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lritter, 16 days ago to random

updating ubuntu on an old laptop.

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lritter, 16 days ago to random

"full stack developer"

• suggests a clear vertically ordered structure
• implies completeness
• sounds like you're improving things and in control
• dignified job description

"turducken wrestler"

• suggests an unholy nesting of things that have no business containing each other
• truly conveys your exasperation
• makes clear how overwhelmed you are
• aptly describes the ongoing shitshow you're co-enabling

blinry, 16 days ago to random

You might've heard this concern about veganism: "I couldn't live without cheese!" 🧀

And indeed, the vegan cheese that's available in supermarkets is often… not great so far.

So I wanted to show you how to make a simple, quick & cheap cheese from cashews! It's tangy, savory, and has lots of protein!

sjb3d, 17 days ago to random

Back to experimenting with meshing algorithms, trying to add variable resolution support while keeping the output manifold.

Left image is just directly meshing SDF samples in an octree (complete with red non-manifold edges where resolution changes). Right is a dual method, edges are a mess so it doesn't look manifold, but it is!

lritter, 17 days ago to random

the "miniaudio" C header library has over 90k lines of code.

angeidheal, 18 days ago to queer

David Tennant: “I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly & nasty… 30 years later & those people are clearly on the wrong side of history. Now there is a similar weaponisation of these topics… to create friction & conflict & division where it needn’t be. It’s just about people being themselves. You don’t need to be bothered about it. F**k off & let people be”

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/david-tennant-speaks-out-weaponising-trans-rights/

#LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #Transgender #NonBinary #DavidTennant #DoctorWho @lgbtqia

sinbad, 19 days ago to random

Looking up guides on Elite Dangerous and constantly getting advice that says “the minimum you need to be effective is insert equipment with a price tag of 10 million credits” which is not that useful 🙄

Reminds me of the “you could buy a house if you stopped eating avocado toast” line of financial advice

lritter, 19 days ago to random

transferring what we have learned about AI writing in the academic world:

the excessive presence of automation in a creative domain is always an indicator of staleness creeping in.

and when art culture has gotten so stale that a machine can indeed do an artists job (from the perspective of art consumers), then the entire culture needs fixing.

my prediction is that eventually, the same colors, faces, poses and style will satiate boredom & foster appetite for something that stirs the shit again

lritter, 19 days ago to random

pet peeve: roleplay games with inventory logic that requires you to study for a master's degree to manage it. walls of text. cascades of stats. why don't they put a bespectacled goblin in my backpack who takes care of it.

lritter, 19 days ago to random

Remember when, for a brief time, starting 1995, Microsoft would give its releases year number versions but then stopped? Turns out those were somewhat of an occult sequence, leading up to - and then celebrating - the turn of the century, peaking with Windows 2000 and Windows ME (Millenium Edition).

Only the Windows Server team didn't get the idea and continues to label its releases by year ;-)

lritter, 20 days ago to random

we don't burn witches anymore. we just put them in jail for possession with intent to distribute.

baldur, 23 days ago to random

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

drewdevault, 1 month ago to random

I needed a break from Real Work, so I'm speedrunning writing a Unix-ish operating system

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