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raverbashing··on 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit
Also helps with removing bots from X (to much of Elon's disagreement)
raverbashing··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
No, it's you that's ok with it when it's done by a group that is always the victim and "does no wrong" in your head
raverbashing··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
Cool, now do per-capita
raverbashing··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
It's ok, everything Wikipedia doesn't like it calls a "far-right conspiracy theory"

Like the issue of the grooming gangs in the UK

raverbashing··on A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad
Are they? I can only imagine MordVpn makes a lot of money
raverbashing··on The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
Never underestimate naming your next project something googlable
raverbashing··on Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Relevant Xkcd https://xkcd.com/2501/
raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
True (especially if it's a circular one) but those can be weakrefs/softrefs
raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
And tbh I don't think I ever saw a circular dependency in a system

I'm not saying they don't exist of course (or that GC/RC shouldn't cater for them) but it's a very specific use case

raverbashing··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
I think simulations play more into the strategy than on the power curves of the cars (though they probably calibrate that on pre-season training)
raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
Yes, and the fact you have to have a "special GC" for your case makes me wonder that those constraints are not so obvious.

(makes me wonder who's buying those - things like Azul, etc)

raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
Yes but then you can move your deallocation out of the critical path

Variable time yes but you know when you're going to pay it

(I mean yes you can put your gc.run() there as well, but it might not give you the results you want)

raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
Honestly some (container) objects makes me think that they should be "parent obj management only"
raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
Lock contention yes, it's fundamentally a RC issue, but makes me think per-thread objects make more sense

I'm not sure most GC implementations worry about the rest neither (as by the several complaints we see going around)

raverbashing··on A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
I don't get why people do not prefer reference counting, it has more predictable runtime performance

(though of course a swap is a swap - but you can "trigger" it depending on your memory or file access pattern)

raverbashing··on The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
They will eat, they will skip on rent and they will do what they can with healthcare (be that public or NGO healthcare initiatives, or the local "wise person")

"But won't they be evicted?" Is a question that has several answers, but none of which you expect

First worlders perception of how to deal with 3rd world problems are interesting

raverbashing··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
> this administration as a traitor to Europe and its values

More than Angela Merkel? I doubt it

raverbashing··on Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
Honestly what is "AI generated math"?

Everything is WFFs all the way down

raverbashing··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
One of the most egregious cases of sub capture was definitely r/fauxmoi
raverbashing··on Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Jeeves, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
raverbashing··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
Yes but I think the launch was more than that :)
raverbashing··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
> Payload is 26 starlink v3 satellites.

F9 fits how many?

raverbashing··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
Yes, gas engines have very bad efficiency. The best way to run them is with constant torque and RPM, that is, charging a battery

And yes the Atkinson cycle helps

raverbashing··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
True, at this time (not that it was ever better) we can't expect anything but this kind of attitude from him
raverbashing··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Much ado about nothing:

- Meta didn't block their page, they blocked their Ad account.

- The account has been reestablished already

This was probably because their campaign shipped complete misinformation about the opposing candidate (with several profiles boosting the same misinformation) but when they do it, that's cool, right?

raverbashing··on CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American
"slight modifications" it's entirely

In most places taxis can be identified as: having a specific color/color pattern and/or a ceiling fixture

It is by design because you want taxis to stand out from other vehicles

raverbashing··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
Computers got better, true

But those were much cooler than the ones today

raverbashing··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
> The mission consists of 15 different vehicles and spacecraft plus two launch vehicles

Yeah still looks like an overcomplicated project

Maybe that's why China can make it work

raverbashing··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Honestly this is not surprising, and as much as politics suck, the rocket equation sucks harder

Mars has a little bit less gravity than Earth

How big would a rocket need to be even to send a small payload (let's think 20kg/45lb) even suborbitally so that it can be caught by another spaceship

Now check how big a rocket has to be to send all of that from Earth

You'd probably have to send this on Starship. And refuel it while on orbit

raverbashing··on Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]
I wonder how does this fits in the general Game development pipeline

Is it Story -> Characters -> Puzzles?

Theme -> Characters -> Story -> Puzzles?

Or everything everywhere all at once?

Are the character descriptions in this doc leading the Story or derived from it?

How much of the story is built around Gameplay and its limitations? (I think I remember GF requiring 2 CDs?)

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