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So we have confirmation that DXVK is much better at translating dx9 to vulkan than whatever translation layer Intel came up with for their ARC GPUs.

youtube.com/watch?v=wktbj1dBPF

The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

More details: nasa.gov/artemis-1

Linux development still depending so much on Linus Torvalds' leadership scares me, even more than what Microsoft is doing with Windows.

With the current political environment, when Linus finally retires (or dies), if he's replacement isn't basically a clone of Torvalds himself, Linux is ripe for a potential collapse.

When NASA chose to use Linux and ffmpeg on the latest Mars mission, the open source community celebrated.

So here's something that came to my mind. If we found out the US military used Linux, or some other popular open source project, in the workings of the next-gen weapon of war, something that surpasses nukes in destruction ability, how would the community react?

Have you guys had any power outages yet? I had 2 so far this month. They didn't last long, just a couple of minutes.

>You can't take this data as proof that X thing happens, because the data could be skewed from X happening.

I won't forget today easily.

Populations aren't as simple as: this side just keeps increasing forever.
There are multiple forces at play that stabilizes things. You don't get to say "you don't understand statistics" because you limit yourself at a too basic level. From your understanding of population dynamics, the western world should have kept increasing its population, but reality has shown us that it not only stagnated, but it's actively decreasing in size.
Populations tend to stabilize themselves at healthy levels.

This thing reminded me just how much I miss the old Hanna-Barbera animation style.

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I love things like this. A lot of creativity, talent, and just enough childhood nostalgia.

Steamed Hams But Every Scene is a Different Animation Style
youtube.com/watch?v=jjU_D-j7Qs

Meme idea:

>On this episode of How It's Made, we take a look how at how high quality cringe is made.

And then you put a screenshot of some poa.st user or something.

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