Technus

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[–] Technus 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems Overstreet is just pissy that he can't talk to people on the kernel mailing list like it's 2005 anymore. "Get the fuck out of here with this shit," indeed.

[–] Technus 23 points 3 weeks ago

Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.

khloros is Greek for "green". That's also where chlorine gets its name. So they're only related etymologically.

[–] Technus 35 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Sounds like an issue with handling Exif orientation tags.

[–] Technus 46 points 1 month ago

it's just a jerk-thing.

That's not very skibidi of you to say.

[–] Technus 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I'm a Millennial and I'm happy to report I've appropriated "skibidi". I really, really enjoy watching younger people die a little inside every time I use it.

Does that make me a dad even if I don't have any kids?

[–] Technus 1 points 1 month ago

so they wanted to sell Itanium for servers, and keep the x86 for personal computers.

That's still complacency. They assumed consumers would never want to run workloads capable of using more than 4 GiB of address space.

Sure, they'd already implemented physical address extension, but that just allowed the OS itself to address more memory by enlarging the page table. It didn't increase the virtual address space available to applications.

The application didn't necessarily need to use 4 GiB of RAM to hit those limitations, either. Dylibs, memmapped files, thread stacks, various paging tricks, all eat up the available address space without needing to be resident in RAM.

[–] Technus 14 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Their last few generations of flagship GPUs have been pretty underwhelming but at least they existed. I'd been hoping for a while that they'd actually come up with something to give Nvidia's xx80 Ti/xx90 a run for their money. I wasn't really interested in switching teams just to be capped at the equivalent performance of a xx70 for $100-200 more.

[–] Technus 133 points 1 month ago (24 children)

This highlights really well the importance of competition. Lack of competition results in complacency and stagnation.

It's also why I'm incredibly worried about AMD giving up on enthusiast graphics. I have very few hopes in Intel ARC.

[–] Technus 6 points 1 month ago

If anyone has the opportunity and hasn't done so yet, I highly recommend seeing them live while you still can. They're getting up there in years now and Bruce's voice is starting to show its age. Still great stage shows though.

Same with Judas Priest. Rob Halford is starting to lose his rhythm and he looks like an old man who wandered out of the nursing home.

[–] Technus 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've woken myself up from several unpleasant dreams and nightmares before by literally just going "fuck this, I'm out."

I think I'm often aware that I'm dreaming, but I don't really lucid dream because my dreams are generally more interesting than anything I could consciously come up with anyway. So more often than not I'm just content to be along for the ride.

[–] Technus 77 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Will AI steal their jobs? 70% of professional programmers don’t see artificial intelligence as a threat to their work.

If your job can be replaced with GPT, you had a bullshit job to begin with.

What so many people don't understand is that writing code is only a small part of the job. Figuring out what code to write is where most of the effort goes. That, and massaging the egos of management/the C-suite if you're a senior.

[–] Technus 49 points 1 month ago

Plants: develop hard pericarps for their seeds to survive animals' digestive tracts

This beetle: G O T T A G O F A S T

 

Hey they're not lying, it definitely looks sharp

 

The order of the person ahead of me was still on screen when I pulled up to order. I took the picture in a bit of a hurry cause I didn't know when the screen was gonna reset.

 

http://web.archive.org/web/20240512204543/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

(Archive link in case it's changed.)

This article is a surprisingly entertaining read for a few reasons:

  • one or more people who wrote it clearly have very strong opinions about how nuclear weapons should be built
  • the article contains a surprising amount of detail, including stuff that seems like it'd be classified or at least censored
  • due to both of the above, there's a ton of [citation needed] that I doubt will ever be resolved
 

Over the past couple weeks I've gotten emails from both Senators and a House Rep from the State of Minnesota. All three emails have been concerning the Israel/Palestine conflict, and are worded as replies to a some message I sent them.

I've never set foot in the state, let alone lived there (I'm on the other side of the country). I've never sent messages to any of those members of Congress, and I've never signed any petition giving any group the right to contact Congress about this matter.

I suspect my name and email address might have been used in some sort of astroturfing campaign targeting Congress. Or these might be spam emails impersonating the members of Congress for some reason. I noticed the House rep and one of the Senators is up for re-election this year.

Has anyone else gotten emails like this?

I've tried to send messages back to these people but the forms on their websites require submitting an address in their state/district, so I'm not sure what to do. The From: addresses seem like they might have been faked, or they're no-reply addresses, so I wasn't sure about just replying to the emails.

I also thought about calling their offices but I wasn't sure if this was something important enough to bother their staff about, and they're two hours ahead of me so their offices are closed by the time I get off work anyway.

 

This meme has become a running joke in my friend group: https://lemmy.world/post/7405623

We were fucking around with the Meta AI in WhatsApp and I got it to say this

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