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Carl [he/him]

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  • What are you up to right now?

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  • Currently programming my "cellular automata with n-body gravity" in rust.

    The white gradient is formed by the "gravitons", the tan stuff is sand. Right now I've got the gravitons reproducing and passing directional data between each other, what I'm trying to wrap my head around is rotating indices for each simulated cell so that i can make them dynamically "fall" towards the nearest gravity source, rather than always falling towards the bottom of the screen as they do now.

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    Tic tac toe (cw: blister)

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  • why did i click that. i didn't want to see that.

  • Roll to save vs. death

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  • tbh that's an amazing post if it's a shitpost

  • Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus

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  • Taken along with the recent news that the Army is going to start charging troops for chow hall food (using the money that they already pay and can't choose not to), it seems like there's some budget cuts happening in personnel. Since the military budget as a whole hasn't gone down to my knowledge, the only explanation is that they're cutting to increase the profit margins of Raytheon and General Dynamics and co.

  • Amazon's internal agentic tool decided that existing code was inadequate and decided to replace it taking down a part of AWS for 13 hours, and was not the first time it had happened. 🤣

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  • Hang on. This implies that the AI deleted code from production. They didn't have it working on a branch so they could test its changes?

  • Imagine being a monarchist and this is Your Guy

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • the git

    I've reserved some screen real estate for the UI. Only the "game" portion of the screen renders at your framerate, the rest lazy-updates only when you click it. This was more difficult than it sounds.

    I can not for the life of me get those letters properly aligned. I've tried every single tutorial and example I can find on the internet and they are ALL wrong. The only thing I can think of is manually identifying which letters are off (they are all off by 1 pixel) and manually adjusting them, but that's too much work for a placeholder.

    Next update is the titular "n body gravity". Hopefully before the weekend is out I'll be showing off creating planets with sand.

  • Optics tho

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  • We should split the difference and make the slogan "Death to Amerikkka" that way nobody will be confused about what we're referring to.

  • UN declares Earth has entered a period of 'water bankruptcy' that is likely impossible to reverse

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  • THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WATER HAS NOT CHANGED THIS IS STRICTLY A MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION PROBLEM AHHHHHHH

  • Climber convicted of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend on Austria’s highest peak to seek help

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  • He said he had left Kerstin G on a ridge exposed to strong winds when he went to seek help. He told the court he could not explain why he had failed to wrap her in the emergency blanket she was carrying or place her in a bivouac bag. When her body was later recovered, the items were found in her rucksack.

    This is a shockingly common occurrence in survival scenarios. Thin oxygen, cold, and fatigue fuck your ability to think clearly. In this case it seems a lot of other bad decisions were made before they got to this point, and the fact that he did this to a different woman on the same mountain is highly suspect.

  • Who's laughing now? China’s humanoid robots go from viral stumbles to kung fu flips in one year

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  • plus with prosthetics carrying the weight is no small ask, my understanding is that a lot of people go back to more simple prosthetics after giving the advanced ones a try (unless that's changed?)

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • (group of goblins)

    sorcerer: fireball!

    wizard: lightning bolt!

    me: entangle!

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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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  • playing AP Leona be like

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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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  • So I've been using a chat bot to learn to code, and like... the more I learn about coding, the more often I can see how bad its advice is. Not ten minutes ago I was trying to use one to debug a strange issue in a program I wrote that prints out a random line in a text file where it was repeatedly printing the same lines over and over instead of picking randomly.

    The bot was completely useless, kept telling me to change and fix things that weren't relevant to the actual problem (which was that I had a += 1 in the wrong place in a loop) and add a bunch of debug output. Then when I figured out what was causing the problem, instead of recommending that I just add the += 1 to the appropriate part of the loop, it tried to tell me that the solution was some overly-complicated nested if structure and two step algorithm

    Anyway that's why I deleted all of the AI code from my github. The best use case for this stuff is as a suped up search engine, and even then the only reason why that's marginally useful is because the human search engines have gotten so bad as a direct result of AI slop flooding the results and you're better off putting in the effort to find a real source anyway.

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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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  • Hasan has become unwatchable since he added that sound board to his setup, jfc. It's only funny as a bit once, then you need to stop.

  • loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux

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  • those icons at the top

  • Real Breadwinner 🌟

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  • stop paying landlord

    landlord cannot pay bills

    bankruptcy process inturrupts eviction process

    live rent free until new landlord is decided (this could take many months)

    probably wouldn't work unless you got a bunch of other people to do it with you, but it's fun to dream.

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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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fn draw_basic_ui(pixel_data: &mut Vec<u8>, font: Font) {
    println!("Press 1 for Sand, Press 2 for Water!")
}
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    Nashville Sit-ins Begin (1960) - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-19th of February 2026

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  • Today I added a "fast path" to the simulation for cells that I want to update more rapidly than other cells, like liquids! Water is actually three different types of cells now - Water, EastWater, and WestWater. It kinda represents momentum because regular water turns into east/west water when it moves in that direction, and east/west water only flows in one direction, and can flow very quickly by jumping up to four empty spaces at a time. "Fast path" processing also means that east/west water cells get three times as many passes by the sim per "frame".

    It's still not slippery enough IMO, but I played with cranking the fast flow system up to 16 iterations and I'm well past the point of diminishing returns, 3 fast cycles per slow cycle is just about where you get the most benefit.

  • (tw: SA/CSA) the american news cycle perfectly distilled

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  • never believe anything you see on the Internet until the rest of the Internet has had a chance to debunk it

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    Gonna try to kick YouTube from my viewing habits, what's some slop that I can download to my phone to listen to while I drive instead?

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    Unlearning Economics

    Everything Was Already AI

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    What could she be looking at?

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    The Crowning Gem of Soviet Urban Planning (Lazdynai, Lithuania)

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    Gov. Gavin Newsom signs bill giving 800,000 Uber, Lyft drivers in California the right to unionize

    abc7news.com /post/governor-gavin-newsom-signs-bill-giving-800000-uber-lyft-drivers-california-unionize/17938887/
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    Dort_Owl but it's Dort_Awl and they're a tool for punching holes in leather or canvas.

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    My dog found a new use for my bike.

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    Gonna change her name to "pillow thief"

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    The ULTIMATE Impossible to Reach Places on Google Earth

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    What is China's plan to beat the USA back to the moon?

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    Down with CIS

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    Elon · Didier D'Agostino · Franck Curier · Eric Leroy

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    Bill Maher: An Autopsy

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    Fantasies of Nuremberg

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    Gen X has worse lead poisoning than boomers, kids may be poisoning themselves even worse

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    Look who just changed into her summer coat!

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    The payment for this side quest is tax-deductible.

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    The Chinese Motorcycle Manufacturer That Might Take Over the World

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    spotted attending a local community college

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    Premium Mini-Wolf Transportation