When these went viral in 2022 I read the research paper and found out that not only do they form a non-repeating pattern, but that non-repeating pattern relies on the occasional tile being reversed. That inspired me to 3D print a bunch of these that were a different color on each side and try assembling them. It’s very interesting, because you have a lot of options for how to put them together, but occasionally you’ll hit a point where the pattern itself forces you to put one in upside down, even though it’s non-repeating. Also, it’s possible to put it together “wrong” where at one edge you can’t add any more tiles in either orientation and have to disassemble part of it to continue. Very interesting to mess with.

Please don’t give them any ideas

I don’t care whether it’s interesting theoretically, it’s interesting to me!

If you follow through with that one, pictures are definitely in order

If you try searching for “smartphone augmented reality headset” on AliExpress you might still be able to find the thing I was using. It’s been a few years since I did this. For its stated purpose the product is a rip-off since it’s just overlaying a screen over your vision rather than creating an actual augmented reality effect, but I bought it specifically to do the thing I described and it worked great for that. That said, it was kind of cumbersome to set up and not exactly comfortable to wear for a long period of time, so not sure how practical I’d say it really is. That said, it did work great for being able to see the screen outside. Much better than the laptop’s own screen.

No, it was literally mounted to my face in front of my eyes, reflecting/magnifying the smartphone screen which was on my forehead, pointing down.

One time I brought my work laptop out to the park and connected to it through VNC via a smartphone in a cheap “augmented reality” head mounted concave mirror contraption that made it look like a large monitor. Worked surprisingly well, and the stares I got while working were hilarious.

Pretty certain this is not a real ad from the '70s. Reddy Kilowatt was a mascot created to promote electric power in the 1920s. Different versions of this image have been circulating on the internet for several years.

Nice, I’ll have to remember that GitHub trick. The main thing I’ve found lacking so far is config examples.

NixOS home server, gaming PC will soon move to Bazzite from Windows 10 (whenever I’m done working on my home server). I’m trying Bazzite for that machine because I use it more like a game console hooked up to the TV and don’t need the same level of tweaking and customization.

I’d say that if you’re an experienced developer, the learning curve is probably overstated, at least based on my limited experience. I’m still a relatively new user, but I’m feeling pretty comfortable with it so far.

A whole fighting game of regular people fighting at regular street locations might be pretty good. We could call it Street Fighter… no, wait

It was replaced by /rust/linuxdadjokes

These ads really sold me on the concept of wide cars as a kid. Just look at it, it’s so wide.

Sometimes the supports themselves just look so cool

where funny

I worked at Pfizer for 17 years.

We didn’t discover drugs - we discovered markets.

If a drug cured asthma in 3 days - we’d kill it.

Chronic disease.

is where the money is.

Cures are bad for business.

It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere