Mixed feelings. Pleasant, but I'm not sure I want pleasant. I don't feel like many of the puzzles are terribly memorable. They kind of wash by. I'm hopeful there's some surprising stuff in there as I get deeper.
Let's try a bit more Monster's Expedition. twitch.tv/clockworknet...
Got the rent paid but now I have bills due 😭 Any help would be much appreciated
My favourites are A, C, W and G. Very charming.
I learned "boots" from this.
Who am I kidding, a Democrat-led United States wouldn't say the "forgive me" part.
Forgive me, I lost my mind. It was my god-given right to do it; I will certainly do it again, at any time and place I so choose; nobody must ever hold me to account; I will take no steps at all either to prevent it happening again or to make amends; and it wasn't my fault in the first place.
Annette on the first screen of A Monster's Expedition. A black egg-shaped monster with a yellow backpack sits on a tiny pier on a tranquil garden-island, legs dangling in blue water. Bright white mist obscures everything behond the island.
Okay I'm going to play Roottrees until I get stuck or bored and then maybe have a look at A Monster's Expedition. twitch.tv/clockworknet...
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
"It only real-time translated the numbers"
Could this be *marginally* more simply be explained by the numbers being written as digits and the translation step being missing entirely? Like, the Spanish SR would read any numeric digits in Spanish regardless, right?
I still don't really understand why it was laid out like it was. It felt like there should be another step or something.
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Annette playing Thinky Dailies on stream.
Probably just going to do some puzzles tonight, think it's a bit late to do Roottrees too. twitch.tv/clockworknet...
Unrelated to *the* retro. Related to "retro", mind you...
It was completely unrelated to the retro. I was just doodling to stop my mind wandering too much.
This is a good guess. The fourth orb is indeed fire. If I were to map the other three to elements I think that might indeed be the most natural allocation. I doubt you can make a better guess without recognising what they're from.
Anyone want to hazard a guess what the orbs are?
I don't think you need to learn every field and every system that's alien to you, but I do think it's healthy to be curious and humble as you approach them, to be open-minded to the reasons they might not approach things as you wish they did.
There's a world outside mainstream programming languages. There's a world outside Windows. Outside tech companies. Outside the Anglosphere. You are steeped in languages, systems, patterns and conventions you cannot see. Not everything unfamiliar to you is a conspiracy to make things hard.
I'm subtweeting but it's random people in a thread I have no interest in building on, and I think it's a sentiment I've encountered enough to believe it's not uncommon.
I dunno. I'm far from innocent but I still think it's a bit presumptuous to be like "the conventions of your field are garbage because they do not match those of mine (which has different needs, priorities and fashions)".
I find a lot of computer graphics math equations impenetrable but I still rankle at the idea that it's all because haughty mathematicians are foolish and stubborn not to use long variable names. I feel like that assumes details are more important than structure.
These have no particular meaning to anyone in the meetings, btw. I just had a stack of sticky notes and a sharpie.
Edinburgh would it kill you to have like one or two pedestrian signs pointing the way to Haymarket Station.
Sharpie doodles on post-it notes. Cartoon nettie, speech bubble with exclamation mark, checkerboard, a set of six chess pieces, a spider in a web and a set of four circular icons: three dots, zig-zag, dart and flame.
Doodles from all-day team refresh meetings.
Oops I edited out a critical "jq" from that first post. I love *jq's* string formatting, but it makes it hard to lex/parse *jq scripts*.
the toki pona roguelike butterfly platformer I made with my friend just got an update, and a cute domain name pipi.la
Compiler friends, I am so sorry for this code. Please do not abandon me in disgust. I can't remember anything about lexing and parsing.
I love using string formatting but ooof it makes it hard to lex. Here, I wrote some probably-very-buggy Python to strip whitespace and comments from jq. For golf purposes. gist.github.com/weeble/b8030...
