And this beautiful game on grief is out now! If you want to support Arab-made work about the Arab world, history, arts, and culture -especially in a time of destruction and erasure towards our people- I cannot recommend this game more.
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These are all incredible, no notes
I honestly think this is part of trump's appeal to his base; he's awful but he's honestly awful, you get what you see. You know there's no filter, whereas many other politicians open their mouths and all you hear is the focus groups.
These issues can result in gaps, light leaks etc in games especially when dealing with values far from 0, where the rounding becomes more significant.
Because floats can't represent every possible number, doing floating point maths inevitably results in rounding. This means that two formulas that are mathematical equivalent may not produce exactly the same answer in floating point.
Iso floating point gives accuracy to a certain number of significant figures, as your floats get bigger the gap between adjacent representable numbers gets bigger. So if you have X and you want the smallest Y > X, the gap between X and Y increases as X gets larger.
I'm not sure what you're referring to - floats as commonly used in games are fixed size. Unless the game was using infinite precision BigNums, but that would be awfully slow and I've never seen a game or engine do that.
Are you talking about the range of representable numbers in floating point?
What were you explaining? I'm curious now!
You know what helps with tiredness? Iced coffee.
Did you truly expect any better from the man who brought us covfefe?
When I write technical documentation, my mantra is: Assume intelligence, but not context.
So many people do the reverse - they assume their reader is an idiot, but also somehow knows the entire 6 month history of the project and all related areas.
This seems like very good advice.
I had an opposite problem when my daughter was in hospital with breathing problems, where one DR was averse to using any words longer than one syllable. They were trying to be calming and reassuring but it was frustrating to not be communicated with as an adult.
Mileships book by Ian McQue and Jim Rossignol
World Book Day, is it? Here’s one the mighty @rossignol.bsky.social and me made earlier
The NYT style guide
Because I am unreasonable, I accept this is true, while being annoyed at anyone who says it. Only I, London’s uncrowned king, may publicly express any view other than “greatest city in the world, No. 1 at everything”.
Anyway, I'd strongly recommend it! We also went driving looking for black bears and found one after not too long looking. Alaska is a great place to see bears.
Image of a young bear standing upright on a beach
He's the photo I got of the young bear (I don't think they technically counted as a cub anymore)
My wife and I did a bear tour in Alaska some years ago, it was well worth it. Took a boat from Homer over to the Katmai peninsula where we saw a fairly large number of bears on the beach and foothills, including a 1 year old. Awe inspiring animals.
the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo
The Ellison/Weiss CBS News of today would insist they couldn't platform Eisenhower without also platforming Göring and if anyone pointed out how ridiculous it was they'd talk about the importance of "open debate" and if you complained loudly enough they'd say "come debate that on my podcast"
The singer of Iron Maiden registering delight at a thatched cottage.
Think I’ve just found the most English thing.
Aka rewrite a song into a NYTimes headline.
"All things possible for love, bar refusal for item in question"
A black graphic with five candles on it. The candles are in the trans flag colours - blue then pink then white then pink then blue. White text above the candles reads "Trans Day of Remembrance 2025" and the Scottish Trans logo is in the top right hand corner.
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), a day where we pause to remember those who we have lost around the world this year to transphobic violence.
If you don't believe what a politician says is their own thoughts, but what they've been told to say, then what is to stop them being told to say something else in the future? Much easier to trust someone who seems authentic, even if you don't like them as much.
I think a politician that was willing to speak their mind more, even if they are wrong more often, will get much more of a connection from the public. Cf Boris Johnson, Farage etc. "the politician you would most like to have a pint with"
Most politicians these days are so over focus grouped that - even when they say the right thing - you can tell they're saying what they think a politician should tell the median voter, not what they actually believe
I think this is genuinely a large part of the appeal of Trump and other populists - that they have no filter. Trump clearly says whatever comes into his brain, and efforts people might not agree with what he says, I think they are drawn to the authenticity of just coming out and saying it
Burglars warn: door locks and alarms could "financially ruin" the burgling industry
It's less spooky if you document it though