Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Vdeogame code is quite chaotic

#gamedev

One of the world's very strangest volcanoes, and easily one of my favorites is Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These photos of lava are not color enhanced or photoshoped, the lava from Kawah Ijen is just that beautiful electric blue color. The lava is an incredible blue due to an extremely high sulfur content--because sulfur burns blue.

In normal volcanoes, you can sometimes catch the blue tint of volcanic gasses betraying the presence of sulfur coming into contact with oxygen, but at this volcano there is so much sulfur in the lava and air that it appears blue, and spits blue flames.

The crater during non eruptive periods is a sulfur mine, and you can find massive nearly pure sulfur crystals there. The crater lake of Ijen is enormously toxic and the sulfuric gasses in the crater can kill.

*SPOILERS* I just saw Oppenheimer, and I am appalled by the number of historical inaccuracies in it:

1. Oppenheimer only spoke in the third person. In the movie he says "I'm hankering for a ham sandwich, when he should have said "Oppenheimer is hankering for a ham sandwich".

2. Oppenheimer had a severe phobia of chairs. Yet the film confusingly shows Oppenheimer sitting in numerous chairs without screeching or sobbing.

3. Oppenheimer was married to John Wayne, but no mention of this is made.

“Step One: Build Rocket Cycle. Step Two: AWESOME!”

Art by me.

@peterdrake Unity’s project browser uses a custom function called EditorUtility.NaturalCompare() which tries to do “human like” sorting. I’d tell you more but the implementation is on the native side 🙃

Literal sword lesbians.

(Sword given to Maréchal Joseph Joffre, former commander-in-chief of the French military, in 1919; representing friendship between Provence and Catalonia. From le musée de l'Armée in Paris.)

“We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” — Ellen Ullman

No one knows how to cook umber

This kind of brilliantly stupid shit is what I miss from the early days of the internet

Random bit of Microsoft telemetry dropped in this WSJ piece, good to know they’re tracking key presses.