One of the things I love about discovering old #webcomics that are still running it seeing how the art changed and improved over the years. It's fascinating.
One of the things I hate about discovering old webcomics that are still running is that there are only 24 hours in a day and catching up takes a lot of time.
I just realized that all perfect squares mod 9 can only be 0, 1, 4, 7, but I can't find an easier proof than by exhaustion (square all numbers 0 to 8, mod 9). Is there a more elegant proof of this?
mod 11 has a wider choice (0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 9), but I wonder how good of a “perfect square detector” they can be together. Of course if either proof (by 9s and by 11s) fails, it's not a perfect square, but how many “not perfect square” are perfect squares both mod 9 and mod 11?
#Mastodon's inability to properly thread through absent messages (e.g. deleted, or not federated because of privacy configurations) is rather obnoxious.
@oblomov it tries to fetch & represent previous context as much as possibile from public sources.
Which is something mastodon standard web ui don't do, unless you go to read the thread from original source instance.
If a middle post is deleted or not public, there's not much we can do.
@luca and that's the problem. But AP has a Tombstone object that represents deleted messages, and this could be used for example to keep threading information (only)
Ma c'è una ragione etimologica per tutta la #toponomastica in -ate in quel di #Milano o è solo uno di quegli scherzi di lungo corso apposta per fare battute sulle moschee di Sucate e la fermata a Vergate sul Membro?
@oblomov Probably a lot less special than we think, given they would see these things more than we do more often from a lack of light pollution. Most of Europe is North enough to see these on the regular anyway.
The real question is, imagine showing modern city dwellers a proper night sky.
@PatrickoftheG I know the answer to that second question (been there, done that). For my question I was obviously thinking about people from latitudes for which this kind of events were uncommon, like central or southern Europe. Here in Italy the lights this time have been seen as far as Tuscany or even Rome. Not exactly a common occurrence.
I'm going to violate all #webdev principles and instead of implementing a proper form I'm going to implement options in #FingerMaze through a little bit of JS that changes the links to “new game” and “permalink to the current one”.
#StackOverflow mods pretending they don't know why people are removing/defacing their answers are the most pathetic lifeform on the Internet right now.
From the admin console Journa.host looks like a known instance to sociale.network, with a working federation. I got the error in the screenshot when trying to follow @w7voa from the web but I can do the follow searching the account on the search bar.
I've started playing around with the localStorage API in #FingerMaze. Now it will remember the last maze you played and automatically open the menu to allow you to start a new one when you reach the end.
I guess the next step would be to make an UI to allow users to configure options like the number of columns and rows, explorer mode and “warp” support without having to muck around with query parameters by hand.