Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

@rachelandrew Will it be easier to convince people to do this correctly or to convince chatbots?

Next we can do ISO 8601 dates...

@lextenebris Interesting. I had the impression that T2K focused almost entirely on combat operations.

Quintin Smith's review of the Wildsea is intriguing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c29Ecut4K_E

@robbie Will a simple two-dimensional table, with a row for each ingredient, work?

If not, maybe JSON?

@mtechman When I was in grad school, one of the members of our game group was a mathematician. We got to discussing squares vs hexagons for game maps. He suggested octagons, so you'd have even more directions to move.

"But octagons don't tile the plane," we said.

"Oh," he explained, "you have to use hyperbolic space."

@LouisIngenthron Did you watch to the end? At around the 70% mark they tipped over their podiums and ineffectively tried to kick each other in the nuts for the better part of a minute before being separated by the Secret Service.

@imabuddha@techhub.social "I spent the last few years building up an immunity to fire."

@flooey @lindsey Hey, now. Q division had to work hard to disguise part of your team of elite agents as small children ... but someone's going to have to climb through that air duct!

@imabuddha@techhub.social Indeed. Fortunately, I did better on the remaining problems in the section.

I've had similar frustrations with art books for "the absolute beginner".

I'm sure some of my computer science students are baffled by what I think are clear, straightforward explanations of concepts. (Indeed, student evaluations from any class will have some complaining that I moved way too fast and others wondering why I wasted so much time on the obvious.)

The interesting topic is fire dancing. When I show initial moves to new students, they can't understand how I move so fast. By the time they graduate, they're better than me. In my defense, I'm old.