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"The program should, in some way, expand the concept of what computer paint programs are, as well as what mark making can be."

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Been making a "Programming" are.na https://www.are.na/omar-rizwan/programming-rvjntbotxvk

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Constantly seeing robotics ppl talk about how robot arms are the wrong solution
and you should use a gantry system (like a 3d printer or cc machine) instead 2-2.5 different people have told me this in person + l've seen like 3 different tweets about it
one person was arguing that the use of a robot arm sort of indicates that you haven't rethought your process enough, because you're just
slotting a robot arm in instead of a human

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Omar Rizwan @omar

rebooting your computer because you ran out of address space

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Physical computing idea (this is how I keep thinking I'd use NFC, have a set of many readers / tap points that have specific meanings)

Yu-Gi-Oh playmat, printed 'poster' that you'd put on a table, with colored zones where you'd put different kinds of cards when you play them (Field Card Zone, Monster Card Zone, etc)

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so much of using any tool on the computer is just about struggling to select the object that you want to operate on

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I was worried there was a thermal issue but it turned out it was just running out of memory :-)

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This feels very classic and wholesome somehow :-)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

this is an intense industrial park… SimCity vibe

more zoomed in google map, can see buildings

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https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HWDQQMWSHZF3K0RGHZEBVAJ0

"Small Press Tycoon" page on Inpatient Press site. "The original DIY publishing sim!" Branded very similarly to old-school SimCity or SimEarth or something.

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neither macOS nor Linux feels much like "Unix" when you do non-1970s stuff (graphics, webcam, low-overhead profiling, introspection, some networking, IPC and weird MMU stuff, low-overhead polling/IO/subscriptions)

but Linux at least tries with /proc and /dev/videoX and new file descriptors like userfaultfd and pidfd and so on (and fork(2) still kinda works). macOS really makes no attempt to be Unix-like in comparison https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HWGZM1ACNS48HEQMFBCW0VAY

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