I am not a number

@LukeDashjr @RWappie @straceX Oh put a sock in it. When you criticise this code and say it was written by a bad developer you are being a humungous bell-end.

@RWappie @straceX Caring only about "in practice" to the exclusion of theory makes someone a bad developer. "In practice" can change overnight.

In 1999, calculating 3D lighting required doing 1 / sqrt(x) millions of times a second. CPUs back then would completely choke on this math. so the developers of Quake III used this literal black magic code instead. How the hell does 0x5f3759df calculate a square root?👇

@HorrorCarnival @Funkdaddie360 Why not just make up a Pizza company name? PizzaShack?

@Funkdaddie360 In the script and early cut: Carol Anne complains there’s no dinner. Diane says they’ll just go to Pizza Hut. Steve (Craig T. Nelson) snaps back with something like: “I hate Pizza Hut!”

Does this scene bother anyone else in Poltergeist (1982), where Diane is explaining the haunting to Steve, and suddenly, there's a weird jump cut straight to their neighbor’s door? That awkward cut was made to dodge a Pizza Hut complaint over a single line, and it had to be edited out. Paranormal details lost to fast-food drama.

@brockpierson I remember using it to download a CD image of Lotus Domino Server about 25 years ago over a dialup line. It took a few days but by God it got there in the end.

Might be a bit of a deep cut here, but did anyone else use GetRight or any other "download manager" back in the day?

@kosa12m What point are you trying to make here?

oldheads really spent 3 hours clicking checkboxes and dropdowns just to get absolutely demolished by a grep/sed one liner in 0.067 seconds

@wiesson @Winterrose Hell yes.

@Winterrose So you rather accept all tracking and other JavaScript scripts and tools?

I would pay $1 per month for life for a browser I could tell my cookie preferences to and never see a f*cking European GDPR popup from ever again. how did these idiots let this happen

@Winterrose I honestly don't know why they can't just make it a browser setting. It is fucking annoying.

@flpcharthiatus Well it is stupid anyway, because it includes a green man so the green man is always on display.

Whoever put this sign up by whapping wharf should be reminded that this isn't the United States. You can cross if it's safe to do so

@realdosaygo @Alex_TheAnalyst You can't have generations of boomers you stupid sod.

@Alex_TheAnalyst i love how AI is creating the next generation of boomers who are like "the next gen is fucked, we are the kings, the past was glory" funny

I'm going to call this right now. We are going to have a large population with absolutely no critical thinking skills if they blindly trust AI for everything. We have all already seen it. They don't validate outputs. They don't really understand anything. They just ask questions, it looks good, and they go with it. There are going to be huge issues in every company as this continues over the years. The amount of technical debt and knowledge gaps are going to be insane. So much opportunity if you actually know what you're doing.

@Alex_TheAnalyst The best way to test AI is to ask it an obscure question to something you already know the answer to. You will always get back a very confident response which is completely wrong. But at least now you will be able to see that it is wrong.

@HuntingtonJoel @DefiantLs Now do Fresh Prince.

@DefiantLs Not enough diversity in this one either.

Who gives a f*ck?

@burnleyboi97 Leaving aside the fact that the petition is complete guff, it has nothing to do with boomers. Why would boomers care about pensions being lowered to 60 when the eldest boomer is older than that?

It must be fun to be have boomer levels of entitlement

@straceX The number has a structure to it that includes information like whether it is Visa, Mastercard etc. You first check that portion, and if that fails you know it is duff.

As a developer, have you ever wondered: You type a 16‑digit card number and the form instantly says “Invalid card number”. There are billions of possible numbers. How the hell is that check that fast?

@nettermike If people block people for posting AI slop it might eventually stop them doing it. So...

Berlin in 1961 captures a dramatic split-second moment as a young soldier suddenly leaps over a roll of barbed wire dividing East and West Berlin, frozen in midair during his daring escape from the communist East. Just days earlier, the border had been sealed overnight, cutting streets in half and separating families who had lived side by side for generations. The soldier, later identified as Conrad Schumann, had been stationed to guard the barrier when he made the life-changing decision to run toward freedom. As photographers captured the exact moment of his jump, the image quickly became one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War. It represented not only a personal escape but also the desperation of those trapped behind the growing barriers that would soon become the Berlin Wall.

@1971wilko @eamokeane @blaiklockBP You stupid cunt. You don't develop a system that humans have to interact with and expect humans to have to use codes like this.

@eamokeane @blaiklockBP Go on then, give me a solution that is unique across multiple healcare providers, multiple systems, is acceptable by all supliers and fully audiable.

Booking . com booked over 1 billion nights in 2024 but manages to have a simple 8-digit number for each booking. What idiot of a lazy civil servant designed the booking numbers for the NHS? How is someone old or on the phone or with an accent ever supposed to tell anyone else this mess of a number?

@BestMovieMom Mind you, the opening scenes from the original Call Of Duty had an even better effect. I still remember it.

The 23-minute D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan (1998) cost $12 million, about a fifth of the film’s budget. Filmed over a month with 1,500 actors and 400 crew, it remains one of the most visceral and powerful scenes in film history.

@Giusepp59073114 @TheMonologist Possibly because the first release tanked they thought a new name might help?

@justuseanything @TheMonologist Meant why have a different name at all …

This bombed at the box office, had its title changed for the U.S. market and was critically mauled. THE BOAT THAT ROCKED (2009) But, it had a pretty groovy ensemble Cast. #PhilipSeymourHoffman #BillNighy #RhysIfans #NickFrost #KennethBranagh #EmmaThompson

@JonSnow50616798 @HistoryBoomer Complete and utter bollocks. You are really, really stupid.

@HistoryBoomer Bad way of looking at it, because total crime is a more important stat than per capita crime.

For the statistically illiterate. A million people in a state with 50 murders every year, your murder rate is 50 per million. Add a million immigrants who do 1 murder a year, total murders goes up to 51, but that's among TWO million people. Your rate is 25.5 per million. The number of murders goes up, but each person in the city is actually safer. More murders does not automatically mean more danger. Population size matters. If we kidnapped the entire population of Japan and brought them to America, our number of murders would go up (Japanese people commit about 250 murders a year), but we'd become a much safer country (the Japanese murder RATE is far lower). Oilfield Rando's argument (more murders automatically means more danger) is bad math.

@Giusepp59073114 @TheMonologist Because it was about a Pirate Radio Station, possibly?

@TheMonologist Loved this movie but it was called Pirate Radio in North America for some reason …

@BradMills @Shrek30nBluRay @SydSteyerhart Perhaps they don't like it because it looks shit? It might look ok to you, but to the rest of us it looks like you are playing in a world spray-painted with varnish.

@Shrek30nBluRay @SydSteyerhart Shared delusion. Technophobic. You can call it whatever. People are losing their minds. We should all go back to analogue computers, sun dials, get rid of the wheel. You get the point

Anti AI hordes will tell you with a straight face that the image on the left looks better than the image on the right, and we're supposed to pretend that its anything other than seething resentment.

@EthanHtafc @bigmoneydog69 Of being above you for a start. And that was a penalty by a country mile.

@bigmoneydog69 Jealous of what?

This Lincoln team being top of league sums up the quality of league one. They are absoloutely awful to watch, just hoof and hope. Still will probably turn it around.