jhilden

jhilden, 2 months ago to Futurology

Neat visualization. My closest city is apparently Quelimane in Mozambique!

https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/
#mobility #transport

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

Bakery sign:
”Gateau Baguette”
My brain:
”Bateau Gaguette”

jhilden, 2 months ago to cycling

The Gates belt drive is a fantastic invention, but I sure wish someone would make at least a partial enclosure for it.

Literally the only thing that breaks these is gravel, so would make a lot of sense to at least have the option of, like, just maybe… stopping gravel getting in the drive?
#cycling

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

Summer tires on the cargo bike ✅

jhilden, 2 months ago to photoshop

Learned today about the VSCode integration for Adobe scripting.

It is actually pretty nifty, and better than the sunsetted ExtendScript toolkit that I always found to be fairly terrible.

Still missing Scriptographer though!

#scripting #adobe

https://extendscript.docsforadobe.dev/vscode-debugger/getting-started-with-vscode-debugger.html#getting-started-with-vscode-debugger

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

Again stuff that makes you go 2010s indie album art or 1920s children’s book?

Also, a sad story. Some would have it that people are ”overly sensitive” these days with regard to mental health, and yet, how things were dealt with back then…

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tom-seidmann-freud-hare-tales?

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

Vietnamese ”Bird’s Nest, White Fungus” soft drink, gifted to me by a friend. Contains homeopathic amounts of bird’s nest (1.2mg/l).
Tastes sweet and like… basically the dusty and not necessarily unpleasant smell of an old attic in a wooden house. Not sure what the cloudy chunks are, but I assume them to be the fungus (20.9g/l).
Overall impression 2/5, ok to try once, would not buy.

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

Rip Pitchfork. Almost embarrassed to admit how important the site was to me sometime around 2007–2008 or so.
https://www.theverge.com/24070565/pitchfork-gq-conde-nast-music-industry-change

jhilden, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Concerns in 1994. “The computer may ask too much of its user”.
Image caption:
”These small symbols or icons have come to stay, but how many truly understands and can use this overflowing abundance?
Page from Helsingin Sanomat #interfaces

jhilden, 2 months ago to random

This will be a fun one to return to in 20 years, if there is a ”the New Yorker archive” in 20 years.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/18/among-the-ai-doomsayers

jhilden, 2 months ago to firefox

I've noticed that Youtube basically doesn’t work with #Firefox. Videos won’t start. Some built-in adblock setting?

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Wait what:
”However, limblessness has been suggested (Bjork, 1975) for at least one fossil mammal, the extinct hedgehog Proterix. No complete skeleton is known, so we cannot be certain, but Proterix has very peculiar vertebrae, with lengthened lumbars flanked by lateral plates. Bjork saw resemblances to whales and hypothesized that Proterix may have been fossorial and used a similar mode of locomotion as amphisbaenians (a group of legless lizards).”

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Headline winner this morning
”Interstellar signal linked to aliens was actually just a truck”

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

fanart is just two letters from fart

jhilden, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to climate

On the topic of differences in discourse, here’s a very interesting paper on regional variation in climate change attitudes in Germany.

The authors note, that previously similar research has been done only in the US and that there are many reasons to assume that the findings there may not be widely representative. E.g. the two-party system uniquely collapses topics along the partisan divide.

#climatechange #survey #values
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45930-8

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

The current covid discourse in the US vs. e.g. Europe is a curious thing. Concerning the updated CDC isolation rules, I checked, and several countries are less strict about isolation recommendations. E.g. Denmark, Finland, Italy. Yet I don’t see much debate around that. Arguably these countries have better support for calling in sick. New Zealand (unsurprisingly) remains strict. Also, it doesn’t seem that just-in-case self-testing is done much or expected at least in Finland.

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

First time 9yo told about a meme I had never heard of:
Smurf Cat. There is no substance to it,
apparently it is an image originally created in 2014, now trending on TikTok,
”…almost always paired with the Alan Walker song “The Spectre”, particularly with the lyrics: “We live. We Love. We Lie.””
Aoomer memes…

jhilden, 3 months ago to accessibility

When constructing alt texts with lists, avoid en dashes and slashes, instead use a semicolon or a comma (tested on macOS):

"Käsikirjoitusapuraha; Scriptwriting grant: 3,5 %"
(good, is read with a pause)

"Käsikirjoitusapuraha / Scriptwriting grant: 3,5 %"
(terrible, slash is read out, merged with the following letter "slash S")

NB: you can actually mix English and Finnish, if the reader language is Finnish. It will just result in Rally English :D

#a11y

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Older kid wondering about epicanthic folds, I tell her how they are more common in some populations.

She notes that the classmates that have folds have East Asian roots. I say to look if someone else has them too, since it is not that rare in Finland (both my kids have them, curiously I don’t, and neither does their mother, but her sister has).

Will have to discuss it more with her, because a google search turns up a worrying amount of references to ”normal eyes” and plastic surgery… 😞

jhilden, 3 months ago to blender

#Blender #BlenderGIS question:
Is the DEM loading like really super slow or am I doing something wrong? Trying to load a 12000 x 12000 eight-bit geotiff, have left it running for like 10 min, nothing happens.

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

AOR is a fun eternal definition loop on Wikipedia. Is it Adult-oriented Rock or Album-oriented rock? No-one knows!

But please don’t confuse Album-oriented rock with with Adult-oriented rock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult-oriented_rock

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Crowdsourced algorithm test: hit me up with some music recommendation?
The more unexpected the better.
On the lines of experimental, fourth world, early music, non-western, electronic, contemporary composition… ok literally the Wire mag stuff basically :D

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Cool that Adobe includes the different regional versions of their applications in the Creative Cloud subscription, but they should really do something about the ridiculously unintuitive management. I want to see which versions I have installed WITHOUT switching language settings, damn it.

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

Maggie Nelson: Bluets

jhilden, 3 months ago to random

The Aalto infodesign showcases are pretty neat (Full disclosure: I advised some of the creators) #infodesign

https://infodesign.aalto.fi/projects/