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Icy Defiance

@icydefiance.bsky.social

Webdev/devops, metalhead, gamer.

created October 20, 2024

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Yeah maybe, but he blocked me, so that's pretty funny.

30/8/2025, 6:29:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you think you know more than every single virologist on the planet, then please, write papers about about it and get them peer reviewed. If you can't show any evidence for your theory that made it past peer review then stfu.

30/8/2025, 5:09:48 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Covid 19 did not come from a lab. That's one of the stupid conspiracy theories that RFK subscribes to, not something that scientists have ever said.

30/8/2025, 12:16:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly that was never true. They only talked about small government when Democrats were in control. This right here is what they've been working toward at least since Nixon was president.

29/7/2025, 4:07:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yeah, we did. Being a Christian was a practical requirement to hold office until very recently, and before that it was a legal requirement. Some states still have that requirement in their constitutions today; they just can't enforce it anymore.

16/7/2025, 12:59:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Note that firefighters and a water rescue team from Mexico did go to Texas to help after the flooding, and Mexico's president praised them for doing so. They just weren't ordered to help by Mexico's president.

12/7/2025, 3:41:38 PM | 24 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Long distance wireless communication (gps, radio, satellite Internet, etc) will have more noise, solar panels and sensitive electronic devices can be damaged, and some power grids might be disrupted. Also auroras, which are cool. It mostly affects higher latitudes, like Canada.

17/5/2025, 4:07:10 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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That isn't true. They weren't violent themselves, but they were only effective when they were disruptive and provoked violence. It was anything but passive. Please read this article: www.washingtonpost.com/posteverythi...

5/4/2025, 1:47:47 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your sexism is showing. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

31/3/2025, 1:21:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

God could exist, and so could the tooth fairy, but if you went around insisting that the tooth fairy could exist and claiming that everyone else is dumb for not considering the possibility, you would sound crazy. God should be treated the same way.

29/3/2025, 7:33:13 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Knife homicides are 3-4x more common in the US than in the UK, so we're #1 in that way too.

9/2/2025, 11:53:17 PM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

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10/1/2025, 7:16:24 PM | 8469 1074 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

For example, using a discard op in a shader can be a big optimization on a newer GPU, and have no performance impact on an older one. Virtualization will just make it run slower, and the discard op will still look like an optimization.

21/12/2024, 10:10:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Virtualization doesn't account for all of the different things that can change between different hardware aside from the clock speed, so it's best to run it on the actual hardware, but you might be able to use a cloud machine or something to save money.

21/12/2024, 10:08:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Randall Munroe (@xkcd.com) reposted

The Maritime Approximation xkcd.com/3023

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12/12/2024, 8:49:50 PM | 3245 320 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh yeah, I can just sort instead of writing the loops myself.

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6/12/2024, 12:46:45 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

#AdventOfCode Day 5, almost added a graph library, but it wasn't necessary. It turned out to be easier than the last couple of days.

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6/12/2024, 12:38:42 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

#AdventOfCode Day 4, can't index into Unicode strings, so I had to find a library with an AsciiString type. Otherwise it wasn't too bad.

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5/12/2024, 3:54:50 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#AdventOfCode Day 3, avoiding regex for some reason. Nom is cooler.

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4/12/2024, 2:17:47 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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#AdventOfCode Day 2, could be optimized, but I like the simplicity.

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3/12/2024, 3:04:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social)

#AdventOfCode Day 1 in Rust. I like iterators.

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1/12/2024, 9:31:36 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

What facts and evidence were shown in this thread?

28/11/2024, 3:08:36 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

There is zero evidence for any of the claims in that article, and not a single doctor or child involved in that trial have supported those claims.

28/11/2024, 12:45:31 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

No, you haven't.

23/11/2024, 5:36:33 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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23/11/2024, 5:30:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Icy Defiance (@icydefiance.bsky.social) reply parent

If you aren't Nazis, you shouldn't have voted for the guy who keeps quoting Hitler, talking about how immigrants have bad genes, praising fascist dictators around the world, and hiring people that have Nazi tattoos. You should also stop waving Nazi flags at your rallies and protests.

23/11/2024, 5:07:43 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view