Robin Green
@fatlimey.bsky.social
Programmer at Pacific Light & Hologram
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Robin Green
@fatlimey.bsky.social
· Sep 29
I'm not fixing to do much on this platform, been concentrating my content onto @[email protected] if you have a need for bit-twiddling and high-radix numerical fuckery.
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Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆
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Folks on AtariAge made a 3D model of the dissolving character belt of doom in the 1027 printer
3D printed a rigid master and made a mold, so I could cast in durable urethane. Should outlast the rest of the printer now
I can make a few more, so DM me if you need one. Easy to toss in an envelope.
3D printed a rigid master and made a mold, so I could cast in durable urethane. Should outlast the rest of the printer now
I can make a few more, so DM me if you need one. Easy to toss in an envelope.
October 21, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Folks on AtariAge made a 3D model of the dissolving character belt of doom in the 1027 printer
3D printed a rigid master and made a mold, so I could cast in durable urethane. Should outlast the rest of the printer now
I can make a few more, so DM me if you need one. Easy to toss in an envelope.
3D printed a rigid master and made a mold, so I could cast in durable urethane. Should outlast the rest of the printer now
I can make a few more, so DM me if you need one. Easy to toss in an envelope.
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This October marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Octavia Butler’s final book.
We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This October marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Octavia Butler’s final book.
We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
We spoke with a librarian at @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social's Octavia Lab about the prophetic nature of Butler’s work.
🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social
Project Redneck, my Ford Ranger fixer, continues with upgrades and tweaks. Got me a neutral stance with 31" wheels on a -12 offset and a front leveling kit (that needs some tweaks).
October 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Project Redneck, my Ford Ranger fixer, continues with upgrades and tweaks. Got me a neutral stance with 31" wheels on a -12 offset and a front leveling kit (that needs some tweaks).
In Redmond, parked behind SpaceX are a block of cyber trucks sitting alone and fenced off. Almost like they were parked to prop up sales figures. That can't be true, surely?
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In Redmond, parked behind SpaceX are a block of cyber trucks sitting alone and fenced off. Almost like they were parked to prop up sales figures. That can't be true, surely?
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DDR5 is unstable garbage.
Max out your memory channels? Flaky.
Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs.
Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training.
Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.
Max out your memory channels? Flaky.
Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs.
Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training.
Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.
October 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
DDR5 is unstable garbage.
Max out your memory channels? Flaky.
Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs.
Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training.
Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.
Max out your memory channels? Flaky.
Temperature a bit too hot? Silent Throttle with no logs.
Too “Dense” of a stick? Good luck training.
Last gen was rock solid by comparison. Here's what happened.
Ford Ranger successfully leveled so we can get new shoes before the snow.
September 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Ford Ranger successfully leveled so we can get new shoes before the snow.
The more you look, the more amazing the color theory used - tone & value, hot & cold, arial lighting, this color on hard mode and it looks effortless.
August 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The more you look, the more amazing the color theory used - tone & value, hot & cold, arial lighting, this color on hard mode and it looks effortless.
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
What a great write up on living with Orgmode for over a decade of One Big Text File.
Writing experience: My decade with Org. ~ Álvaro Ramírez. xenodium.com/writing-expe... #Emacs #OrgMode
Writing experience: My decade with Org
While I missed Emacs Carnival's Take two, with this month's prompt being Writing Experience, I figured I may have a thing or two to share about my Org...
xenodium.com
July 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
What a great write up on living with Orgmode for over a decade of One Big Text File.
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As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.
July 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
As GDC talk applications have opened, I want to politely remind you that GDC remains one of the most inaccessible, unfairly expensive, and dangerous for-profit game industry events out there - and that offering your labour for free to it just adds value that pressures people into going needlessly.
Visited the Anne Frank house one year ago. It's a sobering place.
July 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Visited the Anne Frank house one year ago. It's a sobering place.
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Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
June 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
Madonna had a watch that turns into a robot.
June 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Madonna had a watch that turns into a robot.
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Mathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing was born #OTD in 1912.
His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾
Image: The Guardian
His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾
Image: The Guardian
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Mathematician, computer scientist, and WWII code breaker Alan Turing was born #OTD in 1912.
His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾
Image: The Guardian
His work helped establish the theoretical foundation for just about every modern computing device, making it possible (among other things) for you to read this. 🧪 💾
Image: The Guardian
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If A.I. is so powerful, why does every 2000 word article about how powerful it is mostly come down to "it summarises, it translates, it fumbles when you try and make it do actual work, some software engineers like it, also it doesn't know anything and thus cannot truly be trusted"?
June 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
If A.I. is so powerful, why does every 2000 word article about how powerful it is mostly come down to "it summarises, it translates, it fumbles when you try and make it do actual work, some software engineers like it, also it doesn't know anything and thus cannot truly be trusted"?
Explain your @
I am both fat and a limey, living in the US. It was given to me by the long lost game dev gossip site fatbabies.com home of the conference room teabag.
I am both fat and a limey, living in the US. It was given to me by the long lost game dev gossip site fatbabies.com home of the conference room teabag.
Explain your @
Silversprite has been my research identifier since 2004. Nowadays I use it, and Wordshore, interchangeably.
Silver = my great-great-great grandmother was a silversmith.
Sprite = a type of image possible in some early 80s home computers, as well as the pagan meaning.
Silversprite has been my research identifier since 2004. Nowadays I use it, and Wordshore, interchangeably.
Silver = my great-great-great grandmother was a silversmith.
Sprite = a type of image possible in some early 80s home computers, as well as the pagan meaning.
Explain your @
I am Vee, and I am trying.
I am Vee, and I am trying.
June 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Explain your @
I am both fat and a limey, living in the US. It was given to me by the long lost game dev gossip site fatbabies.com home of the conference room teabag.
I am both fat and a limey, living in the US. It was given to me by the long lost game dev gossip site fatbabies.com home of the conference room teabag.
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Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here:
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
Foundations of Computer Vision
The print version was published by
visionbook.mit.edu
June 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here:
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
visionbook.mit.edu
We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs.
Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!
Anyone got a bell tower? Asking for a hunchback I know.
June 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Anyone got a bell tower? Asking for a hunchback I know.
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This is a very good piece on AI by cognitive scientists who knows what he’s talking about. Explains why AIs do that thing where they are INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE and then suddenly GODAWFULLY STUPID. There are very good reasons to think this won’t go away:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
A knockout blow for LLMs?
LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is a very good piece on AI by cognitive scientists who knows what he’s talking about. Explains why AIs do that thing where they are INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE and then suddenly GODAWFULLY STUPID. There are very good reasons to think this won’t go away:
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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Building a Debugger is now officially released!
It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
June 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Building a Debugger is now officially released!
It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
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Ace of Base and the Lords of Acid meet in a bar and neutralize each other
June 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Ace of Base and the Lords of Acid meet in a bar and neutralize each other
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Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.