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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now Alla Barbalat is talking about using Python to evaluate game balance in the context of a board game.

For me personally this is such a fun and refreshing look at a structured approach to the *basics* of game design. A million years ago when I worked in the game industry, so much of what designers were talking about (i.e., at GDC, but also elsewhere) were esoteric, lost-in-the-weeds explanations of very specific problems. This feels very much like the missing piece of that puzzle! #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

TIL about this all-time banger https://lookitup.baby #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Extremely valuable reminder about "simply" and "just": this language (along with its pals; "basically" "obviously", "of course") isn't merely stylistic noise; it sends a specific message:

"This should be easy"

or, in other words:

"If this isn't easy, it's your fault"

This is implicitly an attack on the reader.

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now I'm learning about the lesson that users have learned from yes/no "consent" modals is that they just always have to say "yes" or the computer will deny them critical access to functionality that they need in order to perform their desired task, complete assigned work from an employer or school, or even get life-critical medication. I'm not feeling like a feature whose perceived function is 'you have to say yes; now that you said yes it's your fault' should be referred to as 'consent' #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

feeling very flattered but every so slightly uncomfortable at the number of direct shout-outs I'm personally getting from the stage #NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"People's Intuition Isn't Standardized"

PREACH

#NBPy

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Margaret Fero beginning their talk by raising the stakes, "Technical Skills That Can Save A Life", no pressure or anything #NBPy

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

My entirely respectful long term crush on Ms. Wiedlin continues and also her book comes out a week after mine, perhaps our book tours will cross paths

RE: https://www.threads.com/@janewiedlin/post/DXhonhXmaGo

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Charlie enjoying the yard on a very nice spring day

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Now on to a talk from Lilinoe Harbottle about surgical robotics, which seems to be converging on the related theme of 'truth is not found inside computers, but projected in from outside'. "A robot cannot be allowed to check its own homework", she explains. An auditor process that can immediately "transition the system to a safe state" is as isolated as possible.

#NBPy

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

what's a gerbil's favourite airline?

lufthamster

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I love talks that, as a 25 year Python veteran, have the ability make me say to myself “wait, does that even work” with less than 10 lines of code

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:

Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/?utm%5Fbrand=arstechnica&utm%5Fsocial-type=owned&utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jameshowell@fediscience.org ("James Endres Howell") wrote:

@jimsalter It was always first and foremost an attack on labor.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jimsalter@fosstodon.org ("Jim Salter") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116465689693004632

This is very true. The problem is that the pockets of the assholes pushing AI are a *lot* deeper than the pockets of the IT workers that companies are determinedly attempting to replace with AI.

Several years of this shit will do no more than disappoint the oligarchs, but it will *ruin* careers and even lives of millions of workers who can't just wait out a major loss of income "for a few years" while this plays out.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
icing@chaos.social ("Stefan Eissing") wrote:

In math 'i^2 == -1'. But computers can only approximate that. Good values for 'i' are then:

int32_t 479772853 squared is -7
int32_t 1667710795 squared is -7
int16_t 16203 squared is -7
int16_t 16565 squared is -7
int8_t 53 squared is -7
int8_t 75 squared is -7

😌

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Forming cone. I think this is what a coniferous cone looks like when it's not yet fully formed.

#photography #darktable

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

“facts”, as the kids say

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@chrisjrn is collecting a set of results about the nature of truth and computability (Gödel, Tarski, Turing) in a sort of "reflections on truthing truth", I am very invested in where this is going #NBPy

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Forest path. #mosstodon

#photography #darktable

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

I'm going to say this in the most diplomatic possible way that doesn't actively hide the truth. We are being ruled by the dumbest fucking inbred morons who ever ate a raccoon penis.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

let's get this party started #NBPy

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
MicroSFF@mastodon.art ("Micro SF/F by O. Westin") wrote:

"Found another civilization," Xggr't said. "Fission, global interconnection, space travel by chemical propulsion."

"Nice! Are they looking for contact?"

"Er..."

"Mixed?"

"Most of them don't think about it. But those who do, don't just want contact, they want friends."

"Aww. Schedule it in."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I am in this picture and I do not like it

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DXj4FkBlCFD

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

This "descent" is the equivalent of the company stepping off a very low curb, Peter Thiel has had a neon sign over his head flashing "FASCIST" for years now, and its weirdo CEO is precisely what fascism looks like when you mix it with equal parts cocaine and flop sweat, Palantir is exactly where it's always been, it's just the leadership doesn't even bother to pretend anymore

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/palantir-employees-are-talking-about-companys-descent-into-fascism/

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grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Sailing the high seas for pizza. #grickledoodle #TMNT #turtles #pirates #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor #mutiny

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

RE: https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116445996491349836

we really need an explicitly anti-gambling movement within games, of creators and critics and players, who stand against this encroachment into our creative medium.
but we need to structure our arguments carefully, to identify the actual problems and set actionable practices/boundaries and not derail into any moral argument that even remotely resembles "it's sinful on the part of the gambler".

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
sarada9669 ("Sara From Gaza 🍉🇵🇸") wrote:

Which is the easiest programming language to master and work with?
I’m Sara. I completed 2 out of 4 years of a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, but I had to stop because of the war.
Now I’m forced to continue through free online courses due to my financial situation.
I really need to work so I can get back on my feet and support my family and my children after we lost everything.

Please, any advice—write it here.

(An archived photo of my home before it was destroyed 💔) #python

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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Freebooters, food and drink edition, with Wing

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/qbDL5gS7Y5RNQ9TMeuAKAx

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FediVideo@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Video") wrote:

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If you click the 🔔 notification bell in their profile after you've followed the account, you'll also get a notification when they go live. This helps a lot in noticing when the stream is live!

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