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I think Musk should be more bold in his vision here. What if instead of a cybercab that seats just two people, we could come up with an even bigger one that seats many people at once? And then maybe we could have it drive on a predictable, efficient route that covers multiple popular destinations, instead of just going from point A to point B. Has anyone considered building something like this?

I've had times where I've written those sorts of thoughts on a small sheet of notepad paper, which I would then tear out and burn in the kitchen sink. More frequently, I'll just write what I'm thinking into an empty, personal use chat window in lieu of venting to others. In either case, I think they definitely have some effect.

Mind that this isn't some huge announcement of a new initiative within Microsoft/Linux or whatever. This is some commits/mailing list threads that the Phoronix guy decided to write an article about (often much to the chagrin of those having their offhand mailing list comments characterized in article form by a third party)

Now for another glorious thread of Hacker News users getting pitchforks and torches over something they simultaneously insist doesn't really matter

I believe I encountered a situation like this before, and what it really means is that you just have to log in to see it, and Reddit is just lying to you.

I may be wrong in this case, though.

cause its funny, that's why.

judging from their webpage this person knows exactly what they are doing and is enjoying every single bit of it. props.

This is a bad take both on the nature of art and Wendy Carlos.

Art encompasses all aspects of the human experience. How could this not include identity and sexuality, and yes, the treatment one lives through as an aspect of those things. Also wrong is the supposition that a ideological art is somehow a lesser form of creativity. Some of the greatest works in history were made by "ideologues", and made specifically as tracts for their beliefs, either expressly or subtextually. To demand that art be politically inert and sanitized of the identity of its creator is to demand art that says nothing to the viewer and means nothing to the artist. It is to chide a mural for not being a wallpaper.

But even then: Wendy Carlos is perhaps one of the weakest examples of someone doing this, as the article itself makes abundantly clear. Her identity as a transgender woman was something she had to hide for over a decade, and even then the social stigma has driven her into seclusion ever since. Rather, the story of Wendy Carlos is one that massively underscores the sheer importance of having the loud-and-proud expressions of people's identity and experiences that we're (and I am) fortunate enough to have today. If you don't like that, well, maybe you can be the one to close your blinds this time.

Tumblr trying to get their users into NFT avatars would be possibly the single funniest hellstorm the internet has seen in ages.

I've personally taken to using Tumblr again after the last few months, and I've been hearing increasing talk of moving back to it with how things have been looking on Twitter, especially with the Musk takeover. This move couldn't have been better timed, and I honestly hope it serves them well.

Interesting how many green accounts are in this thread describing the same problem with the exact same typing style. All of them made within the last two hours.

The only reason you're not hearing about the acid rain or the ozone hole anymore are because decisive international action was taken to stop both, and wouldn't you know it, it worked. And, are you really "old enough to remember" a single politician mis-stating a climate forecast during a speech, or are you just "old enough to remember" seeing it repackaged into a meme on social media a decade or so after the fact? Either way, it is an asinine basis for your leading claim.

For anyone interested in non-AI animated children's drawings and wanting a particularly strange addition to your day, I might also point some attention to Sünnipäev, a very bizarre and surprisingly meaningful (after enough watches) 1994 Estonian cartoon by Janno Põldma based on a similar concept (no Estonian needed!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6EK89x00GI

Thank you, Jonathan Swift

I mean, "Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017" doesn't exactly feel like as much of a slick gotcha when the language also explicitly includes the timeframe of his presidency and refers to "administrations" in the plural

The S&P500 and butter of sciencedaily, rather.

As it turns out, "signing up" with "fuck.off@eat.shit.com" worked just fine for me.

... With apologies to whoever owns shit.com.

Personally, I would say I learned very much when I first watched these videos on YouTube. Not about colors, though.

As it happens, the last time I checked Britannica's article on Wikipedia, it was a pretty entertaining read. It was actually pretty hilarious counting how much of the article each section took up -- I think I counted about 2/3 of it being dedicated solely to bashing Wikipedia. It might have changed since then, I'm not sure.

In a certain way, thinking about this solution just makes me feel more ill...

Thanks for pointing this out. I had thought the Lear jet was just made out of magic, until I saw your comment.

I don't see what Devo has to do with this...

Wowie.

"Goodbye Masks?"

"$199"

Well, at least the headline is helpful enough to answer its own question.

I can't say I did.

Well, if you're familiar with SNES stuff, you'll recognize "SuperRT" as a reference to the SuperFX chip, which pretty much did a similar thing for 3D rendering on the SNES in its day. That gave it away to me from the start.

This release contains my first ever contribution to the project! It's a small one, but I still feel proud of it as a novice developer!

With GEGL at last being implemented into GIMP proper, I would hope we're at least a good step closer on that front! :)