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when lewis carroll wrote about slythy toves that gyre and gimble in the wabe, i can only assume he had recently been reading and thinking too much about mathematical modelling of rotations

learning about the IBM 3840 Magnetic Tape Subsystem https://youtube.com/watch?v=vEYUIQyRFDI

physicists 🤝 3dcg material artists

modelling a cow as spherical

tired after a long day, i stare at my keyboard and, for a moment, catch a glimpse of the symbols as they really are, as if i do not know the latin script, as if they were just alien symbol designs from a video game, and i feel joy in it

the secret to achieving native-like language skills is to forget any of the sounds and spellings you know from other languages exist. when i see an s, in german, for an arabic word? doesn't matter, i pronounce it [z]. when i see a z, in swedish, for an english word? always [s]

you know it's a corporate phishing test email when they have to add a fake “this message has originated from an external source” banner because they had to make the sender trusted

it's funny how modern x64 linux distros that you can't install on 32-bit x86 machines still include i386 versions of everything in their package repositories because wine sort of still needs them (well, i can't think of a strong other reason to include them)

wait, sdf rendering of text 1) only requires using alpha testing, you don't even need shaders, 2) is in team fortress 2?

i had no idea it was that old or that simple to implement, damn https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/apps/valve/2007/SIGGRAPH2007_AlphaTestedMagnification.pdf

do any of my followers own a framework laptop

do you like it

touchscreen this, ai that, where can i get a laptop with a real bell for \a (␇)