Ooh, did you do a blog article about it perhaps? I think I read it, if so.
It's 14 years old at this point, but here you go: https://www.ohthehugemanatee.net/2011/07/gpgl-reference-cour...
Readit Newsmankyd commented on So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? lostpixels.io/writings/th... · Posted by u/cosiiine
mankyd commented on So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork? lostpixels.io/writings/th... · Posted by u/cosiiine
Yes. But no geek should be getting a Cricut when the Silhouette machines exist and are not so locked down and cloud encumbered.
ETA: I guess a true maths geek nerd artist would probably want something more modular and larger anyway, but the Silhouette machines are varied, interesting, support a pretty well documented protocol (GPGL, a variant of/alternative to HPGL I think) and are supported in Inkscape and Python.
Seconded. My Silhouette is great. I even emailed them and received a copy of the GPGL docs one time. It wasn't full on support, but they were willing to give me a start.
The first thing I programmed was having it draw a hilbert curve and it worked great!
mankyd commented on Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud's response to the GCP outage redpanda.com/blog/gcp-out... · Posted by u/eatonphil
“We got lucky as the way we designed it happened not to use the part of the service that was degraded”
this is a stupid statement from them, hope they will be prepared next time
Why is that stupid? They did get lucky. They are acknowledging that, had they used that, they would have had problems. And now they will work to be more prepared.
Acknowledging that one still has risks and that luck plays a factor is important.
mankyd commented on TorrentFreak is wrong about Google DNS notification write.as/bortzmeyer/no-to... · Posted by u/Harvesterify
There's a box labelled "Submit a correction or tip" at the bottom of the original article. Filling that in might have been better time spent than writing a blog post.
Who's to say they didn't?
Writing a follow up post is certainly valuable for raising awareness to anyone who had already read the original erroneous article.
mankyd commented on The April Fools joke that might have got me fired oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye
Original creator of boardgame.io here. A pleasant surprise to see this here after many years.
More recently, I've been working on https://boardgamelab.app/, which uses a visual programming language to model game rules while also taking care of the UI layer.
I feel like saying that is supports AI players, but not having a simple, already hosted example is a disservice. Even tic tac toe, or go fish would be a nice hook to help people understand what it actually delivers.
mankyd commented on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiao... · Posted by u/coherence73
Is there a list I could consult to find such companies?
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/
It's worth clicking through and reading details on each one before you commit. Most of them are quite complete, but some only support a handful of devices or features. You can also get a sense if the control is local (i.e. no internet connection) or cloud based.
But have you driven in Boston?
Nah. I live in Boston. I strongly prefer public transit, but I'll take driving here over most other cities, any day of the week.
The _road layout_ is awful, but drivers are pretty cooperative on the whole. Certainly more than my years driving in DC, for instance.
Granted, you need to be commmital here: if you put on your turn signal, drivers will generally make space for you to get in - briefly - but you need to be quick to take advantage of the gap. I could see Waymo being too slow to the draw for this, based on what I've seen online.
mankyd commented on Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023) researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/seanhunter
Easy way to get a fair result from an unfair coin toss: Flip the coin twice in a row, in this case starting with the same side facing up both times, so it's equally unfair for both tosses. If you get heads-heads or tails-tails, discard and start over until you get either heads-tails or tails-heads, which have equal probabilities (so you can say something like HT = "heads" and TH = "tails").
This works even if the coin lands heads 99% of the time, as long as it's consistent (but you'll probably have to flip a bunch of times in that case).
Importantly - you don't have to know the odds of the coin ahead of time, or which side is more likely. You only need to know that it is consistent.
The problem is rarely the ability to understand. It is the ability (or desire) to listen that many lack.