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Availability of resources does not entail skill in leveraging them. I'm not sure classical eduction is the best way to learn that, but it's certainly better than nothing and a useful first step.
You can see screenshots of that work in his thesis defense slides https://theses.hal.science/tel-00319974/file/defense.pdf
That's where I learned about the transference phase function (slide 24), which includes two spikes on the return angle that correspond to the relatively unknown Glory rainbow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
I don't know if this method is what is used in video games today.
Incidentally, you may recognize his advisor Fabrice Neyret as someone very active in the Shadertoy community https://www.shadertoy.com/user/FabriceNeyret2
Partner!? I don't see where you get that from the article, and Apple & Facebook have traditionally not been best of friends (see everything iOS implemented to limit Facebook's overreach).
I'm guessing they chose Muse because 1. It's not Chinese so it'll look good for Trump's AI cronies (Apple is in the administration's spotlight) and 2. It's fairly recent and thus on people's mind.
> the TOR mission was to allow spies to access the network and hide among all the other non-spy users
Tor is pretty clear about what their mission is, it's at the bottom of the Tor Project homepage https://www.torproject.org: "To advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding."
Claiming anything else is useless conspiracy thinking without evidence.
> It was and still is funded mostly by the US Naval Research Laboratory
The original idea came from the US Naval Research Laboratory, yes (as a way to mask the origin of messages to hide the command boat in a fleet), but the funding statement is patently false. In 2024, the majority of their government funding ($2.1M out of $2.5) came from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, with the rest of the government money coming from even more innocuous sources. You can find this information on p41 of their IRS form: https://www.torproject.org/static/findoc/2023-2024-TheTorPro... also accessible from their Reports page at https://www.torproject.org/about/reports/
They also clarified that in this more readable post: https://forum.torproject.org/t/transparency-openness-and-our...
Certainly, you can speculate about the motivations of the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor and whether that's a front for more undercover objectives, but that front lines up pretty well with the US's (former?) foreign policy of undermining (unfriendly) dictatorial regimes, and Occam's Razor applies.
Ultimately though, the tools that Tor provides can absolutely be abused by bad actors, and ever since Silk Road, I've become convinced that the Tor network is overrun by a wretched hive of scum and villainy, where those morally defensible activities are utterly outnumbered by the criminal ones.
Also, 10 whippings for whomever at Apple decided to put the Fn/Globe key to the bottom left of laptop keyboards, and move Ctrl over. It's the first thing I swap on a Mac (used to use Karabiner, until macOS finally, years later, decided to implement the setting), and I always trip when using a colleague's laptop. These kids don't respect no traditions!
.. that rant over, I must recognize that Ctrl isn't used as much in GUI apps which prefer Cmd, and only us relatively few terminal junkies care.
[1] second most, perhaps, after swapping Delete & Backspace.
They worked fine with the ConBee 2, and work fine with the ZBT-1 that replaced it.
That said, they're used within a relatively small area, and have direct connection to the coordinator. My one (major) annoyance with them is how hard it is to open the battery compartment, the plastic is too soft.
I've since added some Sonoff T+H sensors which are fine, though twice as big.
My one disappointment is the Arre (Thread) sensor, which has low resolution and bad battery life.
Smart man!
Nvidia cares a lot about Linux. Just... on their terms.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
> in comparison
The total 2026 US Defense budget is 1.06 Trillion dollars, or ~1,060 Billion dollars. NASA's 2026 budget is 24.5 Billion dollars, or 2% as much as the defense budget.
You chose to single out the Space Force, which has the smallest budget of the 5 branches of the US military. For contrast, the Navy's budget alone is 235 Billion $, close to 10x NASA.
For further comparison, the R&D budget of a single private company, Apple, was $34B in 2025.
This is funny because so much Silicon CAD automation is written in TCL. I mean the most advanced technology in the world depends on TCL in its pipeline (also Excel VBasic!) (let's not talk about COBOL, that's in banking)
TCL is the original extension language, and in the very hidebound electronics CAD world, has a very long tail.
A.k.a. Atkinson-cycle (1882): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson_cycle
See, at core git is a collection of objects (referenced by their hash), along with references to tip-of-tree objects. These references are stored in the refs/ directory, and core git only uses a couple subdirs/namespaces under that: refs/heads/ (for branches) and refs/tags/ (for tags). Git also bundles the oft-forgotten git notes command that stores notes in refs/notes/. But you can add whatever other name under refs/ to tack on whatever functionality you want, which is what all these git-based bug-trackers do.
Side-note, Gerrit exploits this wide-open namespace for its behavior, where pushing to the virtual refs/for/ namespace will create a new Change destined for a given branch. It also uses these namespace for its internal NoteDB.
(Obviously I'm taking this more seriously than it's probably meant to)
That social capital and $5 will buy me a cup of coffee.
Combined with the fact that the DOT syntax allows for gradual precision, in that you can add directives to an existing DOT document to add details (shape, positioning...), and you can do pre-processing of a graph before passing it to the final layout and rendering engine.
(In fact, you could probably implement all of the linked layout engines in gvpr)
I used this at some point to generate a Factorio processing graph, organizing each layer by its minimum production depth (ie ores at layer 1, plates at layer 2, etc...)
It's not so funny anymore.
Back then, I believe, Stross had already conceptualized "corporations as slow AI", (which is a separate concept from above).
[1] which you can read for free online https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...