I was thinking the other day that as a holiday it might be most conceptually similar to Guy Fawkes day, politically motivated holidays celebrating the downfall of someone hated

With the difference being that Guy Fawkes day celebrates the government’s victory over him while Charlie Kirk was aligned with the government and killed illegally, so it’s a more natural holiday driven by organic culture while Guy Fawkes day was government supported

Anyways I’m not British so I don’t really know much about Guy Fawkes day, and this is a silly comparison

Oh, I hadn’t heard of her, when I first read this I read it as her being sane and Polymarket being the one misunderstanding what Arabic numerals are

So the “dear god” would be directed at Polymarket and not Mamdani

Idk if i’m explaining this well

I installed arch “from scratch” for the first time after installing it with archinstall like 4+ times previously, and yes it definitely somewhat did this, but honestly not quite to the extent that I expected. I feel like most of my system’s configuration was determined for me by the KDE plasma dependencies and defaults lol

My bootloader configuration is definitely one of the parts that I was more exposed to with a manual install, but honestly I don’t really see how what I learned would help me fix issues like that in the future, more about how I could customize the boot screen and extend my configuration with more boot options

idk it was a good experience to have but I think it brought more personal satisfaction than real practical benefit

you can use arch with the cachyos kernel and repositories to (afaik) get most of that performance boost while keeping the arch experience, that’s what i’m doing on my main computer at the moment

https://wiki.cachyos.org/features/optimized_repos/#adding-our-repositories-to-an-existing-arch-linux-install

We should all be using animated avifs anyways as the only decent format with good animation support (aka actually compressing it like a video) (yes, for some reason, animated webp, despite being based on a video format, compresses animations like a series of separate pictures…)

And then we can put this debate behind us

I think it’s supposed to be that how AI turns high level instructions into code is compared to how compilers turn code into assembly. Implying that using AI is just a natural extension of the handing off work to the computers that we’ve already been doing.

I wonder if you gave different AI models some c++ or something and told them to write assembly based on it how well they would do compared to an actual compiler

I have never in my life tied and untied shoes every time I put them on, even though all of my shoes have laces. It takes a lot of force, but I slide into tight-ish dress shoes as well. With my hiking boots, I just pull the string over the clips. I have also known how to tie shoes decently quickly for as long as I can remember.

well, i measured that on windows (since I still run windows on my main PC) but I assumed it would be similar on linux lol

steam is like 500 MB of ram by itself at least for me rn, so add any game or os stuff on top and it rounds up to a gigabyte

Reminded of how, for some unfathomable reason, the way you access the task manager on ChromeOS is through the hamburger menu in the bar of the Chrome browser. Plus the popups “gmail actually works much better in chrome!! trust me!!”

I can see how people could get confused lol

I first got introduced to Blender in basically the same way back in elementary school

those computers probably weren’t actually very restricted, but none of us knew enough about computers for that to matter lol. as long as they blocked us from going on the download pages

other stupid thing someone figured out how to run was that Star Wars ASCII thing in the terminal (lol looked it up and found this article https://www.instructables.com/How-to-get-an-ASCII-Star-Wars-movie-on-Mac/)

It’s good to encourage reuse, which is eBay’s main thing. I wouldn’t have a reason to buy anything new from them however.

Makes sense, for naive, completely diffuse lighting (not reflective) the result is just the sum of base color * light visiblity * cos(angle between surface and light) for every light

And then for light bounces just repeat that many times, but considering every surface as a light

In the general case, for a more complicated material, the resulting brightness on a surface can be pretty much any arbitrary function of wavelength, the angle the light comes in, and the angle of the observer (called a BRDF). As long as it’s not putting out more light than it’s getting in, it’s probably possible. These functions can get especially complicated when there’s multiple thin layers, imagine a brushed metal surface with a layer of oxidization, a clear coating, some dirt, and some dust. Even for a single position on the surface, each of those reacts so differently to different input and output angles that no simple functions will represent the surface well. For CGI in films, they usually will layer many simpler BRDFs together, but that’s slow for games, which usually try to approximate surfaces in a single one.

was looking at some of my youtube stats after seeing this and ??? how did exactly 420% of people seeing the video click on it? i swear this is not edited