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I am a #demoscene enthusiast, #coder, and electronic #musician. I hang out with the goats in #Brainstorm. I was deep into social media back when it was really #stupid & awesome. At work I do machine #perception for #creative digital #media.
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PAX Day 1 takeaways:
* Game Journey - what are the landmark vidya games in your life (orig. Phil Spencer's but they get real xboxxy after he starts working on that)
* LLM games - how to design? Paying for tokens gonna be a problem.
* Zeldas 2D vs 3D:
* 2D: Expertly crafted, stable
* 3D: Immersive worlds
* Banana Hats - how do you get one? (you sign up and play Gorilla Tag VR)

@sol_hsa I'm reading source and making notes about class trees which sometimes need a diagram inline.

It's not too bad. Maybe writing the class names repeatedly to make links is bad ergonomics but i don't really mind so far.

The obsidian plugin for graphviz diagrams has me writing graphs in DOT by hand and actually I can not think of a better, faster way to do this
@carnage4life At this rate it's just gonna be him, BeastMan, and Evil-lynn.
@lritter Hey that was the plot of a Colombo episode except the enabling new technology was the phone answering machine

@inkscape B, because that operation is the inverse of adding the node. That is likely why I want to delete a node.

A is really “simplify path” and is super useful but I would be really surprised if I had a single node selected and deleting it modified other nodes control points. The corner (hehe) cases for B are also worse

Empires

Empires aren't built in a day. Engines take even longer.

@vivekgani I have been showing my coworkers the $400 Xreal Air2 glasses video display today, which can act like a big non-AR virtual monitor, for people who like that use case.

But I can't use it because it has a fixed IPD and my head is big and therefore so is my IPD - out of range.

In Touching Final Move of Conference Solidarity with Washington State, UW Cougs It: https://theneedling.com/2024/01/08/in-touching-final-move-of-conference-solidarity-with-washington-state-uw-cougs-it/
In Touching Final Move of Conference Solidarity with Washington State, UW Cougs It

Tonight—in an unexpectedly sentimental final gesture of Pac-12 Conference solidarity and nod to their historic rival, Washington State—the University of Washington voluntarily “Couged it” at their …

The Needling
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