FigmentEngine

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Comment · 5 months ago
shame the bishop behind looks a bit flat though ;-)
Comment · 3 years ago
Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far
Comment · 3 years ago
they work in single cells...
Comment · 3 years ago
tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human error
Comment · 3 years ago
671 flips, lol
Comment · 3 years ago
> Absolute privacy still results in tyranny,

what are the examples of this, can't think of any?

Comment · 3 years ago
false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number plate yields metadata about journeys, not the actual conversation.

"i mean people who argue for privacy would never have a problem with barcodes on milk"

Comment · 3 years ago
linux only i am afraid
Comment · 3 years ago
overlapping b and i elements <p>he<b>ll<i>o w</b>or</i>ld</p>

contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case characters become nodes with child nodes expressing what formatting is active, followed by the letter, and then turn of all the active formatting)

Comment · 4 years ago
this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary driver, be that a narrative or analysis of a dataset
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions ontop of that. Like the ship of theseus, replacing parts is possible, but the replacement needs to fit in the gap, and the inertia means even if you replace everything, its always a ship.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Something like games these by Jane McGonigal

https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/

> I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.

> Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)

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