FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Boost if you think trans people are neat 🏳️‍⚧️

Say it with me. Locking a hardware feature your product ships with behind a paywall is neither a "service", nor is it something that entitles you to receive a subscription payment.

Lately, I've seen a lot of publishers/developers using machine translation to localize their store descriptions and/or achievements. This is doing more harm than just leaving them in English! If I saw such a description, I would assume that the whole game looks like this and, therefore, not buy it. And it's particularly annoying for the game's translators, as players may assume they're responsible. Please don't do it. Thanks! 🙏

my solution for inheritance works perfectly 😤 and it's beautiful 🥺 https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/c6837f4eaf7ad61655aee09d268780adbe19081f

I CAN FINALLY TALK ABOUT SECRET PROJECT!

My dear friend and colleague, Jamie Garner, and I are now OFFICIALLY under contract to write and publish a scholarly book on the rhetoric and cultural retransmission of transgender comics, particularly webcomics! Yes, this is an outgrowth of "Can I Offer You An Egg In These Trying Times," and I'm delighted and excited to get to work writing a whole book on why the Queerantine flood of trans comics was something really special.

#Trans #Transjoy #academia

I WILL CHASE ALL OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD CATS AT NIGHT

HOLY SHIT I HAVE A WORKING NVD MY LIFE IS LITERALLY PERFECT

Different surface patterns on the tower. On each level, the tower will have a different pattern.

I wonder how I can eliminate the visual banding in the texture mapping.

exciting programming problem in touchHLE: supporting inheritance for instance variables. look at how gnarly this is:

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/ae5b7a8d6513e3204d3c2eab1f250cdcf8930ee5

i have an idea for a neater solution, but it will involve descending further into the land of Anys and 'statics and 'as and dyns :3

THE BAD NEWS: i have ran head-first into the borrow checker struggling with mutable borrows in loops again ;_;
THE GOOD NEWS: unsafe { &mut *(a as *mut _) } is my friend and would never hurt me :3

Same train. Same.

me: Maybe we should get a pizza stone.
Alex: 'Pizza stone' sounds like something fake.
me: ...
Alex: Like...was it forged by elves? To bring the ways of pizza to the Men of Númenor at the end of the First Age?

foraging for fruit is the new touching grass

If you are a woman
and you find yourself surrounded
by amazing women
chances are
you're amazing, too

@TechConnectify People in my line of work love "reinventing wheels", no matter how many times we tell ourselves for doing so.

Here's a relevant blogpost: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/debating-bullshit/

And, to reiterate my thoughts, I think plug-and-charge is neat. I even kinda-sorta use it with EVgo.

But good gravy nobody would care about it if card payments just /worked/ like they do /literally everywhere but car chargers for some inexplicable reason/