Tweets from 2022/02
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RT @dirigiblebill: For EG, I wrote about JRPG battle systems as poetic forms, and how this has helped me rethink the element of repetition.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@skylegames 1) I hope not 2) the legal position is that game mechanics can't be copyrighted, but the word "Wordle" can be, plus the specific code 3) but seriously I doubt they will 4) maybe the NYT support will mean screen readers are natively supported? I mean, prob not, but we can hopePermalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about the proportion of supply chains which originate in the weatherPermalink Look on archive.org
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(smaller than the proportion of rivers which do)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i want the colourful mouse (except with modern gubbins inside) @FroyoTam/1488451698385244160Permalink Look on archive.org
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@skylegames yep. i mean, tbh, as long as it's not popular it'll be fine.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@youngvulgarian I mean, I'm trans and I don't spend as much time thinking about that as they do.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @aevavoom: Having an absolute nerd moment bc a German court has ruled that loading off-site resources - like .js and font files - consti…Permalink Look on archive.org
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okay, this is my favourite spin on Wordle semantle.novalis.org/ guess the word based on an algorithmic measure of similarity to the words you are guessingPermalink Look on archive.org
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relatedly, French Toast (although I did not know it by that name) is my favourite version of Twenty QuestionsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Klopfenpop "an algorithm" it's trying to measure semantic distance, so stuff that means a similar kind of thing. it does this by comparing words that appear in similar kinds of contexts, then doing a lot of math on it to reduce it down to a single number.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hannahnicklin "Synthetic Fluorphlogopite" is a funny phrase (i do not use daily glow)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@belthesar @Tailscale I appreciate this being on the posting... but at the same time, isn't this a sign they should rethink the way they phrase requirements for their job postings?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@belthesar @Tailscale it's doing better than the majority of tech companies out there, don't get me wrong, but it's still a half measurePermalink Look on archive.org
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@dave_universetf @belthesar @Tailscale that's fair! maybe I should've looked at the actual job postings before having an opinion on here (sorry).Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dave_universetf @belthesar @Tailscale I feel you, it is! Being open to things you aren't expecting and also being specific enough to be useful is a difficult tightrope to walk (in a lot of situations, tbqh)Permalink Look on archive.org
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the concept of homework is so fuckedPermalink Look on archive.org
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wow, I did not know that "homework" is like "bitcoin", one of those words that acts as a honeypot for botsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern you said it, not mePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @bcrypt: my weekend project was building this frame where the feathers vibrate at a different frequency from the LED strobes, causing th…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ali_heston I have to admit, I assume there *is* aluminium in my antiperspirant, weird as that might sound.Permalink Look on archive.org
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stuck at 51.99 on today's SemantlePermalink Look on archive.org
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turns out all those popups asking if you were okay with being tracked for ads were not only annoying but also illegal iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europes-consent-popups-are-unlawful/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop it is a weak steer in the style guide, although maybe it is not a fight that would be well timed to have at the Guardian right now. but agreed!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hautepop I guess one shift you can see since this was written is the settling of the phrase "uses they/them pronouns"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dangpzanco i see some horsies still scampering about!Permalink Look on archive.org
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gonna slowly do a thread of webpages i've made over the last few yearsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@iotwatch @softlandscapes thank you! <3Permalink Look on archive.org
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listening to an old series of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue from 2006 & there's a joke there about how young children should avoid Jimmy Savile. it got a big (although uneasy) laugh youtu.be/l9Kivsk7p0g?t=1081Permalink Look on archive.org
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like, as his Wikipedia article says "During Savile's lifetime, sporadic allegations of child abuse were made against him dating back to 1963", but it's still striking to stumble acrossPermalink Look on archive.org
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really makes me think about the way that people know but nothing happens. not until everyone knows everyone knows. not until it's a topic that's been raised.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the way news can happen once and no-one cares, and then it can happen again 9 months later and it can possibly bring down the government @PickardJE/1486974224854138880?s=20&t=KsOS39W5k16TCjS6ItqMkgPermalink Look on archive.org
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or, for a less despairing example, in the first episode of Station Eleven (heavily paraphrased): - how did you know he was having a heart attack before everyone else? - i don't think i did. i think i was just the first one to do something about it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the Bystander Effect is about how when a crisis happens, people don't respond because no-one else is responding. this is a little different because there are people acting. people yelling about it! but no-one responds, so they conclude, rationally enough, that no-one will respondPermalink Look on archive.org
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and of course, they're probably right. how many things pass by and never do become "a thing"?Permalink Look on archive.org
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(incidentally, studies into the Bystander Effect were triggered by the murder of Kitty Genovese, and news reports that 38 eyewitnesses watched & did nothing. except that the reports were flawed (there were far fewer witnesses), and several did in fact call the police.)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @J_BennetAuthor: Teddy girls photographed by Ken Russell in Notting Hill in 1955. In the 50s and 60s, teddy boys and girls emulated Edw…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@plentyofalcoves it makes sense that those tweets wouldn't do as well, retweeting that stuff feels like you're trying to sell stuff to your followers (vs just "here's a cool image").Permalink Look on archive.org
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@plentyofalcoves like, it's a small factor, but these things compound themselves, y'know?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ezraklein: I can't tell if her final note is hopeful or gutting, but it's been ringing in my head ever since.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno @Melissainau Level 3 sites can still help with research, it's not an either or. But I might by saying this in part because the one time I played I bought an expensive thing that made visiting sites much cheaper.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno @Melissainau that's the thing about sites - you don't know what you're gonna get til you flip them over! or what you'll need to defeat the guardian, for that matter. i guess a bunch of the game design is about making that risk both sometimes necessary but also still usually a choice.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@oopsohno @Melissainau eg: you don't know what resources the site will give you, but you need a mix of resources to advance along the research track. and also lots of ways to convert resources. slow smaller ways to acquire any particular resource, but you get lots of ??? from going exploringPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @conchitinabot: I took no to mean it was the only answer.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jericawebber looking good!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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"discount" @SkyNewsBreak/1489203679072817154Permalink Look on archive.org
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(and of course, if the cost of energy stays high, then he's just made the problem worse)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SzMarsupial: there is enough money. don’t waver from that, there is enough moneyPermalink Look on archive.org
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over a million people with long Covid in the UK. half a million with fatigue. quarter of a million "limited a lot" in day to day activities. theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/03/covid-live-news-nz-to-begin-reopening-border-this-month-more-tory-mps-up-pressure-on-boris-johnson?CMP=share_btn_tw&page=with:block-61fbba838f0854a991e05f78#block-61fbba838f0854a991e05f78Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @EdConwaySky: 🚨NEW 🚨 Bank of England says UK households must brace themselves for the biggest annual fall in their standard of living si…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @pmpoc: Rising fuel prices, rising national insurance payments, rising inflation rates, falling wages, gutting pensions - this is what c…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tristandross: the problem with the remorseless and ceaseless accumulation of wealth is that eventually you run out of other people to e…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@aeleitch thank you!Permalink Look on archive.org
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people find their own uses for tools "Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS" leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kamibox_ph: I’m a UI designer after allPermalink Look on archive.org
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EDF Energy made £103 million in profit on it's UK operations in 2020. @peachlux_/1489217229975691266Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nickmofo: Find an ever-changing Unicode type case / Wunderkammer in “Display Case” by v buckenham @v21 — in Taper #7: Wonders https://t…Permalink Look on archive.org
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"In a way, it felt almost inevitable." nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02027/Permalink Look on archive.org
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momentarily considered putting this in my "people find their own uses for tools" thread, but then i thought about it for a moment more and: it's not an unexpected outcome, but rather exactly the kind of thing they were working for.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @alicebell: Worth re-sharing this from last month, "Cutting the ‘green crap’ has added £2.5bn to UK energy bills" carbonbrief.org/analysis-cutting-the-green-crap-has-added-2-5bn-to-uk-energy-billsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @thezium: 🎨🖼️🏛️ The Zium Gallery 🏛️🖼️🎨 The Virtual Art Gallery Experience. A new collection for 2022, and a new entry in The Zium Projec…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@softlandscapes ▩▩▩▩ iterative convolution / art tool / toy it's worth resizing the browser window & zooming in and out on the page v21.io/%E2%96%A9%E2%96%A9%E2%96%A9%E2%96%A9/Permalink Look on archive.org
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a "bones day" is when you get laidPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial i'm helping my fellow millennials understand modern internet culture! i'm helping!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial maybe it is reassuring that these are all completely real & something you could have to understand the meaning of any arbitrary working day of your life? or is that not reassuring?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nwilliams030 I don't know that you have to get into it at that level. For me the argument comes to: - it's a better way to live, as a human being - and studies say you're still pretty much as productive, if you have a desk job? so why notPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nwilliams030 probably some interesting stuff to dig into as to why that last point is true... but it doesn't really affect the argument for themPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is fascinating after spending the last few years in mobile game dev, thinking a lot about building games around the patterns of everyday life (also as someone who just spent an hour scrolling TikTok, a thing I do every few weeks - it's compelling enough I don't do it often) @swodinsky/1489386322808774662Permalink Look on archive.org
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and also thinking about how long it takes a game/an app to open. it is so significant when it comes to short duration play patterns. and so hard to get Unity to cooperate. which is probably a good thing for humanity, thinking about it?Permalink Look on archive.org
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I spent a while setting up a complicated note taking infrastructure recently, and one of the hardest but most crucial parts was finding a note taking app that would actually launch quickly.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I know people that use a 1 person Discord server for taking notes etc. it makes a lot of sense to me: get out your phone and time how long it takes to start writing something versus Notion/Roam/Obsidian/Google Docs/whatever. (Google Keep & iOS Notes are both p good for this, tbf)Permalink Look on archive.org
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notebooks are like social media except you're there on your ownPermalink Look on archive.org
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which logically implies that a Google Doc is a social space, if more bounded in time than, say, Twitter. and indeed, I went to a party in one and I had a good time onezero.medium.com/party-in-a-shared-google-doc-d576c565706ePermalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto in which case, I recommend a nice paper notebook, a nice paper diary, and a penPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is a really cool discovery about how insects control their flight, but I admit to being distracted by how many aesthetics this video is going for. youtu.be/Tnv186IFovQPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is the best bitPermalink Look on archive.org
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it kind of makes me miss sciencePermalink Look on archive.org
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the bit continuesPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @yannseznec: Here’s a shower that you sing at to take the showerPermalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about what it does to the aesthetics of the internet that no-one who is popular online will post a photo or a video that has a view out of their windowPermalink Look on archive.org
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the internet is a series of white walls and no windowsPermalink Look on archive.org
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this is one reason Tom Scott's videos do so well. it just feels good to see a person in a place. refreshing. ah! the world! (that place is not his home, it is a series of locations, it's a good if tiring solution to the same problem)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Gillespionage yep!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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excellent essay on the American room, online @Orangetronic/1489553007733886976?s=20&t=ExB5lzI-TdndsqQPkQdYygPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Orangetronic yes! i was thinking of this essay when i was posting (but hadn't quite been bothered to try to find it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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which in turn makes me think of "Me Singing Stay By Rihanna" by Molly Soda youtube.com/watch?v=ZCKoFkAipbkPermalink Look on archive.org
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although the people featured generally aren't so big to have The Fear. really i'm thinking of, like... a Twitch streamer. Secret Lab chair. nice headphones. aesthetic shelf of knickknacks in the background. LED lighting. no windows.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ftrain writes about youtubers as they attempt to professionalize, to transcend the beige walls of a rented house. rent a studio or build a nice home one. but still: no windows.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i should say as well: this is a thing for famous people online generally, but it generally tends to bite harder and earlier for women.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @keefstuart: Honestly, I can't stress this enough: the availability of nicely composed images that can be downloaded quickly will often…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hautepop: “On the edge of the English Channel, the people who are living and dealing with “the boat people”, as one called them, are lo…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @stacyfmitchell: 2. Amazon is a gatekeeper to the online market, and it makes money by imposing steep and growing fees on businesses tha…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin just often enough, i would thinkPermalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto hey, at least you're getting bashed over the head now, and not after you've asked people to build itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hondanhon i liked the bit where he said that it's a bad thing to try to build a profitable company versus one which loses money but can be acquired by Facebook.Permalink Look on archive.org
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what's bestPermalink Look on archive.org
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followup: a restaurant with no menu. because they serve:Permalink Look on archive.org
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I wonder how many people, when they see you can have up to 64 of something in a thing, think "ah, yes, a Minecraft reference"Permalink Look on archive.org
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~~behind the tweet~~ the first draft had the word "kids" instead of "people" and then I realised that kids who grew up on Minecraft can be very much adults now, it's just that I am oldPermalink Look on archive.org
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just had the most immersive experience I can recall reading an online article @swodinsky/1489712913514389504Permalink Look on archive.org
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honestly startled to find myself able to solve this equation based Wordle spin off nerdlegame.com/ 17 4/6 🟪🟪🟪⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟪⬛⬛🟩🟪⬛ 🟪🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Permalink Look on archive.org
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interesting the way it plays out, a nice mix of eliminating/deducing a smaller pool of letters (in a larger grid, too) and the global constraint of the equations having to work. shame about my spotty mental arithmetic!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I will say the hardest thing for me was internalising that "red" means "partial success"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle looks like you got lucky with some of the ordering, but also put got a lot from your first roundPermalink Look on archive.org
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I have always thought that if you make a daily challenge mode for a game it should ideally roll over at 4am local time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@uncriticalsimon @hipsterelectron device local time, unless you need to be fully server authoritative, in which case you have some awkward compromises to makePermalink Look on archive.org
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@KommanderKlobb and so is forgetting to play all day & realising just after midnight, heading to bed late!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@maxbittker I'm not making a block based interface, but I am working in a similar area and have been thinking about this stuff a lot. let's have a chat some time?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman there's so much new music in the world, but relatively little new food. although, having said that, food is generally a little different each time, but we have invented reliable ways to reproduce music identically.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@naomialderman anyway, all this to say is that I actually answered the question "which do you feel more excitement in anticipation of trying", because that felt easier to judge - a hypothetical rather than summing upPermalink Look on archive.org
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maybe I'm looking at this wrong. maybe the challenge should reset with a sense of ceremony, not try to slink over in the night. midday! it's [insert game name here] time! let's all do it together! @everestpipkin/1489875747078553600?t=ckwapZvEhFLrmR2k5I-tlQ&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin I'd say that the game should give you an option to set it, but I don't want that power.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ZenoRogue device-local time, if you can manage it!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @kitasenjudesign: structure of slit-scan スリットスキャンの構造Permalink Look on archive.org
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why is it that the one place i'm not allowed to use a secure password is my bank?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tigershungry a good many years ago, I bought a nice set of miniature screwdrivers, and I gotta say, it's a pleasure to use them every timePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @InstrumentBot: an instrument made out of oceanographic data and a divining rodPermalink Look on archive.org
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drowning in textPermalink Look on archive.org
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one zero three threePermalink Look on archive.org
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last one for tonight, i thinkPermalink Look on archive.org
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@iotwatch i had a big dinner, but now i'm hungry againPermalink Look on archive.org
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love recognising the same advice in a different discipline. this is game design playtesting "if the player is unhappy, figure out why - their suggestion is probably wrong, but there is a reason why you ought to figure out" except with different power dynamics @BaronDestructo/1490032999198609413Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ao3taggenerator: more fucking vampire fuckingPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @aleatorpress: "The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage arranged by word length and alphabetized within word length" (…Permalink Look on archive.org
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karaoke when @blameaspartame/1490143025271508992Permalink Look on archive.org
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text generated by models trained on text generated by ... @mildlydiverting/1490297528922820611Permalink Look on archive.org
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there is a real fear among AI researchers that the last big corpuses of human written text have already been captured. all future scrapes of the internet for text to learn from will be contaminated by machine-speak.Permalink Look on archive.org
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(let's leave aside the implicit horror in the way a stray Reddit comment, a Wikipedia edit, this tweet are captured and used to smooth or wrinkle a machine model that will be used to generate more text in the service of... who? whoever the researchers sell the model to)Permalink Look on archive.org
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CAPTCHAs at least make it obvious that our unpaid micro-labour is being used in the service of capital @v21/944298512694554625Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, funny to think of a time when generated text is recognizable due to it's use of typically 2020-ish speech patterns and references. a cultural fixed point new models start from, slowly becoming more evident as human culture drifts away.Permalink Look on archive.org
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"context drift", as per this genuinely horrifying sci fi short story : qntm.org/mmacevedoPermalink Look on archive.org
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of course, this kind of text model is not a flat and neutral capture of 2020, either. continuing in the grand tradition of psychology experiments, it represents, at an average, a white American college student. with a slight bias towards "the kind of person who goes on Reddit"Permalink Look on archive.org
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if you're doing kinky stuff in bed with a non-binary person, instead of saying "yes, Sir" or "yes, Mistress", you say "yes, Chef"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting yes! I've also been fascinated by this, although I'm not really sure what to do with this fascination. I made @ContentEngage to try to capture that sense...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mildlydiverting @ContentEngage would also recommend the book "Because Internet" if you want a pop-linguistics look at thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mooonmagic @InstrumentBot I'll keep an eye out when I spot the ones I follow...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@weinventyou yeah: general erosion of the naturally interesting and things posted for their intrinsic value @v21/1435174594139262977Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TheWhitePube what's your least favourite album so far?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly it was kind of nice turning 30 and having that feeling go away for a whilePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @CRTpixels: Bust-A-Move (1994, Taito) - SNES Sharp Pixels vs. SNES S-Video via Sony PVM-20L2MD I'm not sure how your day is going, but…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@UnburntWitch @innesmck 70% of the stuff that needs garlic i just use a squeeze of garlic puree from a tube i keep in the fridgePermalink Look on archive.org
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@UnburntWitch @innesmck (sometimes you want the garlic to be in little pieces, not just for the flavour... but mainly not)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@UnburntWitch @innesmck this is making me want to cook something where you put the garlic in whole and then just... squeeze it out the paper once it's done cooking.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@kahodesu Today I finally won it! Very happy about the addition of the warm/cold featurePermalink Look on archive.org
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@kahodesu I keep wanting to make my own version... maybe I should.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mooonmagic @InstrumentBot here's one @10kimaginaryboy/1490471582300467203?t=_WHj0fGTjJasdk0paXZquw&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@kahodesu haha... depending if it's any good, right??Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nowplaythese: Do you love Now Play This and have a passion for arts production? We are looking for two people to help with the running…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall "tail", apparently english.stackexchange.com/questions/379265/what-is-the-pointy-part-of-a-speech-bubble-calledPermalink Look on archive.org
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i would like to talk to people more! so i am setting up slots where people can book in time to talk to me. Thursdays, 4-6pm GMT. come have a chat and talk about what you're working on v21.io/blog/lets-chatPermalink Look on archive.org
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@AustinKelmore happy to talk about anything, tbh! i put some examples on that page, but y'know, if people think they have something interesting to talk about then i'm curious to hear what it isPermalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck @philippawarr oh, this makes me think of Ladykiller In A Bind, for the exact same reasonPermalink Look on archive.org
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@innesmck @philippawarr um. definitely doesn't have toddler energy, thoughPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle thanks for saying, one sec...Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle and also: shit! i'm sorry. hope it passes quickly, totally my bad (i wondered if i should add a strobe warning when i opened it to capture the images, but totally spaced on it when i actually went to post). thank you for saying!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@softlandscapes ▛▚▞▗ v21.io/%E2%96%9B%E2%96%9A%E2%96%9E%E2%96%97/ [warning: can produce strobe effects]Permalink Look on archive.org
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i enjoy that putting down "Star Trek" means another clue becomes a Star Wars reference @matttomic/1490690612672315398Permalink Look on archive.org
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@elliottetzkorn it's more one of those codebases that has a lot of nooks & crannies than a straightforward gist. but the basic outline: rendered with node-canvas text rendered with a Hershey font text from writing the output of several sine waves, with digits replaced with charactersPermalink Look on archive.org
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@elliottetzkorn y position of each line grows exponentially there's some distortion and offsetting of each character, including via perlin noise colours picked from a small area of hsv spacePermalink Look on archive.org
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people are down on the idea of shame, but it can be very socially useful. for example: if not for shaming people for doing NFTs, we might have a lot more of them.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @esaxey: This LGBT+ History Month, I’m re-reading the court record of William Smith, a bootmaker in 1860s Shoreditch. (It ends sadly, bu…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@esaxey wowwPermalink Look on archive.org
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listening to the new episode of Imaginary Advice and thinking about the way that stories these days can make good usage of describing how the camera moves and how imaginary film cuts workPermalink Look on archive.org
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the cinematic imaginary. like listening to a particular kind of music while walking down the street.Permalink Look on archive.org
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similar to (I'm sorry, I'm sorry) the current run of the Theodora at the Royal Opera House, which I saw last night and which features heavy use of slow motion, (spoilers) heroes being locked in a meat freezer, etc.Permalink Look on archive.org
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we've all seen films, we know how they work. better than life, that's how. so if you want to reference something slicker and better and more dramatic than life, why not describe how the film would play out.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@sc3d it just feels like a particular thing to drop "well, I was at the opera" etc etc as if it was a relatable reference. anyway: idk much about opera but it has a modern staging which I loved.Permalink Look on archive.org
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idly considering making an involved set of life choices so I don't have to interact with the Javascript module system for a few years, by which time people will hopefully have sorted this mess outPermalink Look on archive.org
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grappling with this all of yesterday. maybe i should give up on making a nice interactable thing & just go hunting for even better captures.Permalink Look on archive.org
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detail (zoomed in so you can see the colours)Permalink Look on archive.org
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tech advice wanted: i'm making an Android/iOS app with Flutter. i'm planning on setting up automatic builds using Github Actions. i want to do some testing to make sure the builds actually, y'know, work. what's the best way to do this?Permalink Look on archive.org
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i'll probably write some unit tests etc, but honestly there's not too much that's interesting that can be easily covered at that level. i think just "does it throw an exception if you press buttons randomly for 5 minutes" would get me 75% of the way there?Permalink Look on archive.org
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but... i need to find a company that can run the app on a little disembowelled phone in a server room somewhere? what's the best way to do this? Firebase has something, is it worth getting set up with Firebase just for this?Permalink Look on archive.org
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should i prioritise getting a desktop/web version running (and get testing set up on that) and then just test phone stuff manually? is it even worth getting automated builds running on a server somewhere, or would that time be better spent actually doing manual testing myself?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore i mean, device specific stuff would be useful, i am using the camera/native APIs/doing filesystem stuff. but the best ROI might well be to start by making it work on desktop (which i wanna do anyway!) & then testing that, first.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ahwhitaker it might be! tbh there's also a fear factor because the integration tests need to coordinate between host (which runs the test) and device, and i assume setting that up will be a bit painfulPermalink Look on archive.org
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@TahitiP4ncake hah, thank you! yeah, i was also getting those vibes with thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore yeah, i think this makes sense. i mean, also, time will tell which way things tend to break, and what the priorities are for catching them.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @MOOMANiBE: It is worth remembering that game workers unite literally game into existence because IGDA held a roundtable at GDC explicit…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i was reading about this and then discovered a plan to... drain the Mediterranean? on purpose? in order to merge Europe and Africa? for colonialism purposes? (the Nazis were a fan) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa @Mikeachim/1491085499712565248Permalink Look on archive.org
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i dunno if this makes me feel better or worse about people saying "we can solve the climate crisis! all we need to do is install a few million square kilometers of mirrors..."Permalink Look on archive.org
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@supiket tbqh, this is the kind of mainly-UI, heavily entangled code where i find i am more interested in changing the behaviour of the system than refactoring code while preserving behaviour. as such... mainly i just wanna know i haven't accidentally broken it completelyPermalink Look on archive.org
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the thing about testing is... often i am writing the kind of code where i am more interested in iterating on the behaviour of the code than i am in iterating on the implementation of the code @v21/1491357614554619904Permalink Look on archive.org
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things that have worked for me: - use a language with a type system :) - use asserts in your code - if there's any easy way to do it... monkey test with random inputs & see if you hit any errors - bonus points: play back recordings of monkey tests that hit errors in the pastPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hipsterelectron yeah, although honestly if you're in a situation where those are helpful then you're already in an good place wrt testing. versus, say, a videogame written in a large commercial closed source game engine.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hipsterelectron yeah. i look forward to being in a situation where i get to play with them :)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i mean, also the reason that "iterating on the behaviour" is possible is usually because the code is heavily entangled with a framework/engine that's doing the heavy lifting. the logic separated from that framework is not complicated - the entanglement is the thing.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@TedMielczarek ah, nice! Firebase Test Lab also supports the Flutter integration test stuff, so that's also helpfulPermalink Look on archive.org
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@TedMielczarek yeah, i assumed it would be the Unity style "tap the screen at random" random testing rather than picking up on the ui elements. but if i'm on Firebase Test Lab anyway to run integration tests, might as well add that in.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's nice to think about all the people enjoying themselves playing music, writing books & making videogamesPermalink Look on archive.org
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"All flavors must belong to a named flavor dimension, which is a group of product flavors."Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nickfourtimes @cloutsocks hey, this is what i spent today setting up! thanks for the laugh (hollow laugh)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mcclure111 @mountain_ghosts i would like to say: this thread inspired me to watch Arrietty this evening instead of fruitlessly poking at my laptop and i am very glad i didPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial good song, imoPermalink Look on archive.org
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surprised myself by... actually excitedly switching over to Nintento Direct when I saw people online screaming about Earthbound. yeah, okay, okay, I'm excitedPermalink Look on archive.org
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(although actually what i should do is try to root around and get a flash cart working so I can actually play the Mother 3 fan translation on a device where the rhythm gameplay timings work - i never finished it last time)Permalink Look on archive.org
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i kinda love the endless tease that is the failure to ever release Mother 3 in EnglishPermalink Look on archive.org
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the new kirby game looks nice. the whole concept of kirby is very weird and fucked from the off, but also great. so 3D postapocalypse can-become-a-car kirby is just... defamiliarizing from the essential strangeness. but it'll still play as cute and gentle as kirby always is.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I went looking to see if Sonic's middle name was actually "The", and... In reality it's "Maurice". His first name is "Ogilvie". @webbedspace/1491690168071307265Permalink Look on archive.org
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Ogilvie Maurice "Sonic the" HedgehogPermalink Look on archive.org
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Imagine if your last name was "Human" and you went by a nickname like "Fingers the Human". Fucked up situation.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas I would appreciate seeing the chickens (and I'm here more than Insta)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas hello!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Yayyab eating people > psychically possessing peoplePermalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas that... sounds like an interesting project. okay! have you started work on it? what's the tricky bit? (i would guess: enclosures and reliability)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SamNChiet i don't have any help, but i do have a comic for you @nickfourtimes/1491091759128264705Permalink Look on archive.org
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@lingmops i learned this fact at 8:30 am. my first real engagement with the day was learning this.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Gib @AranKoning hey guys, are you looking forward to the brand new UI system Unity is in the process of rolling out?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas depending on how it's set up, you might be able to read the battery voltage from the device & report it back? or just apply a multimeter - likely to hover at the edge of okay until it finally dips a bit too far.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas if it's internet... probably something getting wedged when the connection drops. if the drop outs are only brief, then fixing up the code to reconnect etc when its back could work.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@LydNicholas might explain why restarts aren't reliable, if on a restart the connection doesn't come up fast enough, or comes up and then drops out immediately after?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine "swanking bridally from the marzipan"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine i have been reading this ongoing story about a trans woman ending up going through a force-fem fantasy situation, i would recommend it if that description appeals archiveofourown.org/works/35394595/chapters/88223581Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine i mean, actually the thing for me is that the poem goes out of it's way to avoid using female pronounsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@moreelen not having been fishing, but!! i reckon fishing itself is largely relaxing (because you're just waiting), with moments of high stress (can i reel it in). but videogames compress the "wait around for ages doing nothing" bit... so all that's left is stressPermalink Look on archive.org
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endianness is confusing, and on top of that the terms "little/big endian" are hard to translate into a byte order (which end!?). but. i just read the IETF note that originated the terminology and it is funny enough that all is forgiven networksorcery.com/enp/ien/ien137.txtPermalink Look on archive.org
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"However, anyone who was brought up by computer scientists, rather than by botanists, knows that trees grow downward, having their roots at the top of the page and their leaves down below. Computer scientists seldom remember which way "up" really is."Permalink Look on archive.org
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maybe the way that computer science enshrines a lot of really dumb jokes & nerdy references into terms that millions of people have to learn is bad??? or maybe it's good. who could say.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i want to have softboiled eggs nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @nervous_jessica: Looks from Noir Kei Ninomiya Spring 2022 via vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2022-ready-to-wear/noir-kei-ninomiyaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin frogs is a website, not a webpage! but yeah, I should pull my finger out and actually release that, thanks for the shovePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @halhod: ok now this is a really bad ideaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin thank you for participating. your frog:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wynrush yeah! like, many of the conditions that lead to burnout (like a lack of perceived agency in your working conditions) are also the kinds of things which prevent you from achieving stuff!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@wynrush which sucks if you're going "I feel like maybe I'm burnt out... but also we aren't really achieving much rn, so that can't be it"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin frogot I still had that runningPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio oh, c'mon, don't you want to receive wasps through the post? postman comes and you say "ah, yes, it'll be my wasps, thank you very much". doing google searches for "cheap wasps online" and reading the reviews to check they're good quality waspsPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @AyoCaesar: Inject it 💉💉💉Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty this reminds me that the floors in the Royal Opera House used to be numbered by reference to the stage rather than the ground outsidePermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty there is no system so straightforward that you cannot confuse new peoplePermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty Niantic did not do this but it was for a more reasonable reason (a lot of projects were working on external IP, so for example you'd still see some references to holoholo to mean Pokemon Go) (also the actual names for projects would get decided quite late before release)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty the flipside to this is that I now have a company named after the codename for a project I run a real risk of not replacingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty see also "Untitled Goose Game"Permalink Look on archive.org
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"In this worldview, being able to buy things isn’t just proof you have money, it’s proof you’ve been good enough, worked hard enough." annehelen.substack.com/p/what-got-left-out-of-lularichPermalink Look on archive.org
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my favourite character building detail in Grapple Dog is that at the end of each level there is a big bell you ring to signal you're done - kind of like the Mario flagpole. but like the dumb enthusiastic dog you are, you can totally ring it loads of times if you wanna.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I enjoy that it's kind of satisfying in the way that it is *not* satisfying, y'know?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@philippawarr you were asking about videogames with toddler energy the other day? well, here's perfect toddler energy @v21/1491903330561445889Permalink Look on archive.org
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@felix_cohen oh shit congratulations!Permalink Look on archive.org
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unit circle represented by the entire range of an unsigned integer, meaning angle wrapping can be done by under- and over-flowing @tvaneerd/1491907098405482498Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dinosaurrparty I don't think there is going to be the critical mass of people going that will make you have FOMO.Permalink Look on archive.org
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seeing Chrome update notes, and feeling vague terror knowing that it's going to repeatedly pop up a dialogue asking me if I want my two Google accounts to be in different Chrome profiles, and if I accidentally click yes there is no way to undo itPermalink Look on archive.org
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I should... try to like Firefox again? ughPermalink Look on archive.org
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@0x21376B00 maybe i'm gonna do that for the sheer perversity of running Edge on a Mac. hah.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio @NotBrunoAgain the world record is 10! pmnewsnigeria.com/2021/11/13/tree-bears-10-different-fruits-grafter-wins-guinness-recordPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio @NotBrunoAgain my favourite bit of the story is when he got the world record by knocking the other guy down to 4Permalink Look on archive.org
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okay, I installed Microsoft Edge (on my Mac, yes), and... so far so good?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @yuanchuan23: More gradients #shaderPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Vahn16: NEW: blackbird, the 300-person studio behind homeworld and hardspace: shipbreaker, is switching to a 4-day workweek after a len…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @tigershungry: Feel the headline of this article hides a lot of complex and interesting insights and research the writer covers. I’ve s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@KommanderKlobb i found firefox slower, and anyway i am too used to the web inspector to want to switchPermalink Look on archive.org
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this calendar event is more portentous than when i made it 10 months agoPermalink Look on archive.org
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@sixregrets @yannseznec all cats are beautifulPermalink Look on archive.org
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beautiful microwave arrays @yannseznec/1492105643649601552Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @GuyBirkin: The first published computer program - by Ada Lovelace, 1843, for the computation of Bernoulli numbers on Babbage's Analytic…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Love2Code generally very onboard with this, but i think the specific example of HTML Canvas APIs are interesting. i do a lot with them & i find that they (like much of the web platform) are stable and can be relied upon, as well as having useful functions i can use directly.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Love2Code but lower level APIs can cause problems, because to use them, I find myself reaching for libraries that abstract over them, perform useful tasks etc. and then those change, because the maintainers want to improve them, or because the way stuff is packaged changesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Love2Code in a world where all dependencies are statically linked & the building process stays reliable, low level APIs are a good answer. but often providing a higher level API can help because it means your code is closer to a slower-moving bit of code.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @michael_deforge: not an original thought but it's funny/grim how people used to talk so much about the potential for webcomics to make…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Love2Code ah, that's fair, i very rarely use the font rendering (in part for that reason, i guess!)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @bennessb: I’ve just been so aware lately how dangerous it is that way too many people still think energy-limiting chronic illness was…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@isaac_fellman damn, what a review!! also i very much want to read your book nowPermalink Look on archive.org
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@nielsen_holly i've been there. using up limited reserves of energy to try to figure out how to fill out the form so you can leave a message for your GP explaining what the actual deal isPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle i agreePermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle and i like the song that plays in the first few levels. will let you know if i like the songs you hear when you get further if and when i get any further.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@steveklabnik we have like a single Taco Bell. it's just not our culture!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@everestpipkin doing a funny voice?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@designCaitlin did you go out in the 90s?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@tambourine i am with you on this (at least the first ep)Permalink Look on archive.org
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was reading SCP posts and really struck by how the community there gives critical feedback. it can be really direct and even blunt... and yet it is generally both taken and given with respect and appreciation.Permalink Look on archive.org
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a really cool thing to see, imo, and rare for a site with open registrationPermalink Look on archive.org
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this plus - pushing to end free Covid testing - ending the ONS survey of Covid prevalance like the official government line is "yeah, you're gonna get it. so what, who cares, we're bored" @LJFinlayson/1492439477930930178Permalink Look on archive.org
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a mindset I can understand some people slipping into about themselves. but absolutely not acceptable from the fucking GovernmentPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ShitpostGate:Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yaxu @TomNullpointer @toxi It can definitely work for some people - but if someone was asking me if they thought this was a viable path to invest in, I would likely say no. If the threshold for success is something like "invent Tidal" then it is a high bar to reach!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yaxu @TomNullpointer @toxi which is not to say that I don't appreciate the work you've done (or regret running CBDQ, which is the closest thing to open source that I've done). but. it's a community built on joy and not payment commensurate with labour.Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is pretty good - on the internet & online publishing @osibot/1492438294025621507Permalink Look on archive.org
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@yaxu @TomNullpointer @toxi Tom touched on this already, but it bears repeating that the people who can afford to invest heavily in joy and not worry quite so much about income tend to have a certain demographic profile. Which is not to diminish the importance of joy! But it is worth thinking about.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@haikus_by_KN are you brunching?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@haikus_by_KN I am proud of you for your restraint.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @almondsalsa:Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @loackme_: 🤖✏️📱 #axidraw #procreate #plottertwitterPermalink Look on archive.org
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i keep thinking of the @pangmeli tweet about how non-stick pans are transient because all coatings are transient, and about how the real magic of cast-iron pans is that they allow you to create and renew a coating yourself, at home, using the things you use for cooking @erinbiba/1492801969420918784Permalink Look on archive.org
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here it is @pangmeli/1446129351724965894Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, yeah, short of taking an angle grinder to it, any damage you do to a cast iron pan can be cured by scraping it down and reseasoning it. but also... it will be fine. use soap, implements, cook tomatoes, whatever. live your life! use your tools!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @RCM____: With inflation at 7.5%, you lose half your money in 9 years. The only way to outperform that consistently, that I have found,…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this tweet isn't about being trans. but it is, also, about being trans. @pangmeli/1491101573887696896Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv honestly seems like a lot less effort to have already went to the right schools & universitiesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv i mean, it depends also on what the "right" connections are. a pile of investment money would've been nice, an easy in to the world of finance or the civil service or something could've actively made my life worse.Permalink Look on archive.org
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wow i love this story @antimytheme/1492978724777701387Permalink Look on archive.org
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been thinking about this a bunch recently. compression is important, but it's composition as much as anything else. bold clear simple composition works, intricate textures and forms don't. @zachlieberman/1491464087980716036Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's not just what the platforms support (jpgs, compressed video, things being viewed at a size of about 2x3 inches), it's what the platform rewards.Permalink Look on archive.org
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happy to see this story about the Chagos Islands slipping out of British hands. you might know the Chagos Islands as the territory that .io domains are assigned to (the money from those domain registrations is currently kept by the British government) theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/12/exiled-chagos-islanders-return-uk-disputed-archipelago-mauritiusPermalink Look on archive.org
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correction: @russss/1493203772801224704?s=20&t=lqp331C7-jK91sunxkhfxQ (but the point is that the Chagossians are getting nothing)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nicolehe disappointed you're not going for a little servo on a real airhornPermalink Look on archive.org
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did you know people still make mp3 players? they look like this and they cost £2000Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty my memory of the whathifi review i ripped this image from says... no, this player actually has a very transparent soundPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jonty i do desperately want a device with a screen on the pis, now, i cannot tell a liePermalink Look on archive.org
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@camyule "Astell & Kern A&futura SE100" - WhatHiFi gives it five stars and says "If you have the budget, this portable music player is a no-brainer."Permalink Look on archive.org
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more of thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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less intensePermalink Look on archive.org
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can anyone recommend a Chrome extension that will take a screenshot and then automatically save it to disk without popping up a new tab/making me save it manually etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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i found a CNET article from 2013 recommending one, but the link is dead, the extension with the same name doesn't have that feature, and I suspect Google declared this level of power illegal in a recent purgePermalink Look on archive.org
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i spent a little longer on this and concluded that the purge was the removal of NPAPI in 2014. so. not recent. but still illegal.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@craigw1701 i am on a mac, and there is a lovely handy command for capturing the screen & another one for selecting an area, and i use them constantly. but it's handy to be able to capture *just* the webpage content without having to do a pixel perfect crop later on.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@craigw1701 this is also, tbqh, working around a DevTools bug where it captures only 1/4 of the screen when clicking "Capture screenshot" in Device Emulation mode on a Retina monitorPermalink Look on archive.org
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at long last, i have finally made a productive mistake!Permalink Look on archive.org
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... and now to return to the slog of tying it back into the intentional thing i was doing before, while keeping it's possibilities availablePermalink Look on archive.org
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@ohhoe both?? it's a fragment shader running on it's own output, in WebGLPermalink Look on archive.org
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@ohhoe came out of porting v21.io/%E2%96%9B%E2%96%9A%E2%96%9E%E2%96%97/ to the graphics card (and adding colour) [unsurprising warning: can be a bit flashy]Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial Imagining a world where we don't know how to make sunscreen in any way other than farming hipposPermalink Look on archive.org
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love this fizzy texturePermalink Look on archive.org
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@JenuinePanic sorry to say that that reference indicates that you're probably over 30...Permalink Look on archive.org
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tropical staticPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @DrAndrewThaler: One sentence that's really stuck with me from @MaxLiboiron's excellent Pollution Is Colonialism: "You can't 'clean up…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @laurentbercot: In 2001, I said "I use Linux" to RMS's face, and interrupted his usual rant by explaining that the userspace was not GNU…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GalaxyKate our beautiful AI-powered futurePermalink Look on archive.org
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remember my mind being very slightly blown watching @joningold give a talk about Ink, and describe how he would write lines of dialogue and feel confident they would work fine in-game without testing them. @simonw/1493630617610715139Permalink Look on archive.org
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@AustinKelmore @joningold ah-haha, i had to edit my tweet to not use the phrase "feel comfortable" twice in one sentence, you're good. but yeah! that's how good tools (and your confidence with them) can get. who knew!Permalink Look on archive.org
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just very pleased with the shapes and colours this thing is producingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@badaude this is written in WebGL - doing a feedback loop thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@badaude (also: thank you!)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Thairyn fuck yesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@kjatar @mcclure111 presumably someone was streaming while drivingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@emgeejay @mcclure111 i enjoy that Twitter hid this tweet for potentially containing offensive languagePermalink Look on archive.org
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it can still do the fine detail thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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i got distracted making a new webpage. but it's nearly ready, so let's get back to thisPermalink Look on archive.org
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calming sphere v21.io/calmingsphere/ also available in twitterbot format : @calmingsphere & within the Zium Museum (theziumsociety.itch.io/the-zium-museum)Permalink Look on archive.org
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neural implants are a cool idea!! but are fundamentally too important to be left to private industry to support. @Electric_Genie/1493685580328230918Permalink Look on archive.org
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@arctanno I'm not saying they should only be manufactured by the government. But I am, for example, very much in favour of open standards, open source, and right to repair legislation. It's one thing not being able to repair the implant, but why can't they make their own VDUs.Permalink Look on archive.org
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hard numbers for ethical boardgame manufacturing @TheOneTAR/1493707369112506372Permalink Look on archive.org
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incidentally, for videogame people unfamiliar with the economic logic of making boardgames, this thread will absolutely let you understand why boardgames are such a thing on Kickstarter (and videogames aren't, really, not any more)Permalink Look on archive.org
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(also, as someone who used to be in the boardgame world, ugh ugh ugh at trying to deal with the logistics crisis, new VAT rules, and also Kickstarter turning to Web3 bollocks. people still making it work: you have a lot of respect from me)Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway, yeah, it turns out that having strong market signals of demand, direct to consumer margins AND getting the cash before you need to pay the manufacturer as opposed to many moons later... is pretty powerful in a business with high upfront capital expenditures. who knew?!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@davemakes @joethephish they swapped out a difficult word for an easier one a few days agoPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @innesmck: thread for if you want to know why Oldwhat is named that. it doesn't have any answers but it does have some very cool and old…Permalink Look on archive.org
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i don't play Wordle but it is funny to me that the NYT is getting heat from players for today's word being too hard AND were getting heat a few days ago for editing the word to be easierPermalink Look on archive.org
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versus Semantle, which posted this up... @AdamWoodnutt/1493092261738913794?s=20&t=Lf12x1ObcXqAAd_pbp5T4wPermalink Look on archive.org
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thinking again of how much i disagree with that "Finish Your Game" talk (chrishecker.com/Please_Finish_Your_Game) - and how much more generative it is when someone comes out with something new but with a lot of design directions clearly not followedPermalink Look on archive.org
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versus a singular masterwork, brought to you by a solitary genius who has fully plumbed the depths and packaged it up all the good ideas there found into one tidy package (along with a metaphor for getting dumped/nuclear war/idk I never finished Braid)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@NotInventedHere @hellocatfood apologies for the meta-spoiler!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jim_unwin the way Unity's UI system does navigation is pretty good, imo. each control defines an up/down/left/right neighbour. works well with D-pad, & smooshing analogue inputs down into cardinal directions is fine for most UIPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jim_unwin have implemented more complicated schemes for arbitrary movement to elements - the kind of heuristics you'd imagine would work, do work. but as with so much of this, it is pretty context dependent - what does your UI look like, how often are players hitting it, etcPermalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon yep - especially because the games are small, so you can get the iterations from concept to release quickly enough to see it happen. versus bigger stuff, where that iteration can only happen at any speed at all in terms of broken prototypes.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @RussianMemesLtd: my face when the meme won't loadPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio no, but in November you told me "oh, you could've used my laminator!", so it's possible that at that time you knew where it wasPermalink Look on archive.org
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@vectorpoem @plentyofalcoves yeah, i guess the issue here is that the update corrupts the saves, so even if it loaded a backup save, it'd break that one, too.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial i remember seeing a pigeon in a wood from a canal boat and thinking... how beautiful! ... wow... it's not the pigeons that are ugly... it's the city...Permalink Look on archive.org
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here is a blog post which more eloquently says a lot of the things i was saying in this thread robinsloan.com/lab/bad-hosts/ (tl;dr - decentralized services are hard because there's no-one to do the NAT punchthrough)Permalink Look on archive.org
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kind of makes me want to get together with some friends & set up a Tailscale network and just... send packets at each other. share files using the file sharing services that operating systems still ship with. host websites that are only up when our laptops are open.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i am speaking at GDC! in a joint panel with @ghoulnoise and @finalfinalgirl, spreading the good word about how to support people with invisible disabilities within the workplace. schedule.gdconf.com/session/independent-games-summit-making-room-for-accessibility-health/885356Permalink Look on archive.org
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i know what's true for me, but it is not the same for everybody!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@semiBad yeah, it would be a useful thing. but the point is also that it's not really necessary to have a special device to do cool stuff... if the network worked in a symmetrical wayPermalink Look on archive.org
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tech company names that have described me: - Wammuxer - NianticPermalink Look on archive.org
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I think people said "Wammuxer", but I might be making that up. They definitely called the company stuff "Wammux", which is funny because the company was never called that. When I joined it was "MX Telecom", but before that it was "WapMX" (I think), which got internally corrupted.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: i once did a disney project and i had to put a sticker on my phone camera every day. now you can just tweet your story…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mcbridejc: PCBWay delivered today! @lynaghk nerd sniped me into moving magnets around on PCBs a while back, so I made this little race…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @finalfinalgirl: The #GDC22 schedule is out. I am super lucky to be paneling with @ghoulnoise and @v21. Tune in for our ideas on accessi…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jesslynnrose idk if its a portfolio site, but it is my site & it does have my stuff on it v21.ioPermalink Look on archive.org
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love (by which I mean hate) how Twitter has made it so the "we sent your tweet" popup steals focus from the tweet compose box. have you considered that sometimes people write multiple tweets?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @PleaseBeGneiss: you will not guess what is gonePermalink Look on archive.org
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feeling like i have made some good choices on here that i only now understand why people were posting Kirby's beard @ClickGate_/1493623712951775242Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @74WTungsteno: A topological space of fonts 🔤 Do you see the separation of serif and non-serif fonts? bit.ly/3dDMb67 (Neill D.F…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @evan_greer: A platform created by & for sex workers for the express purpose of giving the community a voice & making it easier for work…Permalink Look on archive.org
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unpopular opinion, but I get irritated by David Attenborough documentaries. Great footage, but the commentary anthropomorphises natural processes in a way that distorts the actual mechanisms involved.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it's hard to talk about evolution without falling into the fallacy of "a species evolves because it wants to survive", but also it is important to understand that this is not what happens!Permalink Look on archive.org
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this, basically @pangmeli/1478086440424775681Permalink Look on archive.org
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also the internet has given me an allergy to someone who is about to show me a thing insisting that the thing is remarkable or extraordinary. you are about to show me the thing, I will judge that for myself.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@BonsaiTreehouse my issue is not with things being simplified, it is with things being narrativisedPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mold_time from seeing people do stuff like this a few times, the big thing for me is whether the people with control of the house live there & how protected the inhabitants are from arbitrary decisions.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mold_time those power dynamics can be savage. lots of the ways this can work out are basically a cult... but not all of them.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @FoldableHuman: This is a fantastic, technical, and incisive presentation. I'm jealous of how tightly Rosenthal words concepts that I s…Permalink Look on archive.org
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if i were adapting Disco Elysium for TV !!! i would set a story in the same world but absolutely not try to follow the game's plot. yes yes, let's meet the detective and Kim, but do an ensemble show & don't follow them around the whole time.Permalink Look on archive.org
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like The Wire but weird and without a Shakespearean sense of predestination hanging over the whole affair.Permalink Look on archive.org
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absolutely do not try to depict the inside of the detective's head (but do show the messy contradictions in *other* character's heads)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@catacalypto @tambourine noted anticapitalist Mr Jeff Bezos is doing it collider.com/life-is-strange-disco-elysium-tv-series-amazon-studios/Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @TylerGlaiel: flash/adobe animate enables a 2D art workflow for games that is basically unmatched and hasn't even been close to replicat…Permalink Look on archive.org
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new website: r_g_b.html v21.io/r_g_b.html [warning for flashing colours]Permalink Look on archive.org
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also did a blog post with a tiny bit of commentary on it v21.io/blog/r_g_b-htmlPermalink Look on archive.org
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is this good? @ShippingForecas/1494436593838567425Permalink Look on archive.org
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@mountain_ghosts which i used to understand it, and then get a prebuilt PC to that spec from Scan - it's worth looking at even if you're not building your own, is what i meanPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HKesvani: Starmer will serve his purpose of crushing what’s left of the left in the party, and then in 2024 the Tories will repackage k…Permalink Look on archive.org
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don't watch this if you're afraid of flying youtube.com/watch?v=vPQh1FrbOc0 @timoncheese/1494626383854718978Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hollygramazio: Really enjoying @v21's new make-a-bunch-of-colours webpage. Click / move the mouse to mysteriously influence it without…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hannahnicklin @hollygramazio yeah, definitely your vibe, that kind of hazy fuzzPermalink Look on archive.org
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@hannahnicklin @hollygramazio a complicated question! but for you: go for itPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial i don't know if watching this will hurt or help any plane anxiety. definitely one or the otherPermalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial did you see the thing i posted about shooting moths with a tiny cannon?Permalink Look on archive.org
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what's the singular of media?Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hester_paradice: this is great https://t.co/45FZ59G1wuPermalink Look on archive.org
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thank you for your responses. there were some good answers, there were some bad answers. there were not any useful answers.Permalink Look on archive.org
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today i am having a fun time writing savefile migration codePermalink Look on archive.org
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and i have launched the thing i was making all of these images with. go play! @v21/1494604663274020872?s=20&t=NscH4GGlSGi6eZjGyNSvWAPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jennatar look, i didn't say all the answers were incorrectPermalink Look on archive.org
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@HTHRFLWRS i voted "it'll take longer", but that's just because i reckon it'll lose more heat with it's new larger surface areaPermalink Look on archive.org
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@alexhern Good luck liquidating a billion dollars worth of crypto!Permalink Look on archive.org
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fucking hell, what's that, a 6 hour turnaround? @dandouglas/1494711064486887427Permalink Look on archive.org
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I feel like I should have some kind of tools related take on this, for personal brand purposes. But mainly I'm at: wow! cool!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@varjmes would mean you should get some more modafinil, I reckonPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @veIvetchica: marc jacobs runway fittings for his fw22 collectionPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Sosowski: What a great use of 4 colours!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles i can give you a lot of sympathy. my brother kept a snake when we were younger, i think we had a similar escape that took a while to resolve. luckily they didn't get under the floor, but... this happens!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles glad to hear your snake hadn't eaten recently, it's always hard with an animal that doesn't have strong ways to motivate it to come out (versus a cat etc, which will come find you to complain about lack of food several times a day)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Thayer: As a reminder I offer totally free advice to anyone looking to negotiate their salary, whether it's during a job offer for any…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@HJosephineGiles and actually, on that note, *also* glad you don't have a cat or something like that that would pose a danger to the snake. i don't imagine they are under any real threat, and as your flour shows, they are able to get out again.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@GDLP__ there goes the plan to win the account off them in a high stakes game of OverwatchPermalink Look on archive.org
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pretty fascinating article about "Russian flu" in the 1890s, and how it might well have been a coronavirus with similar symptoms to Covid thetyee.ca/News/2022/02/14/Pandemic-Ghost-Russian-Flu/Permalink Look on archive.org
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which generally supports the whole Long Covid vibe of being an Edwardian invalid, lying propped up in a bed with lots of pillows and being forbidden to do anything interesting for fear of over-straining yourselfPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: "Some fans wondered if she’d been driven underground by the pressure of the 'Kimchi Wars' — a nationalist spat between…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar oof. very good call cancelling yoga this week!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar because i am saying this to everyone who gets it: take it slow even after you feel okay! know people who got bitten by long covid even after primary symptoms had subsided, and the best way to prevent that from happening is not to overdo it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @leighalexander: excited for reality shows to start engaging (as they did in the beginning) with the truthful atmosphere of production a…Permalink Look on archive.org
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and the bulbs i put in the planters outside have starting showing their faces!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar it is hard to rest! even after a year and a half of serious practice i am still bad at it. wishing you both a gentle and smooth recovery <3Permalink Look on archive.org
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@nickfourtimes spring is here!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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I was wandering my kitchen, wondering what bits I should put on a shopping list, and idly thinking about a system where I have all the bits on a list and just check off the ones I needed... and then I remembered that's exactly what my mum used to do, printing it from Excel.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio good news! @hshierholz/1495009569071935496Permalink Look on archive.org
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@SzMarsupial now i am just thinking about the way Russian Doll depicted the job of "video games programmer"Permalink Look on archive.org
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@hollygramazio he survived the big winds, tho, give him credit!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@alphachar i was enjoying Extraordinary You, a romantic kdrama about a character... who figures out she's a side character in a romance manga with no agency over the plotPermalink Look on archive.org
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@bcjbcjbcj @SzMarsupial @mountain_ghosts yeah, i was just reading this and thinking... hm... definitely see the point of software licenses that prevent cops and soldiers from using my shitPermalink Look on archive.org
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@bcjbcjbcj @SzMarsupial @mountain_ghosts (or really, any software license that is sufficiently loosely drafted that no serious company that runs everything by lawyers will use it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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goddamn it, now i really want to eat a HAL dog egg @slowcurse/1495052723292680196Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @9BillionTigers: Obsessed with Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's suggested therapy for trans people being "milieu-therapy," that is, hanging out w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is an unexpectedly hard hitting comment for a subtitle on a How It's Made type video (from youtube.com/watch?v=UpNQv0Kjqj0)Permalink Look on archive.org
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technology used for horny purposes @vr_hai/1494370458518573060Permalink Look on archive.org
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truly a comfort to see a company as successful as Peloton still stuck in the startup trap of "we'll make a hardware product and then make all our money by becoming a ~~platform~~ and skimming off a percentage" @adrianhon/1495186383425753093Permalink Look on archive.org
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honestly if you can't make selling an exercise bike for $$$ AND a subscription on top work out... just give up, imo? it's not gonna get better than that.Permalink Look on archive.org
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incidentally I was lead designer on a digital physical product where we sold the initial hardware component at a higher cost than the market was really keen on (but with thinner margins than we needed) and hoped to make our money with ongoing revenue. so... I get it.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@adrianhon it is a comfort seeing how much tech companies struggle to make gamesPermalink Look on archive.org
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@MagInTheSmoke apparently they made 2800 employees redundant last month, so... not the *most* successfulPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @rachelcoldicutt: Something that is difficult in my own line of work (yet unavoidable once you notice it) is that the British urge to na…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LegoLostAtSea: If you're out and about on beaches, keep an eye out for these HP printer cartridges from a cargo spill. We've mapped the…Permalink Look on archive.org
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so much wild stuff happening in VRChat @SCRNinVR/1494828373524111360?t=gJ1DfAyij4_1v08LIc0DGQ&s=19Permalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall 2048 is the most directly comparablePermalink Look on archive.org
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@dannybirchall I'm flattered!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LorenzoPilia: Another cool initiative: The Rabbit, a one-month residency for game developers in the countryside outside Berlin. Workspa…Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about all the companies trying to make it easier to buy shit with crypto, and the very small rate of between-two-parties, not-speculation transactions that happenPermalink Look on archive.org
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i can feel the countdown to me starting to write my own note taking app tick downPermalink Look on archive.org
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there are so many, written by so many people in the same situation i'm in now. and yet!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@henryfaber @obsdmd this is for mobile, Obsidian is what I currently use, and it is a constant stubbed toe that it takes around 30 seconds to open. also the UI makes no sensePermalink Look on archive.org
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@henryfaber @obsdmd (I'm pretty happy with Zettlr on desktop)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ArcOnInternet: (Most of) The Games of Mark Pilgrim (In-Browser, Classic Mac, Mark Pilgrim, 1993-1995) archive.org/details/markpilgrimgames Includes…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@henryfaber @obsdmd i wondered if i was being overly dramatic, so i just timed it - it does take over a minute to open (lots of files, Android, externally synced with SyncThing) :/Permalink Look on archive.org
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@henryfaber @obsdmd i was being a little flippant with the UI - but I understand that cross-compat & the plugin infrastructure means they have to make the sidebars work on mobile, but the paradigm doesn't quite fit. also i dislike that the folder view & search are two modes of the same pane.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mattround: If any news sites want to try to create “the next Wordle”, no problem, you only have to completely reshape your entire cultu…Permalink Look on archive.org
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do you run sudo curl whatever pipe sh?Permalink Look on archive.org
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what about without the sudoPermalink Look on archive.org
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Hershey font samplerPermalink Look on archive.org
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@cadars oh, i'd not seen this. interesting!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @l_dunn1: the danger is that people will soon object to the very concept of work itselfPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mmalex: what a great video using a diy phased array of 6 ultrasonic transducers to make a passable depth map ‘scanner’ https://t.co/8Mw…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ubuweb: Dan Graham, "Miles To / March 31,1966" (1970). A conceptual artists' theory of relativity poem. Astonishingly brilliant in its…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @HJosephineGiles: One of the best and clearest examples of a non-reformist reform in trans healthcare is "decriminalise testosterone". I…Permalink Look on archive.org
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this post talks about looking at another field and assuming things are as complex as your current understanding (ie not very), but it seems to me the same mechanism is behind people constantly underestimating how long tasks will take @danluu/1488999390932914177Permalink Look on archive.org
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oh, sure, i just need to <high level thing>, 1 day. but when you get into it, it turns out that <high level thing> is actually composed of many more things, each of which you, unfortunately, have to solve (1 week)Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ursulabrs: As a teacher of poetry what I can tell you for sure is people want poems to rhyme. They want poems to rhyme so bad. But we w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hautepop: “transness is bigger than the pronouns we use to describe it. as hannah baer points out in her book trans girl suicide museum…Permalink Look on archive.org
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normally i am all for type systems. the stronger the better. but Dart has the dynamic type (ie: do what you like & it'll fail at runtime if it doesn't make sense). and... yeah, i love it, it's super handy, a good type to have around.Permalink Look on archive.org
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parsing some JSON & yeah, let me just try on some different shapes and see how they fit before locking them down into an actual type.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle i have a lot of love for Typescript (and for JS!). but. sometimes it does annoy me or scare me that i'm writing all of these types and at runtime things can just have a different type and it won't tell me when things have left the rails, only when they've hit the tree.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle this is very rarely a problem in practice. but it's nicer to have clearly labelled areas of uncertainty, than to build an island of certainty on top of a vast sea of mystery.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore ah, yes, but here i'm actually talking about not "a dynamic type system" but rather "the type 'dynamic'". which is an escape hatch that lets you turn off static typing for this particular variable.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle i have recently been adding a few jsdoc annotations within normal JS code, and getting just a sprinkling of IDE typechecking while writing regular javascriptPermalink Look on archive.org
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@jazzmickle mainly a "CanvasRenderingContext2D" because no way i can remember all of that API by heartPermalink Look on archive.org
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@duncangeere it's fine, it's also linked on my website 😅Permalink Look on archive.org
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@infovore it is a confusing name to talk about! i would say "and that's why I prefer the keyword 'duck'" but actually that has exactly the same problemPermalink Look on archive.org
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@yannseznec like the aural equivalent of saying something is "very aesthetic"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @spacefillerart: Space plantsPermalink Look on archive.org
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yesterday I started looking into Flutter rendering stuff, and while I don't need to go low level for what I'm doing... what I have seen suggests that maybe I would have a lot of fun if I did?Permalink Look on archive.org
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ah, I looked into it a bit more and the ability to write fun custom shaders is not quite there yet. it's coming!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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yes yes yes, this is what a videogame should look like @damgentemp/1496405720589234178Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv it's a good post, I'm glad to see it (it is one of the central dynamics I grapple with, and it's good to see someone posting openly about it)Permalink Look on archive.org
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I mean, not everybody. but a decent chunk of the people who are reading this tweet are. aka "content creators"Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about the kind of person I would be if I cared 50% more about fontsPermalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas it makes perfect sense : it indicates whether the serializer or UI system can access it, the same as any other type of codePermalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas (I am being facetious here) but there is a fundamental thing here about the way that the C++ part of Unity can poke around in and exist outside of the C# part. which makes a lot of C# rules not quite work right.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas actually actually... I am having a similar frustration in Dart, where the json deserialization system (autogenerated in Dart) can't set the private backing fields because it's a partial class and not in the same file.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@Nifflas but I suspect you like the rule "if the variable name starts with an underscore, it's invisible outside this file" even less than the Unity thingPermalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv this is a unhelpful little cycle to be stuck in, but you can rise out of it by realising it's unhelpful. unfortunately, you can also realise it's unhelpful but ingrained, and then instead feel shame about that. and thinking about that is stressful. can you guess what next?Permalink Look on archive.org
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@visakanv I guess this is your self-authoritarianism, but for people with an avoidant mindset.Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @ahandvanish: I don’t know why anyone thinks #LongCovid is temporary. The majority of people who are still sick at 12 weeks don’t recove…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @LuigiThirty: tag yourselfPermalink Look on archive.org
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"Th Batman"Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @JoeDevlin: A detail of a marginalia drawing. Notations found in library books compressed on to a single sheet of A4 Watercolour paper.…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @TMPHopkins1: I cannot emphasise enough that exhibitions are team efforts, and to credit them to curators alone is an insulting erasure…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @freezydorito: https://t.co/Abv3A4wx2mPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Horse_ebooks: Everything happens so muchPermalink Look on archive.org
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suddenly, thundersnow! a flurry of hail. the street outside suddenly white.Permalink Look on archive.org
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a more than usually dramatic washing up sessionPermalink Look on archive.org
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i want some mussels now @_restaurant_bot/1496868044303474689Permalink Look on archive.org
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thinking about the fact that kids today are watching stuff like this: youtube.com/watch?v=Vz4pZfssf-Y and that the tools for making it are free and accessible for them to pick up and use but also involve setting up GradlePermalink Look on archive.org
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it's a big thoughtPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @drdevonprice: Awareness month politics and "this should concern you" doomscrolling politics both seem rooted in the liberal belief that…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@rygorous what is interesting is the game engine structure of "Entity Component System" which does a lot of work to make these things true and which is actually somewhat agnostic to programming language.Permalink Look on archive.org
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for no particular reason: here is "A Partial But By No Means Exhaustive List of Egg References in the Works of P.G. Wodehouse" the-toast.net/2013/09/17/damn-all-eggs/Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @Nikhilv95: grotesque shit. absolutely nothing this govt will say in the coming days and weeks abt its commitment to the Ukrainian ppl w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@profaniti if it's a single straightforward .swf, then the Flash Projector might play it. If not then I would look at the Flashpoint tools to set it up to play. this doesn't answer the question of how to get it into a "festival-proof" state, which I'm sure will be some extra fun.Permalink Look on archive.org
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tiny stubbed toe of UX design: i use a web-based service called getvau.lt to generate passwords. so i quite often open a new tab and start typing "ge.." to open it. but! i also like a blank new tab page, because who needs junk & news when you're surfing the webPermalink Look on archive.org
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what makes this stubbed toe worse is that I switched browsers! from Chrome to Edge. but they're still fundamentally the same browser, and the same behaviour happens. but both Google & Microsoft have their motivations for keeping this behaviour this way.Permalink Look on archive.org
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Google wants extensions to work this way because they want to make Chrome more secure, and incidentally prevent ad blockers from being too powerful. Google and Microsoft both want you to not set the new tab page to anything you like because they like controlling that page.Permalink Look on archive.org
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however! the only way to have a blank new tab page is to install it with an extension, and that takes a tiny moment before it kicks in - if i start typing too soon, it gets clobbered by the new tab extension's internal URL. a tiny stubbed toe.Permalink Look on archive.org
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the last gasp of the MSN media empire, living on in the unchangeable default new tab behaviour. just where i keep stubbing my toe.Permalink Look on archive.org
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it definitely makes tiny annoyances more annoying to know that the cause is large companies acting in their own self interest and there's nothing sensible i could do about it uh, except use Firefox, i guessPermalink Look on archive.org
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@mountain_ghosts it's good!! thank you!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@spencyrrh unfortunately i use the web inspector a bunch and i don't wanna learn a new onePermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @hiddenmarkov: New (to me) dimension of crowdwork platforms: Russian military uses Premise microtasking platform to aim and calibrate fi…Permalink Look on archive.org
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fascism / body image / the Internet readunderwire.com/2022/02/23/post-the-body-fascist/Permalink Look on archive.org
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very good bug hunt story @_taylorswope/1205252714680045568Permalink Look on archive.org
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this is possibly the coolest videogame cover art i have ever seen? @CoolBoxArt/1497547174938304513Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @GraceCuddihy: This is absolutely surreal, the Ukrainian driver asks the Russian soldiers beside their tank if they’ve broken down and i…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @SimpsonsQOTD: “Mom, I know your intentions are good, but aren't the Police the protective force that maintains the status quo for the w…Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @mollypriddy: found myself down a rabbit hole of in-fighting among farriers who make tiktoks shoeing horses with and without shirts. som…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@genmon ahhh, I miss it! (was 5 minutes away until a year ago)Permalink Look on archive.org
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@thricedotted hey nice happy birthday!Permalink Look on archive.org
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@atothe_d so was my birthPermalink Look on archive.org
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RT @elektronaut1: I was wondering if it's possible to visualize the content of an #EPROM during UV-light erasure. So I did that. Constantly…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@anadukakis no fair, you got a giant plastic statue to pose next to for your "i'm leaving Niantic" pic, i only had the logo signage!Permalink Look on archive.org
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good post on process and the limits of checklists cate.blog/2022/02/28/low-process-culture-high-process-culture/Permalink Look on archive.org
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But eventually diminishing returns mean that new steps on the checklist don't improve outcomes. But there are still errors happening. At this point, it's maybe helpful to flip around and see how errors not covered by the checklists are avoided.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I remember reading something about designing safe processes - the kinds of thing where you study medical errors or do incident analysis on aircraft crashes. in these fields great strides have been made by bringing in checklists. Adding in process to avoid avoidable mistakes.Permalink Look on archive.org
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my "people find their own use for tools" thread gets into this - people are inventive and creative and will find a way to get things done even if you did not design for it! @v21/1066734014227189762Permalink Look on archive.org
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And then you find that it's because the people working on the systems are bending the rules to accomplish their tasks. They know problems that are likely to occur, and they avoid them using their rich experience of the system. The door jams unless you hit it like so.Permalink Look on archive.org
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so then the question becomes : how can we solve this common error with checklists, but how can we improve people's understanding of the broader context so they can invent better solutions. or, how can we empower them. or... idk. what *is* the right thing to do?Permalink Look on archive.org
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(sometimes it is to fix the problems they are ingeniously working around. oil the door to stop it from sticking. stop the computer from automatically logging you out every 15 mins. etc)Permalink Look on archive.org
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anyway. this is what I remember reading, and I find the topic fascinating. if anyone knows of good stuff to read on it, I'd be curious to hear.Permalink Look on archive.org
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@ldodds ah! thank you. yes, some interesting bits about the distribution of power within a team therePermalink Look on archive.org
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Something like 140,000 children in the UK have ongoing symptoms from Covid 19 that affect their daily life. @dgurdasani1/1498393586324447232Permalink Look on archive.org
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RT @betterthemask: Tangential but related: if we don’t design our games with guides and savescumming in mind with our gamefeel intent we’re…Permalink Look on archive.org
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@matildaism_ i agree!!!!Permalink Look on archive.org
