David Foster

What we've been working on. A while in the making! The @GreatApeGames team absolutely smashed it with this trailer! 🙌

@Novoicetoday1 @pitdesi Brother your legs are 6'3"? How tall are you? 😮

@pitdesi Will my 6’3 legs just hang out in the aisile?

United is going to let you buy 3 seats and covert it to a bed. Such a no-brainer product for airlines to add on long-hauls, particularly great for families.

@Joe011926930161 @TheOGPurist With six clients he couldn’t hit 80%. 66.667%, yep (⅔)… 83.333%, yep (⅚)… but he could only do 80% if he slept with four clients and then ⅘ of the fifth. That raises several anatomical questions, as well as ethical questions about the differential level of service rendered.

@TheOGPurist Then you find out he only has 6 clients

I had a conversation with a personal trainer at the gym today and that nigga told me he fucks 80% of his female clients 😭😭

@realimjustkey Let's go brother! 37 year old over here aiming to get back into skateboarding and I know just how good this feels. Happy for you bro.

I turned 36 and decided I wanted to learn how to skateboard. Here’s me landing a shuv-it for the first time.

@lachancenaomi27 Have the courage to make per-case judgements about how many times you should rewear socks. Why be so unreflective that you outsource your decision making to society in search of heuristics like “only once per day”? Sometimes three or four wears is fine, even optimal.

I learned on tiktok that people re wear socks like three times

@sean_a_mcclure I immediately imagined someone pointing to a distant sign and shouting to them both to read it. One can read it because they’re closer to the distant sign. Not being deliberately pedantic here! The question doesn’t state that they’re equidistant from the sign.

Imagine 2 people with the *exact same* blurry vision. They are both told to look at a distant sign, and read it. They cannot use any techniques (squint to increase depth of field, move their head slightly, etc.) One can read it, the other cannot. How? If you get how, you also get how 2 different people with the same cognitive ability can receive very different scores on an IQ test.

On death of a loved one: if you’re lucky, it will illuminate how truly considerate people can be. It can bring people together in pursuit of reducing shared suffering by even the tiniest degree. It encourages us all to cultivate and cherish human connections in the here and now.

@CarolBoitumelo1 I just lost my Ma too. It hurts. Nothing can prepare you for this. I send you my love, condolences, and camaraderie. 💔

I just lost my mom. Heartbroken, My world feels like it just fell apart. 🕊️ 💔

@Anthony_Etherin Many, I imagine, are liking, bookmarking, or retweeting purely on the strength of the poem alone, without recognition of the intense constraints that shaped its creation. That is the clearest endorsement of its import IMO. Honestly, this is a serious achievement.

SOLEMN (Palindrome) I sat, solemn. I saw time open one poem. It was in me, lost as I.

@Anthony_Etherin This is extremely impressive.

@soychotic Early return on the same line as the conditional is the only acceptable exception. Otherwise, hard agree.

Just add the fucking bracket s .i don’t care if it’s a single statement after the if just add the fucking brackets

@Danfudge @EdwardBrode Brother if you’re pushing the boat out on Tesco’s finest bacon, grab some Kerrygold while you’re at it! That said, I’ll give this a go. I don’t hate this rogue opinion.

@EdwardBrode I went with lurpak

Rogue opinion - Bacon Sandwiches are better with no sauce at all It ruins the taste of the bacon… bit of S&P and you’re golden

@6E6F206F6E65 @nntaleb Tell me your war stories. I must know!

@DavidFoster @nntaleb I strongly advise against going down the Olive Oil rabbit hole.

I redid my CV and listed "butter" as interest. Hope it works this time.

@algikarpooja @dostoevesque Articulation metabolises pain, but it also whets our appetite for it. Only living with immediacy, indifferent to pain, grants sufficient distance for acceptance of it. Pain will remain.

@dostoevesque wrong. articulating your pain diverts your attention from noticing other pain

We have become too articulate about our suffering & too inarticulate about our strength. The more elegantly we describe our wounds, the harder it becomes to leave them behind. When a struggle becomes part of your identity, overcoming it feels like a betrayal of who you are.

@G_S_Bhogal The Serenity Prayer should start with a plea for the courage and wisdom to accept that the things you can change is you, and that’s pretty much all of it.

Also the most uplifting part, because you realize the problem can be fixed.

@G_S_Bhogal What’s your take on how this applies to people whose first and most central perspective of the world is one of unopinionated curiosity?

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

@EskilSteenberg @rfleury Ooh this is fun! I think you’re over-indexing on egress (which we can cost model) and underplaying the cost of keeping years of historical builds instantly available. I can play a build from 2018 in ~2 mins. I may be at GDC this year! If so I’ll trade you a beer for your maths!

@DavidFoster @rfleury Going to GDC? You can look up the PC game market size, make educated guess about Steams share. Cloudflare can give you a rough idea of Content delivery costs. Steam user numbers are known. Valve headcount is known. You can work out a rough estimate.

If Valve’s 30% transaction fee is so outrageous (it’s not), then others can simply provide alternatives and charge less. If players still don’t want those alternatives, it’s for a reason: the higher prices they see are worthwhile for the various services involved. So, the alternatives need to also compete on quality. That isn’t an “unlawful monopoly”, that is a competitive service provided at an acceptable rate for developers and players alike. A competitor can undercut that price, but they have to actually do a good job providing an alternative. It is completely absurd to involve the government to punish Valve.

@EskilSteenberg @rfleury I’d love to sit down with you, with a couple of beers and a napkin and run through this math. I’m not saying it’s wrong, I’m saying it seems wrong and I’m not prepared to accept it unless I play with the numbers myself. Like, how did you even form a basis for cost per byte?

@DavidFoster @rfleury The fact that they can do that means that the marginal cost of running the servers is tiny. I did the math some time ago and if every Steam user downloaded a terabyte every year it would cost ~10M. Thats coverd by a single 70$ game selling 500k on steam.

@gdechichi @ThePrimeagen Well said Gabriel. I loved that vid from Prime and it’s a good thing for the world to see just what we’re capable of if we collectively make sensible engineering decisions.

@ThePrimeagen thank you for being a popular content creator who is actually a good influence on your audience. awareness of this stuff makes a difference. when programmers learn how good things *could* be, it opens the path for things to actually improve.

@rfleury @EskilSteenberg I’ve been uploading terabytes to Steam servers over the course of several years and people all over the world download to play/test our game. This is happening before we’ve sold a single unit and Steam have no way to know if we’ll even ship. This infra is golden (and expensive).

@EskilSteenberg It’s not. Steam offers way more than the cartridges did, and it requires way more infrastructure.