It begins. Fascism requires enemies within and without.

A 32 but integer can store a number up to four billion. If measuring RAM size in integer bytes, 32GB would be 0 bytes, because that integer would wrap around four times.

Assuming windows, if you right click on the executable, you may be able to choose to run it in a compatibility mode of some sort (like XP mode or something) in which case it should report smaller memory to the game, probably.

Sundog is on both sides, just using the steam to tone down the brightness of the sun for higher dynamic range, to allow the colours of the sundog to photograph better.

It’s not really steam either – it’s a sign of really cold air causing the natural gas furnace exhaust to condense rapidly. The exhaust wouldn’t normally be visible.

It’s quite cold here. Currently -20°C on the ground and certainly much colder as you go upwards.

This article is written as though it is targeting FOSS newbie or something – a weird mix of jargon and simple language designed to overawe someone.

Their VCS is at least as interesting as SQLite :)

Only games I’ve passed 100 hours on:

Pokemon (multiple versions)

No Man’s Sky

Many Paradox games: CK2, CK2, EU4, Stellaris

No Man’s Sky. Again. It keeps sucking me back in.

EU4 with Anbennar mod – update just released with a bunch of new stuff.

It’s also a really fun example of operator overloading. __div__ is overloaded to allow this syntax.

>>> p = PurePath('/etc')    
>>> p    
PurePosixPath('/etc')    
>>> p / 'init.d' / 'apache2'    
PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d/apache2')    

He doesn’t. He is lower density after transformation. Basically inflated. Also, he doubles as a life raft.

The great red spot is so fascinating. It’s a vortex that has been spinning for hundreds of years. Like someone pushed a giant canoe paddle through Jupiter and the whorls, larger than the earth, just keep turning. You look at this and go: holy fuck there’s a lot of energy in this system.

This is like some sort of black mirror ad

Alright. I’m a huge supporter of Ukraine here. But the west has been collectively providing Ukraine with a metric fucktonne of weapons. Russia is clearly the aggressor, at fault, and fucking evil. But if we can send weapons to Ukraine, Russia acquiring weapons elsewhere is probably fair game. That doesn’t mean we can’t apply economic or political pressure.

In many ways, this war dragging on for a long time is actually in Chinese interests, as far as I can tell. It makes the west war-weary making it less likely we can sustain another conflict should China decide to engage over Taiwan or similar. And it increases Russian reliance on China in the longer term. The only thing China is likely unhappy about here is NK’s increasingly large role (moving into Russian sphere of influence).

But unless we’re willing to actually sanction China, the west will just complain and do nothing.

And like all liars, the more you challenge them, the more entrenched and angry they become. Best to distract him with bright colours or something and hope he forgets.

To the surprise of no one

2009ish

I am old, so this tracks ;)

I love hitting these things in the real world. Not the big, but the comment. You just know someone spent a fortune in time and company resources to never solve the problem and their frustration level was ragequit. But then something stupid like adding

while (0){};

Suddenly made it work and they were like, fuckit.

Usually it’s a bug somewhere in a compiler trying to over optimize or something and putting the line in there caused the optimization not to happen or something. Black magic.

The downside is that the compiler bug probably gets fixed, and then decades later the comment and line are still there…

https://xkcd.com/979/

They’d probably gerrymander them, sadly

Have a wiki rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements

But perhaps more interesting, the annexation of Texas to the US initially allowed Texas to be split into four additional states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_divisionism – imagine all those extra senators popping up today if Texas decided to execute on that agreement.

The tops of the clouds on the night side of Venus are about -45°C. So it’s not actually glowing like the image implies. But in infrared, you can reprocess the colours to make a delightful image like the above.

Well, I know you’re implying the greenhouse gases will kill us all. And that might be true, but probably not in ten years.