Itβs not just tech bros bending at the knee of #Trump, it seems the American judiciary is too.
In the UK we are familiar with the Divine Right of Kingsβ¦itβs been rubbished for several hundred years now, but the US seems to have dredged it up and created the Divine Right of Presidents. This is not progress.
Confusing phrases that turn out to make sense:
"Nearly unique": there are very few things like this, but not quite as few as 1.
"Nearly non-unique": there's nothing else _exactly_ like this, but there is something _almost_ exactly like it.
(The first of those seems reasonably intuitive, but I ran into the second today and had to scratch my head over it for ten minutes.)
Posing with a plush Gnash. He's not quite big enough to actually stay on my shoulders, so I'm having to hold his paws to keep him in place.
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TFWD:
"Passenger in driverless car gets stuck in loop at airport"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrGUyBYok9w
"Is this a prank?"A Los Angeles tech entrepreneur found himself trapped in a self-driving taxi last month on his way to the airport, with the car repeatedly ...YouTube
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Everyone always wants to say worthy things about the qualities that make a good programmer. But I occasionally think that "a sense of humour" isn't given enough credit.
In programming, you're constantly making mistakes, and being told you're wrong (by code reviewers, bug reporters, and the computer itself). If you let that get you down, you'll quickly find another career.
When I realise I've made a mistake, my reaction is often to find it amusing β smile a bit, maybe laugh out loud, share it with a friend if it's funny enough.
I can't remember how I got that attitude in the first place. Perhaps just luck. But I sometimes think it's the main reason I stuck with what would otherwise be a frustrating profession!
totally agree β a workplace that puts you under constant pressure to never make a mistake is utterly toxic. _Especially_ if you feel under that pressure from day 1 when you're still learning your way around, because it's even more obvious that people will make mistakes while learning than that they'll carry on making mistakes once they're up to speed (though both are true).
Not only that, but a workplace of that kind isn't even serving its _own_ interests, because if it's trying to incentivise employees to never make a mistake, what it's really doing is incentivising them to never _look_ as if they make a mistake. So the mistakes get covered up and the company never finds out about all the problems.
Google's new TV's will have built in mics, so your TV will hear you without your direct intervention. gemini "AI" assistant built in. And you no longer have to use a trigger word like βHay Google" to get it's attention.
Basically this means that a Google TV with this trash in it will be always listening and collecting data on every word said within earshot.
This is some seriously dystopian, Fahrenheit 451 level bullshit right here.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/113782987209100156
Google will use more mics and Gemini AI to get you to talk to your TV https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337314/google-tv-gemini-integration-ai-ces-2025Mastodon
Makkora, the bird barbarian boy, charges into battle despite his wounds, collecting unexpected strength and energy thanks to the aid of his ancestral guardians. These spirits not only empower him in combat but also protect him from harm. Among them are ancestors from an ancient time when his species had only wings and no hands, reminder of his lineage.
This piece was created for a charity auction and donated to Nutrias de MΓ©xico, an initiative dedicated to the scientific study and conservation of otters in Mexico.
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Atari 130ST and 520ST first public demo from the Winter Consumer Electronics Show 1985, hosted in Las Vegas in January 1985.In it the unknown announcer discu...YouTube
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My dad has this very old piece of cross-stitch art in his house. Every time I see it I'm struck by how much it anticipated 1990s pixel art on 16-bit micros like the Amiga, simply because the artist was working under similar constraints: a low-resolution grid of square pixels, and a strong incentive to use as few _different_ colours of yarn as possible, with much less constraint on what those colours should be β just as the Amiga and similar machines let you have a palette of 32 colours on screen at once but they could be chosen from a much larger space.
And the artist has used the same stylistic tricks to compensate for those limitations as Amiga artists did, or at least some of them. I could easily imagine someone having drawn this in Deluxe Paint, and perhaps even used it as an interstitial image in the middle of a period-themed Amiga game, with some important plot dialogue subtitled on the bottom.
I keep thinking it would be kind of cool to digitise it back to pixels + palette. But for proper style the result would have to be stored in an IFF ILBM instead of any more up-to-date image format.
can't wait to see them embrace the hardware capabilities and setup a copperlist to make a beautiful raster on that blue sky ;)
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Digitisation now done! Followup thread (with considerable Amiga emulator war story): https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/114021236557200593
Just uploaded a new set of photos to my Patreon! Really enjoying the LED tube lights. Easier to use than my flashes!
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"when furries beta test your software, is it animal testing?"
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Of all these, the Cassandrean task is the most soul destroying.
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Since I'm about to attend the SotonFurs 2025 winter party, here's an adorable video from last year's one!
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