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@unconed
Professional shape rotator. Truth autist studying the collision between software and society, More true than is convenient. Tooters: @[email protected]
"hypotheticals are not an unalloyed good" i shout while walking into the Temple of Pure Reason
Most people have no idea how common _________ was before camera phones ruined it
Most people have no idea how common public sex was before camera phones ruined it
Mass Effect should get more credit for nailing how useless AI chatbots are, and how nobody really wants to talk to them.

It is not, and never will be, a "typically male power play" to become trans. But women like JKR will insist up and down that the trans phenomenon is the fault of men. Don't believe your lying eyes, etc. Women did it. Women promoted it. And women transed their kids. Bizarre how…
A large number of people (mostly men, in my experience) who're sympathetic to some of women's opposition to gender identity ideology, nevertheless think it's cruel to point out that a trans-identified man looks like a man, and unkind not to 'respect' his pronouns. They think…
Incredible how the entire internet is getting ruined right now because people were too puritanist to realize how even the slightest bit of censorship is going to eventually be aimed at everything those with enough power don't want to exist
Can never get over how UK political naming seems to embrace and relish the orwellianism. OFCOM... just call it Minitrue already.
Here’s the UK OFCOM’s guide to “highly effective age verification. You know it’s highly effective because they say these words repeatedly from the title down. ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/…
I used to think that Brazil and Children of Men were such original dystopian visions until I moved here and realized the country is just kind of like that.
I used to think that Brazil and Children of Men were such original dystopian visions until I moved here and realized the country is just kind of like that.
So. When asked to write a code evaluator, AI instead wrote some code that extracts all the `console.log` statements and their arguments, thus creating a superficial illusion that the code ran, if it was simple enough. Hard to think of better metaphor for AI, right? It seems to…
THEM: Hey man, why do you hate on vibe coders submitting AI pull requests to open-source repositories?? ME: Experience has taught me to hate, my child.
Most GPU coding assumes that your job is to be a rendering or compute engineer. And if that isn't your job, that you'd hire someone who is. That's why the APIs are so byzantine and don't resemble classic GL at all anymore.
Just tried OpenGL bindless and it's beautiful 🥹 - Easily drawing all scene nodes with geometry in separate storage buffers in a single draw call. - Vertex shader gets a list of nodes, each node contains pointer to the node's geometry. No vertex buffers, no bindings. 🥹
>when the software's data model does not match the user's model
Moving a photo in Microsoft Word... so true 🤣🤣
The widespread belief that one is in the last stages of a finite horizon zero sum game encourages behavior that makes it more likely one is in the last stages of a finite horizon zero sum game
all of the US is operating as an exit scam now. every sector, industry, layer of govt, etc
Europe vibes is syncing the stage lights with the lights inside the gothic cathedral next door

Spotlight used to be fantastic and now it fails to literally find files by name. Sad. Doing search well is harder than people think. Real users expect substring search to work, you have to be tolerant to punctuation, and so on. Fuzzy, but not too fuzzy. Prefer scoring high vs…
I've been using MacOS for 12 years and still don't understand Spotlight. For instance, I search for this file and it will ONLY show me this backup (~$), NOT the file whose name is… "human-factors-fm.pptx". I'm constantly disappointed. Do I need change a config?
Experimenting with 3D dragging interactions with constraint resolution in Use.GPU (i.e. Sketchpad-like). The grid is a half-edge mesh structure, intended as a base grid for alignment and placement. Unlike traditional grids, it's not fixed spacing and it can accommodate irregular…