Child: Look, it's a red Mazda 3 like ours! But it has a roof rack. Me: That's sexual dimorphism. Child: Mom. Me: The rack is for carrying their young; I just don't remember which sex has it. Child: MOM STOP
Waltteri
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Finished a MSc in CS at University of Helsinki 🎉 Senior SWE at Cactos, battery energy storage systems. Previously Senior SWE at Garden, SRE at Webflow. Recreational computer graphics, Rust, photography, cycling. He/him. Mastodon (Twitter) @anotherwalther
having a minor 4D crisis ;-; 2D rotation has one plane: XY 3D has three: XY, YZ, ZX 4D has six, which starts out fine: XY, YZ, ZW, WX but what should the remaining two be? XZ or ZX? WY or YW? I'm tempted to say ZX, to make 3D rotations a subset, but idk which of WY or YW has the most symmetry
From today, EU citizens have a legal right to know when they're talking to a bot or looking at a deepfake, backed by fines of up to €15m. Thanks to Brexit, we're missing out on this protection.
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
Hand painted Goldspan Dragon, based on an illustration of Smaug by Tolkien, himself.
Hey, devs? I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're making a single player game? Start/Esc should ALWAYS, and IMMEDIATELY pause the game. I don't gaf how "epic" you think your camera is I just spilled something. My cat just puked. The dog got out. My kid fell. Fuck you, PAUSE THE GAME
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
In ancient R’lyeh she slumbers. Each minute, a grain falls, and when her prison fills, the salt girl awakens. When it rains, it pours.
Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 3d agoBet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed
At work we are having a music league, this week's theme is "Music you'd use to clean out a party" and the differences are hilarious. Half the people seem to be using songs with themes of goodbye, the other half have gone for auditory warfare.
Testing the code of a newly written HAL is an essential but tedious, not to mention recurring, part of our work; so Vivian and Tamme developed a PoC for a universal test suite! Read more here: tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/240/... @0x76.dev #rustlang #embedded #softwaretesting
PoC for universal hardware-in-the-loop HAL test suite — Tweede golf
Developing HALs is great fun, but testing them can be a hassle. That's why we developed a Proof of Concept for a universal hardware-in-the-loop HAL test suite.
tweedegolf.nl
people need to understand that games on steam largely do not ‘underpeform,’ they either hit the algorithmic tipping points and become viral successes or they do not exist. they sell bad day at a garage sale numbers. this is a reality constructed and encouraged by valve
Harrison Ford, the actor behind loveable scoundrels Han Solo and Indiana Jones, started his career as an on-set carpenter. That makes him a roguelike deckbuilder.
I am delighted to announce that after 5 years of work, 15 early releases, 50,000 words written, and 100,000 more deleted, *Logic for Programmers* is now complete and available in print! Blog post announcement: www.hillelwayne.com/post/lfp/ Website: logicforprogrammers.com
Logic for Programmers
Practical math for the working programmer.
logicforprogrammers.com
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
You’re caught unawares and offered $1000 per correct word if you recite any existing piece of text you know - accumulating up to the point you make your first mistake. How much do you walk away with?
New random sampling method for three-gpu-pathtracer: blue noise dither sampling! It offsets a common random sequence for ALL screen samples, yielding a cleaner image in just a few samples. Screenshots are single sample scrambled sobol vs blue noise. Small writeup below👇
as o winston link said "I can't move the sun, and it's always in the wrong place"
I love soldering because if you fucked it up, don't worry! you can always fuck it up worse next time.
my dad, an engineer, always told me when I was growing up “sometimes the most efficient way is the inefficient way” and ngl it has saved my butt so many times
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!
