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do ieee 754 numbers taste of coca-cola and vanilla

you know when you mess with your binocular vision by letting the axes of your eyes diverge a bit, and the illusion of it being a single image breaks, as you see two images simultaneously? this is z-fighting, to me

signal is just a conspiracy by big telephone to get extremely online people to actually tell their friends their phone numbers

ok so if you get support requests from users who have put weird settings in their ini files that you've never seen before, it's because chatgpt is really good at inventing vaguely plausible ini settings that don't exist

(hasn't happened to me, has to someone i know, i tested it)

i was trying to remember which us state got a cool new flag recently, so i went on wikipedia and typed

“Flag of Wisconsin”

nope… that's one of the terrible ones

“Flag of Michigan”

noooope that one's also awful

“Flag of Vermont”

noooooooooo

three awful guesses in a row…

#wikifinds “This article is about the motorcycle. For the synthesizer, see Yamaha DX100 (synthesizer).”

god i love midi as a medium for distributing music. every playback is an arrangement: unless the author wrote the piece for the specific device you have, it won't sound exactly the same, and that's cool! interesting things can happen. sometimes bad, sometimes wonderful.

what is a girl? a hopeful little pile of dreams

german speakers be like “you can just can!”

i think i might have survived a “write out and optimise static single assignment intermediate representation for a loop and then partially unroll it” compiler job interview whiteboard exercise without preparation… but i wish i had prepared ^^;