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Honey bees have an interesting scouting and decision algorithm when looking for a new...

Honey bees have an interesting scouting and decision algorithm when looking for a new home.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/group-decision-making-in-honey-bee-swarms

I love how #blender makes my crappy 3D models shine.Today I learned just the basics of UV mapping. Made a very low-effort texture with alpha...

I love how #blender makes my crappy 3D models shine.

Today I learned just the basics of UV mapping. Made a very low-effort texture with alpha channel. Yet the Cycles renderer makes it look nice.

More fun with #TuringDrawings - I'm calling this one "triangle factory".My #CellularAutomata thingy is now somewhat usable to...

More fun with #TuringDrawings - I'm calling this one "triangle factory".

My #CellularAutomata thingy is now somewhat usable to explore them. (Maybe not on mobile, though.) https://log2.ch/progenitor/build8/

The "triangle factory" is in cell (8,13).

In case you want to play around with it, a demo is on https://log2.ch/progenitor/build7/ but it's very much WIP code.

In case you want to play around with it, a demo is on https://log2.ch/progenitor/build7/ but it's very much WIP code.

Some hexagonal #turingdrawings from my #cellularautomata simulator-thingy I'm working on. Up next: anything that doesn't involve...

Some hexagonal #turingdrawings from my #cellularautomata simulator-thingy I'm working on.

Up next: anything that doesn't involve clicking restart 500 times to discover those that aren't a straight line.

For some reason, I really like the tone of that article.It manages to neatly summarize (teach you, even) the most common way you run into...

For some reason, I really like the tone of that article.

It manages to neatly summarize (teach you, even) the most common way you run into the UI complexity puzzle, and the most common solutions.

And the humble conclusion: "don’t complain to your boss about the problem without providing at least one solution. I don’t have a boss and I don’t have a solution."

Getting tired about all fancy UI concepts that, if you only knew them, would make your code so much cleaner. Well, I know most of them by...

Getting tired about all fancy UI concepts that, if you only knew them, would make your code so much cleaner. Well, I know most of them by now. Code is still a mess, every time.

Quote: "Talking about MVC usually spawns a heated debate where the business logic of your component should be present, but let’s not go into that because in reality it doesn’t really matter. The messy complexity of this world has to live somewhere regardless of how you call that component."

https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-complexity-that-lives-in-the-gui/

Cory Doctorow about blockchains and trust: https://doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties-a51cbcffc4e2

Cory Doctorow about blockchains and trust: https://doctorow.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-third-parties-a51cbcffc4e2

Does #mastodon have some kind of "long tail" mode? Something like the home feed, but showing only the first post per...

Does #mastodon have some kind of "long tail" mode? Something like the home feed, but showing only the first post per account.

I'd like to treat following more like a #rss subscription, where you don't miss monthly updates just because you also subscribe to daily feeds. My current workaround is a list of all accounts I follow that post less than weekly, but it's a pain to maintain.

Using the default web UI, open to try other clients. Any suggestions?

I couldn't produce that pattern if I tried.

I couldn't produce that pattern if I tried.

Trying to implement my first #shader for a hexagonal pattern. Currently it draws #glitch art instead, which is also nice.

Trying to implement my first #shader for a hexagonal pattern. Currently it draws #glitch art instead, which is also nice.

Rayon docu: "find_map_any() [...] returns any non-None result of the map operation"Which means 🤔... results that are not...

Rayon docu: "find_map_any() [...] returns any non-None result of the map operation"

Which means 🤔... results that are not non-None will... not... be returned.

#rust

I don't know how this works, but I'm now imagining all kind of weird group-dynamics scenarios how you end up spending weeks (I...

I don't know how this works, but I'm now imagining all kind of weird group-dynamics scenarios how you end up spending weeks (I guess) polishing abstract and conclusions, and then somehow nobody bothers to check if the document has a title.

My current reading list of arXiv PDFs... #academia #publishing #fail

My current reading list of arXiv PDFs... #academia #publishing #fail

Coming to #Rust from a C++ background, this FAQ is really nice. It has just the architectural patterns I wish I had studied before trying to...

Coming to #Rust from a C++ background, this FAQ is really nice. It has just the architectural patterns I wish I had studied before trying to write a semi-serious Rust application.

https://cppfaq.rs/types.html

But then I wonder why is it making those bands, and... damn. Nerd-sniped myself.

But then I wonder why is it making those bands, and... damn. Nerd-sniped myself.

I hacked together some crappy GA mutation. Then I made a plot.Now it looks like an important scientific result that deserves to be carefully...

I hacked together some crappy GA mutation. Then I made a plot.

Now it looks like an important scientific result that deserves to be carefully explained. (Trust me: it doesn't. But it looks cool, yes?)

#rust is not a company: About the organisation of Rust development. I think this applies to many larger #floss projects....

#rust is not a company: About the organisation of Rust development. I think this applies to many larger #floss projects. https://blog.m-ou.se/rust-is-not-a-company/

Also still slightly proud of my bigroom.py plugin for #hexchat I wrote 15 years ago. (The functionality, not the code or the...

Also still slightly proud of my bigroom.py plugin for #hexchat I wrote 15 years ago. (The functionality, not the code or the screenshots...)

https://github.com/martinxyz/xchat-plugins

Not been on IRC for a while, but I sure missed the anarchistic spirit of those communities. (Some lines omitted to get the gist of...

Not been on IRC for a while, but I sure missed the anarchistic spirit of those communities. (Some lines omitted to get the gist of it.)

#freenode #liberachat