thanatos519

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   by thanatos519 2y ago

   Oh great gods of Ti, we offer you this sacrifice and beseech you to restore the Dodecahedron once more to shine in Tigella. Thanks be to Ti.
2. 92.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   I wish this comment had revealed it was an early mobile phone antenna and not a Volkswagen Rabbit.
3. 93.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   One of my favourites. I had a nice wide copy as a kid and recently bought a new one for my kid. Was disappointed in the small blurry reproduction of the diagrams. So get a used copy!
4. 94.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   96 steps? Hmm, my TRON had 128 steps. Might take a bit more circuitry or and/or a gear to get there.
5. 95.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   I'm not even sure the first hack at this will remotely approach the full potential of non-destructive editing: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/9244
6. 96.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   I am currently reading everything by Lem and indeed the Electronic Bard popped out as prophetic!
7. 97.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   There's also the not-a-CPU-optmization where we skip iteration entirely for the main cardioid and circle ... not in C but here's the shader-esque version: ac = vec2(x,y); c2 = dotp(ac,ac); if ((256.0 c2 c2-96.0 c2+32.0 x-3.0>0.
8. 98.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   I'm much less concerned about the impact of AI than about climate change and ecological destruction. A radical shift in the distribution of work and wealth is long overdue. I'm sure our children will be better off for AI if it can
9. 99.▲
   by thanatos519 3y ago

   McDonalds' Baker's dozen -> Bakers' dozen
10. 100.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Indeed, Jira is not fit for purpose and ServiceNow is an abomination.
11. 101.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    When will the idea of the personal automobile die?
12. 102.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I started with the original IBM PC 5150 at home when schools were full of C=64s. That experience set me up for life but I still want to get my kid a real C=64.
13. 103.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Canada isn't so detail-and-rule-obsessed, but their civil service is friendly and inefficient. I much prefer the kind and well-executed Dutch bureaucracy, even as an expat here. Filing my taxes, even in a year in which I bought a house
14. 104.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Indeed these things are an abomination. I regularly find half consumed vapes at intersections where they have clearly been accidentally dropped and abandoned by cyclists. I have a nice collection of perfectly good lithium batteries.
15. 105.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Rainbows look super cool in my two-band IR camera!
16. 106.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    My favourite way to think about this shape is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unrolled_main_cardioid_... ... It's all elephants. The -R spike at the main disc is period 2, the fork around +/-i is period
17. 107.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I am happily amazed that we have such data to wonder about! ... Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
18. 108.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    KSM could help with that: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/ksm.html ... oh wait, the apps have to hint that it's possible. Nebbermind.
19. 109.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I suppose you could simply choose the colors to work with ChromaDepth glasses: https://www.3dglassesonline.com/products/chromadepth/
20. 110.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    > Some observers noted that Kudan's book contains sections that are meant to be responses generated by an AI, and argued that if ChatGPT was responsible for those portions of the book, that would be more defensible. Yes. That would
21. 111.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    "televandalist"
22. 112.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I end up with better-packed bags at scan-at-the-end self-checkout than with scan-as-you-go or clerk-and-conveyor. I wander around putting things in the cart, and then at self-checkout I sort and balance it all into bags. If I was scanning a
23. 113.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Also in the Netherlands. These random audits are annoying indeed, especially when I have a lot of very carefully packed items. However, they don't happen to me too often, and it's as common with 3 items as with 30 so I think it&#x
24. 114.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Can you ever forgive us?
25. 115.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I haven't read it but it sounds like it gives names to and elucidates a lot of the stuff I am doing these days so I will read it soon.
26. 116.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Can I overclock it with liquid helium?
27. 117.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    For some reason I expected this to be akin to the Star Wars Holiday Special, with Keanu and Carrie-Ann trying to deliver gifts by manipulating The Matrix, with Hugo in close pursuit, guest starring Whoopi Goldberg as the oracle.
28. 118.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I made a Mandelbrot renderer for something like this 30 years ago. Never realized it would look so good if I plugged it in my TV.
29. 119.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    Telemate, the amazing terminal program, with its own multitasking (on my IBM PC 5150) text windowing system. It allowed me to write all my school papers while BBSing.
30. 120.▲
    by thanatos519 3y ago

    I believe the word you are looking for is "enshittification".