reverse engineering
neutral engineering
drive engineering
first/second/third gear engineering
sport mode engineering

hans gruber joined a website? didn't he die?

The realities of modern warfare make hosting your applications and data in data centers a risky proposition. However, with novel coding techniques, it may be possible to install applications, and maybe even store data, on end users’ own devices

The pillows have eyes

We've heard your feedback loud and clear. For the first time ever, the next edition of Windows will finally include a "Stop" menu

the spirit of fast inverse sqrt lives on…for some intel uarches, it's faster to compute vectorized clz/ctz via float conversion and bit hacks than to use scalar ops https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/vectorized-clz-and-ctz/

this new dlss tech is incredible

I won't deny that OpenAI's 25,000-page proof that hot dogs are a sandwich is a technological milestone. Nonetheless, I can't help but be concerned about the effect it will have on the sandwichology field going forward

New tech unlocked for folks who TAS games running under Linux https://monads.online/@dankwraith/117408008688682909

くしゃみが強くて、「渦中」を作った

Sidz Meier’s Sibilization

x11 isn't really my cup of tea, and wayland doesn't support monochrome surfaces, so maybe i'll write a window system instead

With the power of local models, your navigation app can now mispronounce place names in a different way with each direction

steve jobs to bill atkinson, pointing at a blackberry bush: pointy corners are everywhere!

all this arguing about corner radii. but what courageous soul will be the first to introduce windows with extra-pointed corners

invoking "forth majeure" on my datastack

meanwhile, in other multiverse news

these noodles are a bit flat. some Surace will give it a bit of spice

This laptop? You’re right, it is a vintage [italian accent] Surace

Even with minimal things enabled, NetBSD’s rc script takes a while to finish on a 120MHz ARM9, so I wrote my own rc script that runs in a couple seconds. But it looks like the 30 second delay on shutdown is hardcoded into /sbin/init. So maybe I’ll write my own init too.

There are some things about the kernel that I think could be slightly improved. Maybe I’ll write my own ker