figure.game Figure #1180 🥇 1 try 😎 No hints After weeks of needing 20+ tries, I finally got it in just 1.

ajs1998.github.io/double-pendu... I made a simulator to explore the space of double pendulums! It runs in your browser with WebGPU, and it's very fast! I wrote a little about it here: alex.leaflet.pub/3lxizbtwyg22d

I always regret putting comments at the end of a line of code rather than on its own line above, and I do it ALL the time anyway. Learning C early on made me overprioritize code golf and I hate it. Err on the side of verbosity. Newlines cost nothing. Abbreviations suck. Comments are rad. </mantras>

The chatbot interface for LLMs is such a dishonest product with the illusion of competency. LLMs (the technology) are super cool and obviously competent at some things. But the AI chatbot (product) built with LLMs tricks its users into believing a human-like thing is on the other end.

Read: "NASA staff and funding have been cut, and Trump-appointed interim administrator #2 decides not to prioritize worthy technology." Nuclear power on the moon sounds good to me, so does nuclear propulsion. We can have both, AND good social programs. Trump contaminates everything he touches.

I'm realizing that being a Trump supporter or a transphobe are both instant cancels for me. Beloved celebrities, friends, family, whoever. I can't forgive myself if I treat them with respect. There's no other quality that could redeem them. They're incompatible with a good world.

Starbucks had the worst CEO-to-worker pay ratio out of all S&P 500 companies in 2024. Their CEO received $97,813,843 in total compensation last year, or 6,666x more than Starbucks’ median employee. We stand with @sbworkersunited.org as they fight for their fair share.

This is why I can't engage with people who see AI as a black and white moral thing. This is an incredible achievement after just a few years of research. There's no telling how exactly AI will affect the world, and it boggles my mind that many people claim to know it must be all bad.

Plurality-wins voting and the electoral college have made everyone crazy. America is a broken democracy and it won't be fixed until voting is more involved than choosing between one of two morons every 4 years.

The time between 4AM to 8AM occupies the same space in my brain. It's all just "morning" to me. But now that I have to wake up early I realize that's a whole 4 hours I'd normally sleep right through. Now 1/4 of my awake hours. :(

I need to know everything about crochet. I understand how to do it, but I don't get why certain stitches result in different shapes and angles. how do people go from an idea in their head to a physical thing made of yarn?? let me engineer crocheting

The Browser Company saw that browsers were stagnant and boring, so they built Arc which is fun and has cool features! *1 year later* TBC finds that Arc is stagnant and boring, so they're building Dia which will be fun and have AI and cool features! Long live Zen.

American voting explained: America style There are 2 guns on the ballot. You get to vote for which gun gets to shoot the other gun in the face. The gun college gives all the bullets to the winning gun. The next election is in 2 years. This is the only way to express your political desires.

I wish our democracy was a little more direct. We go to work for almost 1/3 of our waking life to shape the economy. But we vote once every 2-4 years to shape the country, for parties with shitty approximations of our values. Most people don't even vote because it's so pointless.

Bluesky should use this as marketing material. They're not censoring anybody, it's just that blocking people actually works here. My network here is more enjoyable and productive than any other website. I'm not gonna complain about how underrepresented the nazis are. It's their own fault.

The Banach-Tarski paradox is used as an overly complicated example to show how the real numbers are unintuitive. A clearer example is to just do 2*[0,1]=[0,2]. There's a 1:1 mapping between the numbers in each interval, yet it looks like more area is created from nothing. #MathSky

I implemented an algorithm to randomly tile a grid with dominos. Here it is on a torus where they can wrap around the edges like Pacman.

Having never played The Last of Us, I've been kinda disappointed with the second season. It's fine, but the storytelling is just weird. I'm led to believe for several episodes that Ellie's blind revenge mode came outta nowhere. The reason came too late and it didn't really land for me.

Bix won't even know how consequential her decision was. It was the right decision and it couldn't have been any other way. What a great show. Andor + Rogue One is my favorite star wars story, and it's not even close. They totally nailed it.

You're telling me the brain worm guy took his family swimming in a sewer water creek? After the first brain worm?

Having never cared about Catholicism or religion in general, I didn't expect to be so eager to learn about who would replace Pope Francis. I don't get to pick world/religious leaders, so I just have to hope we get more like Francis and fewer like Trump. Leo seems like a step in the right direction.

Rogue One + Andor is the best of Star Wars. Nothing else comes close for me. The S2 finale of Andor isn't even out yet but I know it'll be great.

I've been in Diamond in Overwatch for forever and I finally started ranking up again. I hit top 500 yesterday and now I'm literally in a game with Jay3 😭

Trusting headlines and not reading the article is just as stupid as dangerous as trusting what an AI chatbot tells you. If you have a problem with one, you have a problem with the other.

The DOGE stuff is a good reminder that science/legal/financial data living on hard drives is only safe if it's on your hard drives. Get a NAS and download all your important documents. You can't count on the government or some company to keep your info safe forever on their own servers.

Birds and plants

Here's a timelapse I took of a leaf growing over about 5 days! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBP...

The reality of sex and gender is complicated. It calls for nuanced examination and thought. The public sphere is terribly bad at this. Add in the close ties between gender and people's self-image, and the issue is ripe for demagoguery. Or you could just be kind to people different from you.

Once again wishing I was born 1000 years from now. The internet is taking its baby steps, and it's beautiful and you can see the potential, but it's just continuously faceplanting with global and long term consequences.

Even if tariffs have the effect the morons believe will eventually happen, the complete disregard for the immediate impacts should push voters to prevent them from reaching public office ever again. Republicans have no issue playing with people's lives as means to an end, it's sickening.

Do media junkets really work? I love Severance and the cast is wonderful, but they don't want to sit for a hundred interviews and I don't enjoy wanting them suffer through it. Isn't it enough to just let the artists make great art and then leave them alone?

Enough internet. Time to cheer myself up by writing about how dark energy will eventually destroy the universe.

There's a lot of really stupid people in this world

@bsky.app CEO @jay.bsky.team details how the platform utilizes open networks to allow users to craft their own social media experience while maintaining their personal privacy.

Since this is probably about to be relevant: a reminder that when you poll the general public, they estimate NASA to be between 10-30% of the federal budget. It's less than 1%. All that amazing science and technology and wonder is got for less than a penny on the dollar of your taxes.

Omggg nyt 💀

Your outie knows not to use $ in markdown code blocks.

Ludovico I am your biggest fan. youtu.be/aKxuuEnutSY

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

The hope is that my insurance company will pay me back once it starts working again, but if they don't, I will be in a pretty bad situation. I'm keeping the GoFundMe up for now in case that happens, but in the meantime I am eagerly and nervously preparing for my bottom surgery on January 22nd! 💜

Hi all, I'm once again asking for help. My insurance company isn't providing me with an insurance plan, even though I'm paying for one. Unless I can pay out-of-pocket, I will lose my surgery date. My life depends on this surgery. Please share this link however you can. Thanks 💜 gofund.me/5fa3785a

I wrote my first blog post! About a mild annoyance with an easy solution. Stop Using '$' in Code Blocks whtwnd.com/alexjs.dev/3...

Please help my friend. Her insurance is being fucking cruel.

thanks to whoever decided to put 500 megabytes worth of lemon emoji as their version string

Sometimes I get a random rush of fear that I forgot to do the homework and it's due in an hour. But I haven't been in school in like 4 years.

If you follow me and I see that you follow >1000 people I'm assuming you're a bot and I'm blocking you.