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i made that mastodon boop sound

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Deeply unpleasant space opera setting where every species has just the one defining attribute and the defining attribute of humans is "the species with bones"

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@mcc throwing a bone up into the air is of course how you get space vehicles

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may the 1rd be with you

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a few days ago i woke up in the middle of the night, and tapped the following note into my phone:

"There are 50 humans for every 1 pigeon. pigeons are precious"

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i just looked it up and i wasn't far off, it seems like the ratio is like 20-40 humans for each pigeon. just imagine that. i try to picture it. i see 40 people all standing round this one pigeon, petting it, feeding it, pointing at it, in awe of the pigeon

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late-90s computer peripherals are all like. appears as a normal 3-button mouse. but the buttons have different icons on them resembling a globe, a star, and an arrow. when you press the left mouse button, instead of clicking, it types the string "www.website" into your computer. pressing the middle button opens the AOL signup page. when you press the right mouse button, it opens up realplayer, and, after 45 seconds of loading, plays a short low-res video of a guy yelling "i'm surfing the web!"

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this revolutionary internet mouse can help you get online... FAST!

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i think the major problem affecting software development today is 'poor taste'

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very normal aesthetic

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jk, to random
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it seems like by now there should be a neural upscaling product that can take a single high-resolution reference image and use it to upscale other images (or video) of the same scene much more accurately than a nonspecific "interpolate across the space of all images" algorithm. this has seemed like an obvious idea to me for years but i wouldn't know what to search for to find it. one-shot superresolution?

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you could imagine how useful this would be for, e.g., rendering a raytraced 3D animation. you'd do a slow, high-resolution render every n frames and render the inbetweens really quickly at a much lower resolution, then upscale them, using the information from the high-res frames to preserve detail rather than just hallucinating it. this has to exist already, right? but i can only seem to find zero-shot topaz-style upscaling methods and endless "RTX on" memes etc

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mid-2010s video essayist voice despite the textual implication of his species, sonic the hedgehog spends most of his time trying to avoid obstacles such as hedges. this, at its core, is the ludonarrative dissonance that pervades the series

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powered up my 2010 imac for the first time in 5+ years and tried to get anything whatsoever other than os x to boot, and it just won't? apparently it can only boot off optical discs, not flash drives, but the built-in DVD drive doesn't work anymore, so i'm using an external, and OS disc I use does appear when i hold alt on startup, but when I try to actually boot from them I just get "No bootable devices found", like the early part of the boot sees the external drive, but the later one doesn't

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@mcc i may be wrong, my entire investigation into it was trying two different USB flash drives and also reading about three forum threads. actually i hope i'm wrong, because i'm running out of blank DVDs

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@mcc hmm, i've tried inserting USB sticks for arch, MX linux, and windows 10, and all seem to be mounting okay, but none show in the pane in Startup Disk. all of them definitely boot on a PC, or at least they did in the last couple of months

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@mcc will look into this! it's definitely frustrating to have nothing to actually look at other than a white screen

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@mcc i was originally trying to see if I could install Windows 7, which is how i had the system set up years ago, and it ran pretty well (first-gen i7). i'm pretty sure i had to use Boot Camp Assistant to do that, and when i tried that today I got stuck on "can't detect setup disc", no idea if it can't find the disc because it's in an external drive, or just doesn't like it for some reason

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the security features of windows basically consist of checking through the 100 million files on your computer and 35 hours later it announces that it's found, and helpfully deleted, a keygen for age of empires II

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been archiving some old hi8 camcorder footage from when i was a kid, and decades later i've finally got the opportunity to sync up this 35mm photo of me and my cousin with the exact frame of video i was filming as the picture was taken

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got that "youtube recommendations learning from your temporary hyperfixations" thing going on where they really want to show me a lot of videos about harps, ferrets, roman concrete, abandoned train stations, obscure media formats, ocean liners, nintendo 64 homebrew, chernobyl, three songs that pitchfork loved 9 years ago, garrys mod, vacuum cleaner reviews, bitterns,

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@aeva that sounds so relaxing in comparison

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in my experience of university there was two types of professor

type 1 professor

  • all their materials suspiciously typeset in Computer Modern or Computer Modern Sans
  • usually a fucking asshole
  • know the answer to any question but won't tell you it
  • functional programming
  • very unhelpful
  • gigantic brain

type 2 professor

  • all their materials suspiciously typeset in Calibri
  • extremely nice, great person to be around
  • just show up at their office anytime to hang out
  • don't know anything
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its funny how people just dont use headphones anymore. they just sit on the bus with the music blastin outta the tinny phone speaker. like 9 songs at once on different phones. like my school bus in 2006, except now its every bus

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in the old days right. youd go down to dixons. and you'd be like "can i have a scart to whatsit adapter" and they'd be like "here it is love, £1" and nowadays im like. going on amazon and ordering 3 different but identical USB-C cables because probably only one or two will actually work for the specific type of USB-C feature i want it for

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