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Let me tell you about my FPGA-inspired Factorio base which feaures small modular factory segments connected by data-driven distribution networks.
DON'T stop calling but DO stop listing what the payment is for, if that was a thing you're doing *wearily* don't ask don't tell is back, and it's for everything now
1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.
Maybe share it with a journalist?
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
(the chat filter is new, less than six months old i guess, and for the 10 preceding years we just reported stuff or did nothing)
and to be clear, literally nobody in rocket league chat uses "gay" as anything but a slur
i mean, it's a response i've been typing for 10 years
that explains the mechanics but not the policy
why does rocket league text chat censor "homophobe" but doesn't censor "gay"?
For a moment I was confused because those words aren't the part of the quote I remember, and in Independence Day Jeff Goldblum played a "scientist" who wrote a computer virus to infect the alien computers.
God, I wake up and find all this shit on my timeline and go look through the news and there's absolutely nothing. Just nothing that this is based on at all that I can see. Wishful thinking, I guess. Calm down, folks (not you).
OMG, I think I'm still traumatized from the one time this happened to me in the 90s in Boston. Yes, I am very lucky to have only had this once. I can't even imagine what it's like on repeat and then for multiple years.
Somebody: "I'm going to invent a new genre name specifically just to refer to Portishead and Massive Attack." Everybody else: "Ok, yeah, that makes sense."
lmao good grief theyre gonna do AI death panels www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
Copyright won't protect you from your work being mulched into "AI". Instead reconciling copyright & "AI" will result in licensing deals where because you agreed to the terms of service of a website somewhere, or because you joined a professional organization, you "agreed" to your work being licensed
And yet, somehow not a liability issue for Sam Altman. I am astonished.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
The U.S. will continue to get worse as long as they don't dismantle the Democratic Party. They're not chaotic or useless, they function exceptionally well as controlled opposition party
Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title Tom Clancy's This Is How You Lose The Time War
kinky
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I've edited this and now think it's the very best thing I've done on AI and the environment, by a wide margin andymasley.substack.com/p/i-cant-fin...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnât write it
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
thank you!
I moved to SFBA almost exactly 24 years ago, +- a week But I only stayed for 7 years.
their politics are pragmatic
I don't actually know the answer!
Do not, under any circumstances, give Microsoft money.
T minus 30 min. Join in for the premiere! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...
âDoes my pet rock feel sad when I donât walk it every day?â
AMERICAN TACO
Wait, this Sloppy Joe info is news to me. What if it was called something else? - Saucy Burger Crumble - American Taco on Bun - Stew Sandwich
*Is* it surprising that two justices he appointed who agree with him politically would do this, CNN? Is it *really?*
there are actually a few writers in specific locations in the world who can. here's a map:
25 years ago: "The net is precious to me because it gives ordinary human beings a way to communicate with other ordinary human beings. Corporations have too many ways to cram their ads down my throat. Human beings have the net." web.archive.org/web/20010702...
Trump signs an executive order tasking Hegseth to establish "specialised units" within the National Guard to "deal with public order issues" across the US. Using the US Military against the American public.
Reminder that Snoop also played at Trump's second inauguration www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g... Dude's been trending this way for a while.
Reminder to friends using Patreon, the janky new autopilot feature will be spitting out unsolicited promotional emails on your behalf starting this week. You can disable it through the "Promotions" tab.
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
An obvious question arises from those results, so: 16M compute shader expanded results: 1%: 0.3 3%: 0.4 5%: 0.5 10%: 0.6 25%: 0.7 51%: 0.75 75%: 0.5 90%: 0.4 100%: 0.3
nvidia blackwell, 5090 GPU times in ms: non-compute: 1M 90%: 0.1 4M 90%: 0.6 (0.5-0.7) 16M 90%: 3.8 (3.6-4.0) 1M 1%: 4.0 (3.8-4.2) 4M 1%: 13.2 (13.1-13.3) 16M 1%: 51.1 (50.6-51.7) compute: 1M 90%: 0.0 4M 90%: 0.1 16M 90%: 0.4 1M 1%: 0.0 4M 1%: 0.1 16M 1%: 0.3
saw you had no 5090 results, so here are 5090 results just to see for fun. Run over remote desktop, but I don't think that affects it, on Chrome (installed just for this). But it maybe needs 64M or 256M to get more sig figs for compute shader case.
[The three richest people in the U.S. own more wealth than the bottom 50 percent of Americans combined] Democrats: We figured out our problemâwe were being too nice to trans people đ
Third Way? More like Third Rail.
Phrases for Democrats to avoid: Anything suggested by think tank Third Way.
To disincentivize quote-dunking, early Bluesky users requested a âDetach Quoteâ feature, which the devs added. Iâm not sure how many new users know about it. If someone quote-posts with something you donât like, tap the ⊠in the lower right and select âDetach Quote.â Easy.
True decadence: wearing disposable plastic food-handling gloves when eating Doritos to avoid powdered fingers.
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares" is an interesting way of describing "the U.S. released $8.9B in CHIPS funding intended for Intel in exchange for $8.9B in stock." Perhaps Congress could've demanded shares for CHIPS money, but POTUS adding this ad hoc is simply unconstitutional.
What a massively sleazy company Uber is -- see this breakdown of how it profits by systematically screwing drivers and riders. len-sherman.medium.c... Take a taxi, if you can still find one.
The slow decay of the long-term-unsupported version of Firefox for Windows 7. For months, about 60% of the time video pages load just the video with no other page content. But below behavior is new this week. (Most pages show thumbnails correcty, just not the home page.)
This is good. Saying we fucked up is the hardest thing to do and I credit Wired for talking about this directly. It was kind of ironic this dropped the same day they published that story about sending one of their employees to AI vibe code or whatever lol
After all the egregious uses of "exponential" when people mean "large (but probably linear)", finally someone who uses "linear" to mean "exponential".
ok so the times witnessed reporters receiving cash from Adams people three times at mayoral events and sat on it for over a month but couldnât pass up a hot tip from a neonazi about Mamdaniâs unsuccessful college application for long enough to check if the neonazi had already been identified
this is where we are, folks. this is the state of harvard's "resistance" - the simple statement that black lives matter is now deemed impermissible by the institution. pathetic. if the institution survives in 50 years, make sure the story of how they crawled on their belly for power is remembered
interlacing is the record scratch of something something
Taran on the Rylie/Katherine edit #bb27
I mean, I don't do stb for close personal connections anyway, and I wouldn't say it has or could have garnered me any either.
Every Wyoming parent now has the right to sue any website, big or small, that contains a single, sexual, NSFW picture, passage, audio file, or video and doesn't use age verification. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
i literally came here to type those exact three capitalized words (but checked first)
vfig.
I've heard there was a great locale With pink champagne and scary gal And steely knives with which they will adorn you It goes like this: the checkout time's Whene'er you like, but you will find You can't depart from Hotel California California California
[twitter repost] You'd heard your target wasn't far A smuggler in a local bar Some yokels went awayâthat was your cue, yah He'd have the money to pay soon (In truth he'd get grabbed by a "moon") You told him he would die but Han outdrew ya Han outdrew ya
Yeah, I think this is literally the second time I've looked this up since I migrated to github; I definitely don't give a shit about the number in practice. But it would be nice to have some quantified sense about impact.
Fair, but it is like double stb.
Fun fact: it's more stars then STB (#19 on C top list). It's more stars than curl (#12 on C list). It's more stars than OBS and git (#6 & #7 on C list).
see elsethread. I don't see how to easily get either a good RGB image OR the combined alpha out of stacks of masked layers.
It's understandable that there's no reason for them to make that one rare special case work, but it's like, I want a workflow for layered image creation with non-0 RGB and seemingly nobody has one. I'll give up all the other blend modes & etc for it.
I haven't though through it fully, so maybe it's not really possible to meaningfully DO layers and alpha and preserve the colors in many/most cases. The thing is what I COULD do is use fully opaque layers w/ layer masks, and surely there's some formulation to make that produce useful RGB.
But alpha channel doesn't interoperate with layers, so it doesn't solve the actual problem when doing real work. (I assume the issue is that the internal compositing engine 0s RGB, so it's not just in the file format export, but in the innards.)
I want the next Democrat president to crush, publicly humiliate, and economically ruin wasteful, useless ICE employees - just the same way the MAGA admin is doing that to cancer researchers, aid workers, and national park employees (among so many others) right now.
How are we still living in a world where Photoshop forces transparent pixels to RGB=0 when writing out files?
The slide is the first distinctive vocal element of the song! In each A line, the pitch alternates between root and third, then hovers on the third before finally tumbling back down to the root on "down". If you just stay on the third at the end, the whole line feels boring! What are you thinking?!?
Reminded recently by LCD Soundsystem "New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down". Each stanza's lines' melodies go A-A'-B-B'-A, with A being two pitches, with the final note a slide from the high to low on the word "down". (Final A of each stanza omits slide). Live version: almost no slides.
I pretty much always hate it when pop/rock singers in live performances change the melody or slow and lag behind how the recorded version of a goes for songs I already know. The recorded melody is what I fell in love with! Why are you making it worse with your 'free expression'?
Therapy comes in many shapes and sizes but fundamentally it is a relationship between two humans where one has a professional and ethical obligation to promote the wellbeing of the other. Chatbots cannot do this. They can trick vulnerable people into thinking they can, but they simply cannot.
rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat
While BR monologue is frequently cited as 'improvised', this is a case (like seemingly many movie examples) where it was completely planned--completely *written*--but by the actor the night before. There was no "in-the-moment" improvisation. This is one reason it's nice it has a Wikipedia page.
Once again screwed by uploading with the still image and the preview showing the animation but the final image being still.
One thing I know for sure is that if *I* called the cops and said âsome guy just threw a sandwich at meâ they would consider me to be a huge baby and think I was wasting their time.
Watching a video essay about Han Solo being more than just a scoundrel and about the improvised "I know" and, even before the video got to that line, @ponysmasher.social's The Problem With Filmmaking's reaction to over-reading elaborate theories from small details was slowly growing in my mind.
It's a good monologue, but the way that it was co-written by this Dutch character actor[*] for whom English was a second language, all just an amazing story. [*] I don't know what to call him exactly. Maybe he was a serious actor in Dutch movies, but his English roles pre-BR seem more like this.
It's nice that this gets its own Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_i...
Another professional courtesy between pedophiles.
Duolingo's CEO has been vocal about replacing human staff with trash AI that's more likely to get translations wrong and make your learning subpar. Stop using Duolingo. Uninstall it. Leave comments and reviews that you'll come back once they put people first again.
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it⊠but that is literally Trumpâs account of what happened.
New: Workday disclosed a data breach affecting a third-party customer database, likely Salesforce. Workday hasn't explicitly ruled out a breach of customer info, but says the data includes contact information. (FYI, Workday has hidden its breach notice from search engines using "noindex" code.)
You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers. The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.
halfway through this article about the anniversary of CDs and there's an obvious "this was written by AI tell", this shit is so fucking embarrassing! shame on @tomshardware.com
I am a bit of a broken record on this, but are local DAs going to let this continue indefinitely? The ICE agents didn't have any kind of warrant, didn't identify themselves, and then recklessly started firing. Let them argue federal immunity.
It is VIOLENCE. It is gleefully destructive. It is backpacks with inhalers, it is documents you need to apply for jobs, and most importantly it is the homes your most marginalized neighbors have pulled together from almost nothing. It is often the entirety of their possessions.
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency theyâre from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (đ„ Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
I was on the bus once and some guy on his mobile phone told an (I presume) customer support agent his entire credit card details without even trying to be quiet.
The best part of this is how easy it was to know what it meant after looking at the graph without reading the key.
Oh. Oh god I hadnât connected the MTB dots for itch. Okay actually itâs amazing theyâre even still in business at all (If you keep wondering why Patreon is Like This and yet no real competitor has popped up: that)
Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."
Good morning