
  344. this is a really thoughtful article on moderation and Internet communities theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/reddit-moderation-relationships-subreddit-memes/600322/
  345. just realised: i'm seeing Charli XCX next week
  346. RT @webbedspace: Browser erupting into fireworks and confetti upon throwing its one billionth CSS parse error since installation – the word…
  347. …in reply to @reallyquitereal
    @reallyquitereal it's only a myth
  348. at the risk of sounding like a fake gamer, I finally read the Bogost article, and yes, I also find playing games is often a lot of work
  349. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb alas, my for my cursed brain, reading thinkpieces is exactly the low energy resting activity that I default to. i would probably be happier if I could just watch tv or play games instead.
  350. RT @poem_exe: people working fields the north pole this autumn eve
  351. …in reply to @youngvulgarian
    @youngvulgarian I kinda want to collect all the explainer flowcharts that tried to map all the things that might happen, if this happened or if this happened.
  352. RT @mechapoetic: untitled goose game, besides being quite charming and lovely, was produced in part due to funding from Film Victoria, a pu…
  353. …in reply to @MalachaiChow
    @M_Slurpee @rotcherub @gayswordfight i read about this shot - the light was static and she just had to hit her mark precisely
  354. Brexit-posting : so... the EU (specifically the French) only want to give an extension til January if there's a deal in progress or elections in progress. Johnson is pulling the deal in order to ask for elections. And Labour won't agree on elections until no deal is ruled out.
  355. …in reply to @v21
    Love a three sided stalemate, especially when it'll explode in six days time.
  356. …in reply to @v21
    I mean, also, the deal is bad & probably leads to a no deal exit in like a year and a half.
  357. …in reply to @arnaud_debock
    @arnaud_debock presumably he then then just pass his deal and then we can enter the next stage of negotiating the future trade relationship...
  358. RT @rejykikafav: イザベル・メニン(1961〜)による作品。ベルギーの写真家。グラフィックデザイナー、イラストレーターとして活動した後、デジタル写真で作業するようになりました。自然の美しさを際立たせる作品を制作しています。 https://t.co/tIApmf…
  359. RT @rubna_: wow unity is pretty nice
  360. RT @dancynrew: "Protection?" Nancy smirks. He raises his eyebrow. "Ah," she says. "Bucket." He is of course going to kick over their town m…
  361. this is an awful idea, medically speaking (see: all the doctors replying), but damn I want the files from a full body MRI of myself. just to look at. @awilkinson/1187102985148461056
  362. …in reply to @cpemmerson
    @cpemmerson @D_Nye_Griffiths bloody well-researched public health insights, constantly ruining my ambitions to incorporate very expensively acquired views of the inside of my body into hypothetical future VJ sets
  363. RT @wyatt_privilege: this guy sold his $1.8 million house, dumped it into crypto, got promptly SIM-swap hacked and they password-recovered…
  364. RT @rejykikafav: カイル・トンプソンによる作品。物語の崩壊を示す、暗く超現実的な作品を制作しています。
  365. …in reply to @Thairyn
    @Thairyn the dream
  366. …in reply to @tigershungry
    @tigershungry I especially liked the one about digging around in someone's kidney with a nine inch needle...
  367. …in reply to @StarhopperGames
    @StarhopperGames @softlandscapes no, just the random numbers playing out nicely
  368. RT @austin_walker: With Homestuck 2 starting, now is a good time to (re)read @WarrenIsDead’s breakdown of what Homestuck is, why it resonat…
  369. …in reply to @joonturbo
    @joonturbo oooh, yes, i can see
  370. i threw up my typescript code for rendering hershey fonts: github.com/v21/hershey-canvas
  371. …in reply to @v21
    thanks to everyone who had helpful suggestions for this. Poisson disc sampling is doing me right
  372. …in reply to @v21
    also I am generating these as SVGs, and it's fun to watch Chrome load them
  373. …in reply to @KommanderKlobb
    @KommanderKlobb thanks i made it myself
  374. RT @_K0TTERl_: 〓
  375. RT @UninterestingP4: I guess I should preemptively say that a framed poster of Warren Holloway making a spectacular catch is some basic-ass…
  376. RT @FlorianVltmn: smells #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gaming #flowers #madewithunity #gamedev
  377. …in reply to @v21
    and onto the page... #plottertwitter
  378. …in reply to @JoanieLemercier
  379. …in reply to @v21
    this step mainly involves keeping the cat sufficiently distracted she doesn't investigate the plotter while it's running
  380. …in reply to @v21
  381. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ pls do! some more details: - i'm doing poisson disc sampling with most of the optimisations taken out - pls remember to test possible points against the edge of your area (i didn't, it makes it run forever) - i feed in a function that returns desired spacing from a point (r)
  382. …in reply to @v21
    @rubna_ - also it turns out it works fine if you always try to find the next point based on the last point in your array of active points (rather than a random sample)... and it means your points are ordered with a rough sense of locality, which i am using in a couple of ways
  383. …in reply to @radiodario
    @radiodario thanks, mate!
  384. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ oh, that sounds sweet. for planet-from-star, maybe try a variation where you try to find points from the star every time? you can see what that locality looks like if you try to follow the alphabet on @v21/1188456521493045248
  385. …in reply to @rubna_
    @rubna_ ah, yeah, it won't give you that too easily... or at least without discontinuities between sectors, and a deterministic rng
  386. …in reply to @v21
    @rubna_ here's a sensible writeup of the algorithm sighack.com/post/poisson-disk-sampling-bridsons-algorithm (with all the optimizations that break once you start getting weird with it)
  387. …in reply to @v21
    @rubna_ here's my code (in Typescript, so it won't be directly applicable) gist.github.com/v21/aa35d1404b3caf12826ea84b52071745
  388. …in reply to @v21
    @rubna_ when you generate a point you start from the previous point & then generate a point at random between r and r*2 away. then you keep it if it's not within r of any previously generated point. r varies according to a noise function fed with the current point.
  389. RT @zachlieberman: discussion of pixels from patents in the 1910s-1920s, sign me up
  390. …in reply to @legobutts
    @legobutts titled goose. sirgoose. lordgoose. viscountgoose.
  391. …in reply to @naomialderman
    @naomialderman you do know The Power quite well though...
  392. RT @ameliagentleman: Trafficking of young people from Vietnam is one of the most disturbing things I’ve had to write about. Hard to underst…
  393. plotter (eleksdraw) question: got this error and an unwanted line on my plot! GRBL error 24 says: "Two G-code commands that both require the use of the XYZ axis words were detected in the block.". but i can't see anything wrong here. is it just a weird serial burp? (cc @mewo2)
  394. RT @tumult: Here it is, at long last: Ripcord, the cross-platform, not-a-web-browser desktop client for Slack (and Discord.) Shareware is…
  395. …in reply to @undefined
    @AOsher @KommanderKlobb i voted Caramel
  396. RT @frictionalgames: Fun fact: The death screens in SOMA are actually computer terminal props from elsewhere in the game that get created i…
  397. RT @UnaHajdari: Or this: “The very conceit that “there is no other way” provided an independent motive for the wave of populist xenophobia…
  398. I want to publicly post that I support @SaganYee's decision to move forwards with Wordplay at the Toronto Public Library, despite them hosting a transphobic speaker. It must have been a hard decision, and I do not envy it! handeyesociety.com/official-business/statement-toronto-public-library/
  399. …in reply to @v21
    @SaganYee I'm glad they've addressed the issue & not just quietly let it slide by - but why should an org led by a trans person cancel an event because transphobes got to speak? And I certainly wouldn't try to move an event like Wordplay to a new venue on two weeks notice.
  400. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial I'd like you to know that this tweet inspired me to eat some pork scratchings, and they were delicious.
  401. I have several times in my life sat down and went "okay, time to understand how colours work" and I now know more about how colours work, but mainly I know that I don't understand how colours work @ammonite/1189235848157548545
  402. …in reply to @SzMarsupial
    @SzMarsupial the office discovered Cielab today, it was exciting
  403. hi how you doing we're back and we' re ready for it all over again vs you're joking -- not another one
  404. RT @supermattachine: Here’s a Mary Ruefle quote about Will Ferrell that I’d say epitomizes my gender nonconformity. Where’s my emoji https:…
  405. RT @mike_treanor: One of my least favorite things of being a game design professor is students thinking I care or know anything about AAA g…
  406. …in reply to @mtrc
    @mtrc mainly i'm impressed you did the bit which makes them look pretty & be images first
  407. RT @supermattachine: Like, the imagination can only extend in this framework as far as a body entering a state like a character at the end…
  408. …in reply to @v21
    (a short horror story brought to you by Outbrain)
  409. [Photos] Family Adopts A New Dog But Soon They Realise This Is Not A Dog
  410. I think the best thing about tiktok is that the algorithm occasionally washes up a really mundane moment from someone else's life
  411. …in reply to @v21
    I got a video of a Vietnamese woman in a factory doing quality control on shoes.
  412. …in reply to @v21
    the kind of thing youtube would show you, back in the day (and that things like defaultfile.name/ are yearning for)
  413. …in reply to @AnnaHollinrake
    @AnnaHollinrake Happy birthday!
  414. Monica Lewinsky launched a twitter bot (but it's not very good)
  415. …in reply to @QueenEileen666
    @QueenEileen666 bakery equipment videos usually see me right
  416. …in reply to @MazHem__
    @MazHem_ responds to people when it's been tagged into a conversation, and offers platitudes
  417. …in reply to @v21
    @MazHem_ @GoodnessBot, let's see what you do
  418. …in reply to @LydNicholas
  419. …in reply to @v21
  420. RT @esaxey: Have a very short story for Halloween, growing out of my great love of online problem pages. (Click/tap anywhere to go to the…
  421. …in reply to @esaxey
    @esaxey this is great
  422. …in reply to @v21
    @esaxey i love the moral at the end
  423. RT @mtrc: Look at this gorgeous Twitterbot! Geometric art, presented as a cool stamp design. I love it. Bot by @tomcreighton, h/t to @ashok
  424. RT @james_waddell: absolutely obsessed with this 1643 account of the “true Discovery of a Witch”, in which the witch is caught red-handed e…
  425. RT @LeftieStats: In any other election, centrists would be pointing to the previous result when making recommendations for tactical voting.…
  426. RT @jwaaaap: making a powerpoint dropping some truth bombs
  427. …in reply to @MidniteLibrary
    @MidniteLibrary @GalaxyKate it is! feel free to give your money to Kate instead
  428. …in reply to @GalaxyKate
    @GalaxyKate @MidniteLibrary it's fine! i just earn lots of money at my tech job, so i feel bad taking money from people for bot hosting
  429. RT @leighalexander: seriously tho, the earnest enthusiasm and attention to detail these gig workers display in the midst of increasingly ho…
  430. …in reply to @jonboris
    @jonboris ah, I'm glad! (i have only very very distant memories of writing this)
  431. 100% cute costume contest @diceydungeons/1189932548249522176
  432. …in reply to @dancparkes
    @dancparkes fucking hell, Dan
  433. a good tweet within a good thread about spiders @pangmeli/1190047089129951232
  434. …in reply to @danhett
  435. Coming home from seeing Charli XCX and it was very good and very filled with people who had dressed UP.
  436. …in reply to @v21
    Also Christine "Christine and the Queens" Christine came out for a song.