AllenPestaluky IT WORKED FIRST TRY!!!
Over the last week I started working on a vector based game engine that outputs sound waves that will render on an oscilloscope — and it works! The sound that you’re hearing is the sound of a rotating wireframe cube when viewed in XY mode on a scope!pic.twitter.com/bmDh0v2rXGG
Dear TV crime writers: if your intricate plot depends on a gun with a silencer, maybe make it an automatic rather than a revolver.
@danielpunkass @mcelhearn Ersatz Baguette is my jazz name.
Beautiful and fascinating episode on Ann Lowe by The Memory Palace: The House of Lowe exchange.prx.org/pieces/309367
naoto_hieda my latest invention: p-code land
where you can live code sound in a virtual space
p-code-land.glitch.me
@glitch @hysysk @hemokosa @p5xjs @ProcessingOrg @aframevr pic.twitter.com/tTiWbNfQPI
FurnessGirl Just found out that A Tale of Two Cities was originally serialised in two local newspapers.
It was The Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.
bbcrb There have been reports of an explosion at Tesco in Eastville and a fire has broken out.
Credit: Nosipho Ledwaba-chapman pic.twitter.com/D8sPrurZ1i
BBC News - Hip-hop’s iconic photos go on display bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-…
@jukesie “I see you recently bought a new bulb for a Bosch oven. Here’s some bulbs from other oven manufacturers you may be interested in…” Sigh.
And yet they’re still showing me adverts for Picard despite the fact that they know I’ve watched every episode already. twitter.com/LeoKelion/stat…
Robbotron This is my favourite gaming fact:
In Fallout 3, the game couldn’t support a train for the player to ride in, but it could make NPCs walk - so the devs made the train a hat.
This guy wanders around beneath the ground, wearing his Train Hat, just being public transport. pic.twitter.com/dHG7Knon8U
benmekler My dad is in New Orleans for the first time and called me with a childlike sense of wonder I have never heard in his voice before. He said “this is a happy place”, “all of the food is good”, and “I saw a dog parade and there was a chihuahua in a wig, she was the princess”
razorsmile Once again, we see William Gibson’s “breakbulk”, his metaphor for vital knowledge locked in the silo of human heads/unique milieu, not yet democratized into college course or repeatable algorithm.
Samo Burja implies that our society cannot survive without the undemocratizable. twitter.com/longnow/status…
@iamtheshunt1 Have you been with them since they were in a dive underneath The Galleries in Broadmead, too? 😀
Very much enjoying the mood of The Pale Horse (while being glad, I think, that I never read the book @_pigeons_ !) Overall atmosphere of creeping evil somewhat deflated occasionally by the bits where I realise the Easterbrooks apparently live near my dentist on Queen Square 😅)
Woah.
Swollen. pic.twitter.com/Z4zE7Xt7sO
scalzi For me it was “The Dark is Rising” book and series from Susan Cooper. I felt the same way about possibly becoming an Old One as a generation of children would feel about waiting for their invitation to Hogwart’s a couple of decades later. Still waiting for it. It could happen. twitter.com/neilhimself/st…
heydonworks For your web career, you have two choices:
1) Pick a specific niche, and make a name for yourself in it. Resent that’s all people now see you for, feel trapped, burn out
2) Be a generalist, struggle to keep up with everything, languish in obscurity due to unclear personal brand
My date for the evening shall be Jean-Luc Picard.
“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize until you try to make it precise”—Bertrand Russell, presumably a computer programmer.
@ThreeUK Sigh.
Went into a @ThreeUK store to upgrade. They said they could do me a cheaper deal if I signed up as a new customer and cancelled old contract. Phoned @ThreeUK to cancel the old contract and was basically called an idiot for going into the @ThreeUK shop and doing what they told me.
DailyHMHBLyrics Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
When you’re holding tea and toast
And there’s no-one else about
Do you switch the kitchen light off with your chin?
bengoldacre If you are of a… certain age you must view every tweet by @bbcmicrobot
It runs any code you throw at it.
10 MODE2
20 COLOUR RND(8):PRINT “BEN IS COOL!!!”;
30 GOTO 20
RUN
SPIN They Might Be Giants’ Flood Turns 30: Musicians Extol the Landmark Album
spin.com/2020/01/they-m… pic.twitter.com/ViFeZ9cQ19
vickytnz Holy crap the “reorder objects” function in powerpoint for Mac was not what I was expecting pic.twitter.com/ntzIWz6dfb
LRBbookshop so rage against the machine just announced their european tour dates and we were shocked to discover that apparently they are playing at the bookshop on august 14th. first we’ve heard of it. having an emergency staff meeting now about how we can make this work pic.twitter.com/vOq28lne6F
Still my favourite way to travel. #bristol @BristolFerry pic.twitter.com/QtZouYCveo
Mind the gap. #bristol pic.twitter.com/XPijMPRJSV
I have hunted and gathered research materials for my adventure game. pic.twitter.com/CJGHD0IdCc
@ovationchris I can clearly see *who* back row, second from the left is. The only question really is *how* Vladimir Putin managed to sneak into the photo shoot.
@TimLees2 For me, this entire series can stand entirely on the merits of the “if I had crayons and half a can of spam…” line.
@benthompson @TimVanDijck As someone who still owns the MacBook “escape”, I feel vindicated. (I really like typing on the butterfly, and *touches lots of wood* it’s been fine for its entire life so far…)
@brockway_llc Pre-ordered.
brockway_llc I’ve just lost my job at Cracked. Thread for the full story, but short version: I need your help. I’ve launched a Patreon here: bit.ly/31IVdsj And I have a new book up for pre-order RIGHT NOW: amzn.to/2Hdqev6 It releases next week. No delayed gratification here.
driscolltheque Okay, so a really bizarre thing happened today. I was in the (amazing vegan co-op) Bonnington Cafe in Vauxhall with my brother.
He goes for a piss and comes back with an odd look on his face.
‘I think you should go to the toilet.’
I don’t really need to go, but whatever…
@corylus @chubbybannister Warren deffo the best. And Kira 😅
@chubbybannister I seem to remember that he becomes less testing as the series moves on, but then 90s me may not have been a great judge of these things, in hindsight.
@chubbybannister I used to have the whole damn thing on VHS. Good right to the end, from what I remember, anyway.
@chubbybannister (PS: Anna plays Servalan in the Blake’s 7 audio adventures!)
@chubbybannister I loved it at the time. I think I’d still love the soundtrack, but I may leave the rest of it covered by a fog of nostalgia.
RobynVinter Person at an event: oh hi, I know you from twitter
Me: …sorry remind me?
Person: *says his name, full job title, things we talked about*
Me: …er…?
Person: my profile picture is a banana?
Me: Banana!!! How are you?! So great to meet in real life!
@ahnlak Well, the display *would* catch quite a lot of wind, and the base is quite slidey…
My iMac really likes to check its location quite regularly. YOU’RE AN IMAC, DUDE. YOU’VE BEEN ON THE SAME DESK PLUGGED INTO A POWER SOCKET ON THE WALL SINCE I BOUGHT YOU. CALM DOWN.
@shezza_t Thanks!
“If you desire to retire from the world you have a cave, but when you feel good there is the joy of a large screened pavilion.” WANT wallpaper.com/architecture/w… via @wallpapermag
@BradyHaran Yes. And as others have said, if it’s doing it internally I’d be surprised if it wasn’t using arc4random_uniform, which is also a pretty good PRNG.
Harkaway Here is a strange perception about writing, and one I am only somewhat sure of. (Risky.) #writing
@Harkaway Hearing @GreatDismal talk last week made me even more impressed by the skill it takes to balance detailed planning and world-depth with “oh, I can just make that crucial bit completely handwavey and it’ll be fine.”
Gsharptools This image was sent to me with explanation that the keeper forgot to put the frames in so bees built as they felt fit. Airflow/temp regulation!
Bees know best. A maze Zing. Beautiful
#BeekeepersHour pic.twitter.com/2t6dYkhAJb
Bloggity blog: Post-Interview Syndrome and pushing the “fast forward” button on anxiety… gothick.org.uk/2020/02/07/pos…
