@thomasfuchs @hellomiakoda and the opposite is the hard disk, whose platters are hard contrary to a floppy disk. It always refers to the storage discus, not the containing cartridge. Further, the term diskette did not come into the lexicon until 1973 from IBM, precisely because they were smaller than the floppy disks of 1972. They were not originally called "diskettes" when floppies were introduced.

@thomasfuchs you'd think this would be evident by the term floppy *DISKS*. The square part isn't a disk!

Both #Half-Life and #Portal have some incredible #music, but for my money my favorite track in either has to be "Your Precious #Moon." Both for the thematic reasons, and because the song itself is incredible. What a #game and what an #ending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c624QWR3CXI

@Jason844 Live Free.

That's it. That's the entire title.

@puppygirlhornypost2 @anthropy attention amateur looking to go pro lol

PHOOOOOOOEY PIG! #HOOKEM HORNS!! #ARKANSAS SUCKS!! #cfb

@_L1vY_ @B123 If he was a crayon, his name would be "Hateful beige." Like a racist one-punch man whose powers are completely in reverse, even a breath from a person of color damages him inside on a scale unimaginable.

@mathr this seems like a good starting point, I can see a few papers on how to turn hough transforms into line segments, thanks for the tip.

@ramin_hal9001 that's a library, that's not what I need.

#rasterizing a series of #vectors from #verticies is relatively straight forward in #computer #graphics #programming, but im interested in the opposite. I.e. taking a raster image and extracting a series of vertices from it. I dont want to use a #library to do it, i want to do it by hand programmatically. Anyone got some good #reading material on how i can develop such an #algorithm? Need it for a project i want to do. #Siggraph #compsci #math #geometry #demoscene

@iamsk putting a floppy disk on a CRT monitor 😬

@TomF lol it's always floating point precision, isn't it? The recent Sonic 1,2,3 16:9 remakes ditched the old 16.16 fixed point math of the originals for a floating point vector system for collision, and people suddenly say "it's not accurate" when, in fact, it's *more* accurate, just that the original used a ton of hacks and bugs that created bizarre edge cases.

@carolinacodes yes you should.

My favorite bit in the book that's not in the movie comes at the very end, where Ellie finds that if you take Pi in base-whatever and extrapolate it out to X number of points, you find a perfectly rasterized circle of 0s. Turns out this is actually true, which kind of blows my mind.

I love the #movie #Contact. Growing up, my #dad used to watch recorded copies of #Cosmos from #PBS together. We idolized #CarlSagan. One of my favorite memories is seeing the movie with him on opening day, and both of us being so blown away. Made me #read the #book afterwards, which is also great. It super bums me out that people apparently hate the movie, it's one of my very favorites. That scene where they actually launch the ship at the second site is fucking awesome. IDK what anyone thinks.

@HappyCrow13 @futtta Ya, I agree there's no 100% right way to teach people, but there's definitely a 100% wrong way to teach people lol. This "reading is what you feel like it is" curriculum is so insanely wrong, I honestly think this is why my nephew struggled to read in school (no child left behind also played a *huge* role in stunting his ability to read).

Canonically, #Popeye the Sailor man is a feminist, an animal lover, a pacifist (seriously, lol), jewish, and also has scurvy hence no teeth. There's an episode where he's forced to fight a bull in spain and he basically goes ape shit and is like "I aint killin' no animal!" and he and the bull team up to fuck up the crowd demanding blood. Popeye fucking rules.

@HappyCrow13 @futtta Funnily enough, when I took japanese in college (where I know Kanji from), they taught us with a top's down approach. Dear god I *HATED* it and only passed Japanese thanks to a website called Tae Kim's page. Their "philosophy" was to constantly show students things they hadn't learned or understood yet, so they'd be "familiar" with it before they learned it. it just made learning the language feel slapdash and confusing, like I always had huge gaps in every lesson.

@HappyCrow13 @futtta A lot of this sounds like people who say "people in japan live extra long lives, so I'll only *blah*" which ignores the multitude of factors that goes into something like this. It feels like people heard that Chinese and Japanese use kanji/hanzi, and they're like wicked smart, ergo we need to turn english into a non-phonetic language. Which is... wow, mind bogglingly stupid.

@HappyCrow13 @futtta I also feel like this type of learning is actually a hindrance to people with learning disabilities. In the end, unless you're incredibly lucky, you will always hit a wall at some point, there is always something just outside of your grasp. Tricks and techniques bridge the gap, but only once you pair the with rock-solid fundamentals. I might be biased, I basically can't learn unless it's a bottom's-up approach, but this seems crazy. And full stop, I can read Kanji/hanzi.