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Gorgeous na Shock!

@indigoparadox

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I'm interested in things (computers, mostly. Old computers, handheld computers, personal computers, minicomputers, etc). Sometimes I also like manga, Pokemon, Vocaloid, LEGO, 3D printing, or other things.

I like programming as a hobby. Mainly in C and Python but I try to branch out sometimes if appropriate. I also like sensors and automation. Check my media tab for more!

I am 30 or 40 years old. 🦝

If this factory ever produces a shell that can actually be fired, I'll be very unhappy.

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Gorgeous na Shock!2h ago

The idea of property values is so obnoxious. Putting aside that you shouldn't be able to own dwellings other than the one you live in, the value of that dwelling should be calculated by an opaque government criteria that changes every few years so that homeowners are less likely to try to game the value of their house by making everything gray and spacious (even if it's awful to live in) to keep the value up.

Gorgeous na Shock!18h ago

chestas 21h ago

In Campbell Town, central Tasmania, they have a statue of Elizabeth Furlong. She was part of a farming dynasty that helped introduce Merino sheep to Australia.

I like the way the town commemorate socio economic achievement rather than politico military like so many do.

And it's good that the woman of the family gets recognition rather than being erased and eclipsed by her male relatives.

#Tasmania #lutruwita #Australia #Statue #Equality #Womensrights

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Gorgeous na Shock!19h ago

Breaking the cardinal rule and rewriting from scratch. Less flexible is key. No more limitation to part of the screen. If the platform supports hardware scrolling then the tile grid is full-screen and you gotta invalidate tiles (or validate them) for overlay graphics or w/e, too.

Gorgeous na Shock!21h ago

Sonic Crossworlds Racing has Hatsune Miku and drift mechanics. And Minecraft characters are there for some reason.

Kart-based Sonic games always annoyed me because why would Sonic use a kart? But I play as Shadow and Shadow uses machines sometimes because cool so it's fine.

It's fun!

Gorgeous na Shock!21h ago

matt sephton 1d ago

Free screensaver for macOS

feat. 3.5" & 5.25" #FloppyDisk and #MiniDisc
(or just your favourite of the three)

https://www.gingerbeardman.com/apps/fits-on-a-floppy/#screensaver

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Gorgeous na Shock!1d ago

I hate to switch to a tile-based map with integer pixel offsets but oh man... just going with pure pixels and converting back and forth between tiles and then keeping track of platform-specific gimmicks for moving framebuffer windows on top of that is too much...

Gorgeous na Shock!1d ago

Adaptive Tile Refresh seems like one of those things that's stupidly obvious and easy to implement, and yet now for the second time I'm banging my head against it and not getting anywhere.

I don't want to settle for jerky tiles for my plane game but oh man... I feel like I'm vibe-coding and I'm writing all my code by hand... Change one thing, another breaks, then a third thing breaks, then it goes in a circle.

I've had some close breakthroughs but they all go nowhere. I hate this. #maug

Gorgeous na Shock!1d ago

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Matt Blaze 1d ago

Several firefighters injured after a collapse in the church. Now a fifth alarm (the maximum pre-determined response).

The FDNY "alarm" system addresses an interesting and difficult optimization problem in dispatching additional firefighters to large incidents. And it's largely unchanged from the 19th century. It's really quite clever.

Some background:

Gorgeous na Shock!2d ago

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