A New Series of Expressive, Musical, Feature Rich Instruments // Plinky 12 Toadstep, Chords & Blocks YouTube video by DivKid

oo... something happening in... 8 minutes?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBkh...

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

More research is necessary but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalised vaccine are still alive six years later.

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The roll out of domestic electricity was ridiculously impressive.

data locality beats clever abstractions

Plus you get to call them "clothoids" 👀

The original use for this kind of curve was on early railways, where trains were less, ah, forgiving of botched transitions than cars.

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Enjoyed reading through this, reminded me of road work at Maxis & Wayve. More complex than you might think, particularly markings and junctions.

The latter was my introduction to Euler spirals for joins: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_s.... Curvature changing linearly is a pretty useful property.

For my game's terrain, I've long mulled over how to combine the epicness of grand mountains with the "what's around the corner?" intrigue of smaller cliffs and hills.

After a lot of fiddling over the past two days, I think I may be onto something.
#GameDev #ProcGen

This popped up in my feed like so, I like to think you grabbed his attention.

A wonderful wrong answer on The Chase.

What timing. I'm thinking... no?

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

Snark, always 😀

Got yet another error message when I clicked through to see your reply \o/

Is BlueSky migrating to Azure?

Watch: Humanoid robot chases pack of wild boars in Poland An AI-powered humanoid robot has been filmed chasing a herd of wild pigs across a car park in Poland.

This is not the future we were promised

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

For anyone else who insta-closed the BBC news website this morning in horror, can I suggest www.reuters.com as a replacement.

Anvil Engine - YouTube

In this video series, the team and I dive into some of the tech behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and what powers the Anvil engine.

We cover Atmos, Large-Scale Rendering, Micropolygon, and Ray Tracing.

#Anvil #AssassinsCreed #AssassinsCreedShadows

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‘Bifs’ replace ‘Piigs’ as Europe’s bond market whipping boys Britain, Italy and France have borne the brunt of a sovereign debt sell-off sparked by the Iran war

Spend more on defence, spend to insulate businesses and consumers, spend on energy independence

Investors bet this pressure will "increase fiscal strain" for European economies with bad starting points on debt, such as Britain, Italy, France, dubbed the Bifs
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I have this horrifying vision of a future in which LLMs are the fastest way to get information off the internet, because defences against their endless scraping have ruined access for the rest of us.

Hey, CloudFlare, explain to me why you need to "check my connection" (bog-standard FTTP/C with PlusNet) again on every individual website I open.

Often taking 5-10 seconds to do so.

Use a glass sphere, is what you're saying

I wonder what hit to global GDP would be if someone removed Bessent's head with a rusty chainsaw.

Oh right, zero.

Meanwhile the madness of the USA's king is currently set to cost each UK household £500 this year, and that's climbing every day.

I fear NZ is not going to fare so well with native-fauna-shaped drones.

Ghost Kea that gnaws on enemy ship rubber gaskets?

Gaslighting (g/n): the bit where bank web programmers can't be arsed to do space elimination in credit card fields, so copy and paste or auto-fill fails, but then ... display the resulting card number by adding back spaces between every four digits.

Hannah Waddingham as Septa the Shame Nun in GoT and in a rainbow dress presenting Eurovision.

X this evening vs Bsky this evening

Tech bros gonna tech bro

(Especially as most of them are finance bros in nerd's clothing)

Oil supply crunch intensifies as last Hormuz tankers reach refineries Final prewar cargoes to leave Gulf set to unload in coming days, escalating a global rush to secure barrels

"The final ships to clear the strait before the Iran war began on February 28 are expected to reach their destination in Malaysia and Australia by April 20, intensifying the supply shock already rippling across Asia."

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

How will they be able to tell? Ba-dum-tish

www.ft.com/content/0210...

Woohoo! Congrats.