Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/curse-2 #smbc

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

Luckily, I’m not in need of any RAM at the moment, that with the prices skyrocketing. Depending on the modules I see price increases of up to factor 5 compared to two months ago.

This article argues that this isn’t “just” AI but OpenAI specifically who bought up a huge chunk of the world-wide supply. What for? Nothing actually, merely messing with the competition. https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

Given how much the AI bubble distorts hardware demand, when that bubble bursts the ripple effects throughout the entire IT landscape will be enormous. And that’s not even considering how much of the financial system is invested in this.

Remember ringtones? In the time between mobile phones that went BEEP and the current societal compact that phones should be on vibrate and never make a sound, custom ringtones were big business.

I worked with a guy whose ringtone was the Roobarb theme tune (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFG1xPS_DUY).

One day he told me that his phone had rung last night while he was having sex with his girlfriend. Of course you don't answer your phone while you're fucking so he just let it ring, but he found himself thrusting to the rhythm and his girlfriend bopped him with a pillow

i talked about this demo in the pub on weds and this toot just reappeared in my feed :-)
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tbo4hkau3p2itkar2vsnb3gp/post/3lihqadxsu225

talked for a while with a biologist at the salmon stream we went to today - did you know them little buggers make it back to within one meter of where they were born to spawn? that’s crazy

🤣Oh no!

Someone must have clued Trump in to the fact that Venezuelan crude oil is higher quality than Saudi crude, but that Nigerian is even higher quality than Venezuelan.

And that Nigeria has the largest oil reserves in Africa. More than 3X more than Ukraine, Mexico, and Australia... combined.

Because I assure you he does not care about Nigerian Christians. At all.

I already wrote a thread on Islamic terrorism in Nigeria, and how fighting that does not require Islamaphobia.♥️🕊️

1. Terrorists in Nigeria killed more people than either Al-Qaeda or ISIS
2. Most of their victims, are muslim
🙂🙃

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112780201015569715

And Nigeria has large reserves of rare earth minerals needed for the EV transition.

But yeah, Trump loves Nigerian Christians all of a sudden? No. Just... no. 🤡

He doesn't even show love for Black US Christians! But now we're supposed to believe that he's worried about Nigerians?

If he's so worried about Nigerian Christians, let him increase the asylum approvals! Like he did for South African farmers, right?

But you already know that he's not going to do that.

Fascinating article with Don McCullin talking about 19 of his greatest photos.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2025/oct/29/its-been-a-cesspit-really-my-life-war-photographer-don-mccullin-on-19-of-his-greatest-pictures

This is a great read about random numbers. Especially the bit about PCG vs xorshift.

https://crates.io/crates/oorandom#a-brief-history-of-random-numbers

#math #maths #crypto #cryptography

The shit we grew up with.

But we turned out alright.

Right?

.... Right?....

Someone didn't think that design through

@resuna Got an old termcap around in which to check which Wyse terminal earned a comment about the designers deserving to be flayed and boiled in oil?

no joke I think the single most effective effort-to-result change that The Tech Internet could make for usability is to move the github readme above the github file list

@eythian @jeffjarvis
Here’s a zoomable archive of every issue of Byte Magazine. https://byte.tsundoku.io/

One turns to the other and asks, "do you smell fish?"

#DadJoke #DadJokes

So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts.

Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible?

Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257

The Hour Record - on UCI-approved hardware - is just shy of 57km. Holding 60kph for an hour - on a perfect surface, indoors with the best UCI-shaped bike that any amount of money can buy - is (so far) beyond the capacities of any human who's made the attempt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record#Hour_record_holders_(men's)

But recumbents haven't gone away, and "fully-faired" bikes are wildly better than you'd expect.

The Hour Record on an enclosed recumbent is 92.4 kilometers, a full 35 km further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour_record_(recumbents)#Streamlined_Human_Powered_Vehicle_Records_(Men's)