Annette

Hmmm, maybe if you try to knock it over it might break open. Or roll it off the table. Okay okay maybe down the stairs? But for sure if you can roll it down a hill...

When the elemental plane of fire comes close to the material world, sometimes you get a rift, like a volcano, or even the Darvaza "Door to Hell" gas crater. But sometimes it's less of a rift and more of a thinning, where things just spontaneously catch on fire.
Like Glasgow.

Did Bluesky change how translation works on Android? I think it used to open Google Translate for me, but now it gives complete dogshit translations. Like, for Japanese it is regularly obvious wrong or missing half the tweet, plus it doesn't show a transliteration for pronunciation.

Mario and Toad, from Super Mario Bros. "Thank you Mario! But your yak is at another barber!"

A series of three info boxes from the linked page. "Warning [with an orange triangle warning symbol] Think twice before removing RESIZE from the set of decorations as it causes problems with resizing and minimizing the window. You usually want to keep RESIZE enabled. Danger [with a red lightning bolt symbol] If you just want to remove the title bar, set window_decorations = "RESIZE" as you will run into problems if you remove RESIZE from the set of decorations. Tip [with a green flame symbol] You probably always want RESIZE to be listed in your window_decorations."

I love this. Are you sure. Are you very sure. Have you thought about this carefully. Maybe think again. Look we're not going to stop you but is this *definitely* what you want. #wezterm
wezterm.org/config/lua/c...

Phew, it came back after another reboot. Not sure what happened there. I guess we'll see if it happens again. There's something creepy about the volume keys suddenly doing nothing and the volume controls vanishing from the UI. Like, what are you talking about? You've never had an audio device.

Uh oh. Rebooted Arch and my Macbook's audio device has gone. 😭

Starting in five minutes or so, I'm going to play some entries from the Cookiecutter Jam. twitch.tv/clockworknet...

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)".