Captainant
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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
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10 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:
As to the recusal issue, it's common, if not required, to recuse when you own the stock of a party. But the party here is not Tesla, but rather X/Twitter and/or Musk individually. Obviously, the well-known ownership of both by Musk could/does create the appearance of impropriety, but I don't think it's a slam-dunk on recusal.
I mean, TWTR was taken private largely on the backs of TSLA shareholders and with loans secured by TSLA stocks. I think it's a nice argument in a vacuum that "the two are wholly unrelated", but there's strong evidence that supports Tesla's reliance on Twitter to keep its investor sentiment, and by connection, stock value up. Nevermind that Musk is the singular totem head of both organizations
50 minutes ago, dcbc said:It appears to be the equivalent of Fort Worth rules in golf.
And I'm not familiar with that term of art, but I presume it's something like "that's just how we do things here"?
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12 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:
Actually, it's not true. Tampons may absorb the blood, but they do nothing to stop the bleeding. Plugging a bullet wound with a tampon may prevent the wound from making a mess on the floor, but you will still bleed out. We need to be teaching our elementary age kids proper battlefield first aid.
Reading an' ritin' an' trauma first aid!
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11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:
How is this legal ???
I think @dcbc is probably the best person to tell us how this is legal
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15 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
You are correct... I should have said that FSD 12 is the first Tesla release to employ an end-to-end neural network for vehicle control instead of coded rules-based software.
IMO I don't think they have enough data to go full end to end. There's no way to put a safety interrupt inside the black box. And I can't say I really trust Elmo's black box making abilities, even if he's dropping beaucoup bux on Nvidia gpus
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46 minutes ago, Guadaloopy said:
We are less than a year removed from the release of FSD 12, the first version trained with a neural network. The leap in performance over the past few months as been exceptional. I still have hope that it can achieve Level 5 autonomy.
Bruh. Computer vision uses convolutional neural networks to translate raster images into driving actions. No shit they used a NN to train FSD, it's a NN lol
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40 minutes ago, Your Mom said:
It sucks for this guy but I don’t see one death moving the needle much. There have been over 100 deaths in triathlons in the last decade, 3 of them in the last month. Open water swimming with masses of people is risky. Shits gonna happen. Everybody knows about Sam’s dad because he was a local guy but it happens a lot more than that and the events go on.
I mean, there were lifeguards RIGHT THERE that would not render aid. That's some real "what would you say you do here" shit
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Pretty good interview with Eric Berger (of Space City Weather and Space reporting fame) about his "feel" on what's been happening and his comparisons with previous "dynamic" astronaut flights.
Berger sums up the dilemma pretty succinctly towards the end: "I do think the chances are if they were to come home in Starliner they would undock, maybe experience some minor problems, but it would probably be just fine. But on the off-chance it's not, you've killed two people."




The Supremes
in Cloak Room
Being the commander in Chief of the armed forces, I would think he could order the Air Force to clean up their mess