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Just watched a YT videos by CJ The X and damn it's amazing, these videos are just so much but also so good at the same time, in a way I can't describe, it's a performance, it's almost a bit of stand up comedy while also philosophical

I recommend starting with the following videos of theirs.

"Top 10 Types of Water"
youtube.com/watch?v=JuKbDpPAoo

"7 Deadly Art Sins"
youtube.com/watch?v=dMpJFbwR8O

youtube.com/@cjthex

Different surface patterns on the tower. On each level, the tower will have a different pattern.

I wonder how I can eliminate the visual banding in the texture mapping.

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exciting programming problem in touchHLE: supporting inheritance for instance variables. look at how gnarly this is:

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/commit/ae5b7a8d6513e3204d3c2eab1f250cdcf8930ee5

i have an idea for a neater solution, but it will involve descending further into the land of Anys and 'statics and 'as and dyns :3

THE BAD NEWS: i have ran head-first into the borrow checker struggling with mutable borrows in loops again ;_;
THE GOOD NEWS: unsafe { &mut *(a as *mut _) } is my friend and would never hurt me :3

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Finally my blog generator is spitting out a blog index and posts, all that's left is writing up a post, do some final polishing and publishing it.

Out of context random YT comment:

As an IT engineer I am pretty worried by the increasing reliance on software and apps for the most basic of functions like payments. The complexity of something should be inversely proportional to its criticality

I agree

me: Maybe we should get a pizza stone.
Alex: 'Pizza stone' sounds like something fake.
me: ...
Alex: Like...was it forged by elves? To bring the ways of pizza to the Men of Númenor at the end of the First Age?

foraging for fruit is the new touching grass

If you are a woman
and you find yourself surrounded
by amazing women
chances are
you're amazing, too

@TechConnectify People in my line of work love "reinventing wheels", no matter how many times we tell ourselves for doing so.

Here's a relevant blogpost: baldurbjarnason.com/2023/debat

And, to reiterate my thoughts, I think plug-and-charge is neat. I even kinda-sorta use it with EVgo.

But good gravy nobody would care about it if card payments just /worked/ like they do /literally everywhere but car chargers for some inexplicable reason/

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yeah it seems the OEM of this terrible windows machine has somehow fucked it up so that the USB driver doesn't load when you're in the recovery environment.

and it's a tablet. guess what bus they used to connect the touch screen? THAT'S RIGHT, USB!

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this is on top of them shipping a windows 8.1 tablet with a 16gb SSD.
and partitioning it with a 5gb recovery partition.

fun fact: this means that once you install all the windows 8.1 updates, you'll have about negative 400 megabytes free!

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gah. searching for help with windows problems is so useless. At least when you google linux problems you find something like answers, or nothing.

you google a windows problem like "I try to reboot into the startup command prompt but it hangs/doesn't accept input at the select-user screen" and get answers like "go into IE and clear your cookies"

"How did you find out you were trans?"

"The usual way. When I was still an egg I told a fae my deadname and they got really mad when it had no power over me."

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