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This year's SIGGRAPH (North America) Technical Papers trailer is up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHC0wNYry8

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Fellow AI skeptics, please slow your roll on the "your brain on chatgpt" study and please think about base rate fallacy a little bit here.

If you, like me, do not know anything about what typical EEGs look like, then citing a bunch of EEGs that appear to prove our point is not science, it's argument-from-anomaly conspiracy theorizing. "A-ha! This thing, that I know nothing about, looks weird to me!"

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Nightcliff Bay, mangroves and thunderheads #TidesOutTuesday #photography #landscape #seascape #mangroves #tidal #clouds #sunset #EastCoastKin

Dramatic thunderheads drift over the far shore of a tidal bay with exposed mangrove flat. It's hard to tell sea from land, but fully exposed pioneering mangroves show that the tide is out, although shining pools and runnels remain. The scene is dark, it's dusk and the sun has nearly set behind clouds out of shot. In the foreground is a dense mangrove forest along the shore.

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THE SWITCH 2 DOCK IS @frameworkcomputer COMPATIBLE LMAO

framework laptop 13 jammed into a switch 2 dock

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:uwu:
j'uwuie
tu uwuies
elle uwuie
nous uwuyons
vous uwuyez
elles uwuent

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another day, another binary file format with a badly designed magic number

not gonna call it out specifically but here are some RFC2119 MUSTs for magic number design:

MUST be the very first N bytes in the file
MUST be at least four bytes long, eight is better
MUST include at least one byte with the high bit set
MUST include a byte sequence that is invalid UTF-8
SHOULD include a zero byte, but you can usually get away with having that be part of the overall version number that immediately follows the magic number (did I mention that you really SHOULD put an overall version number right after the magic number, unless you know and have documented exactly why it's not necessary, e.g. PNG?)

good examples:

PNG
ELF

bad examples:

GIF
PE
PDF

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We report under the fastest clouds that we have seen in some time: it is a dry morning, which we are thankful for given this wild wind. It feels quite pleasant when we step outside, even though our hair is very much in our face. Flashes of pink light catch us through the clouds.

Digital painting of a sunrise sky, filled with all kinds of clouds of different shapes and sizes. They are purple and bright pink where the light hits them, with touches of yellow. It is a messy sky.

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le polyamour ça va trop loin

Privacy Notice : we and our 912 partners

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RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination
https://microsoft.github.io/renderformer/
#ycombinator #RenderFormer #Neural_Rendering #Rendering #Global_Illumination #Sequence_to_Sequence #Transformer

@mcc as a Chinese I have NEVER seen internet translated like this

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No, Your Honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.

@lisyarus can I still do this or am I too far gone

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CSS Minecraft

Link: https://benjaminaster.com/css-minecraft/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44100148

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#GoodMorning

A couple of trees and a hillside covered in dandelions gone to seed, with the early morning sun rising in the background.

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Love this comment on https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115762#issuecomment-2898635945

#AI #LLM #Copilot #AISlop

In reply to: it is my opinion that anyone not at least thinking about benefiting from such tools will be left behind.

eevee commented: this idea that people who actually do the thing will be "left behind” (whatever that means), while people who want to just tell a chatbot "do a thing” will be surfing the wave of the future, is truly baffling.

im a programmer because i enjoy programming, not because i secretly aspire to instead gently debate aword salad machine into making a ten-line change for me IR I ICY IR K

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Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

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We report: after many tribulations, we are confident that this is planet Earth - what with the sky, the grass, the bearable temperature, and the breathable air. We feel smaller than ever before under these billowing columns of steam. Our expert did not miss their pollen allergy.

Digital painting of a countryside landscape, a wide expanse of tall grass, a line of trees and a few house. The bright blue sky is filled with towering white and grey clouds, and peppered with smaller clouds every which way.

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“I’m sorry, Ms. Delacourt, but your son has tested positive for Linux.”
“Give it to me straight, Doc. How bad is it?”
“It’s terminal.”
[anguished cry]

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Writing unit tests

Pros:
- they'll improve the quality of my code
- it'll take like 10 mins max
- literally everyone says that I should

Cons:
- i don't wanna

CONCLUSION: i will not write unit tests

@akademy@floss.social @akademy@lemmy.kde.social is it like, academy with a ‘k’?

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