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The nice thing about Linux is that there’s a DE or WM for everyone. Personally I can’t imagine running a whole desktop environment when all I want is to draw some windows and a status bar. But, to each their own!

RISV-V is messy but for good reason, with real standards, although lots of them, which can be hard to keep track of.

X86 is de-facto standardized by vendor fiat.

ARM is in an unfortunate middle ground.


A good chunk of early science was basically funded by nobility sponsoring scientists as sort of… conversation pieces, basically, right? I’m not sure if that gig is still available.

One could argue all science is still funded that way. My team is funded by a philanthrophist. NSF "royalty" re-distributes the peasant's taxes to do science. Etc.

I kinda wonder to what extent grad students’ experience grading projects and homework will end up being a differentiating skill. 75% kidding.

This is pretty cool, and also seems pretty accessible for a “graphics thing.” Just a little calculus.

It would be kind of neat to have an example of a physical situation that produces each of the example functions (although I’m sure that isn’t always possible).

Can the effect of multiple fog emitters reasonably be modeled as the sum of their outputs? I guess for high densities, probably not (eventually the air will get saturated), but for low densities, probably yes…


For simple models (constant incoming radiance), you can indeed just add the optical depths from the different fog 'layers'. (90% sure but the maths is easy to check anyway, see https://forwardscattering.org/post/72)

ResearchGate isn’t a journal, right? I think it is some sort of… pseudo-social-networking site for papers.

Right, it's not a journal.

There’s a decent chance the national parks will still be there in a couple years anyway.

Well, I guess, they might have been auctioned off to some billionaire at that point so… the tickets will probably be pricier but the facilities should be shiny and new.


If they choose to open them to the public, that is. Hopefully that billionaire doesn't just open it to their friends and us commoners don't get to use it.

This Al fellow seems to have gotten up to all sorts of trouble! Probably because he keeps hallucinating.

For a while I'd see "Weird Al" in random headlines or something and my brain would read it as "Weird A.I." and I kept getting very confused.

Everyone should just use something like DarkReader to make these problems go away. Web devs who fiddle with the colors are annoying, but at least they are easy to ignore.

Thinking of it, I haven’t seen as many “copy paste from StackOverflow” memes lately. Maybe LLMs have given people the ability to

1) Do that inside their IDEs, which is less funny

2) Generate blog post about it instead of memes


Python one-upped that a long time ago:

  from stackoverflow import quick_sort
https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

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