Aaron Kennedy retweetledi
Aaron Kennedy
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@patio11 I really enjoy your writing (and now speaking) about the financial system. You’ve said that there is a lot to learn from the annual reports of some small to medium sized banks. As a non-American unfamiliar with the landscape, do you have any must reads to recommend?
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@GustavSterbrant @matiasgoldberg I wouldn’t expect to be paying €70 for a usb-c to DisplayPort cable - more like €20 from a decent brand. But 2m is already pretty long, and as most DP KVMs just connect the input and outputs together, you effectively sum the lengths on both sides of the switch!
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@GustavSterbrant @matiasgoldberg level1techs has a usb-c kvm that would work, but if you’re willing to run multiple cables from your Mac (cheap usb-c to DisplayPort cable and separate usb data cable), you’ve got many more options using just plain DisplayPort 1.4 KVMs
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I’m a little sad that I’ve watched my final F1 race as a Ferrari hater
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@SebAaltonen @ikergalardi As you say, C makes this impossible, but in C++ it is pretty straight forward to do elegantly with templates (QT’s QFlags api is a good example). In the case of WebGPU specifically, doesn’t the emscripten webgpu_cpp.h already do all the necessary overloading for you?
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@ikergalardi Yes. But this is a C-API. Can't do that. And it's a PITA as you said.
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WebGPU changed their enums. This is the usual C/C++ enum issue. If you combine them together (binary OR) then the resulting type is not the same type anymore. Easy solution = don't use enums for bit flags. That's what WebGPU did too.
Left: old Emscripten API
Right: new Dawn API
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@DJSnM I’m neither a citizen nor a resident, but props to you for sticking your neck out for what is the obviously sane position
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I'm with the Governator on this one.
Arnold Schwarzenegger@Schwarzenegger
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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@SebAaltonen This is *insanely* cultural too. If you ever get a chance, have a chat with a HR person in a multinational who does “employee satisfaction” surveys about what these numbers actually mean to different people
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I don't understand that people using these new online services give 5 stars for mediocre service. That's corrupting the star rating system. 5 stars is perfect. 4 stars is good, 3 stars is mediocre. 2 stars is bad and 1 star is very bad.
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Four starts is a good score! Five stars is perfect. Perfect ride or perfect stay would have to be something special. If you just get from A to B then it's not 5 stars. Same with movie and game reviews. 5 stars is received for all time best classics. 5 stars = great. 3 stars = OK.
Kitten 🐈@kitten_beloved
The rating economy for things like Airbnb, Uber etc. made a huge mistake when they used the five-star scale You've got boomers all over the country who think that four stars means something was really good, when in fact it means there was something very wrong with the experience
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@c__adams Hi - happy to catch up, are you still in Eight Mile Plains? If this was prompted by something Martin said, ask him to tag along if he’s interested in non-shitfaced Aaron 🤣
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@aaronkennedy0 It's been ages - I hope you're doing well! Keen to catch up for lunch sometime?
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@dark1x @ResidentDante I’ve often thought that it would be cool for one of the large players to start an initiative whereby, say, 18 months after a launch you could send them your old disc and a nominal fee and they’d send you back a disc with the fully patched game on it.
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@ResidentDante I'm not talking about preservation, though. That's a different topic. I'm talking about ownership and having access to games without reliance on a server. That's it.
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And 99% of these are never booted in 1.0 version either, they get day one patches. This is classic clutching to the deperation that physical is somehow still releveant.
PC moved away from physical YEARS ago. Physical console games are shelf display items, nothing more.
John Linneman@dark1x
@Shpeshal_Nick That's not true on Switch or PlayStation. 99% of games released can be played right off the media you buy in-store. You don't NEED those patches and they cannot disable them. Obviously some games launch in a bad state, which sucks, but that's not as common as you'd think!
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@leidegre @matiasgoldberg The set on her face don’t actually join, so I assumed it was just some rad face tattoo ;)
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@aaronkennedy0 @matiasgoldberg This and the fact that she is wearing two pairs of sunglasses. 😂
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Interesting. Knowing it's AI generated, if you pay attention to the lighting of the 4 people and their chairs, it's indoor studio lighting instead of outdoor lighting.
It's a very subtle detail and it takes a lot of xp to tell that, and I don't know if I could spot it unaware
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