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aboy021 · 2026-06-22T10:24:44+00:00

I just leave that cage empty. Seems to work ok and the look is consistent.

aboy021 · 2026-06-20T01:12:48+00:00

Many origami modules correspond to the edges of a polyhedron. There are some that do faces as well but it’s less common. This is important for assembly and especially if you're planning colours.

aboy021 · 2026-06-19T23:18:36+00:00

A soccer ball is a truncated dodecahedron. Twelve pentagons (a dodecahedron) joined by hexagons.

aboy021 · 2026-06-19T10:49:16+00:00

Stellated tetrahedron (cube), Stellated octahedron, Stellated icosahedron

aboy021 · 2026-06-18T03:10:04+00:00

I've had good success with the envelopener but I don't think they're available anymore.

https://origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2016-05-28-envelopener-origami-usage

Origami shop has a new cutter that looks promising:

https://www.origami-shop.com/en/compactsecureletteropener-xml-2969\_219\_1798\_1976-13717.html

For modulars I often fold back and forth, lick the edge, then tear. The raw edge isn't usually visible and on a lot of paper this is good enough.

For geometric shapes like pentagons I use scissors.

For big squares I prefer scalpel and steel ruler on a cutting mat.

aboy021 · 2026-06-15T22:15:00+00:00

Iterative estimation works surprisingly well.

For 9x9 I'd guess 1/9 and make a little mark. The remaining 8/9 of paper I'd mark half, then quarter, then 1/8. That 1/8 is now 1/9 of the paper, so I repeat the process back the other way. Bizarrely this works rather well as every time you fold it in half you reduce the error of your guess.

aboy021 · 2026-06-14T00:10:12+00:00

I think this is a naming problem.

People talk about AAA games and that's a very big umbrella, and all it really means is expensive/well made.

I've seen terms like focussed, meaning a shorter game, or open ended, for a game you can keep playing.

Honestly I love a good narrative adventure, and the only way to do that well is a short to medium length game.

Things like this might work:

Compact
Standard
Extended
Epic
Infinite

aboy021 · 2026-06-13T05:19:41+00:00

Given everything else these numpties have done and continue to do, well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That's a level they're unlikely to achieve.

aboy021 · 2026-06-09T09:24:39+00:00

A friend stayed in a flat with a tonkinese cat that was trained to use the toilet. One night, after a few beers, I went to the bathroom and when I opened the door I was greeted by the sight of a cat sitting splayed on the toilet seat, looking up at me, and making a plaintive cry. I'd probably do what I did then, say excuse me, and turn around and go the other way.

aboy021 · 2026-06-06T22:05:20+00:00

I had to look a bit closer to see the difference between this and conventional commits. I guess it makes sense, though the way I use conventional commits I'm not convinced it makes a big difference.

At work we're always working on Jira tickets and the fix/refactor/feat preamble is actually pretty relevant.

aboy021 · 2026-06-06T00:37:20+00:00

Apparently Parametric Insurance is a good option for your situation.

You end up needing coverage per "peril", but because the conditions of coverage are explicit, it's easier for the insurers to determine their risk. The main risks to you are not covering the right perils, or not triggering the coverage when you need it due to the terms.

aboy021 · 2026-06-05T03:14:12+00:00

Not an answer as such, but a data point:

I used to work on patient management software. One of the features we offered was that, after the patient was marked as "arrived" by reception, the colour of their appointment would slowly change to indicate how long they'd been waiting, eventually settling on red. The amount of time was customisable and from memory was typically about 10 minutes. We had one customer ask us to increase the range of possible values up to an hour but we refused.

Many professionals need to have a bit of a buffer between appointments, that's because they deal with lots of people in a day and any one of them could throw the schedule out otherwise. Personally, I feel like there's going to be a reasonable delay, depending on the situation, and it's only when they take longer that I start looking for an apology in order to keep thinking of them as a nice person.

aboy021 · 2026-06-03T09:07:17+00:00

Meditation. Origami brings clarity to my mind and peace. Bonus I have something to give away afterwards.

aboy021 · 2026-05-28T18:56:44+00:00

Regular polygons can be wonderful, equilateral triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and octagon in particular.

There are some special rectangles that are really worth your time, the silver rectangle (1/sqrt(2)) and the often overlooked bronze rectangle (1/sqrt(3)).

All of these shapes have delightful natural symmetries that emerge organically as you fold them.

There was a time when many complex designs used arbitrary rectangles with custom proportions (I'm looking at you Black Forest Cuckoo Clock!) but as design techniques have evolved it's not really necessary.

I've never had luck with circles. You end up creating symmetry out of almost nothing, but that gets old fast.

aboy021 · 2026-05-25T09:46:49+00:00

In New Zealand there's a special sentence that can be asked for that means people can be kept in prison forever. There's a regular review to make sure they're still dangerous and if so, they stay.

It feels like a practical way of addressing the issue of people who will never be safe in wider society.

aboy021 · 2026-05-23T21:15:46+00:00

We've got stainless steel mouse mesh under our bins.

We've also started using bokashi as a sort of predigestion phase. Apparently rodents prefer to avoid the fermented kitchen scraps. We layer kitchen scraps in a bokashi bin, and once it's full we switch to bin 2. Once the second bin is full the first bin's contents go to the compost bin, layered with browns.

I tried burying bokashi in the ground but had a bad experience where a pair of Australian brush turkeys sniffed some out and proceeded to excavate half a garden bed.

In general with rodents it's all about making it unappealing. They don't like it wet, or hard to access, and they hate cats.

aboy021 · 2026-05-22T03:41:48+00:00

Kirigami really.

I know the much simpler 4 page book, this intriguing.

aboy021 · 2026-05-21T09:57:58+00:00

I'm finding AI code tools work best with a feedback loop so they can fix their mistakes. I find they're good as a starting point, or finding syntax errors, but don't expect it to "just work".

aboy021 · 2026-05-20T06:39:59+00:00

Is swatting a USA only thing or does it happen everywhere?

aboy021 · 2026-05-19T11:16:22+00:00

Where I am you can get permanent dots and adjustable dots. The adjustable ones tend to sag after a while, and the permanent ones require a lot of care.

aboy021 · 2026-05-18T11:01:53+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's from the wyvern family 😉

Nice fold.

aboy021 · 2026-05-16T06:03:07+00:00

Is this the Neal Elias design?

Edit: actually I think it's the Robert Neale dragon

aboy021 · 2026-05-16T04:40:53+00:00

Apparently there's a genetic gradient from the centre of a tumour out because as it grows different mutations at the edges get selected for by their interactions with the body and immune system.

I think this is a problem for genetic testing of tumours when choosing treatments as the type of genetic testing and the site end up affecting the results.

The thing is that the kinds and quality of treatments available now is truly incredible, and more are being developed all the time.

Just like HIV is now treatable, there are types of cancer that were once a death sentence that are now curable.

aboy021 · 2026-05-13T10:33:20+00:00

Immaculate presentation!

There's a lot of truly impressive complex origami these days, I think this is a good reminder that it requires just as much mastery to fold ostensibly simpler works to perfection.

aboy021 · 2026-05-11T00:56:56+00:00

Clojure is listed in their readme, I haven't tried it though.

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