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ChaoticNeutralCzech

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  • I hope hell is like a microwave so if you find the right spot, you're ok

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  • It's presumably a showerthought by someone drunk or speaking bad English edited into Garfield as a shitpost, which I find funnier than most memes (see also the pelican mouth copypasta). The fact that it was referenced on Technology Connections did play a part in me quoting it, too.

  • No low ballers, I know what I have

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  • Me too. I wonder if the hardening of "s" is something we got from the Germans, although we don't have that other substitution they do (cukr-Zucker).

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  • Correct, but the hardening of written "s" into a spoken "z" is about equally common. Then, some words have the "vz-" prefix, which some mix up with "s-" or "z-" too, and even "zvláštní" (means "strange" and has no prefix) gets misread as "vzláštní" extremely often.

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  • SubArcticTundra is Czech though, and we use "s" for "with". It's a bit of a homonym but most people don't struggle with s/z prepositions, the s-/z- prefixes are more problematic: you'll see lots of people write "shlédnout" (look down) in place of "zhlédnout" (view, as in video or movie) even though "zhlédnutí" (views) is right there in YouTube's UI.

  • AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

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  • Why did they not learn from r/SubredditSimulator etc.? Those did improve with OpenAI's GPT generations but were always 99.9% trash, 0.1% randomly amusing and 0% helpful.

  • Twodaloo

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  • Every toilet should allow a custom water amount, eliminating the need tor such half-assed "water-saving" solutions.

  • No low ballers, I know what I have

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  • Proof that they don't make them like they used to

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  • Translation: "bread wif [sic] cement"

  • Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?

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  • Or shake the device for a while to make all indents go away. I guess the GPU could do that too if it's the only thing it's busy with.

  • Today's Entry

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  • Probably not a DIP chip

  • Smasnug CRuleT

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  • Probably also new enough to have a non-point-focusing Fresnel lens. Which is enough to focus sunlight into a pot and heat it up decently fast, but not to make a sharp death-beam to liquify metal. That's the most valuable part of a projection TV nowadays, and although you could get a sizeable trapezoidal mirror and some lenses, plus dichroic glass out of LCD ones, those are not nearly as fun.

    I think that by removing the mirror, screen and case, a working one could be made into a half-decent projector but very limited in where it can be placed in the room to focus (about 1 diagonal away from the screen and dead center because of no keystone) plus you'd have to make a fire-resistant electrically safe case for the unshapely thing that blocks any light from the lamp/CRTs but isn't too big as to block your view any more than the bare device already does.

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  • Text-based UI can be super clean! Not great for small screens though

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  • Eww, the examples... There's Copilot twice but no FOSS apps I recognize (perhaps there's open source ones that come with AOSP in the System section...)

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  • Of course. You need about 1 hair per 2x2 pixels on a 1080p screen and 4x4 on a 4K screen. That totals about 10,000 hairs per icon in the simulation, which can be precomputed into animations. Third-party icons will be 2D (or 2.5D if the FG/BG layer of the icon is handled separately, doubling the animation data). Now it's "just" a matter of drawing 10,000-20,000 lines with precomputed shading and textures from the icon's 100x100 bitmap render.

    Also, the GPU is only used by apps while they're in the foreground, so the launcher might be able to use all of its power. And it could cache animations for existing icons (who cares if the system uses 32 GB of storage? Buy the higher option, peasant!)

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  • Fluffiger Yaerno

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  • Are you living in 2010? Nope, full hair simulation. Gotta optomize the impressions of people trying demo units at the store, multitasking be damned. The base model has 4 GB of RAM btw.

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  • And leave threads lying in directions you touched them in. Yes, it's a lot of RAM but who needs multitasking? Impression at the store is what drives sales.

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  • Come on, at least cowsay or robotfindskitten. I once hacked into a Linux kiosk and found the former in a "games" directory.

  • Could two girls kiss on purpose?

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