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@ThePSF thanks for choosing to put people first.

@csk also, recently I said I'd been nerdsniped and one of my younger colleagues asked what I meant; I dropped a link to https://xkcd.com/356/ and then realised it's *19 years old* (so is the "I know regular expressions" one)...so came out before he could read...how did we get so old? A warning for showing this to students ;)

@Sobtanian totally misread that

@csk so... https://nesbitt.io/xkcd-2347/ it's slightly different in that it's not the original - though it is matter.js. It took me hitting the button twice to realise what was going on - it recreates the cartoon for random real projects. I like it all tho; I did xkcd 208 for advent of code a couple of years back https://hachyderm.io/@bazzargh/113622743090408785 (...with entirely unrealistic physics)

@bit101 a version I made for the bbc micro a few years back. I do like that coding up optical illusions like this means you know for certain it's not what it appears to be... but you can't unsee it https://mastodon.me.uk/@bbcmicrobot/109763774911592856

@fasterthanlime@hachyderm.io took this yesterday, seems appropriate

@anewsocial@mastodon.social thanks for running it!

@cstross a relative was a student doc in Glasgow (30y ago) when a newbie turned up claiming to be a protege of a prof who was on leave. He did patient rounds for a few days then disappeared; it turned out he was an imposter. At one point he described a liver as having a "salmon like appearance" which struck others as weird and inaccurate but somehow _still_ closer than this surgeon managed.

@lordof1 30 years ago was walking round Xi'an and we found ourselves on a street not of hair salons but of shops that sold hood dryers for hair salons. That felt like a glitch in the matrix, why so many, so specialised.

@skjeggtroll @pewnack @NanoRaptor Isn't that a remake?

@Illuminatus @cstross @gregeganSF the smoking didn't help either

@maxine@hachyderm.io about the only way to make this worse is if the website was on medium

@kyonshi@dice.camp @lynneguist.bsky.social this is about a list of british english words that the nyt bee rejects-I'm aware that other words exist 😜 https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2023/04/nyt-spelling-bee-archive-of-disallowed.html?m=1

@lynneguist.bsky.social and another! (There's GITE too but already on list). Taig is a derogatory term for an irish catholic. Unfortunately heard often. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/taig #nytspellingbee

@Richard_Littler bottom of first poster is The Story of Vernon&Irene Castle; bottom left of third is Boys' Reformatory. Not sure of the other partial

@acf on the suggestions for social meeja changes - one I wanted on the old birdsite was that if you posted the same text as someone else, that's a retweet. Some positive effect on crediting originality, plus catches out spam bots, politicians repeating the party line, joke thiefs.

@abstractcode @NanoRaptor I always liked that about the 2001 Nero Wolfe series; actors that were cops one episode would be gangsters or butlers the next, or sometimes in the same episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero_Wolfe_(2001_TV_series)#Repertory

@matt_zucker@mastodon.social you can also get nice effects varying the parameters across the surface; here using a grayscale image to drive it https://hachyderm.io/deck/@bazzargh/116092480577520472

@cstross@wandering.shop "The unexamined life is not worth living", said Socrates, a very modern guy

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club @TimWardCam@c.im I've tried allowing googling in problem-solving interviews, and tell them this up front - it's more representative of what you'd do in a job. I want them to talk me through what they are thinking while doing it tho, because what interests me is can they think it through, not rote memory. (surprisingly, not many google even when allowed to!) But we had a candidate we'd told this clearly using online chat to ask someone else the questions, and lie about it, in 2 interviews, stopped the process there.

@grickle@mstdn.social sooo... is it possible to order prints of your doodles or just the ones we see on gricklemart? I've a goth friend this would be perfect for.

@jwz@mastodon.social any time I see youtube shorts (the horror, the horror) about half the vids have this look, and I have to wonder if this is something kids these days have convinced themselves is good?

@hardyjohnson@mas.to @kravietz@agora.echelon.pl this makes me wonder if there's a way to get curl to use an allow list for hosts; if I haven't put it in the list, it doesn't connect. would make me scrutinize anything that didn't work more. I can't see an option directly, but I think a script wraapper that removed any proxy/noproxy options, added an unresolvable proxy (eg, notinallowlist.local), and then noproxied the allow-list would do it. tested it, that works. Let's see how annoying this wrapper gets

@joenash@hachyderm.io as long as it doesn't clock you

@tao "the beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers", I think? I'm probably doing it wrong as I expected 1-bit errors but thought I had more. Wrote some python finding closest hamming distances to letters in the cartoon, then added new guesses when the unknown had distance 3, repeat

@tth@mastodon.tetaneutral.net it would have made more sense to use webgl for the floor, with the carpet being a tiled texture, but I hit limitations: I think the far end of the floor exceeds the normal coordinate limit in p5js's webgl canvas - over 10k units away - plus the clip mask I did to show Danny doesn't work in webgl, the outermost shape is the mask, when I wanted to use a winding rule to unmask the middle. I could have done it just by drawing the image twice, but in the end it was just easier for me to do the projective transform and display the 2d image...in case you hit any of that. Also, my math is a bit wrong, I think the repeat spacing? you can see it when the orange S shape rotates, the hexagons expand slightly. I couldnt be bothered fixing it!

@trebach @ZachWeinersmith I can read the code just fine; my python was this (having replaced spaces with newlines in the input); a-k appear in the cartoon, the rest I added as guesses. import sys alpha = { "a": "000000000", "b": "000010011", "c": "001001010", "d": "000011001", "e": "010100110", "n": "110111000", "y": "100110001", "h": "011111111", "u": "010011010", "k": "101000111", "i": "100001101", "r": "000101111", "t": "011100101", " ": "101111010", "m": "111101011", "p": "111100000", "l": "111010100", "s": "001110110", "o": "111100001", "f": "010110101", "w": "111010010" } alpha = {k: int(v, 2) for k, v in alpha.items()} for n in map(str.rstrip, sys.stdin): m = int(n, 2) c = None best_d = 999 for k, v in alpha.items(): d = (v^m).bit_count() if d < best_d: best_d = d c = k elif best_d == d: c= f"{c}{k}" if best_d < 3: if len(c) == 1: print(f"{c}") #, n, (alpha[c[0]]^m).bit_count()) else: print(f"[{c}]") #, n, (alpha[c[0]]^m).bit_count()) elif best_d == 3: print('?', bin(m), best_d) else: print('?', n, best_d, "no match")

@unnick @tao somebody else shared their solution saying the same, I think if I'd just started running the code with distance at most one it'd have been simpler :D

@lynneguist.bsky.social it's fair to disallow it for being derogatory.

@trebach @ZachWeinersmith what I actually got: "the beau[to]y [to]f[h ]ma[to]hema[ts]ics only[h ]shows[y ]itself[y ]tp more pa[ts]ien[rt] follo[lw]ers" ... which was close enough to guess if I squint. Some letters like r,o,l,w didn't fall out immediately so I used the corrupt character as the guess - that'll have given me some extra errors; my code is likely buggy

@lp0_on_fire @bit101 I expect the bot to eventually post the result... but without gxr, it's more limping than stepping. Since it needs more draws the graphics are choppy and I made everything shorter, but the shades don't quite work - the yellow foot drags, but never steps in front of the blue. Could maybe recover those with user-defined characters.

@lynneguist.bsky.social @lynneguist.bsky.social northern ireland and glasgow. As someone from an irish catholic family, from both those backgrounds... aimed at me. Here's an example from news reports https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25672182

The animation looks much better in the p5 editor; here's the code https://gist.github.com/bazzargh/1880c560707f8de8dd6328a0b3acfbb1 ... which is horrible, you can see where I added alllll those points to do the masking, and the structure kept changing as I changed my mind about animations

@bagder@mastodon.social you could have a line like this on your chart of charts of curl over time, showing that number being more than the number of surviving paintings by Leonardo da Vinci (about 8), of self portraits by Rembrandt (about 40), less than the number of paintings by Van Gogh (around 900) etc

@ZachWeinersmith "the beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers", I think.