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@voicesunheard I highly suggest everyone give this podcast a watch. youtube.com/watch?v=QQfIo7…

@adonispara These people will cease to exist if nothing changes

The Celtic phenotype (pale skin, freckles, red hair, light eyes) took thousands of years on isolated rainy islands to form. Ireland is its main reservoir. Ireland now has the highest immigration rate in its history. we must protect it at all costs.

@80s_Patriot @TheChiefNerd We can't refine our own crude oil, retard. Most of our oil is imported because it makes sense.

@TheChiefNerd 60% of oil in Commiefornia comes from out of the Country. Make that make sense!

ROGAN: “I talked to Tim Dillon today … He told me that gas is $7.90/gallon in LA right now … We should have a national oil company and only sell in America … Mr. President, please fix that.”

@gdechichi This account is automated. It's not even a human, its an engagement farm.

this post is a perfect example of the disconnect in the minds of a lot of people hyping AI. 🧵

@WarrenInTheBuff Because it's basically illegal

How is there not a startup building purely mechanical analog vehicles? No ECM, no software, no subscriptions, no OTA updates... just combustion or compression, knobs, buttons, and cable actuated systems

@andreintg I could see some of those outputs being grounds for a lawsuit.

I was a bit hesitant about showing stuff like this just a month ago 😅 When we started showcasing real-time AI + SDF sculpting, I was afraid professionals would laugh if I showed no effort on the input models. The shape strength slider was also hidden in our first iteration, so I had no choice but to at least try and knock some more interesting shapes together. Now that we're starting to focus on more powerful features and shape strength is finally unlocked, I'm starting to appreciate just playing with simple shapes. Different stages of production have different needs. Sometimes you want full authoring over your creations, while other times you just want to quickly explore new ideas.

@EndWokeness The huts: huts

The worst "myth busting" attempt ever

@lyc_aon @DooF_GooBINS @ArtisanShitpost @ns123abc What? No. The jury would be wise to recognize this. That's the point.

@DooF_GooBINS @ArtisanShitpost @ns123abc This is just a testament to how retarded jurors are. Hate it here.

Musk's lawyer: "Are you completely trustworthy?" Altman: "I believe so." Musk's lawyer: "But, you know, you don't know whether you're completely trustworthy." Altman: "I'll just amend my answer to yes." Musk's lawyer: "Should the jury believe your testimony?" Altman: "I think that's up to them, but I believe so." Musk's lawyer: "You believe so, or they should?" Altman: "Sir, I'm not gonna tell the jury what to think." Musk's lawyer: "Do you always tell the truth?" Altman: "I believe I'm a truthful person." Musk's lawyer: "It wasn't my question. Do you always tell the truth?" Altman: "I'm sure there is some time in my life when I have not." Musk's lawyer: "Have you told lies to advance your business interests?" Altman: "Uh, no." Musk's lawyer: "Have you misled people with whom you do business?" Altman: "I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person." Musk's lawyer: "That wasn't my question, what you believe. Have you misled people with whom you do business?" Altman: "I do not think so." Musk's lawyer: "Would they think so?" Altman: "I can't answer that for other people." That was the opening of Sam Altman's cross-examination this morning.

@merissahansen17 Get fucked, we want cat memes

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.

@theonlytruecel ugly face / no tits / no ass

what is the female equivalent of being short as a male? if you say being fat or skinny im going to put you in solitary confinement for the rest of your life because not weighing enough or weighing too much can be fixed fairly simply, never said easily just simply.

@FlareGun03 @ShitpostRock2 Rebinding it for games and other software

@ShitpostRock2 Who uses Caps Lock that often

@globox123483074 @GameStalgiaX Real mirrors don't rasterize.

@CygnusSlaughter @GameStalgiaX

Super Mario Sunshine (2002)

It's fake in that it's a looser approximation of the reflection than ray tracing. Both are really just approximations, of course, but Ray tracing is more physically accurate to how light behaves, just with far fewer rays than real photons. There's a time and place for SSR too. It's just another tool in the programmer's kit.

@CygnusSlaughter @GameStalgiaX Isn’t that just one of many methods for imitating reflections? What makes it “fake”? I’d argue it’s way, way better than the screen space reflections you see everywhere today

There's nothing wrong with the effect they used here. This is a good cheap way to do reflections, but it only works if the mirror surface is a flat plane. Ray traced reflections work on any shape, so you could have as many curved surfaces as you want and the effect doesn't break. It's also just more physically accurate, higher res, you can do multiple light bounces and other effects. It just looks better. Render to texture also tends to produce a lot of noise and aliasing when viewing at extreme angles.

@CygnusSlaughter @DaschX13 @GameStalgiaX What advantage would ray tracing over this technique used in Sunshine?

@DaschX13 @GameStalgiaX If they could do real time Ray traced reflections back then, they may have.

@CygnusSlaughter @GameStalgiaX All that on a 43MB split RAM and 9 GFLOPS GPU console.

@ArchSxlt @GameStalgiaX Ray tracing is just a technique, like render-to-texture.

@CygnusSlaughter @GameStalgiaX And somehow doing that, or even running a replica of the entire map behind a barrier/glass to act as a mirror wouldn't take a massive toll to resources as our current "accurate and real" ray-traced reflections.

@IfindRetards He transitioned from Dennis to Dee

So basically it does nothing

@GithubProjects The trick is making sure you understand it Friday.

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@Ava_AM12ff Realizing she knows nothing about the topic as soon as a single particular arises

If you need a uterus to have an opinion on killing babies, then fetuses without brains get no say either. Hypocrisy at its finest.

There are benign monopolies, like Steam, earned by companies that deliver the most innovation, highest quality, and best prices. They dominate because customers choose them — Steam became the leading PC gaming platform through better features, frequent sales, and convenience, with no government protection. Bad monopolies, by contrast, are usually shielded from competition by government policy. They can persist for decades, raise prices, and stifle innovation because legal barriers prevent rivals from entering the market.

@MattBraynard Oh ok, so because nothing lasts forever therefore monopolies can’t form? If it has to outlast the heat death of the universe, then nothing exists. If lasting for decades counts, then monopolies form all the time.

This is her dumbest take. Monopolies form naturally. Monopolies are much more profitable than competitive industries. So if you find yourself in a competitive industry, it makes sense to buy out or collude with all your competitors, or to temporarily take a loss in order to drive them out of business. The government itself is a naturally-forming monopoly on violence. Ayn Rand is frequently guilty of this kind of magical thinking in which everything would be perfect if the government just disappeared. Well, there are still large parts of Africa today in which there is effectively no government. Is it utopia? Meanwhile the Industrial Revolution could not have taken place without the financial incentives put in place by intellectual property law such as patents, which require an incredibly strong government to enforce. The right really needs to get away from this whole “everything the government does is bad” loser mindset.