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this is an essay on this fucking stupid idea, just hitting the technical issues
it's time to cover this one. what are *your* favourite writeups on why data centres in space are just fucking stupid?
There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.Taranis
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Leftists: "We should feed starving kids"
Fascists: "The only thing kids are good for is working in the coal mines while I enjoy my $12,000 caviar"
Centrists: "I literally cannot tell you two apart."
Tengo un nuevo trabajo. Ahora atiendo al público. Viene gente muy rara que pide cosas muy normales.
TW: atención al público, el silencio de los corderos
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1 Todas las funcionarias y funcionarios que trabajan dentro de las oficinas, en la semioscuridad de los edificios gubernamentales, ocultas al público general, sufren de la misma manera: O bien tien…Almotacén en prácticas
[EDIT : ça commence demain 🤩]
Vous habitez à (ou proche de) #Strasbourg ? 🥨
Ou vous avez prévu d'y faire un saut le week-end du 6-7 décembre ? 🎄
Ça tombe bien ! Vous pouvez m'y retrouver avec une ribambelle de formidables créateurices comme
@amande_bleue @evansky_arts @lindenshieldarts @leboisdesfees @inkdustrielle à l'occasion du marché de Noël Onirique ✨️
📍Le lieu : salle Léon 13 du F.E.C, 17 place Saint Étienne à Strasbourg.
🗓 Les dates :
samedi 6 décembre de 10h30 à 20h
Dimanche 7 décembre de 10h30 à 17h30
Le boost met des cadeaux artisanaux au pied du sapin 🎁
#madeinfrance #artisanat #noel2025 #cadeaux2025
fellow fediverse admins of instances with more than 20 people: if you have dot social unlimited, how have they been recently regarding spam and moderation? how frequently do you find yourself cleaning up their mess?
🔁 please boost, but do not respond if your instance has less than twenty active users
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Kunde kommt rein, gelbe Ray-Ban Brille, Camp David Shirt.
Mustert die Kollegin abschätzend von oben bis unten und sagt „Nä, von Ihnen möchte ich garantiert nicht bedient werden“. Lässt die Kollegin stehen und kommt zu mir.
„Nä, ich möchte sie ganz bestimmt nicht bedienen, der nächste bitte.“.
Ich hasse diese wichser.
@junior I like it. It is a huge upgrade over the 3. I'm sure other phones at the same price point are faster but it is fast enough to be comfortable to me and I really like the switch on the side to quickly switch between DND and regular.
The only issues right now is no official LineageOS support yet and every now and then it seems to memory leak to the point everything gets sluggish until I reboot but that's a minor annoyance to me.
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vážne skoro tri mesiace 🙄😂
edit: yay až teraz mi to došlo
hlava ruky nohy kolená palce kolená palce kolená palce 😂
i don't think comparing website size to the apollo guidance computer program memory size is fair or meaningful
the AGC was doing trajectory calculations (something that is quite easy to build a computer for).
the website is putting raster images on a high-resolution screen (something that is significantly harder to build a computer for, and also not a concern whatsoever for people going to the moon in the 70s).
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The Black Friday Window That Shocks the UK: Galaxy Z Fold 7 Drops to an Unbelievable Price
Introduction Every Black Friday brings noise, but only a handful of deals actually shake an entire market. This year, Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 offer in the UK is one of those rare moments—an unexpected price collapse that transforms a £1,799 luxury foldable into something finally within reach for everyday buyers. What began as a normal seasonal promotion quickly turned into a…
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Would someone who uses a screen reader (or is an actual expert in the #accessibility area) kindly let me know if the custom of “adding alt text via a reply to a post” is actually helpful or not?
As in, if an image in a post doesn’t have alt text, do you scroll through the replies in the hopes that you find one? Or is this custom not too helpful, because you move on as soon as you find that the image is lacking alt text? Thank you so much for your insights in advance!
Did you know that the 1st commercial #Christmas card was a #marketing scheme for a new #postal service?
In the #UK, prior to the 1840s, letters were paid by distance & sheets. This was expensive & poorer households rarely used it.
Some men decided to implement a general rate of 1 penny per letter.
While this doubled the letters sent in the 1st year, it was financially bad for the government.
Entrepreneur Henry Cole commissioned the first Xmas Card in 1843. It was a rousing success.
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Ranní sdělení domácím kočkám: **Kdo se bude prát, nedostane žrát!**
Konec hlášení…
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If you do get one, you'll also want one of those HDMI dummy monitor things if you plan to not hook it up to a screen.
I seem to recall some people saying weird things happen if you try to initially set it up without a mouse, even if you don't actually use the mouse.
I'd be concerned with only having 16GB RAM available for both the system and GPU for that kind of thing, though, but I have no practical experience. It won't be nearly as fast as having dedicated GPU RAM for sure.
always follow the 3-2-1 rule of romantic partners
THREE partners of at least
TWO gender identities, with
ONE living in a different region
this ensures redundancy and disaster resilience
SoundSource 6 is just a few days away! If you’re not already using SoundSource, you can purchase version 5 now and be upgraded to version 6 when it arrives, free of charge.
If you are already using SoundSource, you’re going to love version 6. Coming very, very soon!
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Finally a smart RSS reader which doesn't suck ass or your data.f-droid.org
An accessible torrent client for myself. Contribute to serrebi/SerrebiTorrent development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
That advice about only refactoring the code that you need to touch to implement a feature...
I'm continuing with the restructuring of librsvg to produce a render tree, and it's making me fix all the initial design mistakes I made when doing the first pass at porting to Rust. It's hard work but I'm hoping the code will end up much simpler.
Um. I don't hesitate to refactor after I fix a bug, if I think it'll help future readers of the code to comprehend it better. I'll also happily refactor code to even without fixing a bug, if don't understand it when I'm tired. (Although I'll try to wait until I've rested before I make changes.)
Dogmatic advice usually needs to be considered carefully in case it comes from a simplistic world view.
@liw oh, yeah, I refactor around freely, too. I meant what I wrote more in the sense of, I'm needing? wanting? finding I have to? refactor more than strictly what I need for this feature, just for sanity's sake.
A lot of what makes me stuck during this process is thinking whether to resolve some data as soon as possible in the code flow, or lazily until it is needed. Experience in librsvg has shown that the former is better, but takes more upfront refactoring, but the code ends up nicer.
Does anyone have some good learning materials for someone who is very new to graphics programming, but needs to interact with OpenGL-Esque primitives (without anything like Glad/etc. in the mix)?
I dunno I feel like everytime I open up an example i get one of two things:
Is there a: "I want to learn to draw basic shapes without the libraries, and without immediately jumping into here's shaders and vertex buffers and good fucking luck"?
STM: maintenance workers to launch overtime strike in December
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Montreal commuters should brace themselves for possible strike-related transit delays next month.Joe Lofaro (CTVNews)
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then commonly used to denote the structural formula. The word graph is thus
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\"Of the 342 papers written by Sylvester during his lifetime, only two relate
directly to chemistry. Yet, these two papers, both of which appeared in 1878,
have proved to be of great importance in the evolution of mathematical chemistry. The first was a short note [20] published in Nature under the title
“Chemistry and Algebra”, and the second was a massive paper with three long
appendices [ 281 which appeared in the inaugural issue of the American Journal of Mathematics. In both these communications, Sylvester’s purpose was
to point out the many parallels that exist between chemistry and algebra. He
felt that the two disciplines were not nearly as antithetical to each other as
many had supposed, and that they could be harmonized by the use of an appropriate mathematical formalism. Sylvester proposed the introduction of a
common graphic notation which derived from his earlier work on invariant
theory. ... It is interesting to observe that in his papers
[ 20,281 Sylvester made the first use of the terms “chemicograph” and its shorter
cousin “graph” in his discussion of structural formulas. These terms clearly
derive from the “graphic notation” of the chemists of his time, the expression
then commonly used to denote the structural formula. The word graph is thus
of chemical origin, a fact not widely appreciated by either chemists or mathematicians today. \"")
RE: mstdn.ca/@thenarwhal/115624303…
Humanity:
#AI sounds amazing and yes there are downsides (lost jobs, energy use, etc), but who cares, onwards!!
A clean healthy planet sounds amazing but woah woah there are downsides (some economic sacrifices & some mega oil corps need to pivot) we obviously can't do it!!
What humanity chooses to be unstoppable about is utterly tragic.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement to advance Alberta’s pipeline dreams — and weaken some pollution laws. Here’s what you need to know https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-alberta-pipeline-grand-bargain/The Narwhal (Mastodon Canada)
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