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Carl [he/him]

@ Carl @hexbear.net

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  • Waymo turns out to be using remote operators from the Phillipines

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  • I remember watching a YouTuber talk about Waymo when it first started, and they had a warehouse in the same city as the cars with people who would remote in if the car got confused. Strangely I haven't been able to find info on this any of the times I've looked despite seeing it with my own eyes - maybe it was a different company idk - but yeah this doesn't surprise me at all.

  • American Median Voter be like: "look i hate ICE but i hate trans people too" (cw transphobia)

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  • Same. Even when I didn't know anything about this stuff my intuition was "let people do what makes them happy/what doctors recommend." I can't imagine sustaining hate - not just ignorance, which is easily sustained by doing nothing, but active hate - for a group unless that group is actively trying to harm you in some way (like fascists).

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • CGDCT but with philosopher anime girls has potential. We need to workshop this more. I'm imagining a show where they do stuff like hit the beach and sing karaoke, all the while arguing about what the fuck Hegel was talking about.

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • reading that comment is like reading Settlers

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    Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Novo General Megathread for the 6th-12th of February 2026

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  • With modern banking there's no reason why they couldn't do that. It's how Uber and Lyft do it (if you sign up for their dumb card because they make more money by pushing all of their drivers into it).

  • American Median Voter be like: "look i hate ICE but i hate trans people too" (cw transphobia)

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  • A woman driving for doordash when ICE pulls up to her vehicle.

  • American Median Voter be like: "look i hate ICE but i hate trans people too" (cw transphobia)

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  • It's why they want to make it illegal for schools to discretely acknowledge a kid being trans without informing their parents.

  • Professional sport should be abolished

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  • This is very funny but I also don't think it's true.

  • Professional sport should be abolished

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  • In the cold though, so their junk is gonna be shrunk. Unless they add fluffers to the event.

  • Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment

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  • damn it peaked at 125k last time.

    Every time this happens I hope it's the final one, and so far every time I've been disappointed.

  • PSL hurts our movement

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  • that and the smol bean calarts ass clipart

  • DPRK rule

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  • This actually exists, although the most you can do with it is fly around and take measurements, no near-space stations.

  • ChatGPT apparently got rewarded for using its built-in calculator during training, and so it would covertly open its calculator, add 1+1, and do nothing with the result, on 5% of all user queries

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  • lmao that's great.

    One time I asked GLM to run a test on a piece of code, and it wrote a python script that printed "Test Successful!" to the terminal but didn't actually do anything. These things are so incredibly bad at times.

  • Silly larper! Where's your le epic 1 bajillion attachment point rail system with hyper dynamic 6.7x-69x magnification. Why haven't you spent $12,000 for your first build?

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  • i just wanna say my gun's a Garand and with practice i'm about as good at shooting it as I was when I had an m16 with an acog but shooting it is a lot more fun (although carrying it in a war would suuuuuck)

  • Silly larper! Where's your le epic 1 bajillion attachment point rail system with hyper dynamic 6.7x-69x magnification. Why haven't you spent $12,000 for your first build?

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  • 7DF already had this opinion before getting banned, i wouldn't call them a chud just wrong in this instance

  • Microsoft's Copilot is coming for your File Explorer and Taskbar

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  • Installing Linuxmany times to one PC.Fuck you, Microsoft.

  • "How do we get rid of poor people as a whole" in Epstein files

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  • Efficiency and progress is ours once morenow that we have a neutron bomb.

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Nationalize your ports to prevent private foreign companies from buying them.

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Okay Russia is understandable cuz they're in a war, USA understandable cuz they're saber rattling, but genuinely what is China doing besides minding their own business?

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    Freedom Road Socialist Organization - Novo General Megathread for the 30th of January to 6th of February 2026

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  • I haven't actually stress tested the new Rust code yet to see what it can really do, 1000 is just the size I initially set the "asteroids" and "projectiles" object pools to, which are the primary collision-checking entities in the game.

    My original Python implementation did it the "check every other object" way, but the way I'm doing it now is by breaking up the play area into zones and having each object only check for collisions inside its current + adjacent zones. I implemented that in Python and it got me a pretty big speedup, although I didn't properly quantify the speed increase at the time.

    The next thing I did was implement that same algorithm in Rust, and use PyO3 so that I could do the collision math in Rust while keeping everything else the same. I did properly quantify this speed increase with a series of benchmarks - the code got about a 3x speedup for <100 objects, 1.5x for 200-500 objects, and resulted in slowdown at 1000+ objects. I figure the issue was the transfer overhead getting unwieldy when copying that many tuple objects back and forth.

    What I'm doing right now is rewriting the whole engine in Rust while keeping Python as the "controller + monitor". This lets me keep overhead to an absolute minimum - Python only sends control inputs down, and Rust only sends current entity locations up. I haven't finished writing it yet so I haven't gotten to stress testing what it can do, but I've already glimpsed how much faster it is because I'm able to fly at ridiculous speeds through the game area while spawning in ridiculous numbers of objects without any slowdown on the same machine that would start to chug at about 50 objects before.

    I'll definitely check out those videos!