Gabriele Svelto

It's No AO3 November, so this month we're recommending fanworks hosted somewhere other than AO3. #fandom #recs #AO3down https://fancake.dreamwidth.org/2483693.html

We laughed way too much to this one because my wife is a minister and the music this is based on comes from a hymn she picks not infrequently during service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkTgYiMDRHY

I've been playing Cursed Castilla EX in the little free time I have and - true to its Ghost 'n' Goblins roots - this game is stupidly hard. I already died 72 times on the third level, 64 fighting against the boss. There's 8 levels IIUC, I'll never finish it. But it's an absolute blast.

knowledge of "the technology" is the other half - it's not enough to type C code, you need to know how to use the related technology and how to build "an architecture".

in similar vain you need to learn what good writing is, how to knit pattern X, or how sourdough bread baking really works (beyond knowing how to knead dough) and that's IMHO still learned by reading about it, understanding it, talking with others about it, chewing on it and iterating over it "until you've found your style"

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@dalem ok but where's shrimp Jesus?

Pathfinder.
I thought of making something orange for Halloween, and what's more orange than a shuttle's fuel tank...
Happy Halloween everyone!!!
#LowPoly #BlockBench #PixelArt #NASA

There is no such thing as "ethically using AI". AI is trained on stolen data. AI is destroying the environment and communities. AI is making us stupid. Use AI if you want, just don't pretend you're doing it in ethical way.

Strike XII. #gameboy #gameboycamera #photography

Motorola 68010 is an interesting CPU. It has a 2-instruction cache for a specific opcode: DBcc. When a cacheable 2-byte instruction is combined with DBcc that loops back to this instruction, the 68010 automatically enters a loop mode. In this mode, the instructions don't need to be fetched, leading to a performance boost over the 68000.

As a practical example, I came up with this strlen() implementation that (as far as I can tell) is the fastest way strlen() can be implemented on a 68010 CPU.

#assembly #m68k

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW
the spookiest thing I can think of is my favorite shoujo being ruined by their adaptations....
youtu.be/6H8bMf_ge98

One thing that we lost with the demise of Maemo and Nokia’s phone business is touch keyboard design by designers who have first-hand experience of writing more than one Latin-script language every day.

Switching the keyboard layout makes sense when switching language also switches script. But I want the Finnish touch targets to stay in the same positions for English.

And then there’s the nonsense seen in this screenshot: Someone thought I should use AZERTY if I want to translate from French.

From road construction equipment to 3D chips in the PC-FX GA, Kubota's got you covered!

Dandelion

#textmode #pixelart

@thesdev @santi remember that Intel share prices was propped by the US republican administration buying a 10% of it.

@wyatt same, I have a couple around I need for testing different Linux distros but I wouldn't use one for anything serious. And since I need the latest Windows for work I always go through the hassle of being able to dual-boot rather than keeping it in a VM.

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/cisco-gives-27-year-old-engineer-unlimited-ai-tokens-to-rewrite-98-percent-of-the-companys-legacy-code-in-24-months-president-plucks-former-startup-founder-telling-him-to-go-nuts

Agriculture $200B
Health care $150B
Military $800B
Chatbots $3,600B
Utilities $150B

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

@wyatt I agree, physicalization FTW

Fun finding: "How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months"
https://seriot.ch/computation/curl.html

Ever had that feeling in your stomach you get when you’re trying to root-cause-and-restore some outage and find out that the backups for your failed service are on the same physical strata as the service itself?

Well, funny story but Binance’s emergency fund seems to also be held in cryptocurrencies.