Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

@dpiponi sort of like "choose your own adventure" but not limited to a pre-built graph.

@dpiponi if the game plays itself, it gets closer to a movie. An interesting evolution would be live AI-generated movies that allow the audience to tickle the characters to influence their decisions as the story unfolds.

OCaml friends: How many characters does this print? (It's valid UTF-8 and valid Unicode)

print_endline "\xF0\x9F\x90\x95\xE2\x80\x8D\xF0\x9F\xA6\xBA";;

It's a trick question for Unicode awareness. It should show a service dog emoji but in my console, I see a dog followed by an orange vest. Here it is: 🐕‍🦺

#unicode #ocaml #emojis

@khird unfortunately, it's also common on cloudy and rainy days. 🤔🤔🤔

@khird interesting theory. Why only on certain days, though?

@AndersBaerbock@mastodon.social you're not paying attention. Work on your issues. Bye.

@AndersBaerbock@mastodon.social I'm spreading awareness of this historical document that describes a lost culture but you're getting at me like a rabid dog. Fix your shit, man.

@AndersBaerbock@mastodon.social Why don't you edit Wikipedia? I'm not the expert here.

@AndersBaerbock@mastodon.social easy there, champ. They encountered the Aztecs. Can you suggest a better phrasing?

The Florentine Codex is now available for browsing online: https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/

The Florentine Codex is a 2400-page account of the Aztecs as encountered by the Spaniards in the 16th century. It is notable not only for the novelty and completeness of its material but also for including the perspective of the locals rather than only of the colonists.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florentine_Codex

#history #mexico

@jonuriarte the species name is Clathrus ruber, if you were wondering.

What does the little "40" mean in the Yahoo weather app?

I used to think it was a 40% probability of "getting rained on" but seeing it next to a sunshine forecast is confusing.

#weather #numbers #sunshine #rain #random

@ZaneSelvans I'd look into ways to encourage the mixing of people from different cultures. It doesn't necessarily require mixing the poor and the rich but maybe that's the practical solution. How to do that? I don't know. Ideas that crossed my mind include: excellent public transportation, mixed residential/business areas, free basic services like healthcare and education, high taxes on the private versions of these public services, making all neighborhoods funded evenly by nationwide budget rather than local taxes, forcing elected officials to live in the poorer neighborhoods, ...

@CptSuperlative by "symbol overloading" I mean the reuse of the same symbol with another similar but different meaning determined by the context, just like operator overloading in some programming languages where the actual function to run is determined by the number and type of its arguments.

@CptSuperlative it's more like symbol overloading. The first and second occurrences of "people" evoke different things. Same as in "candy is not food" vs. "candy is food" which are both true in their own context.

@freemo ok, but this is so short-sighted and will obviously fail.

I mean I don't care that much about this particular conflict because I have no ties there. I'm more worried about the inability of so many people to do what's best for them. I blame some implementations of democracy.

@freemo yes. Why is it not obvious from their perspective, especially since they're in the thick of it? Don't they learn this in military school, that whatever is being destroyed is a net loss, that it's not paying back for anything? Don't they realize that their thirst for revenge is a mental illness? It's one thing that the leaders are incompetent, but the people who vote for them? Is the majority of the people really like that?

Frank's toe knife set

#knives #tv #itsalwayssunny #philadelphia