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

@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.

I like the irony that "Steamboat Willie" is named after one of the two songs featured in the film - "Steamboat Bill" which was only written 18 years earlier.

I can't find any data on what the copyright laws were at the time, and there's no attribution at the start or end of the film.

@aras
Take me down to the Parallax City
Where the far moves slow
and the near moves quickly
(https://twitter.com/gamemakerstk/status/741923072719085568)

@grumpygamer @glassbottommeg @ja2ke Right. If you're going to claim "it was just there when I did this, and it's too hard to remove" then you're claiming to be a documentary-maker. Which for a videogame is completely implausible. If it's there, you wanted it to be there, therefore it is active use.

@glassbottommeg Well unless you get fucking paid. And then make it so obnoxiously obvious that you got paid so they pay you more to shut the fuck up about it.