FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Lot 291. Dimensionally spliced copy of “The Invention of Love” and “Rock ‘n’ Roll,” by Tom Stoppard (1997/2006). Very good condition. Please note this item is a basilisk for digital point-of-sale technology.

I tried to buy this at the airport bookstore and it crashed the checkout machine and the guy just let me and the woman behind me walk out with our stuff

I think if you are writing something children will read you have something like a moral obligation to mess them up for life as much as possible. If someone reads your work while young and comes out normal you have failed as an artist

god didn't have a hand in that one

OH: Ein RGBlahaj

It was one year ago today that David Smith emailed me out of the blue, asking about my work on computing Heesch numbers. A few days later he tipped his hand and showed me a drawing of the hat polykite for the first time. Happy Aperiodic Monotile day to all who celebrate.

VLC Pro tip: You can turn off a setting so that VLC doesn't adjust it's window size to the video size

This is just the most annoying thing, I do not understand why this setting is on by default, I'm just going to fullscreen the video anyways

Beim #KaffeeImGarten eine Entdeckung! @Hagukh bist du schon wach? Da ist was rotes zwischen meinen #Flechten🧐
Und auch ohne rot bleibt das herrlich und Grund zur Freude. Diese ganze Flechtenwelt existiert übrigens auf längst abgestorbenen Fliederästen und -zweigen. Nun gesellt sich auch #Moos dazu.

#lichensubscribe #mosstodon

Ew no

throws this meme like a shuriken at several people on here

I think the main thing people get wrong in game design is randomness. Randomness plays a big part in game design, obviously, but like anything has its time and place. I'll often see something like this:

Something players can do against an enemy is too effective and makes the game too easy. The designer comes up with a counter the enemy can do to make it harder, and when the player tries to do the OP thing has the counter trigger randomly

This is bad design because it will confuse and frustrate players. Players assume when something leads to a bad outcome there was something they could have done to prevent it. When the counter happens randomly, ie sometimes their action succeeds and sometimes it fails they'll assume there was something they did to cause the failure

They'll try and find out what they're doing wrong, but won't find any pattern (since there is none) and as a result get frustrated with trying to figure it out

#GameDev

she's so real for this

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

#tech #ai #health #healthcare

Apparently I’m a ‘menace’ to walk around with in other towns because I keep assuming I have the right of way. I’m used to streets where cars are allowed, but they must yield to pedestrians and cyclists. So I unthinkingly wander in the middle of the road in other cities too, gathering cars behind me like a pied piper until a sighing friend pulls me aside. As I stand with all the other people forced aside to let 1 driver in 1 car pass, I wonder: who’s the real menace here?

#Aarhus #LiveableCities