@pixelambacht Suddenly I owe you for having informed me, entirely in passing, that @rudytheelder is on Mastodon to follow.

Hashtag halfway through the Ware tetralogy, because I have a score of cyberpunk books I recklessly decided I would read in strict chronological (publication...) order....

Once or twice a year, I see a post on Reddit titled (roughly) "forget the aggravating 'font editors,' here's how you can create your own font today entirely in Illustrator!"

If I was granted omniscience for a day, I'd deeply like to understand the thought process behind those posts. Is it __solely__ "price"? Maybe, but I can't imagine that's all of it.... What do they find so abhorrent about real type design? I'd love to know.

(And I feel like there's something they find unpalatable, but IDK.)

If any UK-resident friends & readers worry about the heat wave, I can give you a few small pointers as a native Texan*

1. It's helpful to wear hats & carry water, but it's more important to only walk in the shade, shadow to shadow, pushing the weak out of your way.

2. Meal plan: boil water today, freeze it to use later in the week.

3. AM and PM are arbitrary, switch up.

* In contrast to, say, Ted Cruz, who was born in Canada, look it up, a fact for which Canada has yet to formally apologize.

I found this write-up about OpenAI's recent mathematical-proof news to be thought-provoking; it offers a breakdown of what sorts of "unsolved problems" are getting solved by AI agents, and which ones are not:

If you're solving "no one knows this because brute-force is all we've got" problems or disproving conjectures by counterexample, then, yeah, that's useful, but it's not the same as upending research or reasoning.
https://theconversation.com/an-ai-solution-to-an-80-year-old-problem-has-shocked-mathematicians-283686

Things I've googled today with BBC News on muted in the background

- "is andy burnham keir starmer's son"
- "is andy burhman keir starmer's little brother"
- "can us citizen be mayor of manchester"
- "why so many empty seats at cricket oval"
- "did spectators die of boredom yesterday cricket oval"
- "are andy burnham keir starmer same person'
- "is makerfield real place'
- 'keir or kier real spelling'
- 'people know running for mp in random place is crazy government system'
- 'is binface boris'

Seize the standard deviations of production, too.

Otherwise you're just setting yourself up for tons of guesswork.

I've been gradually learning some CAD in order to build some models for various Very Important Things that I need to 3D print, and one facet of this hobby that I was not prepared for is the constant frustration that literally nobody else in the 3D-printer-using world has ever made a model of the object that I urgently need.

I mean, a tetrahedral-lattice-filled cuboid with a void in the middle the exact size of an E27 lightbulb, what the hell is so complicated about that?