FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

telling all my haters "it's just a tool!" but they won't stop criticizing my plan to plow my fields using many small nuclear weapons

Some stakeholders in that meeting had to bite their tongue because of their roles within the meeting but my own stake within the meeting was so smol I had nothing to lose by saying whatever was on my mind. Got some praise after for saying what everyone was thinking.

Silence is violence after all, so today's tech tip: Invite someone to your meetings with nothing to lose for speaking out and let them have at

New stats meme just driving

"Come in Marty, I don't think we're in the year 1985"

All shot practically using real figures, lighting and miniature sets

#bttf #backtothefuture #docemmettbrown #velociraptor #dinosaurs #photography #miniatures #visualart #creativephotography #toyphotography #raptors #jungle #actionfigurephotography #photographicart #miniaturephotography

Thursday. What a concept.

Rise and grind

I think FPGAs are a more investable and exciting technology than AI.

Imagine you compiled Super Mario 64, and you got a binary and an FPGA blob. You load it up, and an FPGA die on your processor and GPU configures for heavy instructions that SM64_X86 hammers hard into their own pipelines.

Suddenly, all those weird N64 behaviors that your PC has to interpret like hieroglyphics are running through a mechanism that understands them implicitly. Like trangles instead of polygons, or the weird shaders.

This is a bit of a weird example, but other examples would be like a GTX 1660 being able to render some amount of raytracing because it could gain FPGA RT cores. Not as good as etched RT cores in silicon, but a lot better than no RT cores.

Heck, even if we have to keep dealing with AI, having a pathway for evolving AI code to be accelerated could deeply reduce compute, power, and heat removal... that being said, that makes local AI more likely and the rent seeking aristocracy won't like that... Always looking to make AT&T's 1980s dreams of owning the means of computation a reality at all times huh...

Yesterday was international ADHD day, so today is the earliest possible day ADHDers will realize they missed it.

OH NO! CARMEN SANDIEGO HAS STOLEN YOUR recipe for psychedelic chocolate chip cookies!

the Public Universal Friend was so cool

"if you tax them they'll leave" is literally the stupidest argument against taxing billionaires like "yeah good"

I have discovered that the spacing of the text on Start Menu icons differs between at least these three Windows versions and now I will never know peace

I am not going to check more versions I don't want to worsen the feeling that no spacing is correct

great thing to see:
a github repo for a device that CAN KILL YOU

and github warning you that claude contributed to it

"Anthropic is actively campaigning to end software engineering. They need you to believe they can do that. Well, maybe it’s not you that they need to convince. Maybe it’s your C-Suite, various world leaders, or the manager of your retirement fund. They’ve raised $132 billion in investment, and are approaching an IPO valued over $1 trillion. Since they cannot show profitability, this depends on selling their hypothetical future impact."

https://raymyers.org/post/zig-creator-calls-spade-a-spade/

"Anthropic needs people to believe that all problems can be solved by adding more agents, even the problems that agents introduce. Instead of better tools we buy tokens. Instead of learning skills we paste a SKILL.md. Instead of reading about The Psychology of Software Teams we call some parallel agent sessions a Team." #bun #zig #rust #longreads

I'm finally getting back on my feet but I've been hit with continuous migraines for the last month which is really impacting my finances, and my insurance keeps rejecting my migraine meds. Any spare dollars would really help while I try to get this sorted, thanks!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

#mutualaidrequest