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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 3d

Some of it comes down to trust in and appreciation of yourself — of course there's nothing wrong with wanting to belong but defining yourself by your standing in other groups is almost never going to end well. First and foremost satisfy yourself.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 4d

You are _you_, and I — and many of us — find that a fine thing indeed. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be a better person, but don't sell the you of today short.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 5d

So I may have just been out of the loop on this, but Nintendo released a wheelchair basketball game for Switch 2 using dual-mice controls and, I dunno, it just seems like a cool thing that more people should be aware of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUj...

Drag x Drive – Out now! (Nintendo Switch 2)

YouTube video by Nintendo UK

www.youtube.com

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 5d

The trakball on the older Atari games (the one I'm most familiar with is Atari Football) is prrrretty damn huge, yeah...

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 6d

Oh god it's bringing all the boys to the yard run for your lives!

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 8d

Cool cool! I realized a much cleaner way of doing what I need to in OpenSCAD so I'm probably going down that path but it's always good to know about more libraries! Thank you much.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 9d

Doggo and pony show?

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 9d

Something like that's certainly along the lines of what I'm trying to do, yes! I presume that's Python? What sort of output is available there?

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 9d

I can't just uniformly shrink the figure because that won't leave it properly 'grid-aligned' on the full size grid. Instead I'm basically shaving an epsilon off of every edge of the final shape.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 9d

You might have missed the initial chunk of stream — unfortunately this doesn't work for me for subtle reasons. I could assemble purely regular hexagons like these easily enough, but that won't leave tolerance for printed polyhexes to fit together right. (cont)

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 10d

Going live momentarily here!

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 10d

More programming streaming tonight. It's going to be a bit of a change of pace today: I've got some shapes that need building out, so it's time to dive back into OpenSCAD for some parametric polyhedra! Tune in at 7:30 PDT at twitch.tv/shaterri to watch me try and relearn this odd little language.

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 10d

I remember seeing Star Wars a half-dozen times in theaters in '77. Aiiiiii.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 12d

My Furrymuck account has a kid in high school.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 17d

No streaming for me tonight — getting a few more things set up. But I'm hoping to resume code streams next Monday!

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 18d

I feel this 100%. There were nice things in the moment but I feel like I did so much less than I could/should have. You are doing good things and I wouldn't sell the value of the relaxation short.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 18d

Happy (belated, it was Saturday) International Red Panda Day! And just remember: all for wah, wah for all...

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 18d

Big? Really?

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 18d

I missed the celebration but apparently yesterday was International Red Panda day!

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 19d

My reward for clearing out several stands' worth of weeds was some revenge blackberries. I'll take it.

shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 20d

Hey personal lazyweb: does anyone have experience debugging C++ on MacOS? I've been able to build but I'm hitting an apparently well-known bug where LLDB chews up _all_ the memory as soon as you try to display variables. I presume that it's _possible_ to do C++ on Macs but I've had no luck...

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 20d

I mean, it is NOW...

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 21d

Also on the non-Ghibli front, if you haven't seen _Wolf Children_ (or just about any of Hosoda's films) I can heartily recommend.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 22d

One of the few things worse than having a bad day is having a bad day when your friends are all having their own bad days. :/ May tomorrow be better for all of us.

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shaterri.bsky.social @shaterri.bsky.social · 22d

That weariness is so very understandable. You are good people but you are still a people, and there is so much weight in the world right now. Any time you need a shoulder I am happy to provide.

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