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2026-02-24 05:53:21 UTC

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Passive investors always get raped. The market is just a giant scheme to pilfer the Boomers' retirement money at this point.

2026-02-24 05:24:03 UTC

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Wasn't Augustine like half Berber?
Not that I'm a big Augustine fan.
(Pelagius was more right than not)

2026-02-24 05:20:06 UTC

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Hexagons are the worst, least creative possible background.

2026-02-24 04:32:29 UTC

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had, before the spanish mined it all and then blew it on a stupid fleet that sank immediately

2026-02-24 03:34:50 UTC

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I suspect substance abuse. Same thing happened to Rackets. They both had a sweet gig but decided to fuck it all up for no reason.

2026-02-24 03:30:42 UTC

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Forget being married and all, why does he think he has a chance with Melanie?

2026-01-29 00:46:21 UTC

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Global warming causes global cooling, didn't you know? It causes anything that happens to the weather, even when nothing happens.

2026-01-28 19:57:50 UTC

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I live in Mexico which gives zero shits where its memory comes from. But, if the rest of the world is buying Chinese memory that means there's more memory from Good Boy Club (TM) countries for you to buy.

2026-01-26 21:00:52 UTC

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It's one of the hardest things humans have ever done. Going to the moon was easier and cheaper by orders of magnitude. Fortunately, China is almost caught up to the West and is not part of their memory cartel.

2026-01-21 00:35:05 UTC

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Crowd source high-end DRAM production? Got a few billion dollars laying around?

2026-01-20 23:22:27 UTC

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I don't know how much I buy the reality of people putting a hamster up their ass. I've owned hamsters. They love to crawl into tiny places. (If your hamster ever escapes and goes under a dishwasher and refuses to come out, just put a cardboard tube under there and it will crawl right in and then you have it trapped.) While it seems perfectly realistic that one could get a hamster to crawl into a particularly loose asshole, it ignores the behavior of a panicking, trapped hamster: aggressively chew your way out.

2026-01-20 04:02:16 UTC

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Sounds like Anaconda....

2026-01-20 03:00:59 UTC

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Federal funds subsidize collapsing states.

2026-01-14 04:55:37 UTC

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Part of me hopes it's not just a spike like the last two times and it holds up there permanently. Theoretically it should be a hell of a lot higher than it was based on inflation.

2026-01-07 00:55:43 UTC

Tin-pot dictator captured by commandos from his communist shithole? Guess nobody needs to pay attention to the Epstein files anymore.

2025-11-25 06:35:48 UTC

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I can't imagine a startup actually trying to go all-in on vibecoding. It would be a disaster.

2025-11-25 06:27:49 UTC

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No, please don't. I don't want AI koolaid drinkers anywhere near any code I ever have to touch.

2025-07-19 05:08:21 UTC

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Look for small startups, and learn how to administrate linux servers. Small startups love it when their devs can put on the sysadmin hat.

2025-07-19 04:53:21 UTC

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Oh, it's a totally fucked mentality from the standpoint of a sustainable business model. 98% of software companies don't care though. It's all about getting the next funding round or scamming the stock price. Total Boomer mentality.

2025-07-19 04:48:59 UTC

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That's what most of my jobs were. I was the dev getting rushed to ship everything out asap. It was shit code, but it got out there fast, sometimes even the same day.
What's not useful are tards who can barely code and only know how to cobble React plugins. The reason they're not useful is because they're slow, and hiring a swarm of them doesn't make them any faster, it just creates a much larger amount of shit at the slow pace.

2025-07-19 04:42:57 UTC

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It's not about what code is shipped, it's about who's making it. One skilled dev is faster and cheaper than a dozen tards who can only cobble, even when the goal is to shovel out garbage as fast as possible.
Half of my jobs consisted of cleaning up the broken, unshippable mess left by "cheap" developers.

2025-07-19 04:27:13 UTC

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Still nobody can code in 2025. Cobbling together React plugins isn't knowing how to "code" in an economically useful way. Software is actively getting worse at this point.

2025-06-20 04:13:58 UTC

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If they want to use $15,000,000 wunderwaffen bunker busters then maybe they should buy some B-2 Spirits of their own.

2025-06-17 02:49:11 UTC

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The Axis powers and the Empire of Japan definitively lost it, and the US definitely won it. How much the USSR or other European Allied powers "won" versus "survived" is perhaps up for debate.

2025-06-14 06:17:39 UTC

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What nonsense. While there are no shortage of draws and Pyrrhic victories, there are plenty of wars which are definitively won and lost. World War Two, for example. Or the Vietnam War, which the Viet Cong definitively won and the US definitively lost. Or Afghanistan, where a bunch of inbred goat herders kicked the US Army out so fast it couldn't even collect its toys.

2025-06-14 06:13:41 UTC

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And yet the US still lost the war. You know, the important part about wars? A not-a-real-country country full of goat herders with rusty Kalashnikovs won the war and the glorious, modern US military lost the war.

2025-06-14 06:00:19 UTC

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But the facts remain that a:
retarded
inbred
shit country
defeated the US military, and embarrassingly so.

2025-06-14 05:54:49 UTC

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How'd that work out against Afghanistan?

2025-05-23 06:48:32 UTC

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Congress could have passed a law welching on the previous laws. Congress can do whatever it wants.

2025-04-20 07:14:29 UTC

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puts 4-layer blurays in triple-disc jewel cases in the motorized 100 CD tower for 34.8 TB of storage

2025-04-09 08:16:01 UTC

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Pretty sure I saw this one before

2025-04-02 04:35:30 UTC

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Youtube has ads?

2025-04-02 04:27:30 UTC

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No way... I just saw that thumbnail and thought "I should screenshot this with the comment 'Please don't be clickbait...' "
Was too lazy tho

2025-04-02 00:44:32 UTC

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April 1st

2025-03-20 07:34:20 UTC

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What's worse, being overrun by gangs that randomly rape, rob, and murder civilians every day, or the government falsely imprisoning some people? Oh wait, the government does that anyway, regardless of if they stop the gangs. See gitmo.

2025-03-20 07:30:25 UTC

100% pure cancer. Keep this shit out of C.
Go use rust or go or zig or whatever mentally ill hipsters use these days.
#nevent1q…xsma

2025-03-20 07:09:03 UTC

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It used to be one of the most dangerous places in the world, then the new president cleaned it up by rounding up anyone with a gang tattoo and throwing them in prison forever. Now it's apparently one of the safest countries in the western hemisphere.

2025-03-20 06:14:22 UTC

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More than two thirds of Mexico's economy runs on cash alone, just for the purposes of dodging taxes. Cash would still work just fine without the internet. Physical cash, not "checks" or "debit cards".
And don't be so sure the internet will survive in the form it exists today. Some factions would like nothing less than to lock it down and make it so that only approved packets from approved computers can transit.

2025-03-20 05:57:33 UTC

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So the Boomers running the company can pocket another $50 on your new $40,000 economy compact hatchback.

2025-03-20 05:04:53 UTC

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You can't be an activist and also take the investor money. Pick one.

2025-03-14 01:57:18 UTC

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I've heard that rural Spain is a good place to get cheap land with an old house on it. Apparently over the last few generations everyone left their one-horse village to seek fame and fortune and running water in the big city. Keep in mind that much of Spain is mountainous and mild, not unlike the US mountain west.

2025-03-13 21:08:42 UTC

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This one is more interesting, but not as applicable to my particular situation. They're using a shortcutting version of A* over a pre-calculated and relatively static 3D navigation mesh. It's one of the least bad algorithms for the use case of a shooter. In my case, it's an open 2D world that can be rather dynamic. Maintaining a navigation mesh would be a disaster, not to mention issues of resolution and memory usage.
I'm currently using a taut-string any-angle pathfinding approach for general navigation. It's fast and produces near-optimal paths on large areas of open terrain cluttered with small random obstacles (like trees). I plan to augment this by running a modified A* on the road graph starting from nearby nodes and progressing towards the target location, but pausing when it's worse than the current best taut-string AA path. Further, it needs to be able to interpolate the road graph edges to know when it can enter or leave in the middle of one. Eventually I'll probably need to cache information about various dynamically calculated areas, such as the interior of the palisade, and factor that in too. You can see how they do similar caching with their areas later in the document.
As for their AI system, the details are sparse. They don't say exactly how it works, but it smells like an object-oriented Actor system (yuck).

2025-03-13 20:48:15 UTC

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Semester I Tahun 2024/2025
This is a paper written by a very confused student, I think. For one, he calls it Dijksta's Algorithm, when in fact it's A*, an improvement thereof and easier to type, albeit less pretentious sounding. Second, he's doing a linear search for the closest unvisited node, which is insane for non-trivial node sizes. Third, A* is a graph traversal algorithm which makes little sense in a game like Garry's Mod, save for building a static maze and constructing a navigation mesh for it, which won't work in the general case of the game.

2025-03-08 05:52:01 UTC

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You'd need a fair number of them, considering the large area that satellites now occupy, and that the earth blocks the EMP in that direction. Further, only China, Russia, India, and SpaceX are practically prepared to replace their own strategic satellites, with only China and SpaceX able to do it in less than a decade. For any other nation, they'd lose their spy satellites more or less permanently while SpaceX and China would launch a dozen new ones within a few months, negating the point.
Best Korea largely seems to want to ensure they won't get invaded at some point. Same with Iran.

2025-03-08 05:39:48 UTC

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No, I don't think other countries will respond by glassing the planet, and the few small countries crazy enough to do it only have a handful of nukes and no good way to deliver them.
There have been a couple of times where the order to MAD was given, whether in error or as a secret test, and the men at the silos refused to push the button.
If someone does use a nuke, it'll either be Israel out of some petty spite over some petty ancient goatherder feud with their neighbors, or it'll be the US trying to relive the glory days back when their military was effective. And at most there will be a small, measured response, and that'll be the end of it. Most likely no nuclear response at all, rather global condemnation and conventional war.

2025-03-07 05:48:51 UTC

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Yeah, but bombs do work well against things like battleships, SAM sites, and ammo dumps. Everything has its place.

2025-03-07 05:44:48 UTC

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Mainly, bombing is incredibly inefficient against targets that aren't large, expensive, and slow.

2025-03-06 04:04:03 UTC

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So? Most countries take your fingerprints when you get a greencard these days.

2025-03-05 05:13:15 UTC

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The attention window is too small to write non-trivial code. Performance scales with attention window size, so "just make it bigger" isn't an option.

2025-03-05 05:04:33 UTC

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Well-known exporter "Caxaica"

2025-03-02 03:17:15 UTC

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My game is Linux-first. The Windows port comes later.

2025-02-22 05:39:49 UTC

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Like that one time in the 70's(?) that an Indian grifter guy out Wyoming tried to secede and form his own nation?

2025-02-22 05:37:39 UTC

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Like that one time in the 1860's when they killed each other?

2025-02-22 05:09:43 UTC

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I use the same strategy with judges.
It's kind of dumb that any politician ever gets a second term. We're not exactly short on candidates, and one-term-ever makes corruption a lot harder.

2025-02-22 05:06:16 UTC

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States should be able to force a SCOTUS hearing, with no ability to reject on procedural or standings grounds; if a state says it's an issue, it's an issue by definition. This is a big oversight in the constitution.
Case-law based systems are untenable in a world with computerized paperwork. They will rapidly expand to the point that it's impossible to know what the law even is, and pleading a case becomes so expensive from a research perspective as to nullify any semblance of justice. The US has practically regressed into feudalism, where the King's courts are only for the lords (huge corporations), and your lord's court (contracts of adhesion) has final say over any dispute you have with him (you always lose).

2025-02-22 04:42:30 UTC

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The most likely outcome will be alternating administrations, whether legit or not, that abuse the executive to the maximum. Congress will drag their feet when they have a small conservative majority, and pass millions of pages is insane corruption when they have a small leftist majority. SCOTUS will have 60% bad takes while completely ignoring the most important cases. The US will progressively alienate its neighbors and allies, driving them into the arms of whatever other power is most convenient.

2025-02-22 04:23:46 UTC

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His neck

2025-02-22 04:20:45 UTC

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...that can't beat goat herders in Afghanistan

2025-02-21 06:00:54 UTC

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That chick is like 82% Spanish, 14% Moroccan, and 4% Aztec.

2025-02-21 05:19:55 UTC

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Hell yeah, brother. Go to your Ford dealership and get a Mexican-made F350 Power Stroke and start rollin' coal! That'll teach em for making electric cars in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_Engine

2025-02-21 03:36:06 UTC

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$5k for every American is around $1.5 trillion. They didn't find $1.5 trillion of actual unspent money laying around; it would come from inflation.
Welcome to the stage of empire collapse where they directly bribe the entire populace by aggressively watering down the currency.

2025-02-21 03:18:40 UTC

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Apache isn't "old software", it's bad software and always has been.

2025-02-21 02:20:55 UTC

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Would the heat curdle the eggs?

2025-02-21 02:10:33 UTC

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But but but one more level of containers will solve all our problems!

2025-02-13 05:26:39 UTC

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The long bit catches fat light and uses it to wiggle magnets.

2025-02-13 05:25:50 UTC

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Better yet, it just lowers taxes across the board. No need to hand out cash and then take it back, just steal less to start with.

2025-02-13 05:01:00 UTC

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Web design will stick around forever. The core of it is Boomeresque managers wanting the icon to be cornflower blue and the button to pop up a new dialog that asks people to sign up for the newsletter, but slightly different from all the other websites. That's the sort of shit that is easy to do but can't just be copypasted from Stack Overflow; chatbots can't sit in a meeting and make middle managers feel important.
After all, there are already a million CMS's and sitebuilder tools that work perfectly fine for 98.5% of basic websites.

2025-02-13 04:56:24 UTC

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Real feudalism formed over the course of centuries, and had responsibilities in both directions. Monty Python's "I didn't vote for a king" segment is a lot closer to historical reality than people think. Trying to put a large portion of your population out of work over the course of only a few years will absolutely result in riots; industrialization happened over the course of two hundred years and there was no shortage of violence from people who are now obsolete and need to learn how to factory or whatever.
Fortunately, it looks like chatbots will take the jobs of journalists, call center workers, Hollywood writers, and two-bit furry porn artists and not much else.

2025-02-13 03:49:58 UTC

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GPUs are expensive because Wall Street thinks they can replace all human labor with chatbots and somehow the starving masses wouldn't just kill them all and smash the chatbots.

2025-02-13 03:35:03 UTC

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Linux

2025-02-13 01:46:17 UTC

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Forget multicellular life, how did even a single functional RNA polymerase protein emerge?

2025-01-21 01:41:47 UTC

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It likely won't be retroactive. It might not even be legal to be retroactive.

2024-12-30 22:45:30 UTC

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Hyperbole?
Though my first response could have been more clear. In retrospect it came off as dismissive towards his comment, when I only intended it to clarify that I assumed there would already be a name out there.

2024-12-30 22:39:32 UTC

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lol, wut? Did you respond to the wrong thread?

2024-12-17 03:33:18 UTC

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Only when the man is too weak to just make a decision and enforce it after she says "dunno" the first time.

2024-12-02 00:10:36 UTC

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American cities were bulldozed to create parking so that Boomers could live in shitty houses in distant suburbs while still commuting to their city job.

2024-11-29 07:06:19 UTC

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Gold doesn't need electricity or computers to work, much less the cooperation of Walmart and whatever big corporation is managing their gift cards for them, and whatever company the gas station uses to process gift cards.

2024-10-14 06:43:19 UTC

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Not me. I suck at music.

2024-10-13 05:37:33 UTC

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Mongolia independently communist for a while. Then they looked around and said "This is kinda shit, actually. Wanna stop being commies?" and everyone said "Sounds good". No violence or collapse or revolutions.

2024-10-13 05:27:47 UTC

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Mongolia
IIRC, something like 30% of the population is still nomadic horse ranchers that live in yurts. I really want to visit, but any plane ticket in or out of the country has what appears to be a $700+ airport use fee built in. I guess they have to keep the lights on somehow.

2024-10-08 23:41:45 UTC

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The anime is decent.

2024-10-07 08:04:28 UTC

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I used to live close to that line. Cat3 is like "Maybe we'll get a day off from school, maybe not; I hope it doesn't hit on a Saturday." Some houses right on the coast will get rekt, and some meth heads in trailers will get rekt, but what else do they expect living on the coast or in a cardboard box in a hurricane zone? (aka Florida)
One time a Cat2 hit direct on my house. The eye wall made the palm trees bend sideways. We all walked outside in the eye, and yes, it's eerie like they say. A bunch of tree branches came down and the power was out for about 10 hours. Back at work like normal the day after next.

2024-10-07 07:14:02 UTC

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"Why would a private citizen ever need a MANPAD?"

2024-09-27 08:45:24 UTC

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I spent 4 hours today trying to fix a synchronization bug in Vulkan that turned out to actually be a copypasta error where I was updating an image descriptor set using a zeroed-out layout property.

2024-09-27 08:25:43 UTC

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I don't think so? @npub1scj…el3p runs it.
Despite being a dev, I care very little about the workings and details of fedi. It's too close to being webshit.

2024-09-27 08:23:06 UTC

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Also, quoteposting because I noticed I made very few posts recently and I tend to judge people for not having something on their feed. meh.

2024-09-27 08:19:04 UTC

All these tards want to destroy civilization to save civilization because they're retarded.
If they weren't retarded they would be talking about launching a solar shade instead of shutting down industry or burying forests.
Not that anthropogenic global warming is real...
#note1gyy…vp2p

2024-09-25 06:46:11 UTC

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The people who lived there in the first century were much lighter skinned than after the Arab conquests. Many of them were essentially Greek.

2024-09-18 19:44:55 UTC

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$35T is just the federal debt. Total government debt is closer to $40T, but that's less than half of the total US debt of $101T.

2024-09-17 06:39:37 UTC

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A 3.25% interest rate is what's causing houses to be expensive. Any interest rate below around 10% will generate inflation. Fixing the housing market means parking interest rates at 18% for a couple decades until prices are back down to a sane ratio to incomes. Anything else is just choosing the speed at which you race into hyperinflation.

2024-09-15 23:57:55 UTC

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Iowa is actually 125% vowels

2024-09-15 04:02:32 UTC

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A few of us can, and we'll be the only ones that know how after GenX dies. Zoomers can't even type...

2024-09-14 07:22:44 UTC

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Put an "isDirty" flag on the main geometry structure and do a one-time sweep of the collision geometry every time it changes. Easy, and no glitches.
Does Unity not have builtin mesh-mesh intersection functions?

2024-09-14 07:11:21 UTC

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My ray casts return a sorted list of intersections... Odd that Unity lacks such a basic feature?
Though the author really shouldn't be ray casting like this to calculate collisions.

2024-09-03 04:58:28 UTC

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Oh, it's because readdir is rather annoying to use, especially if you want reliable info about the file.

2024-09-03 04:41:53 UTC

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It's not demand though. Economic demand implies the ability to pay. Everyone wants a Rolls Royce but very few can pay for it therefore there is very little demand for Rolls Royces. The migrants can't even afford to eat, much less buy houses.

2024-09-03 04:34:09 UTC

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trudeau got his shit pushed in
Not gonna lie, I thought this was going in a different direction...

2024-09-03 04:15:45 UTC

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They dumped money into a market and prices went up. Basic supply and demand. Econ 101. Dumping in more will only make it worse.

2024-09-03 03:20:49 UTC

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The will definitely does not exist. Everyone wants line to go up forever, and thinks that the solution is 0.5%, 60-year mortgages. It will likely reset when the Fed also "resets".

2024-09-03 02:26:40 UTC

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The 80's was nuts. Tons of very diverse platforms.
Nowadays you only need to target x86-64. There's so little difference between Windows and Linux now that a properly factored game can ship on both platforms with only a tiny fraction of specialized platform code.