invicticide @invicticide@mastodon.gamedev.place

Those who slept in the nude soon learned not to oversleep once workplaces introduced automatic teleporters as a commute-saving perk.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

If 20% of a group are harassers (evenly across genders), & the group has more men than women… then each woman gets 16x more bad experiences than each man.

The Petrie Multiplier: in a group where x% are bullies/harassers, the minority will feel it (x/100)^2 more.

This blog post has stuck with me through the years. I like the maths in it, & I like the conclusion that attacking sexism/racism etc doesn't have to be an attack on the majority.

From @turingfan@twitter.com

http://blog.ian.gent/2013/10/the-petrie-multiplier-why-attack-on.html

Good blog about testing and graphics - what is a test suite you can maintain and gives you actionable results? https://bartwronski.com/2019/08/14/how-not-to-test-graphics-algorithms/

Nice to see git addressing some of command line complexities. "checkout" command is way complexicated, the new "switch" and "restore" make sense. https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/

"Are you magic?" the child asked
"What is your definition of magic?" the robot replied.
"Uhm... Things that can not be explained by science."
"Then I am not magic. But you are."
"Me?"
"All the best things of all you human people - curiosity, creativity, compassion - are magic."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Automattic (Wordpress.com) has purchased Tumblr

https://poststatus.com/automattic-has-purchased-tumblr/

😮

Bought an old camera a few months back, discovered the previous owner had forgotten a roll of film in there. Got it developed and scanned, and it looks like these pics were taken in the 70s, then forgotten in the desert heat and super degraded. They're vaporwave as fuck.

pbs.twimg.com/media/EBkZm5yXYA…

Cubicles: I make workspaces way less pleasant, by reducing privacy and making everyone's conversations audible to everyone else. But how can I completely destroy productivity?

Open office plans: I have an idea...

Toni Morrison, from a speech she gave in 1981. Gosh this seems relevant to just about any kind of creative work these days. thx @jomc

I see why a lot of artists are moving to Masto now

thank butts my music is at least slightly discoverable outside of me just talking about it on social media o_o

Spicy take, US Pol, Guns

mild take: VS Code is unironically a good IDE. Atom felt like a hacked-together editor that was trying too hard, but comparing VS Code with, say, IntelliJ's memory use really puts things in perspective.

sure, it's nowhere close to where most IDEs are at, but it's only had a quarter of the time to develop those features. It's honestly impressive.

and I think this is unironically the one Electron app I won't shit on, because most IDEs with the features it has are way more memory-heavy than it.