FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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Stomp rockets with built in bubble wands? Amazing.
This is innovation.
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there is a certain mindset i've encountered before, one i'll call "RFC brained"
a "we have to go by the book even if no-one else is" to software—like where you adopt a protocol no-one speaks, but there's an RFC for it, so it's more technically correct
and the "x-header" stuff just feels like more of the same
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there's a lot of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" stuff in protocols but nothing so apt as "we'll use x-foo for names"
still, this doesn't feel like one of those "programmers are bad at consequences of actions" things though, this feels more like a "technically correct" brained thing
one of those we must do the right thing even if it doesn't work moments
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do you ever think about how, for years, we used X- or x- in front of experimental or yet to be standardized names, only then to find that the x- prefix had fossilised
Farming Simulator 22 is free on Epic Games right now too, let's go! 😀😁
Inside the Peculiar World of Farming Simulator eSports by People Make Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM6Deexy3to
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In the 90s, two men invented a hallway. They weren't the first, but they made a simple and efficient design. There were signs and everything. you simply looked up what department of the building you wanted to go in, and followed the signs to get to the room you were going to.
This became huge, both in popularity + function, so the hallway became a whole company. and companies have to make money. To survive, they added shops along the way. a little garish but the signs were clear
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robot girl with the "this machine kills fascists" sticker
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I'm disappointed in how hacking works in real life. I'd played enough video games to have an idea how it would go, but I've been hacking games and hardware for like a decade now and not even once have I had to solve a pipe maze puzzle
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you can actually like… make a nice palette with this? just “draw” some colours and “smudge” (mix) them together, like you would on a physical palette, instead of using a colour picker?
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i tried out the demo painting app and it's… magical
i've not actually played with paints in years but i remember how mixing paints irl behaves and have seen videos of it, and this actually recreates that effect, it's so good. somehow i never considered how weird it is that the smudge tool in image editors produces dull results
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my friend made a cool twitter thread about mixbox, which is this incredible colour-mixing algorithm that behaves like real-life paint https://twitter.com/cirkelnio/status/1793970960196055141
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i've always wondered, if you take a gprs/3g/lte/5g router or modem and put a normal mobile phone sim in it, does it just work? and is there a little screen in the web interface where you can see all the sms your mobile network sends you?
turns out it's a yes to both :3
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
