Notices by Tom Forsyth (tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad Two of ours are like that - they like being near you and talking to you, and a chin rub is fine. But even after four years of training, being picked up is still something to be grudgingly endured, and lap-sitting is for special occasions only.

Although one of them will now sit on our laps if (and only if) we're watching TV, and she seems to like to actively watch it with us. Very odd.

@0xabad1dea Remember how every Thursday they decide that defacing the flag should be a capital offense?

It's worth trying all four starting locations in Satisfactory, at least up to the coal stage. Because when you finally go for the completion run, the feeling of going out from one start location, and finding your way to another, is pretty cool.

You're exploring as usual, and you get this feeling of "hey I remember this river". And then it's "oh, this is the Caterium mine, and I put the Space Elevator over there - so that means over here is a bunch of iron ore mines." It's very odd getting memories of virtual places.

@mcc @Farbs @aeva @renkotsuban It's originally from French, so "dee-kal" is certainly wrong. On the other hand, the French uses a é (e-acute), so the correct pronunciation should be more like "day-kal" than "deh-kal".

@aeva @mcc @Farbs @renkotsuban You have perfectly described the French.

@mcc I think they went to Harvard.

@tillshadeisgone How'd that work out in 2016?

@AngryAnt @NanoRaptor Are you saying you haven't had "Wind of Change" on continuous repeat for the last 35 years?

@NanoRaptor Usually also a side reference to this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl6u2NASUzU
(the lyrics of the song are actually about being a drug addict)

@NanoRaptor But like a real-life parallel is David Hasselhof, who was "big in Germany" as a pop star for unfathomable reasons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hasselhoff#1980s

@clacke @aeva Yes, I think it's probably a useful *statistical* tool.

@aeva Then there's people like me, who have gone from absurdly fit, to very slobby, to reasonably-above-average over about thirty years. In all that time, although my fitness varied hugely, my actual weight never budged by more than 1kg. Weight is just not a good measure in general.

@aeva Actual weight is somewhat arbitrary as long as you're in the ballpark. What really matters is whether that weight is useful or not. Just like cars, it's all about power-to-weight *ratio* :-)

@aeva Anyway, you will be happy to hear that all my life I have been classified as rather overweight. Which makes me the perfectly average American. You know, even when I was winning gold medals. Because BMI is a totally bullshit measure.

@aeva Statistically, this is the most probable outcome.

@mcc @whitequark Highly recommend you take a look at (and then steal) the NTP format:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol

They also have a 128-bit version that seems... adequate:

"enough to resolve the amount of time it takes a photon to pass an electron at the speed of light. [...] enough to provide unambiguous time representation until the universe goes dim."

@AnarchoNinaWrites And a rapist. Or at least, he can't tell you he's not a rapist, because then EJC will use him as an ATM again. And we will all applaud.

TIL - the sugar "galactose" sounds really awesome because GALACTIC amirite? But it's actually called that because it's "ga lactose" - which just means "from milk" in Greek. Because it's one of the sugars in milk.

...which had me thinking wait so where does "galaxy" come from anyway oh no it's not just Greek for... yes, yes it is. "Galaxy" is literally just "milky way" in Greek.

Reminder:

1. If you have any sort of disease at the moment, it is probably Covid.

2. There is no "typical" set of symptoms for covid - it's all over the place.

3. Tests only show positive during the middle period. Even with a negative test, treat it like it's covid.

4. Current data suggests 3% of infections result in some form of long covid. You don't want this.

5. Beg borrow steal Paxlovid as soon as you can. It helps guard against long covid.

Please take care of yourself.