Pete West

@nush_foods Hi, I’m really disappointed with the high protein recipe change. I loved Nush because of it was delicious, dairy-free, and low sugar. The new recipe doesn’t have great flavour or texture. I hope you can bring back the original recipe.

@veggiepret just found out the Oxford branch has stopped serving vegan almond crossiants 😭. Please tell me they’re coming back!

@benjaminbenben @mattpocockuk @JSOxford @DigitalOxford @ninjanails Hi! Yes we’re currently figuring out how to get it going again. Would welcome any help!

@mattpocockuk @JSOxford Do it! Some folks are talking on the @DigitalOxford/#jsoxford slack about running an event, think they've found a venue (cc @ninjanails @peterjwest). Over the years there's been some reboots of @JSOxford, though maybe it's time to start something new?

My city, Oxford, doesn't have a JS meetup. There was @JSOxford that I went to a few years ago (and was great!) but closed down. Would love to change this. Who here's based in Oxfordshire?

Well, I think Twitter has to go. I can’t deal with it anymore, byes

@varjmes I’ve also just started trying to learn! Bounced off the book last year, had some luck doing small kata exercises. I’ve also been learning bits of C++ alongside it to try to understand the why of the language design

@BaronVonLeskis @AliceICecile I found an informative article on this web.mit.edu/rust-lang_v1.2…. Seems like rust is happy if it can allocate recursive structures on the heap in chunks

@AliceICecile HEAVY emphasis on "eventually", but yes, will do!

We should absolutely teach this explicitly. (Me, going to Google rust type system so I can teach myself explicitly)

@Compel_Bast @jokesarepuny @AdamLanceGarcia As far as I know that is exactly what happened

@edent “Computers don’t make mistakes” feels like a statement I could have a 2 hour debate in a pub about

Worth pointing out things like this when people start talking about putting information into a write-only data structure. Computers don't make mistakes - but they can report incorrect information which needs to be corrected.

@edent Windows is worse, often misses a few characters even when fully awake

3) If your screen is locked and blank, and you start typing "Passw0rd99!" the password box only registers "assw0rd99!" Because the first letter is used to wake the screen up. No idea about WIndows, but Linux assumes that you wanted to - you know - use your password.

Trying to use a Mac again properly. It's just so comically bad! A short (though no doubt growing) thread of basic things that Macs can't do. (And, no, I won't be installing random apps to fix Apple's shortcomings.)

@thepandalion I turn off head bob and motion blur, some games are still really bad for it - The Witness gave me terrible motion sickness

@ninjanails I’m literally sunbathing in a mask to avoid the pollen 😂

Covid, Hayfever and a heatwave. Oh boy today is going to be fun 😂😅

@edent In that case what do you think “underheard” would mean? 🤔

This is my first time seeing the word "overstand" - and I immediately got it. What a fabulous thing language is! Oh, and the Urban Dictionary definition is excellent - urbandictionary.com/define.php?ter…

@ottojokes @OhNoItsMonroe Really lovely pixel art, I love the unusual angle! The buildings and terrain feel almost like it’s rendered in 3D

@OhNoItsMonroe Congrats on your demo it looks amazing! 👏

The BURROWBURROW DEMO is NOW UP and PLAYABLE for the STEAM NEXT FEST! I've been working on this game so long it's surreal running it from the steam launcher will all the gameplay and everything finally together, you should try it out! #gamedev #godotengine #SteamNextFest

@ButNotTheCity These systems are tantalising because it feels like we’re close to a real artificial sentient life form, but they’re just parlour tricks. In terms of actually simulating a real being we’re at about the complexity of a mouse

@ButNotTheCity It is a troubling thought, we seem to be gleefully marching towards reinventing slavery in a way which is completely unaccountable or preventable. Thankfully I think we’re a way off. In this case this is an AI trained to “act human”

@ButNotTheCity It’s no surprise that it claims to be sentient, as any human would. These systems are designed and trained to appear believable, but there’s really not much “thinking” going on.

@thepandalion I bought this! Will probably never read it but it makes me feel more managery just owning it

@Marcus_Noble_ Nope. I think I did something weird though. I paid off the last bit and maybe cancelled the direct debit, but then there was extra interest so I had to call them anyway

@Marcus_Noble_ Hi 👋

@scottedelman That’s fair

@peterjwest While possible, I know that if I were behaving that way in the midst of a pandemic which has killed 1,000,000+ people in the U.S., I'd have said something to assure those around me that's all it was. I've seen people do it. "Don't worry, folks, etc." We would have been owed that.

Suggested con etiquette: If you're in an audience, and find yourself coughing uncontrollably and blowing your nose endlessly, feeling the need to remove your mask so many times I lost track, causing other audience members to move away ... perhaps you should withdraw to your room.