If your piss is this color you should see a doctor

I like the theory that the word is made to look like the animal. The s is the face, the h is the fin, and the k is the tail: shark. I’m sure that’s not actually true but it is fun lol

Ouch, this one hits a little too close to home

Ikr this guy’s more manly than most cis men lol

I went to a concert the other day that had unisex bathrooms and it was actually the best. Every stall was actually private and, shockingly, nobody seemed uncomfortable. Lowkey the least stressful public restroom I’ve ever had to use (for context I’m AMAB NB)

Christians, primarily

This is the way

Ah, Gastrointestinal Joseph, my favorite

I hear you gotta replace the gender fluid after 100k miles

:3

This reminds me of a Vietnamese-American fusion place I went once called “Pho 'Cue”

I know right?? I actually feel cheated because I was promised something the school failed to offer to me. They had me write a review of the program this past semester and I was not particularly kind.

At least learning resources for my actual areas of interest are generally freely available to learn on my own time… and an MS looks good on a resume…

I’m actually considering work in the public sector at this point so I can have a work/life balance and actual benefits. Used to be the private sector had better long-term career prospects, but tbh I’d rather take the pay cut and escape the corporate dehumanization.

The FOSS community has been a great outlet for my actual interests because I can use what I know to help people instead of feeding into the technocratic slop machine. It’s also been helpful in finding areas where I’d enjoy specializing.

As a student, I feel this so hard. My school canceled every Master’s-level class section with less than 15 students and now I’m stuck in 3 16-week AI/ML-centric classes. I suppose I’ll at least be well prepared to sit through useless mandatory trainings once I enter the workforce, if I can find a job. I’d say I’m more than ready to graduate so I can be rid of this AI bullshit but I think I really just want to move somewhere remote and become a hermit.

My best guess is that it has something to do with most render pipelines using CPU frame scheduling. Since the GPU can only process shaders, the CPU has to do e.g. input logic, reading textures from disk, etc. So in most engines, the CPU gives the GPU basic directions for each frame, and then the GPU goes off to process them while the CPU prepares the next set of directions.

If the CPU isn’t fast enough, the GPU sits around waiting for instructions and it causes stuttering and FPS drops. If the GPU isn’t fast enough, instructions from the CPU queue up and it causes input lag. To get around the input lag, most engines intentionally drop frames and decrease FPS (basically forcing the CPU to wait) in order to keep everything in sync.

Where VRAM comes into play is that that’s where textures and other important data the GPU needs are stored. The CPU and GPU can actually both write to VRAM (though the CPU does so indirectly in most cases). Writing to VRAM is an expensive operation that benefits from parallelization, especially in the context of loading textures and cached shaders, therefore more CPU cores = better performance. Meanwhile, running out of VRAM usually causes the GPU to fall back to system RAM which is much slower, so more VRAM = better performance.

TL;DR The CPU runs the game logic and the GPU renders the result, so the GPU can only render frames as fast as the CPU can prepare them and vice-versa.

Edit: Since people seem unable to tell, I’m not a bot (obligatory fuck AI); sorry I use structured formatting tho ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Universal Serial Bus

Close enough

I think this is too many levels of irony for lemmy lol

I assumed it was one of those charts of the variety of human vagina shapes

I can’t by any means say I’m immune to propaganda, but I’ve been thinking along these lines since 2016 (when I wasn’t even on social media or reading the news), so it’d have to have been some pretty pervasive, in-person propaganda.

I don’t think a full-scale revolution against our current government could even possibly succeed by sheer military strength; not unless the bulk of the military defected to the revolutionaries’ side. But, I do think an Ireland-style revolution (guerilla warfare targeting strategic government officials) would be plausible, albeit far from good. It would cause substantial upheaval and likely wouldn’t overthrow the government, but it may force their hand a bit if it happened.

Again, I wouldn’t personally condone or participate in something like that unless I had nothing to lose, because of course it would be a suicide mission, but I do worry that more and more Americans are left with nothing to lose by the day. I’m not saying a revolution should happen, or that it would somehow be a good thing, but the tensions do make it feel like it might happen, especially if the economy crashes.

To be fair, there are some of us Americans who legitimately are starting to feel like revolution may be the only way to root out the corruption in our government. That said I’d still personally exhaust every alternative option first

I feel like it says something about the state of the internet that I wasn’t sure if this was ironic or legitimately a bot until I checked your profile