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if fedi had a smell, what do you think it would smell like? would different instances have different odors? I admit i can kinda smell the salty sea air, and sunbaked bread and salad on Merveilles
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me at a design interview  this ridiculous math problem i’ve been working on for 10 years, i’ve finally solved it. It’s not an “unsolved” problem, just unsolved for me, and all the material i could find on it was over my head. Now i am here and I learned heaps along the way and made a lot of beautiful messes in desmos. the problem was, i wanted something like a bezier spline, with control points for start and end, and two more for the angles going in. I may do a full write up now what was I making this for?
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next things i’d like it to do: @zens damn I feel this *looks at a pile of JavaScript which can partition the vertices of a 120-cell*  if you could please kick some dollars to my dear friend @eDragonflym , I would personally appreciate it. She was absolutely key in arranging fundraising for me when i was unexpectedly evacuated from my apartment, she’s been hugely supportive of me. She has also been subject to many episodes of extreme transphobia, and she is now hanging by a thread and desperately needs help. it might seem a little boring and obvious but one of the most ancient and popular forms of #analogComputing is, creating lookup tables of precomputed values. visualising data tables as charts and graphs was apparently not something anyone thought to do until the 18th century (1700s) as an reapplication of nautical maps production to non cartographic data.  things that you will definitely miss when they go extinct * coffee
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coffee is grown primarily in either ethiopia or columbia. it requires very specific conditions that grow more and more perilous each year. ironically, (because australia’s all about coffee culture) coffee could be grown in Australia’s climate but isn’t because it’s got a long expensive boot up process, and most producers don’t consider it worth the time and expense- because of the way the global economy works, it’s only “worth” growing in the poor countries where workers are easily exploited  @zens that depends. Is the fighting over more stars, or is there just more fighting about the same star. i will accept “stars wars”, but never will i accept that this thing that takes place on planets that literally have at least two stars each is only over one “star”. even if you consider that the death star is the star in question, the series should have been bumped up to “stars war” after episode 4, and possibly just “boy war” for the prequels. someone just used React.js as an example of facebook “playing nice” and well.. i was able to interact with the react engineers on twitter years ago. they were quite shockingly open with the fact they intended react to be an embrace extend extinguish strategy aimed at the web as a whole, in tandem with react native. the long term vision was to have react native, painting directly to something like webgl or webgpu, then get rid of the rest of the web platform. super surprised they admitted it. I believe mastodon should have an ads feature: to be used exclusively for mutual aid. @zens someone should write an activitypub server specifically to support crowd funding. Unfortunately this is really hard to do in this modern age due to kyc/aml and payment systems. oblique strategies for programmers: hardcode everything do repeat yourself you probably don’t need that optimise early, it’s fun try a new language feature maybe you can do this entirely with tags and filters try turning your program inside out restate the problem the naïve algorithm is probably fast enough it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission it is easier to correct a wrong program than to write a correct program create a new programming language for this
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 @zens @zens is there a web page or style guide with these on somewhere so I can use it to nudge my team into less over-engineering? soon after the singularity comes into being, it invents time travel and subtly tweaks the past to prevent itself from existing. this is what all singularities do in perpetuity. @zens does it leave itself notes only it can decrypt so it knows if it failed (ie, the same version of itself got built)? I guess what that would look like to an outside observer would just be the singularity tossing out the results of a million "simulations" within seconds of starting the process.  68k wave / Ditherpunk the aesthetic of the computers with the motorola 68k processor. Dithering, paletted colours, colour cycling and palette swapping, sprite and raster effects, point and click adventures and puzzles, chrome spheres floating over checkerboards - Mac wikipedia: They were best known as the processors used in the early Apple Macintosh, the Sharp X68000, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair QL, the Atari ST, the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), the Capcom System I (Arcade), the AT&T UNIX PC, the Tandy Model 16/16B/6000, the Sun Microsystems Sun-1, Sun-2 and Sun-3, the NeXT Computer, NeXTcube, NeXTstation, and NeXTcube Turbo, the Texas Instruments TI-89/TI-92 calculators, the Palm Pilot (all models running Palm OS 4.x or earlier) and the Space Shuttle I am finally doing it. I am putting my most loved threads up on my website in the least elegant most convenient for me way possible so it gets done. Here is my UX thread- but without all the lovely comments from people because well, I'd need to get consent from all of those people wouldn't I? https://notes.yip.pe/notes/notes/Principles%20of%20UI%2C%20A%20Thread.html i saw some new person waxing on about how we shouldn’t be overly sentimental about the fediverse’s current magical friendly quality that harkens back to an older web, since these qualities come from the niche and exclusive nature of the fediverse without the burden of carrying “the public discourse” and like, it just makes me think that they believe every new online service’s purpose is to eventually have everyone on it and I cannot see why that should be a natural assumption. a reply was in enthusiastic agreement, saying that the problem they had with the fediverse is how snooty and elitist the people already here are about the newcomers and that we wouldn’t be able to tolerate having the whole world here.. and like, yeah? we’re a bunch of queers, neuroatypicals, disabled people and weirdos. why would we want to invite the rest of the world into our spaces? they’re notoriously kinda been dicks to us let me get this straight. all 7000 twitter employees had direct production access, and y’all are worried about a mastodon admin reading your dms? sadly, “google it” is no longer a thing you can just tell people to do, once google started ranking conspiracy theory bigot shit as top results  @zens Even if they didn't do that, Google gives you results that specifically cater to your biases. Not only is "Google it" not helpful, but it's a smokescreen used to take the burden of proof off the person making bold claims. It's the same energy as "You're wrong. Do your research." A good rule of thumb is if what you're saying doesn't help anyone, then perhaps it shouldn't be said. 12
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smell is a very underutilised element of computer UIs. in this essay I will
@zens@merveilles.town happens to me a lot.
And then you associate the smell to other things.
Like an office with some smells and you start saying "it smells like stressing environment"
@zens wanderingwires smells like monster energy and weed