Oh god. The cokeheads are back.

i would probably avoid using Tesla FSD

I feel like Europe is (so far) fumbling a great opportunity here. (And if Shabana Mahmood doesn't get booted soon, the UK is going to inflict another generational own-goal on itself.)

The C++ standard library, a construct so far gone that you have to #include ~9000 lines of extra code for std::move, which should have been a built-in. (Yes, I know you can just static_cast to && in most cases, but it's not exactly readable...)

We have a new 3D AVBD Web Demo for our "Augmented Vertex Block Descent" method. Thanks, Chris Giles! Try it yourself: graphics.cs.utah.edu/research/pro... Source code available.

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Ah but does it have ADHD

The trouble is, if they give these to the USA, the plans will wind up with Russia.

This is a big deal *ORACLE AND OPENAI END PLANS TO EXPAND TEXAS DATA CENTER SITE *ORACLE-OPENAI TALKS TO LEASE STARGATE EXPANSION SITE BROKE DOWN *META IN DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPER CRUSOE TO LEASE EXPANDED SITE

Le Prix d'Honneur revient à Omar Cornut, créateur du logiciel open source ImGui qui est utilisé par toute l'industrie du jeu vidéo

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Yes, Nintendo. I will carefully review your _nineteen page_ Privacy Policy. You absolute numpties.

I interviewed the directors of that incredible animated Gorillaz music video:

Psst btw everyone but A Highland Song is on sale right now with proceeds going to @gamesaid.bsky.social Find out why this game hit number 28 in the Steam chart in Japan on launch. Seriously. We’d love to know

So bad it ... spawned an operating system! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_...

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Obviously with the naming of the All Blacks Coach, New Zealand is now ready to participate in any military conflict it may be called upon to.

Horrifying.

well, time to slowly end my holiday and check the news properly for the first time since Friday morning

37 million years old whale spine found in the hot dunes of Egypt. This is a complete skeleton, the first-ever find for Basilosaurus, a large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale uncovered in Wadi El Hitan, preserved with the remains of its prey. Original post

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

Thoughts and prayers with all those billionaires and hard-right influencers who apparently "fled" the UK for Dubai.

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Quick. Everybody start playing tic-tac-toe with LLMs or we're doomed. www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

If he does this, or indeed whatever tack he undoubtably takes to rig the elections in his favour, Vance and his cronies will be watching and taking notes.

Eliminating the Impossible xkcd.com/3210/

Fly through of part of a Keeper level directly in the Unreal Engine editor. Part way through I turn on all of the game objects the player doesn't see -- it takes a lot to make games work.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

very important video please watch

All of the images in this article on drones in Ukraine are incredible, but this is perhaps the most incredible of all ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill...

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence - by David Allen Green www.ft.com/content/5207...

There's going to be quite a bit more of this, as Claude et al are commoditising hacking every bit as much as coding... www.popsci.com/technology/r...

I am happy to announce publication of my chapter titled "Real-Time Neural Network Implementation for GPUs" in GPU Zen 4 book, available now. Chapter comes with full MIT-licensed source code, available on Github here: github.com/boksajak/MLP... The book is available on Amazon.

Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.

Doing God's work

I've been working with Spherical Gaussians recently as a representation for irradiance in realtime raytracing. Ended up deriving quite a few new approximations relating to SGs and diffuse lighting. Ended up with something both cheap and accurate. Check it out: www.shadertoy.com/view/WX3fRB

I cannot stress enough to people outside the US how dangerous coming to this country is right now. There is still time to cancel your GDC trip. Stay safe, and do not come.

"My kid really loves pizza."

It tried turning it off and then on again o_O

Wildest kink I've seen yet

“Your guy is late.” “It’s only been five minutes, chill.” "Something doesn't feel right." “Everything’s fine, Dave.” "You sure this is the spot?" "Yes." "And you know this guy is cool?" "Yes, just relax." "Don't give him the money until-" "Until I see the kibble, yes I know."

Really looking forward to a few weeks of this kind of news

Correct: the US should switch to a parliamentary system. In the interim, sports events like the upcoming World Cup should be hosted by a respected non-partisan figure. America only has one of those so it'll have to be the chair of the Federal Reserve open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

This image of an Amazon van abandoned in the Thames Estuary faintly evokes an impressionist painting. I am so moved.

So happy to see CMU on this list.

Really photo editing here by Hector Vivas of Getty Images. Composite of the women's snowboard halfpipe final, depicting all the female Olympians who competed.