Notices by Andrew (andrewt@mathstodon.xyz)

from https://www.tumblr.com/nex3/771522130582044672

@foone my keyboard added a kind of firmware version of this recently and it was immediately banned by all the competitive gaming communities 🙃

today in "ill-advisedly hard videogame prototypes", i proudly (not that proudly) present "what if there was a game like dr mario and tetris being played at the same time and the blocks you clear in one fall in the other" (working title)

i've been testing this with one player because that's as many players as are currently in my flat but i strongly suspect it works better as a two-player game. might have to add a button to switch games to it since it's just too frantic controlling both at once at the moment

play at https://www.andrewt.net/stuff/unlisted/twintris.html

huh, my money was on starmer

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/15/earthworm-crowned-uk-invertebrate-of-the-year-by-guardian-readers

Nasa are currently working to fix a computer error aboard Voyager 1. The probe's computer system runs at around 8000 instructions per second and has about 68kB of memory. Due to the interplanetary distances involved, even at light speed it takes 45 hours to send a signal and get a response. When asked about the unique challenges this poses, an engineer said "that's actually about average for a modern CI system".

Whenever someone tells me their name, I enter my Memory Palace, stand around for a bit, and then say "what did I come in here for?"

Every YouTube video is either "all of science and the entire history of the world explained (5:41)" or "how player two's controller inputs are processed on level six of this japan-only game boy advance game that was only available free with a particular brand of cereal for two weeks in one store (2:37:21)"

apparently i passed a phishing awareness test last week by correctly ignoring a fake linkedin email

nobody tell my boss that i ignored it entirely on the assumption that it was a real linkedin email