Joe Hocking

The Woz doesn't deserve this slander.

whoah I've been curious about picocad for a while, but I think I'll finally plunk down the cash for this addition to picocad 2.

*UN ambassador but yes.

Not to mention the CIA's history in Iran already.

lol feature not bug

Dice Roller by jhocking Physics simulation of rolling dice (using random or preset numbers)

I uploaded a playable demo of my dice roller jhocking.itch.io/dice-roller

In this demo there is a checkbox to toggle determinism on and off. When it is off, the dice just roll randomly and ignore the sliders. When it is on, the dice will roll the slider values.

Virtual Dice Roller I’ve been doing assorted small projects that are tasks building up to a tactical RPG. One of the latest of these is a nifty dice roller I wanted to show off. Here’s a gif of a couple 6-…

Latest blog post: rolling dice in Unity

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New poll: Democrats' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak Americans, including swing voters, see the Republican Party as 20 points more extreme than Democrats — and the Democrats as weak and ineffective. So why would the *Democrats* moderate?

FYI Democrats, this poll is not telling you to get tougher on citizens or criminals or immigrants

It's telling you to get tougher on REPUBLICANS

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These pesky Muslims with their Sharia law and covering up women’s faces and jailing gay men and being anti-Semitic voting for….checks notes…a young blonde woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man.

Maybe, just maybe, they are talking shite.

This trailer is delightfully unhinged!

(also I just noticed your profile says CMU prof. What do you teach? I was a student there a million years ago.)

Once again, an account I decided to follow specifically because the profile is absurd bsky.app/profile/ques...

Clear and firm language, corporate comms teams should learn a lesson.

Can't investigate Dear Leader or his friends; that's a paddlin'

These sorts of "flags of the world" images always remind me how, growing up in South Korea, the North Korean flag was always scribbled out with a black marker. I don't even know what that flag looks like, is it on here?

i suspect that 1) people generally agree that racism is bad at least if asked and 2) people generally think that they are good people, which leads to people generally thinking that they can't be racist because racists are bad and they're good. like they think racism is an identity they can reject

Flavor Flav was also hyped for women's water polo at the last summer olympics!

Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon support NASCAR's stance on Confederate flag Dale Earnhardt Jr on Confederate flag: “I think if it’s offensive to an entire race, it really does nothing for anybody to be there flying.''

yep, linked from within that very article www.nbcsports.com/nascar/news/...

Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue ‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

yeah but is that worth stuff like this? www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

omg I haven't heard this xbox news and am kinda afraid to ask (but I'm sure I'll hear it soon anyway)

I don't necessarily disagree (indeed, I kinda agree) but what are you getting at? Are you talking about all the layoffs, or executives using AI, or just plain unsustainable scopes, or what?

What is the point for them? As in, what is the scam here?

TikToker Recounts How Scorned Woman Hired Her To Pretend To Be A Witch To Get Back At Her Ex-Husband OK, this is kind of genius.

This story is hilarious! www.comicsands.com/tiktok-witch...

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing Alt: leonardo di caprio is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

*sees the krita logo*

no more AI summaries!

...for like 10 minutes, and then they came back. boo

hahaha it actually works

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notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

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It's really great that an industry that can't figure out how to make substantial revenue, let alone make a profit, is ruining literally everything else.

I will always love the JUST DO IT green screen speech, but man does he have a lot of baggage.