Martin Grider

For some reason I feel like it used to auto-pause, but lately I've noticed a few times when I had music running and didn't expect it to be. Maybe it never did, and I'm always good about doing it myself... but that seems unlikely. Anyway, I'm less sure about this.

A screenshot of the macOS menu bar with the AutoMute menu showing.

It shows up with options in your menu bar. You can disable it for 1, 6, 12, or 24 hours (or indefinitely). I rarely disable it, and do sometimes forget that I need to turn my volume up after screen lock while I'm away. Small price to pay for no startup chime when macOS auto-updates!

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Nice article! My computer is in my bedroom, so I use an app called AutoMute (apps.apple.com/us/app/autom...) to mute my computer whenever the display turns off. If I understood your workflow correctly, it would eliminate the need for your keyboard shortcut!

This. 100% this and more.

This entire thread should be required reading. We need to stop this.

How did I not know this place exists?!

Vance on Jan. 8: "You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action. That's a federal issue. That guy's protected by absolute immunity."

Vance today: "I didn't say that officers who engaged in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity. That's absurd."

Also interesting:
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-g...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembl...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

My first stop for questions like this (or any new-to-me research topic) is usually Wikipedia, and it definitely doesn’t disappoint here. See the history section in High-Level programming Languages for starters: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-le...

😫…but my @kanare-abstract.bsky.social pre-order…!

The “and finally…” for this article is behind a paywall… just in case you didn’t know.

What is this "after work" you speak of?

IGDATC.org is where it’s at!

Games are structured play! Come play some games (including my chess variants) at the Arcade today at #minnebar19! #minnebar

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...adding to a cube where your tile was the convex one, and subtracting opponent's cubes when your tile was concave. I deliberately didn't settle on how to score the game, since I wanted to play it a bit first. Goals and scoring are the next important step, I think.

Feel free to ask whatever you'd like to know!

This was a simple 4-player "majorities" game. Everyone started with a full set of 13 tiles (minus the 4 we used to seed the board). On your turn, you placed your tile, put a cube on it, and then also added or subtracted cubes from adjacent tiles.

A finished prototype board game played with a set of "Bubble Tiles" (hexagons with circular cuts), many of them covered in player markers for scoring/ownership.

Awesome, thanks for these! First idea playtested this afternoon!

Recently, I spent time thinking about WHY I trust answers from Wikipedia a lot more than I trust answers from AI, and it applies equally well to AI vs. Stack Overflow. The AI answer has only one (unverifiable) source. It is also ephemeral, no down-votes or opportunity for fact checking.

Is there some good reason not to like Obsidian, or do you just not like it?

I'm feeling sick that I voted for Klobuchar.

When can I buy my own Bubble Tiles box?

I want to make games with these! (I was not able to find this for sale anywhere. Opportunity?)

the artist standing in a wheat field in manhattan

"Once seeded, however, the work was far from over. For the next four months as the wheat grew, it was meticulously cared for. This included setting up an irrigation system, weeding, fertilizing, and clearing the plants of “wheat smut,” a type of fungi several grain-bearing crops are susceptible to. Not a single day went by where the wheat field was left unattended, and for the many months it was growing it became a part of the fabric of the city, with even the ships coming towards the Hudson River regularly saluting the field with their horns as they came and went."

"The wheat from Denes Wheatfield – A Confrontation was harvested on August 16, 1982, and everything was used and given a purpose. The harvest bore nearly 1,000 pounds of wheat, which was collected and then taken on tour and exhibited all over the world, with the first stop being at the Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, in the exhibition “International Art Show for the End of World Hunger,” (1987–90). At each stop on the wheat’s journey, Denes offered out packets of the seeds, which she donated, for people to take as a form of solidarity."

"In addition to the traveling wheat, the hay that was left over from the harvest was also donated, but instead locally to the New York City Police Department Mounted Unit to feed their horses. The careful and complete utilization of the wheat crop further emphasized Denes’ aims to confront the status quo; not simply a gesture or performance isolated from the greater world, in its conclusion the wheat field fulfilled its thesis, to actively provide sustenance both literally and metaphorically."

thinking about agnes denes' "wheatfield" today, turns out it's more complicated than I remember... like it took 4 months of constant labor to protect it from plant diseases... and the hay was donated to the NYPD news.artnet.com/art-world/ag...

Fascinating. I assume you mean because it looks like it's going to need some serious maintenance? (Or even to come down, maybe.)

'Infinite monkey theorem' challenged by Australian mathematicians Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as the "infinite monkey theorem".

But... www.bbc.com/news/article...

But also "good" is quite subjective, so I don't mean that question literally as written. You have to ask whether it's worth doing something SPECIFIC, or in some specific way.

If everyone who asks "Should we really be doing this?" convinces just one person not to do a bad thing, then that post was justified, IMO. Of course it's _also_ worth asking "How can we make good things?" That could have also stopped a lot of the BS from getting made in the first place.

How many people bought a copy of Monopoly? Not many game designers talking about that one either. (For good reason!)

Is there a way to follow a starter pack feed without following all its users? (I want to add it like I can a list.) 🤔