Garoo

Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.

20 September

On the other hand I’ve found out you can get a liquid-resin 3D printer for $300 so now I want one (even though they’re a pain to use in a completely different way, and the build volume is tiny).

# 2019/09/20 - 19:41 — published on @ff00aa

Haven’t had something come out so cleanly in months. Removing the dual-filament head was definitely the right choice.

# 2019/09/20 - 19:40 — published on @ff00aa

Oops, I guess I never checked the price, and either the popups never bothered to tell me (?!) or I just skipped over it

# 2019/09/20 - 16:01 — published on @ff00aa

Ohhhh that’s why it’s called Notion 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2019/09/20 - 14:26 — published on @ff00aa

Je suis perturbé par l’absence totale de corrélation entre l’indice de pollution annoncé et mon indice de nez qui pique.

# 2019/09/20 - 14:02 — published on @garoo

@Cafeine:

iOS 13.1 sort le 24 finalement, avec iPadOS : rendez-vous service, n’upgradez pas sur iOS 13.0 ce week-end. :D

# 2019/09/20 - 13:31 — original tweet by @Cafeine

This is cute

# 2019/09/20 - 09:20 — published on @ff00aa

19 September

@gaileyfrey:

No one:

Nothing at all:

No threatening input whatsoever:

My brain:

# 2019/09/19 - 19:27 — original tweet by @gaileyfrey

@Colossal:

Stop and smell the flowers: Dick van Duijn captured a squirrel’s floral delight

[thisiscolossal.com]

# 2019/09/19 - 17:56 — original tweet by @Colossal

Je pense que Brita rate une belle opportunité de marché en ne proposant pas de pulvérisateur filtrant pour plantes.

# 2019/09/19 - 15:13 — published on @garoo

That’s one hell of a “Mobile phones are mostly cameras”

# 2019/09/19 - 11:50 — published on @ff00aa

En fait je n’ai peut-être pas besoin de remplir tout l’appartement, mais juste mon champ de vision

# 2019/09/19 - 11:48 — published on @garoo

18 September

J’ai dépensé une petite fortune à Truffaut et l’appartement n’a pratiquement pas l’air plus vert qu’avant. Ca va être long. Ca va coûter cher.

# 2019/09/18 - 22:24 — published on @garoo

@Rainmaker1973:

The white raven that was thought to be a legend but inhabits a coastal segment of British Columbia, Canada. These ravens are not albino, but leucistic, or lacking any of several different types of pigment (not simply melanin) [buff.ly] | [buff.ly]

# 2019/09/18 - 12:36 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

@goawaytony:

Client: We accept the risks of you testing in prod.

Me:

# 2019/09/18 - 12:08 — original tweet by @goawaytony

@chockenberry:

So, besides disabling SIP, is there any way to read/write the contents of ~/Library/Mail for doing a backup?

I get why the operation isn’t permitted, but preventing me from saving important data is a case of the cure being worse than the disease.

# 2019/09/18 - 12:00 — original tweet by @chockenberry

@SylvainGauche:

48 heures de garde à vue pour un homard de carnaval. « Quant au crustacé géant, il est actuellement sous scellés au commissariat de Nantes. Et il finira sans doute par être détruit, devenant malgré lui un symbole de la menace qui plane sur les libertés » [mediapart.fr]

# 2019/09/18 - 10:59 — original tweet by @SylvainGauche

Every time that happens I tell myself I should start a new app again. And then I get stuck on something stupid for a whole afternoon, or have to reboot so that Xcode won’t fail compiling.

# 2019/09/18 - 10:26 — published on @ff00aa

I’m updating a legacy app I don’t care about for iOS 13, and getting something new to work properly, having all of the OS’s bells and whistles suddenly ring in unison with your code, still feels magical.

# 2019/09/18 - 10:25 — published on @ff00aa

C’est tellement okcupid qui aurait dû faire ça #questionnaires

# 2019/09/18 - 00:29 — published on @garoo

The Expanse S3 — 7/10

Still the same mix of really good sci-fi and really schlocky sci-fi, and I guess we couldn’t have one without the other. Yet, even when they try to get the details right, I’m annoyed at how much more realistic all the zero-G stuff (including Belter body shapes) would be if they had done just about anything but live-action.

# 2019/09/18 - 00:06

17 September

It’s possible that I already complained about that last year, but are you seriously telling me that I still have to handle keyboard shown/hidden notifications manually even though I use safe area guides in autolayout?

# 2019/09/17 - 21:43 — published on @garoocomplains

Me: Cmd-X

Me: clicks elsewhere in the same window

Me: Cmd-V

Xcode: BONG

WTF? I’m not even using the beta.

# 2019/09/17 - 15:39 — published on @garoocomplains

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vampire

# 2019/09/17 - 12:27 — published on Tumblr

Someone’s found a positive use for deepfakes

# 2019/09/17 - 12:17 — published on @ff00aa

I don’t understand what this is but I want it

# 2019/09/17 - 12:00 — published on @commandergaroo

@ff00aa:

I still can’t believe that Apple didn’t announce an official controller case for each iPhone at the same time as Apple Arcade. [twitter.com]

# 2019/09/17 - 11:31 — original tweet by @ff00aa

I still can’t believe that Apple didn’t announce an official controller case for each iPhone at the same time as Apple Arcade.

# 2019/09/17 - 11:31 — published on @ff00aa

Just realized I do have an app for which I use the [deviceToken description] trick. Googling for the fix, half the results consist of updating the description parsing trick for the new format 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2019/09/17 - 11:22 — published on @ff00aa

Qu’est-ce que j’aurais aimé avoir été élevé dans l’idée que, quand ma présence dérange les autres, c’est leur faute.

# 2019/09/17 - 01:33 — published on @garoo

Il est une heure et demie un lun-mardi et un groupe d’hétéros beugle des chansons à boire sous mes fenêtres. Pourquoi j’achète des plantes au lieu de partir au fond de la campagne, moi.

# 2019/09/17 - 01:31 — published on @garoo

16 September

You have to perform the old undiscoverable gesture in order to learn the new undiscoverable gesture 🙌

# 2019/09/16 - 20:28 — published on @ff00aa

@kerobinso:

Always nice to have numbers.

Looking at energy, water, etc in manufacturing & disposal, a cotton tote IS better for the environment than an LDPE grocery bag—if you use it at least 7,000 times before throwing it out.

Organic cotton takes more water, so use it 20k times pls

😮😐 [twitter.com]

# 2019/09/16 - 11:47 — original tweet by @kerobinso

@SteveStuWill:

The Dance of a Thousand Hands. Absolutely incredible.

# 2019/09/16 - 11:22 — original tweet by @SteveStuWill

This will just double the work load of Genius Bars forever.

# 2019/09/16 - 11:05 — published on @ff00aa

15 September

Just made my first successful 3D print in months and I’m very happy to confirm that removing the poorly designed dual-filament head was the right move. (Of course I’m less happy that I can’t do dual-filament prints, but better something than nothing.)

# 2019/09/15 - 21:40 — published on @ff00aa

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance — ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve never felt very strongly about the movie, so I do not get the benefit of nostalgia and only see inexpressive puppets acting in front of green screens. And so many grating voices. I already had a hard time with those when it was just a movie, so I’ll skip on the ten-hour version.

# 2019/09/15 - 21:08

What the what

# 2019/09/15 - 19:05 — published on @garoo

@wonderofscience:

Carl Sagan explains how the ancient Greeks knew the Earth was round and calculated its circumference over 2,000 years ago.

# 2019/09/15 - 13:16 — original tweet by @wonderofscience

@RobertMaguire_:

Everything’s terrible, so here’s a birb living his best life (Sound on)

# 2019/09/15 - 13:01 — original tweet by @RobertMaguire_

@Orett_:

J’ai de temps en temps des questions sur “mais comment on fait une piste cyclable dans cette petite rue ???”, la réponse est : on n’en fait pas. Il ne devrait pas y en avoir besoin, une petite rue devrait avoir un trafic appaisé.

Le rat running, c’est quoi ? Explications ⤵️ [twitter.com]

# 2019/09/15 - 12:50 — original tweet by @Orett_

@GeckoTH:

Omg this is brilliant. Never seen so much “personality” from a stick before 😂 (credit to fritend1 on Reddit for this contraption)

# 2019/09/15 - 10:05 — original tweet by @GeckoTH

14 September

Why is there a ‘TV’ app on this third-generation Apple TV if all it’s able to do is show a spinner with the message “Accessing TV” until the screensaver comes on?

# 2019/09/14 - 21:37 — published on @garoocomplains

@LibyaLiberty:

Due to sustained high blood pressure levels, “a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day.”

I am shook. [twitter.com]

# 2019/09/14 - 20:05 — original tweet by @LibyaLiberty

En arrêt devant les lampes d’extérieur solaires trop mignonnes avant de me rappeler que la dernière chose que je veux est d’attirer plus d’insectes à ma fenêtre le soir.

# 2019/09/14 - 18:52 — published on @garoo

Killjoys 5x09 — 5/10

# 2019/09/14 - 15:29

Has anyone got a trick to get an Amazon Locker’s reader to recognize the barcode from an email? I’ve randomly managed it once but can’t discern any rhyme or reason to making it work. This is 2019 and I refuse to input a code like an animal.

# 2019/09/14 - 15:24 — published on @ff00aa

13 September

@Rainmaker1973:

Brumation is similar to hibernation, and involves reptiles’ metabolism slowing down dramatically and going into a lethargic state, in response to very low temperatures. So that’s why alligators have been found in these conditions, surviving winter’s cold [buff.ly]

# 2019/09/13 - 16:16 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

J’écris n’importe comment depuis la canicule, mes neurones de grammaire ont griller 😩

# 2019/09/13 - 15:30 — published on @garoo

@Rainmaker1973:

This is the cross section of a Maersk Triple E-class container ship: this is not the largest ever built up to day, but the view gives an idea of the scale of this kind of ships [buff.ly]

# 2019/09/13 - 10:47 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

@Pinsky:

I recently found out that #AdobeCapture can generate materials from the real world. Mind. Blown. 🤯

# 2019/09/13 - 00:34 — original tweet by @Pinsky

A Short Hike (PC) — 8/10

# 2019/09/13 - 00:19

12 September

Why did I wait so long to buy Projects Cars 2? Between VR and force feedback, I’ve never felt so in control of my car.

(I’ve also never felt like Nordschleife was so bumpy 🤢)

# 2019/09/12 - 22:06 — published on @commandergaroo

Acheter une nouvelle casserole et ne pas être capable de doser correctement ce qu’on cuisine pendant quinze jours 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2019/09/12 - 15:32 — published on @garoo

@Pentadact:

This is ridiculous.

From this Outer Wilds interview by @rotational [rockpapershotgun.com]

# 2019/09/12 - 12:03 — original tweet by @Pentadact

@Furmadamadam:

The brilliantly sinister, end-of-days M2 building by Kengo Kuma in Tokyo from 1991 (I still think his best Building). It was originally a car showroom but is now, more aptly, a funeral home

Photo from the architect’s site

# 2019/09/12 - 10:30 — original tweet by @Furmadamadam

@Furmadamadam:

Shin Takamatsu‘s Pharaoh Dental Clinic in Kyoto from 1984…

This beautiful photo is by David Ewen

# 2019/09/12 - 10:30 — original tweet by @Furmadamadam

@Furmadamadam:

Hiroyuki Wakabayashi‘s Humax Pavilion, Shibuya, Tokyo, 1993

# 2019/09/12 - 10:30 — original tweet by @Furmadamadam

@Furmadamadam:

THREAD: So, most people associate Japanese design with either cute kitsch or zen-like minimalism, but its much more diverse, & 1 of my particular fav periods was the architecture of its 80-90s boom era; wild, strange & incredibly diverse, & unique in world architectural history

# 2019/09/12 - 10:30 — original tweet by @Furmadamadam

“Will I manage to hit ‘Trash’ on this email notification right before the contents load and I have to scroll through half a dozen screenfuls of spam to reach the button?”

# 2019/09/12 - 09:58 — published on @garoocomplains

On the one hand, this is clever; on the other, who’s gonna buy a Vive Cosmos

instead of a Valve Index?

# 2019/09/12 - 09:52 — published on @commandergaroo

I’m not sure why it needed to be pixelated but A Short Hike is extremely adorbs.

# 2019/09/12 - 00:48 — published on @commandergaroo

Big fan of the asymmetry sliders in Dauntless’ character creator. (And that’s it. That tutorial fight was horribly tedious.)

# 2019/09/12 - 00:00 — published on @commandergaroo

11 September

Ca sentait tellement bon dans le Truffaut rempli d’un bout à l’autre de plantes que je sais où je veux vivre maintenant

# 2019/09/11 - 21:42 — published on @garoo

@jsnell:

High on the list of weird Apple keynote brags is changing the font in the camera app. It even made the marketing website!

# 2019/09/11 - 17:38 — original tweet by @jsnell

Joiiin usss. Kiiill usss. Joiiin usss. Kiiill usss. Joiiin usss. Kiiill usss.

# 2019/09/11 - 17:35 — published on @garoo

— Alors ça, c’est un cache-pot, faudra mettre une jardinière dedans.

— Est-ce que vous avez une jardinière à cette taille ?

— Non, pourquoi ?

# 2019/09/11 - 17:15 — published on @garoo

@Carnage4Life:

This is a great example of how AI automates bias. It’s already well known that doctors tend to downplay women’s medical concerns as having an emotional basis.

AI is only as good as the data that trained it. Thus the chatbot simply reflects the gender bias of the typical doctor. [twitter.com]

# 2019/09/11 - 14:33 — original tweet by @Carnage4Life

@OwlsEatMice:

looks at non-podcasting couple “so which one of you does the painstaking research into a widely misunderstood historical event, and which one of you reacts to hearing about it in real time?”

# 2019/09/11 - 13:43 — original tweet by @OwlsEatMice

10 September

I want to get a device with Pencil this fall, and I really like the feel of the iPad Pro, but it’s hard to justify to myself paying 230% the price of an iPad 7 😞

# 2019/09/10 - 21:32 — published on @ff00aa

@KyleOrl:

Apple Arcade is going to have exclusive Rayman, Pac-Man, Shantae, Steven Universe, and Chu Chu Rocket games, plus a new Square Enix RPG. And Apple didn’t even mention any of those when it annoucned the price/date in its biggest PR event of the season…

It’s baffling.

# 2019/09/10 - 21:22 — original tweet by @KyleOrl

The camera bump has camera bumps 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2019/09/10 - 19:50 — published on @ff00aa

I intended to buy a refurbished or used Watch Series 4 this fall, but Apple has added the only thing that could make me reconsider and want a Series 5 — an always-on screen. Not that I’ve ever really minded having to flick my wrist to see the time… but it just feels wrong to buy a Watch now that doesn’t have it.

# 2019/09/10 - 19:40 — published on @ff00aa

Meanwhile I’ve played a little of Mutant Year Zero and it’s a good surprise for a game I’d forgotten existed and got for free. I did not expect high production values and well-thought UX from the game with a duck-man and a pig-man on the thumbnail, and a rather generic title.

# 2019/09/10 - 15:38 — published on @commandergaroo

Petting the bird in Falcon Age VR is really well done but everything else is pretty rough. Teleport orientation is screwed up, my baton keeps holstering in middle of combat, and the universe feels as bare as can be expected of what started as a PSVR game 😕

# 2019/09/10 - 15:07 — published on @commandergaroo

@kscottz:

Parrots have names. They learn them as babies. Check out this video about this complete with cute baby parrots. [youtu.be]

# 2019/09/10 - 09:25 — original tweet by @kscottz

9 September

Um, did I improperly delete the Catalina volume from the magical APFS container disk? There aren’t many options in Disk Utility and I don’t see what I could have gotten wrong.

# 2019/09/09 - 23:45 — published on @ff00aa

Aww, it is temporary 😥

# 2019/09/09 - 22:57 — published on @ff00aa

I bought a Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter from Apple and I can’t believe how thin and fragile the cable looks. I don’t usually break iPhone cables but no amount of care will keep that thing working for long.

# 2019/09/09 - 22:22 — published on @garoocomplains

Dishonored: Death of the Outisder (PC) — 7/10

That felt more minor and B-team than I expected. Only one area was really well realized, and that would have been fine if it had released as a DLC.

# 2019/09/09 - 20:13

8 September

This is especially jarring in the very first client’s performance, where the guy is evidently in the depths of a depressive episode and he absolutely should not, and could not, be speaking like this.

# 2019/09/08 - 23:24 — published on @commandergaroo

I could deal better with the lack of interactivity in Eliza if I wasn’t so annoyed by the voice work. The dialogue is very nicely written in a naturalistic style, but they ALL overact each WORD like extras TRYING to make SURE their ONE line gets NOTICED.

# 2019/09/08 - 23:22 — published on @commandergaroo

@LawrWard:

Disney are remaking Home Alone. This is a petition for them to re-cast 38 year old Macauley Culkin as 9 year old Kevin McCallister and have nobody in the film acknowledge it.

# 2019/09/08 - 21:18 — original tweet by @LawrWard

@qikipedia:

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.” TERRY PRATCHETT

(Photo: frankieleon.)

# 2019/09/08 - 20:10 — original tweet by @qikipedia

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Ca a mis une semaine (j’ai pas été très efficace, faut avouer) et il a fallu que je démonte la cuvette mais j’ai débouché mes chiottes tout seul 🙌︎ (le plombier que j’avais fini par appeler vendredi a décommandé).

# 2019/09/08 - 16:46 — published on @garoo

Seriously, neeeeeeed

# 2019/09/08 - 12:58 — published on @garoo

@Rainmaker1973:

“Optical Variations” is an exhibit by French artist Damien Bénéteau, featuring four of his illuminated, hypnotizing monochromatic mobiles [ow.ly] [source of the gif: [ow.ly]]

# 2019/09/08 - 12:14 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

The Expanse S2 — 7/10

That season got much better, especially near the middle, but it devolved a bit by the end. They just can’t help having to follow the dumb story bits from the books.

Still, definitely more enjoyable than season one.

# 2019/09/08 - 01:16

7 September

Pendant cinq ans j’ai cru que cet immeuble en béton était étonnamment bien isolé ; en fait c’était juste qu’on devait avoir une vieille dame en pantoufles au-dessus. Maintenant j’entends une fille faire des vocalises toute la soirée. Ca coûte cher, une maison dans les bois ?

# 2019/09/07 - 21:54 — published on @garoo

J’allais unfollow tous les gens qui ont recommandé The Expanse depuis deux ans, mais le ton et l’atmosphère se sont soudain arrangés au passage à la saison 2… ou bien c’est le syndrome de Stockholm.

# 2019/09/07 - 21:30 — published on @garoo

As a big fan of dichroic glass I strongly approve of this design

People seem to assume it’s a temporary “wrap” until the reopening, which sounds to me like an odd idea, though not impossible. I’ll be disappointed if they remove it.

# 2019/09/07 - 11:45 — published on @ff00aa

Argh, Falcon Age is out and I’m not home.

# 2019/09/07 - 10:17 — published on @commandergaroo

6 September

The Expanse 1x08–10 — 4/10

# 2019/09/06 - 23:07

@Colossal:

Miniature castles emerge from burled wood in carved kinetic sculptures by Uli Kirchler

[thisiscolossal.com]

# 2019/09/06 - 22:47 — original tweet by @Colossal

En ce moment je passe devant Jussieu tous les jours et les étudiants sont jeunes, beaux et insouciants et je les déteste. Et puis je me rappelle qu’ils ne connaîtront que l’oppression, la guerre et les catastrophes naturelles et ça me console un peu.

# 2019/09/06 - 18:39 — published on @garoo

Corollaire : un de ces jours il va falloir que je refasse un sauna, pour voir.

# 2019/09/06 - 16:12 — published on @garoo

Quand j’ai googlé “asthme + chaleur” j’ai lu que c’était souvent la chaleur humide qui posait problème, et je n’ai pas réalisé immédiatement l’implication que les gens normaux n’ont pas de difficultés à respirer après dix minutes sous la douche 😲

# 2019/09/06 - 16:11 — published on @garoo

@LauraBMorlock:

Scotland has officially created a tartan to honour its Muslim citizens.

Blue: Scottish Flag

Green: Islam

5 white lines: the 5 pillars of Islam

6 gold lines: the 6 articles of faith

Black square: the Kaaba

😍🧕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Scottish citizens, Glasgow City Chambers (Attire’s Mind)

# 2019/09/06 - 15:49 — original tweet by @LauraBMorlock

@BalestraPatrick:

People were laughing at Android sending ads to customers a couple of years ago, and honestly it feels like I’m using Android nowadays.

# 2019/09/06 - 11:19 — original tweet by @BalestraPatrick

@Rainmaker1973:

Spider’s vision made clear. How the tiny predators use their big eyes to focus in on prey [buff.ly] [photos by Javier Rupérez, these and more on his Instagram account: [buff.ly]]

# 2019/09/06 - 10:07 — original tweet by @Rainmaker1973

The Expanse 1x03–07 — 5/10

# 2019/09/06 - 00:11

5 September

Je cherchais quelque chose à regarder sur mon Apple TV, je me suis dit que c’était l’occasion de redonner une chance à The Expanse. J’avais oublié que la moitié des acteurs bouffaient leur texte, ça avait clairement joué dans ma flemme de continuer la série.

# 2019/09/05 - 21:49 — published on @garoo

Il y a des gens en costard-cravate dans tous les bars devant lesquels je passe, c’est dégoûtant les afterworks.

#contrenature

# 2019/09/05 - 19:52 — published on @garoo

Found out today that Philips Hue has a whole range of really cute outdoor lights (whereas almost all of their indoor lamps are awful) so I need to move somewhere with a garden.

# 2019/09/05 - 12:41 — published on @ff00aa

Farming Simulator is totally a game I can see myself playing on Switch for hours instead of doing anything interesting so maybe I should go on not having a Switch.

# 2019/09/05 - 00:32 — published on @commandergaroo

I didn’t know cross-save between Steam and Switch could be a thing. That’s such a great feature (assuming it’s reliable), Nintendo should subsidize the development time for any game that’s applicable.

# 2019/09/05 - 00:23 — published on @commandergaroo

It’s weird seeing images of Obra Dinn after I’ve watched The Terror. Kinda want to get back to the game but I’m gonna be confusing the two a lot.

# 2019/09/05 - 00:08 — published on @commandergaroo

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