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 My family is in the process of "adopting" some semi-feral kittens as indoor-outdoor cats in our family. One of them likes to climb a tree and get on the first story roof. Both are very curious about our life inside the house. And so my partner, while taking a shower, looked to his side to see this in the shower's vent window... #CatsOfMastodon @ajroach42 just got around to loading New Ellijay TV on my Roku, and it's spectacular! I'm already looking forward to being a supporter! One of the things most interesting about exploring retrocomputing is exploring how our relationship to computers changed as the technology improved and the computer displaced other aspects of life. 1/ When I think about a "minimal daily life" computer, often looking back to the last non-PC pre-Internet machines like the Apple iigs and the Amiga, it rapidly becomes apparent how a "minimal daily life" machine doesn't even fit the metaphors of those machines because they were tailored to be *part* of daily life and not *the center of* daily life. 2/ TIL that there is no formula for the exact perimeter of an ellipse, but that you could make an arbitrarily close approximation of a formula for the perimeter of a *given* ellipse, and that such a formula would depend on the sum of an infinite series. TIL that this is technically how we have a formula for the perimeter of a circle, but don't notice the messiness because the circle's "axes" are of equal length and thus a single sum of an infinite series works. We call it "pi" to keep it unmessy.  |
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