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My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers?
Is it just me?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/
Discover 피드에서 섹트충들은 블락리스트로 어느 정도 막을 수 있는데 퍼리는 아무래도 공유되는 블락리스트가 따로 없어서 그러신 걸까... 대체 뭐지
Ooooops, my finger slipped and I ordered a T shirt, two pins and a set of stickers...
MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
Link: https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397797
It's getting cold again.
Zvažovaný vládní zákon o zahraničních agentech by dopadl i na neziskovku Programy do voleb., z prostého důvodu, že zakládající členkou je občanka Slovenska.
Riziko pokut začínajících na milionu korun, riziko nepřiměřeného státního dohledu na osobní život, jen kvůli občanství členky, je natolik velké, že spolek v takovém případě ukončí činnost.
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Ultimately in our culture we need to have ways to calculate what people are compensated, and I do not fault anyone for participating in the process of this type of ranking. Some number needs to be written on the offer letter and if you don't have a process for determining that as fairly as you can, then it will be entirely based on implicit biases. So people will have titles and titles will have pay bands. But that's the real, final difference between "junior" and "senior": about $100,000.
@glyph Something of a small coda to this. I think you touch on it when mentioning the mistake of assuming on whether someone is fungible based on their level but take a single organization and swap two senior engineers into different parts of the business.
From afar and for a period of time their work is going to look a little similar to what junior engineers usually do because the fastest way to get the business understanding is to go through and do the simple but tedious maintenance tasks.
RheEnergise is storing #electricity generated by renewables by pumping High-Density Fluid to a high reservoir, then releasing it to generate energy later. Their pilot project has reached a peak power production of 500 kilowatts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/pumped-hydro-storage-rheenergise?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
I have a confession to make: while Haskell will always be my first love, PureScript was the one that truly stole my heart. It felt like a “polished” version of Haskell, smoothing out the rough edges and adding gems like row polymorphism that I still miss dearly. It's heartbreaking to see it labeled a “dead” language now, especially with its primary focus being stuck in the JavaScript ecosystem while other backends remain second-class citizens.
I've tried moving on with ReScript, Elm, or Gleam, but they never quite scratched that itch. They are great for what they are, but for someone used to the sheer expressive power of Haskell-like type systems, they feel a bit too “simple.” I find myself missing the depth and the “if it compiles, it works” confidence that only a truly robust type system provides.
Lately, my eyes have been wandering toward Lean and MoonBit. Lean is fascinatingly powerful, though I'm still searching for a more seamless JavaScript/WebAssembly story there. MoonBit also looks incredibly promising—a WebAssembly-first language that seems to aim for a higher level of sophistication than the usual ML-likes. The quest for the perfect, type-safe web language continues.
NVIDIA is not helping anything by calling DLSS 5 a "GPT moment in gaming." Games media isn't helping by referring to "biggest change since NVIDIA invented ray tracing eight years ago."
Like, AI companies make their money by sowing confusion, and using that confusion to make bullshit like LLMs seem like an ordinary technology that does ordinary things.
The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
Link: https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-bureaucracy-blocking-the-chance
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390345
A federal judge blocks key parts of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s effort to reshape US vaccine policy, including a move to reduce the number of shots routinely recommended for children. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-blocks-efforts-reshape-childhood-vaccine-policy-2026-03-16/
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Hi #bevy ! It's time for your weekly #bevymergetrain :D Nom-nom-nom: gobble up 8 PRs worth of #rust #gamedev goodness, as we go over the work that the community thinks is ready to merge: https://gist.github.com/alice-i-cecile/72b9ac24f1b782520da7480016375acd
Largely fixes today, but some nice chatter about dueling solutions, work that I helped with and why panics are bad actually.
Starlink Mini as a failover
Link: https://www.jackpearce.co.uk/posts/starlink-failover/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396264
The router is not functioning.
狭くしたGmailのWeb UIに額縁があるなあと思ったけどInboxの書類入れ箱だね
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116240419954741202
a crossover cable
새벽 5시부터 잼얘 타령하는 나 도파민 중독인가요?
今日はsubversion仕事の日なんだけどキッチンウメコさんは定休日です🥺
Video Encoding and Decoding with Vulkan Compute Shaders in FFmpeg https://lobste.rs/s/o9zwv3 #graphics #performance
https://www.khronos.org/blog/video-encoding-and-decoding-with-vulkan-compute-shaders-in-ffmpeg
酷い鼻づまりで起きた
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i showed her your post and she laughed and said "no that'd be if you included the ®
さて起きる
Here's the handout for a three hour workshop I presented at the NICAR data journalism conference on using coding agents (Codex CLI, Claude Code etc) for data exploration, visualization and analysis https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/16/coding-agents-for-data-analysis/
Oh oui, raconte-moi des gros mensonges, dit l’électeur. Et le politicien s’exécute. Après tout, c’est son métier.
神奈川県相模原市
#バイク旅
#風景写真
#photography
撮影日 2026/02/28
Even school kids know that passing off something AI generated as your own work is lying, cheating, and also means you're not learning. #WhatILeanedTodayAtFOSSBackStage
Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
me, a software engineer my gf, a Realtor 💪 always talking about agents
I'm hearing a lot about "Right to compute" acts, which seem to be written by AI lobbyists to protect their interests. Maybe make it easier to build new datacenters.
What about "Right to create" laws. Giving creators the right to make things and not have them be ingested by billion dollar companies.
This very post may soon help train a model that will decide to kill a human being. I think about that a lot.
LOOKING FOR OLD ANDROID SMARTPHONES 📱📱📱
For educational workshops about technology and Internet,
I'm looking for old/retired Android smartphones that I'm willing to purchase for cheap.
- Do you have a old smartphone...
- in #brussels, #bxl
- Android only
- from 2014-2022
- hidden in a drawer
- the battery / screen is damaged (but still boots up)
... that you'd be willing to gift / sell for cheap?
If yes »»» 📩📩 marie@verdeil.net
Three ways to look at the same machine - at the same time: a BIOS VGA console, a 256-color xterm, and a responsive web UI - all connected to the same cell and backup management backend.Which one would you pick?
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de
#netbsd #modernretrocomputing #freebsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd
Nuovo post sul gemlog.
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Sono ormai circondato da persone che *dichiarano* che i programmi di intelligenza artificiale disponibili funzionino:
#IA #lamentazioni #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/IA-paradossale.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/IA-paradossale.gmi
Nuovo post sul gemlog.
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Sono ormai circondato da persone che *dichiarano* che i programmi di intelligenza artificiale disponibili funzionino:
#IA #lamentazioni #geminiprotocol
gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/IA-paradossale.gmi
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini//omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/IA-paradossale.gmi
Just laid off along with whole team. I'm in the middle of moving. Movers coming on Saturday. I'm not done packing. Good: time to finish packing. Goodish: cheaper rent at new locale. Bad: older guy computer programmer, but not even in COBOL [C, Perl, Python, PL-SQL, RedHat and Debian Linux. Created a custom RPM just Friday.]
Looking. CT / NYC / remote.
Every Ham Shack Needs a Ham Clock
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/16/every-ham-shack-needs-a-ham-clock/
Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]
Link: https://www.thoughtworks.com/content/dam/thoughtworks/documents/report/tw_future%20_of_software_development_retreat_%20key_takeaways.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341321
Three ways to look at the same machine - at the same time: a BIOS VGA console, a 256-color xterm, and a responsive web UI - all connected to the same cell and backup management backend.Which one would you pick?
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de
#netbsd #modernretrocomputing #freebsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd
One of the ways LLMs are damaging society is by causing us to endlessly talk about LLMs when we could be doing something creative.
New this year at #PyConUS 2026:
🔐Trailblazing Python Security Track!
Join us on Saturday, May 16th in Long Beach, CA to learn from experts & shape the future of the Python security landscape.
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