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@TiggerTherese @Pushk1n9 @hzeffman Seems unnecessarily agressive! Just having a conversation 😊

First London mayoral results in - Merton and Wandsworth Khan 48.3% Hall 28.6% 5.1% swing from Conservative to Labour since last time

@smithamundasad Really fascinating and surprisingly amusing, thank you!

It was an absolute privilege, an honour, to be allowed to tell Niall McCann’s story. In 2016 he smashed into a mountain at 50mph. Remarkably he survived. He talks frankly - & with surprising humour - about his recovery & lasting bowel & bladder injuries bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

@natashaloder @willnorman @googlemaps @TfL @Google This doesn’t help with Google Maps but @Citymapper which uses @cyclestreets for routing will suggest Barnes Bridge. As far as I can tell google will never(?) tell you to take routes on a bike that require you to dismount - but Cycle Streets is quite happy to do this.

@willnorman @googlemaps @TfL @Google Oh oh oh oh. Hello!!!!! 👋👋👋👋. Can you ask Google to change their map so that the Barnes Bridge is included in cycle routings? Otherwise all cycle routes near us get routed over Chiswick Bridge or Hammersmith. Thanks!

We’ve been working with @GoogleMaps to improve digital navigation for London cyclists. The new approach will better prioritise cycle routes & quieter safer roads. The success of the @tfl @Google collaboration will benefit millions of cyclists globally. tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/transport…

@drmrbxdev @sleitnick “The C Programming Language”, I believe: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Pro…

A beautiful day to learn more C

@DrDomPimenta @tortus_AI We use scrum in a different environment and generally have found that backlogs that contain “everything you ever want to do” to be counter productive as they either stop you being agile or take a lot of maintenance. We tend to keep just a sprint or so if stories on it, if that.

Every two weeks @tortus_AI the company takes a breather and I have a little think - this week's blog is about execution: On Process... drdompimenta.wordpress.com/2023/07/23/on-…

@CarpeDiemJan @SimonOntheverge This paper says that Darwin dismissed it as being important for pollination, but that this was immediately controversial. That theory seems to come from a study in the 80s: dacemirror.sci-hub.se/journal-articl…

@SimonOntheverge I had heard that the best theory is still from Charles Darwin, who thought the central red flower mimicked a fly which encouraged other insects to land there too.

Investigating insects on Wild Carrot I found myself looking more closely at the red central flower, wondering why? 🤔

@Stuartq @mattgreencomedy Yes, “car must slow down now acceleration is reduced” is a more accurate metaphor but also most people would believe that to be the case in the same way The Express are misunderstanding inflation.

@mattgreencomedy It's late, but I reckon you were right first time with speed, not acceleration. Speed is the rate that you move forward, just as inflation is the rate in which prices move forward. Acceleration sounds like it's the better fit, but for a car going backwards, speeds fits better.

Car MUST go backwards now its speed has reduced!

STOP PRESS! I promise that as MP for Uxbridge & South Ruislip I WILL move the hand dryer in the gents’ urinals at the Crown & Treaty to a more sensible position. TO PROVE IT, I have just signed a treaty with the Crown & Treaty, that if I win they will move it. I keep my promises!

@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon Here’s an attempt to get it to add dialogue and improve it - I don’t think it really works, but it shows what it can do. Obviously you could keep guiding it further. chat.openai.com/share/dad29850…

@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon It can do dialogue - and it is superficially fine, but it’ll still be quite flat. I think it’ll improve - ChatGPT is designed to be quite neutral - it plays it safe with its answers, often fence sitting or avoiding controversy which I think it partly what leads to blandness.

@lithgaelark @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon It is - there’s sparks of something interesting but it always lacks any depth and feels unsatisfying. It’s good for coming up with ideas, you could imagine using aspects as a starting point for a better written story. It struggles with humour in general.

@edlyons @DavidGauke @InsideCroydon How fascinating. This is the first piece I've seen (knowingly) written by ChatGPT. It's curious, flat.

@oneofmoo Thinking about it, it’s probably group discussions that are actually most effective at keeping the games somewhat coherent and fighting the urge to chase shiny things too much! Normally someone will pull it back on track or remember the reasoning.

@oneofmoo Our documents tend to last as long as the feature takes to implement the first pass of - so normally days/weeks. So the game does sometimes change a bit afterwards. But we don’t normally try to go back and update them and we’ll often make “version 2” documents.

Oh no. I'm having dangerous game design thoughts again. Fighting it as best as I can by going through old notes to figure out why I changed it in the first place so I don't just end up going in circles.

@oneofmoo We write short-lived documents on confluence and try to keep goals and reasoning within the documents rather than just decisions. I find mini “pillars” for features quite helpful to guide the feature and help justify decisions.

I guess constructively, do any game designers have a good system of logging key design decisions and why they were made? I did a text search and eventually found it, but could have just as easily never found it and I can't remember anything these days.

@garius Our cat obsessively leaps on top of the feeder and quickly turns around to check if food has fallen out. It’s basically the same as bashing a vending machine - but more effective!

One of the unexpected advantages of getting up at 4am (I'm still mentally on Aussie time) has been witnessing Napoleon's interactions with his auto-feeder in my office. Kitty's worked out that if he punches it hard, just before it's due to go off, it releases his food early. 😆

@tompeck Only appears to be affecting Europe including Scandinavia. The Americas, Africa and Asia are fine.

@tompeck Something wrong at MeteoGroup who provide the BBC’s forecast as their own WeatherPro app is showing the same thing.