Falkreon 🏳️‍🌈 @falkreon@witches.town

Today's scarves screenshot. They're reading in from the bauble just fine; will release as soon as the recipes are done. https://witches.town/media/yHVTFfxkrdRXydg9wzw

@ghost_bird I'm not sold on "there is no intrinsic worth," but you're absolutely right about supply shortage causing deflation, and that being catastrophic to an instrument's usefulness as currency. This has already happened to cryptos; if I had bought my first car in BTC it would have cost less than one tenth of one coin.

@UberActivist @ghost_bird
But by Nixon's time, the economy was still doing poorly, so he took us off the gold standard - which made the problem *much, much worse*. Pinning the currency to something with intrinsic worth is still a good way to improve stability and confidence of a currency, but it also stops us from ignoring the real costs and consequences of our monetary policy.

@ghost_bird @UberActivist
Re: "currencies don't use gold any more" - This is tricky, there's more to it than that. After WW2, most countries were on either a gold, silver, or dual gold-silver standard, and that worked out fairly well.

What was less appealing was that the IMF was managing exchange rates, pegged to gold *only redeemable by the US*. This gave the US a grossly unfair advantage in the world market - essentially we could inflate our currency supply for free, but other countries had to pay IMF - and by extension the US - an equivalent amount of gold to do so.

Slowed down physics here to get a screenshot of today's scarf render code. Still needs calculated normals and lightmap coords, but we're getting there!

https://witches.town/media/oSTR__aWqzML9BRuASU

One thing I've been wanting to tackle for a while in Minecraft is scarves. The render here is just one box per node, will get replaced with one quad between each pair.

Oscillation isn't programmed in, but because nodes conserve their velocity (dampened over time), they whip and snake like fabric would. I intentionally left the gravity very faint for them. Still some jerks due to how entities travel, but I hope to have those ironed out soon so I can share video.

https://witches.town/media/AGv5Lum-qWTWLx6cjBQ

@Angle I think the jargon file calls that a Heisenbug

@baldur @nolan (Says the programmer who has written basic, pascal, java, groovy, ansi c, c#, swift, javascript... maybe it's not too late for us yet)

@nolan @baldur This is tough because webdev is starting to suffer from the specialization effects present elsewhere in CS: You can't really have an informed opinion on more than 2-3 toolchains, because it takes so long to build competence in even one.

@unascribed I've had that on Nyx's windoge drive for ages now. I'm realizing that everything I have is broken in some way.

s p i r i t b o t t l e s

https://witches.town/media/5ckoQirTGXDh-ULodrA

@Vann @vantablack
Tired: Blockchain, Great Chain of Being

Wired: Hexchain, Great Hex of Being

Inspired: None of these chains entrap the rich and powerful. Yet.