Petra

@xssfox@cloudisland.nz coding is the chill time

I have actually read a yudwhatsit book - though I never properly went down that hole, thanks in no small part to early 2010s @davidgerard@circumstances.run - and now I'm scared to learn how it fits into the present nonsense

@fribbledom@mastodon.social I remain a 'code is the way I think about a problem' person; I feel like there isn't an opening for a language that can do that but which cannot itself be the code

I'm a fairly well balanced person, for the circumstances, but every now and again I read something on my phone about the state of trans rights or healthcare in the UK and go a little bit insane https://www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-wales-apologises-for-withdrawal-of-trans-healthcare-admits-urgent-review-still-hasnt-begun/

Will do more testing next time the weather is bad in more places, but this is positive

@solveig@toot.cat Yay!

Not actually for sewing; [Redacted] is poking at a boardgame design using hex tiles, and while the tiles could be 3d printed the labels would be better as glued bits of paper in the centre - but how to cut them out efficiently?

Have started on the actual cardstock, but will finish later

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org they make an incredible difference. My machine is a bit newer and that was all it needed

@ben@mastodon.lubar.me very carefully

@fragileswift13@tech.lgbt I can think of uses for it but not ones that I would ever get around to doing

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ode to a new ribbon

Ah, but if we zoom in a level (and move from png to - sigh - webp, in order to reduce file size) things look better to my eyes

@davidgerard@circumstances.run sorry, the future of programming is abusing a ToS loophole that lets you get tokens for 1/30th the price? That anthropic hasn't yet decided to consistently close but might at any time? I love to operate 12 months in the future

@2something@transfem.social dang, that's a run. I still need to go back to it one of these days

Well shit

@fragileswift13@tech.lgbt yeah that's Worrying

@xssfox@cloudisland.nz I love the wontfix, or rather 'not planned' stale closure. Icing on the cake

Phone apps with swipe gestures make me feel a million years old. I can handle bringing up a side menu or whatever, because that makes some level of spatial sense, but on a list of episodes I'm never going to remember what favourites and what downloads and what deletes - especially since it's mostly on accident while trying to do something else

@aurynn@cloudisland.nz was not supposed to be this much this early, dangit

Tempted to make a fedi bot of US municipal outlines

@ansate@social.coop I'd be worried about accidentally sewing the wrong thing! Looks nice though

The trouble with electing two board positions by STV when there are two factions is that ⅓ of the vote is enough to guarantee one of the seats - and thus a whopping ⅔ majority is needed to prevent that. This is why there wasn't really any avoiding the split of a board position to each side last year by better tactical voting, only getting more turnout. Unless one side gives up, or the other gets an overwhelming majority some other way, we will probably end up with roughly half the elected positions being FSU people in a few years It's also not a surprise that their guy was elected first. Like this time, there were two FSU guys (plus an obvious crank) vs a larger set of normal people, so they were inevitably going to get their third together on an earlier round of counting even if there were fewer voters on that side. The same will happen again if we don't get enough for two-thirds to vote against them in some way; the order is secondary so long as you rank everyone else above them

@Firesphere@cloudisland.nz Bit of a non-typical sample here

@alex@fedi.smith.geek.nz on this website!?

@vik@mastodon.nzoss.nz Stuff mucked up the date for the quake a few days ago, this is an epidemic

@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz oh come on, do they want you to do it yourself to prove you need it?

@ratsnakegames@mastodon.social I very much want to play this, and am only stymied by a bug of some kind stopping me using my controller when steam linked to the tv

@pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz the pegs are basically disintegrated alas

@cinebox@masto.hackers.town some people have too much money... for now

@pearofdoom@cloudisland.nz @alex@fedi.smith.geek.nz eager posting?

Nobody ever has the number 2 bestseller

The way to mess with this process to favour a smaller majority than two thirds - which INZ obviously have not done, despite insinuations - is to change up the number of board positions for election at the same time in some way. For example, if a single position went up for election every six months (or, each position was voted for independently) a simple majority would be needed to win, and the function of the runoff voting would just be to ensure the winner actually had a majority rather than a plularity. If it was four positions every two years meanwhile the minority position would be all but guaranteed a board position (assuming they could muster a bare 20% of the vote) but they would be much more likely to be outvoted 3:1 on the board by a coalition that could consistently muster 60%.

@irix@cloudisland.nz oh no!

My primary voting criteria: 1) is it a tauhou 2) is it *not* a paradise shelduck/pūtangitangi 3) do I just think it's neat

@futurebird@sauropods.win could still work - the placebo effect still functions if you know about it iirc

More versions, though I still want to see what e.g. a whole west coast of the south island looks like. May still push it to live because even if they don't look 100% how I want it it's still not awful or unhelpful. Thoughts?

Obviously, electing them via STV is much better than the alternative: I remember in primary school we elected two class representatives to the student council every year (I don't know why; unlike highschool I don't remember ever hearing from the council outside of this). It being the 2000s, all the boys* in the class voted for boys ('what are you, gay?' was the implication if not the explicit words, this not being a secret ballot), and all the girls voted for girls, so if there were two girls running and three or more boys, the girls got in, and vice versa. FSU have so far only ever put in two candidates at a time, while the opposition is not coordinated, so they would win via a more first-past-the-post system *gender not accurate, obviously; I wasn't bucking this trend for one

@Firesphere@cloudisland.nz that's pretty impressive

There is always these... (no)