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Nessus posted:the weird specific impulse to just go around and tell people to be miserable seems like it should have some kind of German name.
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Squibbles posted:It's a really hacky but fast/effective but incomprehensible bit of code written by John Carmack of ID Software (I think) for one of the Quake games that was also used in many subsequent things based on the quake engine it was made famous by quake/carmack but later discovered to have originated elsewhere https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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Nov 18, 2022 23:07
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BigBadSteve posted:From a few pages back (I'm finding it hard to keep track of all Musk shenanigans in realtime), but for the benefit of non-programmers, would you please explain this joke? It's a fast square root function written by John Carmack for the quake engines that does bit shift voodoo and a constant to work. However it's only an approximation that falls off after a number of decimal places, but it gets you to a precision that is good enough for use in a 3d engine. When the Quake 1 engine was open sourced there were posts about how people didn't understand how it worked or where the algorithm came from.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:08
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Nessus posted:the weird specific impulse to just go around and tell people to be miserable seems like it should have some kind of German name. The word you're thinking of is French and it's ressentiment.
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Hunter Biden posted:Your skepticism is probably smart. In the background to this, ad revenue has plummeted. Twitter has not sold any ads for the coming year. Current ad campaigns are being suspended. The revenue from $8 checkmarks, which is also currently suspended, amounts to digging around the couch cushions for change after quitting your job. As a fiscal matter, Twitter is likely deeply red and will not get any better any time soon. Unless Musk decides to sink a further billion or five into Twitter, running out of cash is a real concern. And no, there's no cash left since what cash on hand was used to buy out the company; Twitter had a war chest of $5b that's gone. Poof. How much actual cash Twitter has on hand is no longer public but I'm not sure that's actually knowable right now given that their accounting department probably has been shredded too. Tl;dr: there is a serious risk of cash flow issues that can make Twitter's checks bounce.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:10
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John Carmack is basically the genius that Musk thinks he is
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Nov 18, 2022 23:13
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This thread used to move like 3 pages a day now it’s moved 30 pages while I was working. Wtf happened
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Nov 18, 2022 23:14
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Insanite posted:yes. yes, it does. i used to use links2 in graphical mode on the ol pentium 75. it ran in a terminal AND i could view boobs on pichunter.com.
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Soggy Muffin posted:This thread used to move like 3 pages a day now it’s moved 30 pages while I was working. Wtf happened Nothing
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Soggy Muffin posted:This thread used to move like 3 pages a day now it’s moved 30 pages while I was working. Wtf happened we had to post more hardcore b y order of the bleaky muskers
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Nov 18, 2022 23:15
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Soggy Muffin posted:This thread used to move like 3 pages a day now it’s moved 30 pages while I was working. Wtf happened Elon musk bought twittere
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Nov 18, 2022 23:15
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It’s a race between twitter having money issues versus the software getting itself stuck in far too many failure states for Musk’s bootlickers to figure out in less than a few weeks each. Y’all gotta understand that when failures happen, you do not know why, if it’s not your system. Musk’s bright boys he’s got left behind have had 3 weeks of exposure to a system that likely takes a year to onboard onto. Figuring out what the gently caress is happening takes a hell of a lot of time. With a system as big and complex as Twitter, we are talking downtime of months while they scramble. Sure it comes back, but how many issues are fixed? What data loss? Do people even wanna come back after 2-3 months?
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Nov 18, 2022 23:16
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ProfessorMarvel posted:That reference is inaccurate. Jack Torrance was addicted to alcohol, not Xanax. Someone ask him if that Russian detox place they shipped him off to broke his brain. I would but I deleted Twitter a while ago
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Nov 18, 2022 23:20
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Frank Frank posted:Someone ask him if that Russian detox place they shipped him off to broke his brain. I would but I deleted Twitter a while ago I got you on a why not both twofer here: (1) It did (2) How would you be able to tell
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Quincy Smallvoice posted:we had to post more hardcore lol
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BigBadSteve posted:From a few pages back (I'm finding it hard to keep track of all Musk shenanigans in realtime), but for the benefit of non-programmers, would you please explain this joke? Inverse square roots are used for working out how to light surfaces in 3D graphics engines, like Quake. Before there were dedicated graphics cards that did it almost instantly in hardware it had to be done in software by the CPU. This is a clever, obscure way of working out a rough approximation which is good enough to be used for lighting 3D models without slowing the game down too much before fancy graphics cards came along. Most programmers will look at it say "OMG what the gently caress is going on here?". It takes a floating-point number (e.g. 12.765), does some manipulation on the bytes in memory that form that number as a rough shortcut, and then does some more normal maths on the result. Doing floating-point arithmetic was always a lot slower than doing integer arithmetic so it cheats as much as possible to avoid using floating-point numbers and comes up with a value which is close enough to be useful.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:28
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but if enough people seek out a vile tweet and like it, it would reach-around, back to the top? interesting.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:29
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"I can crowdsource any major problems from what people post about on SomethingAwful, and work the last remaining lackeys in a state of on-call emergency as problems come up. On the side, I can bolster my income by running constant crypto scams, which entertains the financial sector who want to play games. Why fix what isn't broken? bing bong so simple"
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Nov 18, 2022 23:30
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Squibbles posted:It's a really hacky but fast/effective but incomprehensible bit of code written by John Carmack of ID Software (I think) for one of the Quake games that was also used in many subsequent things based on the quake engine Thanks. I see there's a very mathematical explanation here: http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html I didn't  but I'm sure more math-minded nerds would.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:32
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that rules, I’m poo poo at code but that guy sounds cool and smart as heck
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Oh, I definitely will, Elon!
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Nov 18, 2022 23:33
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How long until Musk goes the Kevin Spacey apology route?
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PITY BONER posted:How long until Musk goes the Kevin Spacey apology route? Is this where everyone who used to work at Twitter mysteriously start dying?
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busalover posted:Oh, I definitely will, Elon! "Haha even my detractors suck down my tweets, as long as I'm trumping and always surfing the spectacle while doing the 80/20, these guys can only deal with me calling them loony lefties as my money hits the moon."
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Knot My President! posted:that rules, I’m poo poo at code but that guy sounds cool and smart as heck He works on Facebook's Second Life clone now so ehhh.
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Because Mastodon gets mentioned as an alternative, get ready for choosing between different fiefdoms and their rulesets, plus the gamble that the home you choose might get blocked and fall out of the fediverse. Cool!
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I don't remember twitter ever having to advertise "Exciting thing coming up, make sure to watch on Twitter!" before.
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DrVenkman posted:https://twitter.com/InternetHippo/status/1593684182307196928?t=Ic06oyaGdLRHHCk9uzw1yw&s=19 Coool so Russian bots will downvote stuff into oblivion that isn’t on-message. Sweet platform dude
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busalover posted:Because Mastodon gets mentioned as an alternative, get ready for choosing between different fiefdoms and their rulesets, plus the gamble that the home you choose might get blocked and fall out of the fediverse. Cool! You can move your account to a different server if you want, so meh.
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Nov 18, 2022 23:39
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Serious_Cyclone posted:You can move your account to a different server if you want, so meh. Assuming the instance admin doesn't throw a fit one day and take it down before you can migrate.
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Current talking point: it’s all bloat and elons a genius for figuring it out https://twitter.com/sweatystartup/status/1593476189380702208?s=46&t=ggxcweUTpNtHt0NTOdNj8w
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Current talking point: it’s all bloat and elons a genius for figuring it out "Go long on bets that were already safe, also I am a dicksucker"
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Nitrousoxide posted:Assuming the instance admin doesn't throw a fit one day and take it down before you can migrate. Sounds kinda familiar right now doesn’t it
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Nitrousoxide posted:Assuming the instance admin doesn't throw a fit one day and take it down before you can migrate. I think if I caught wind that the admin was that pissy I'd move on pretty quick; I bet people on Twitter wished there was some instance other than Elon's rn. Mastodon's federated system is so much better that even the things people try to point out as faults are better than the equivalent on Twitter.
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Stoatbringer posted:Inverse square roots are used for working out how to light surfaces in 3D graphics engines, like Quake. Before there were dedicated graphics cards that did it almost instantly in hardware it had to be done in software by the CPU. This is a clever, obscure way of working out a rough approximation which is good enough to be used for lighting 3D models without slowing the game down too much before fancy graphics cards came along... Ok, thanks. I'm starting a programming course at college next year, and hope I don't regret it.
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Frank Frank posted:Coool so Russian bots will downvote stuff into oblivion that isn’t on-message. Sweet platform dude no, see, elon will get rid of the bots
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Current talking point: it’s all bloat and elons a genius for figuring it out If any of those companies takes notes on Elon’s adventures, it sure wouldn’t be on a “successful” layoff. Plus let’s not forget those companies ship multiple operating systems. (Well ok Meta just has their VR headset OS.) Can’t have enough employees for that.
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lol at people sucking a dude's dick whose philosophy is basically: "Technology will eventually touch fascism, may as well join 'em instead of beat 'em, superior power never turns over."
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