Just realised that increasing the dimensions of an element onscreen when it is hovered over creates a “natural”, visual schmitt trigger effect.
Visualising music with a spreadsheet:
Jeb: “It was you, Certrix, wasn’t it. You painted my visor. Again.”
Certrix: “hahahaha”
Gildon: “hahahaha”
EEEEEEVVVIIL genderize.io
There’s some fascinating discussion of absolute pitch in this old article+comment thread on languagelog: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1450
Very excited that the @astro_pi Sense HAT will be up for sale! @briansuda and I imagined a very similar board as our ideal “board with all the things the Pi needs” but never managed to build one.
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Roopa Gulati:
Things I learnt last night: the dial on toasters has nowt to do with temperature. It's just a timer. I need to get out more.
Roopa Gulati:
Things I learnt last night: the dial on toasters has nowt to do with temperature. It's just a timer. I need to get out more.
@roopagulati any wisdom to impart about what the funny floppy wire things on the top of my toaster are? I have never been able to figure out what they’re supposed to do.
#puredata is so amazing! Recreated one of my favourite @solarference effects in about 20 minutes:
I was going to make a “death and taxonomy” joke but Cat and Girl got there first. No surprises there.
Tom Morris@tommorris strengthening het marriage, and dismantling right wing world views.
Google Translate’s statistical origins show themselves in interesting ways:
I’m 95% certain that the use of “ziehen” and “dem” in the first example rather than “marschieren” and “unseren” is due to “und ziehen mit dem Spaten” being a lyric in Die Moorsoldaten (the peat bog soldiers).
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG https://solarference.bandcamp.com/track/three-sisters
#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage
Anyone know who the #gurdy player heard but not seen in this Light in Babylon video is?
Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?
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Emil Björklund:
Thinking so far: accept the webmention, send a signal passing along the URL somehow, model listens to signal, looks up instance and checks.
Emil Björklund:
Thinking so far: accept the webmention, send a signal passing along the URL somehow, model listens to signal, looks up instance and checks.
@thatEmil Taproot works almost the other way round — a “mentions” module stores incoming mentions, noting their target path after resolving redirects. Then, each content module queries the mentions module for mentions of a particular URL. That way the two are decoupled, and I can keep track of mentions of static URLs and things not represented by a “model”. Haven’t figured out how to handle redirects well yet though.
New policy: refuse to make significant changes to systems built under time pressure until they are fully understood, i.e. have been refactored, have good test coverage etc.
Writing increasingly ridiculous lines of code due to #pandas not handling integer NaN values. Going to have to do a big refactor soon.
Twitter observation: shared, known bounds allow for the communication of infinity
Also relevant: Politico-Media Complex #GE2015 #bookmark