Tweet Archive 2020 01
RT @abursuc: This new augmented visualization system for fencing games is mesmerizing. Great work by @kcimc @rhizomatiks and collaborators…
da-da-dum da-da-dum da-da-dum de-da-dum da-da-dum da-da-dum da-da-dum de-da-dum Nee-nee-neee Neeee-ne-neeee https://twitter.com/etiennejcb/status/1214647580946288641
Why is there so much water (A) around the sheet piling (B) that they are putting in on this building site in Cambridge (rumored to be a new Apple building)?
Turns out that they weld (C) a pipe (D) to each sheet (E) and then pump pressurized water down when pushing them in (F).
This is great news for African trade and African people. The benefits of the strengthening of the African Union are immediate and obvious. https://twitter.com/qz/status/1215664483059654656
Replying to @FlexMonkey
We had a painter come round, called Matt. I said it was a good name for a painter and he just stared at me like his life was draining away.
RT @Kriegmerica: I’m thrilled to finally tell the world about computer-designed organisms aka “xenobots” aka “living robots” aka “reconfigu…
RT @mapo1: Here is the talk about HoloLens 2 and Mixed Reality that I gave at World.Minds 2019 in Zurich, including some of the work we do…
RT @JDHamkins: Tiling a 16x16 board, with one unit removed, using L shaped tiles. Recursively divide into four smaller boards, place the ti…
Replying to @christianp
I’m planning to do the same thing I did last time, but backwards.
RT @gregeganSF: [1/2] My new eBook, INSTANTIATION, has 11 stories:
• “The Discrete Charm of the Turing Machine” • “Zero For Conduct” • “Un…
“Please don’t tell me it was a double bluff … Of all the even-numbered bluffs, the less-famous ‘zero bluff’ cancels itself out just as thoroughly, while attracting even less attention.” https://twitter.com/gregeganSF/status/1220638322600509441
Later in the day I noticed a neglected confirmation dialog box hiding behind other windows, saying “Are you sure you want to delete those 346 files?”
Reader, I can tell you now that ‘yes’ was no longer the right answer.
Support for Clang/LLVM in Visual Studio is very useful. It’s a drop-in replacement for the native compilers. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/clang-llvm-support-in-visual-studio/
Some tricks:
Tell CMake to use 64-bit Clang by setting the toolset to ‘ClangCL,host=x64’
Build Boost using ‘toolset=clang-win’
It’s so amazingly powerful to make some stock out of prawn shells, and ridiculously easy. https://www.conorbofin.com/2013/02/14/prawn-stock-getting-the-best-value-out-of-crustiatians/
Replying to @allison_krasnow
My daughter once told me “Santa can’t be real because we know what he looks like even though no-one can see him.”
It’s a misconception that these are perceptual illusions. They actually work because certain patterns of information affect the stability of the spacetime continuum. Please don’t make any more! https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/1223233134247862272
One of our dearly departed rats, from 3 years ago. For @shin_dmitry
