Captainant
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8 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:
That benefits Putin. Kills them off, can blame Ukraine, who runs out of bullets and is then attacked. WW2 tactics 101.
On the other hand, russia is not the recipients of a shitload of American bullets beans and bandages like they were back in WW2. Plus, putin doesn't have near the power that stalin did in their respective eras of control. I don't think they'd produce the same result, especially when they're not in a war of annihilation like was happening against the nazis
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It really is amazing that you are continually allowed to post these nakedly racist and political actors. Just because the one thing you're posting is borderline ok, doesn't meant you're not amplifying a fucking awful person. That last dude you're posting prong LOVES to call the brown women of Congress the "Chief of staff of Hamas" and other racist slurs (click his profile and scroll down like 5 tweets). Real classy.
I'm certain he's giving you a good and informed dose of poison
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3 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:
Do you read what you post? Those two classes are electives.
I bet you wouldn't feel that way if it were an elective on the Koran, or some other non Christian religious work.
Point being, this is literally the state respecting one establishment of religion over another. I'm not sure how you're not more concerned about the 1A violation, considering your previous zeal for that portion of our constitution
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18 minutes ago, cmontexas said:
Im getting notifications now anytime someone comments on a thread I have commented on mine. Used to be rep and (you)'s only
I had the same problem - click your name then click on the "manage followed content" page, and then the very bottom under the 2019 and 2020 recruiting page links (maybe @immamac can clean that up luz) there's "members". You probably have someone followed there, that was the case for me
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6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:
"no major announcements"
except next week they will have a meeting to decide if butch and sunny are going home in starliner
4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:technical authority governance model
3 independent elements
all 3 have to agree
1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:if they don't return on starliner they will have 8 months on orbit
this is all stuff we've known through other reporting for some time. If Butch and Sunny stay up they'll be replacing two crew who've been training for a year or so for their planned mission and maintenance. It'll be a load of learning on the fly, but they're a couple of the most veteran astronauts NASA has
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1 minute ago, BamaATL said:
Wait until they are cheap enough to strap bombs to. Need to clear a trench or foxhole?
There's small scale open source versions that are fully 3D printable for the structure
https://www.instructables.com/3D-Printed-Robot-Dog/
I'd imagine those incredibly technically proficient folks in Ukraine could do quite a lot of they wanted to
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1 hour ago, KYHorn said:Still crazy that these are being used, and they seem to be effective enough to employ 30 of them
Ukraine has deployed more than 30 robot dogs in the fighting in Donbas, Bild has said
The publication says that since the front line is changing very slowly and the fighting has become trench warfare, Ukrainian troops have deployed robot dogs, which, thanks to their four paws, are highly maneuverable, can scout the area for booby traps and detect enemy movements.
Robot dogs move silently at a speed of 15 km/h and operate within a 3.5 km radius of the enemy for a maximum of five hours at a cost of €4,000 to €8,000.
If those are anything like the Boston dynamics machines, those are really a crazy augment for a battlefield. It can run supplies or advance scout a route, and doesn't really give a shit about frag blast as long as the structure survives. The brushless motors are super durable and they're reinforced to hell, I'd bet those things make great ammo gophers
Edit: just to underscore how durable these things are, one is stationed at the base of each Starship test in Boca Chica to go visually inspect things before people approach. That's CRAZY durable to take being in the blast wave of an orbital class rocket engine assembly
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Bible study, coming to a public school near you!
Hope y'all like taxes paying for Sunday school! It's only gonna keep happening at a faster clip
Edit: and just to be clear, this has been happening for some time as they've been purging their board and setting extremists in place. Even banning books and curriculum that are "anti Christian"
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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:Starbucks fired their 1-year tenure CEO this morning. Replaced him with the Chipotle CEO. SBUX up 23%
I've actually rediscovered Starbucks as an ok coffee shop again over the past 6 months. I can actually find a place to park and even sit if I want to for a few minutes. I had previously stopped going when it turned into a 15+ minute wait for my order. When driving to work, I can't have that long of a wait.
While I like that as a customer, that must not be good for the bottom line.
"Hey you didn't fill my cup all the way!"
"Oh, that'll be a double then"
They're gonna Chipotle your Starbucks, the CEO announcement only ever talked about creating value, and nothing about the product or customer experience
Edit: and besides, making your own coffee each morning is the fuckin BEST
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1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:
I'm guessing this decision wasn't made at the White House level.
1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:I don't see how this couldn't be the kind of thing that Biden issues an EO for. Sure, they'll push back, but at least try.
Being the commander in Chief of the armed forces, I would think he could order the Air Force to clean up their mess
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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:I expected every company to do this. I didn't expect the first fucking one to be our own military. Jesus this species sucks.
Honestly, I'm surprised Biden isnt stepping in on this. But I'm sure Alito could convince Roberts that it would be illegal for Biden to do so
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Reposting here for CR discussion of repercussions of Chevron getting ripped down:
The Guardian: US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling
The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the “Chevron doctrine”. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds.
Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the air force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility.
It appears the air force is essentially attempting to expand the scope of the court’s ruling to thwart regulatory orders not covered by the decision, said Deborah Ann Sivas, director of the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic.
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13 hours ago, Anastasis said:
LOL at academic administrative bloat under the microscope at Florida. Sasse just resigned ostensibly as a result of his wife’s neurological post stroke seizure situation.
26 minutes ago, Pancho said:Not only that, someone who is part of the health "insurance" industry complaining about administrative bloat lol.
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Boy howdy, hope y'all like forever chemicals and a shitload of cancer! Hope you can afford your """insurance""" premiums
The Guardian: US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling
The US air force is refusing to comply with an order to clean drinking water it polluted in Tucson, Arizona, claiming federal regulators lack authority after the conservative-dominated US supreme court overturned the “Chevron doctrine”. Air force bases contaminated the water with toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other dangerous compounds.
Though former US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials and legal experts who reviewed the air force’s claim say the Chevron doctrine ruling probably would not apply to the order, the military’s claim that it would represents an early indication of how polluters will wield the controversial court decision to evade responsibility.
It appears the air force is essentially attempting to expand the scope of the court’s ruling to thwart regulatory orders not covered by the decision, said Deborah Ann Sivas, director of the Stanford University Environmental Law Clinic.
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5 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:
It's actually hilarious because Twitter can't handle this kind of traffic so they're effectively getting DDoS'd either way. I'd love to see what load testing they tried to do earlier, if it even happened.
Its too bad all the folks who were CERTAIN firing all the engineers wouldn't have any bad effects aren't posting much on this thread anymore. Very fine people don't seem to like to read about elmos antics like they used to
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46 minutes ago, Blotto said:
In addition to the polling data that has to be driving dotard insane, this cant be helping his mental state. The
scamstock has now given back all the gains since the assassination attempt, plus another 20%. This has to be the lion's share of his net wealth these days.I'm curious to see what effect tonight's suck and fuck with elmo will have. I imagine shit's gonna get weird. real weird.
An uncommon occurrence of the market actually punishing a dogshit business
QuoteDonald Trump’s social media company Trump Media and Technology Group has reported a $16.4 million loss and less than $1 million in quarterly revenue, only months after it began trading publicly to much fanfare earlier this year.
The parent company of Truth Social said on Friday in its latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it had earned $837,000 in revenue for the second quarter of 2024 — down 30 percent from the same period last year — and had also paid millions of dollars to cover legal expenses related to its merger with special purpose acquisition company Digital World Acquisition Corp.
Further, a press release states: “Additionally, the Company incurred $3.1 million of IT consulting and software licensing expenses, primarily related to its software licensing agreement to power its new TV streaming service.”
This month, Trump Media launched the Truth+ streaming service and believes its strong balance sheet of $344 million in cash and equivalents, with no debt, will enable the expansion and refinement of its new offering.
Nevertheless, its market capitalization of nearly $5 billion is considered an extraordinarily high valuation given its very modest sales.
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48 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Drop the price enough, people will overlook an asset’s past.
people don’t want to live in a house where a murder took place. But drop the price 30% and their attitude changes.
"Oh don't sit in that seat. You'd rather not have your butt near what happened there."
There's just too many yikes around that for me, dawg.
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27 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Trump is now suing the DOJ for $100 million. So, this slows down the Mar A Lago shit that much more
And we HAVE to take this bullshit seriously, otherwise we're just as bad as the fascists!![/surlylawyer]
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8 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:
It's sort of baking, sort of not. What we are using is known as triangle strips, it's a feature of the PVR core of the Dreamcast. Triangle strips aren't used too much anymore in games, but in the 90's they were a good performance boost. The way it works is that triangles are represented by a triplet of decimal numbers called a vertex. These numbers represent positions in space (think back to geometry class and plotting points) that form a triangle when connected. These triangles make up all the polygons in the world and characters and such. You do math on these points with what's called a matrix to do things like transform their position, rotate them around, etc. These matrix transformations are what move the polygons around the world so you can paint with them. Doing this kind of matrix math is super intensive, it's the part of computer graphics that takes the single most time, so the more triangles you have, the more vertices you have to do math on, the slower it takes.
Well, if you have a model that has two triangle that share a same edge, that means two of their points lie on exactly the same position. So, using triangle strips, you can combine them, so instead of having to do math on 4 vertices, you only have to do them on two. It works like the image below. The problem with a triangle strip is every triangle in the stip needs to share attributes about the texture being used. If you need to switch which texture is being used, you have to end the current triangle strip and start a new one.
Wild, that sounds like a proto-texturing acceleration layer for texture mapping. Giving me flashbacks to linear algebra and vector cal lol
4 minutes ago, WelfareBuysMyWeed said:Another example of something I'm working on: Multi-pass rendering. Normally, the homebrew SDK used for Dreamcast applications can only draw to any one target buffer per frame. So like, draw to the screen is a target buffer, draw to a texture is a target buffer. If you want to render something to a texture, then render that texture to the screen, it'd take two frames to do. That means using multi-pass rendering, every pass would halve the framerate.
There's a hidden register on the Dreamcast that KOS did not know about that I was exploring yesterday. Bit 31 of location 0x005F8160 when set to 1 enables the TA_LIST_CONT register in the PVR core, this tells the graphics chip inside the Dreamcast to continue rendering onto a second object list during the same frame. The official Sega Dreamcast SDK from Sega had an API called Ninja that had this feature, and so did Microsoft's Direct X on the Dreamcast, but KOS has never had it because we never knew about this register. I spent yesterday patching KOS so this functionality is exposed, which now gives the Dreamcast multipass rendering function. I played around yesterday with an HDR bloom demo for the Dreamcast, shown below.
What this means is we can port over the bloom effect from GTA:San Andreas if we'd like onto GTA3. This ability has lots of far reaching implications for further Dreamcast homebrew, as we can do things like use textures as image caches when using block rendering.
Are you gamedev for your day job or just as a passion project? You're really diving into the metal if you're rediscovering new registers!
What do you develop on? A MiSTer or actual hardware?
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1 minute ago, Bookman said:
I guess things are bad when San Antonio residents are arming themselves to take out the trash at 6:00 a.m.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/man-gun-slips-accidental-dies-19623703.php
It's amazing how some folks whip themselves into a frenzy of imagined victimization and fear. Poor information diet



What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
in Daily Texan
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added a link to the claim in question
And it's beyond the scope of this thread, but the new Texas 3rd grade curriculum is explicitly teaching the Resurrection Story. It's so bad that the law to use the curriculum explicitly provides the educators immunity for violating the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution on the fifth page!