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@mayoff @timonus This is exactly why I used to prefer to start with the header diffs and then dig into the docs.

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Apple added CGPath boolean operations in iOS 16, macOS 13, etc. Awesome! Why was I not informed???

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Documented in the header file, but not in the docset.

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it’s really interesting how all of my friends who have been caught up in the tech industry layoffs this week have fit into one or more of three categories:

- over the age of 40
- something other than a cisgender man
- somehow involved in advocacy for inclusive corporate culture

i’m not surprised, just disappointed. and tired.

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I hate to say “this is me” about a web comic, but this is me

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@NineIsntPrime@tech.lgbt Sold.

@grumpygamer You’ve just described exactly how I ended up a software developer in the first place. 😊

@pauline honestly, given my quirks, … I have absolutely no idea what you’re suggesting. 😇

@pauline I just read Player of Games a few weeks ago; you remember correctly.

I love the notion of a temporary transing, if only because of how many eggs it would crack. That’s the best sort of mess.

sexual advances by a medical professional 

@Fawn@ohai.social 😳 Holy ****. That is NOT okay.

@0xabad1dea I’m good with words and can barely manage arithmetic. In the 15 years that I’ve been coding, my math handicap has rarely been relevant, and has never amounted to more than a bump in the road.

I’m only one data point, but also a happy one. 😄

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@futurebird I’m so happy that we have arrived at a time in history when my natural aversion to phone calls is shared by so many. My extroverted friends call me out of the blue and I’m like I love you but why would you choose violence like this.

@pauline Also, but tangential: every so often, you’ll stumble across a self-identifying transhumanist (often a billionaire, or billionaire-aspiring) who is simultaneously and vocally anti-trans, and you just have to giggle. 🤭

You want a hot swappable brain, but your transport is only ever going to have two legs and an outie?

Now _that’s_ a failure of imagination.🙄

@ajbobo @TheSpaceshipper The boss’ office as a painful, sterile space for a space trucker works beautifully—I think you’re right; we’re supposed to be hurt. 😵‍💫

@pauline I did notice this. I have thought about it. I can’t imagine a culture of extreme body modification finding it nearly as titillating as we do, but then again: kinks will find a way.

Maybe these brothels offer services that are more than just the mere, proximate manifestation of transexuality, and instead transexual eroticism of some subtle flavor that’s culturally imperceivable to us?

What are your thoughts?

@TheSpaceshipper Hello, the most so-ugly-it’s-beautiful spaceship ever. 😍

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Basic models of flocking behavior are controlled by three simple rules: 1) separation: avoid crowding neighbours (short range repulsion); 2) alignment: steer towards average heading of neighbors; 3) cohesion: steer towards average position of neighbors (long range attraction). With these three simple rules, the flock moves in an extremely realistic way.