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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 1h

and made it equally harder to replicate that live

like adele on record vs live is basically the same. but huntrix on record and live are like two different songs

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 2h

this year peace prize for Netanyahu

its not even a competition. he wins by some some distance

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 2h

americans are observing in their own country with what their military has been doing to other countries for so long

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 12h

the solution is to watch Formula 1. so that any news you get is already 5 seconds outdated by the time the stream comes because everything is so fast

and you get no texts either. because no one around watches f1

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 13h

i've heard similar things from the ML folk too. they've have been freely doing strange things w pytorch simply coz it was the better thing to do for the framework, even if it "may" hurt adoption

a personal gripe of mine is it has poor complex support. but I like that its not in pytorch, shows focus

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 17h

something is wrong, chrome usually can handle 20-30 tabs without breaking a sweat. you may have to try flipping some switches in chrome://flags (probably a decent guide might help)

chroms will hog up more resources if you have them. but can be limited

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 17h

this makes sense, in graph theory we small world networks which show up everywhere. small world networks can replicate a lot of the behaviour of dense graphs while having much lower overhead

it can be shown for most networks that even as sparsity increases, any two points still remain few hops away

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 17h

if the one piece live action is going to be canon accurate

then they are going to have to soon replace emily rudd with christina hendricks, just saying

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 20h

unfathomably based.

the brother worked on peripheral tolerance. he already achieved the highest honour there is in biology. saving lives

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable The Nobel committee has been unable to reach a winner of this year’s prize for medicine who is “living his best life” on an “off the grid” hiking foray. Fred Ramsdell shared Monday’s prestigious prize with Mary Brunkow of Seattle, Washington and Shimon Sakaguchi of Osaka University in Japan for their discoveries related to the functioning of the immune system. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 21h

[Bullet Train Explosion] was the OG speed

i had found it to be little less exciting as compared to speed (since it was naturally older therefore slower) but it was a lot more real. i was a lot more invested in it because it felt reasonably real

小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 1d

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 21h

oppenheimer is too smart for his own good. the whole movie was just forced into nolan's style without needing to be

non linear stories work when there is mystery. like mi amor we know he will lose his clearance, why all the cat & mouse chase between wide lens shots of people smoking in a PTSD face

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 1d

clifford group an actual beast

Notable subgroups of the clifford group from wikipedia

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 1d

italians are massively based

reflections.live/articles/226...

The Lipstick Gesture: Women’s Right to Vote in Italy and the Silent Power of Symbolism

Photo by Mike Newbry on Unsplash History tends to be recorded in big deeds—demonstrations, revolutions, and sweeping speeches. But sometimes, it is the subtle, symbolic actions that are the most profo...

reflections.live

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 1d

when i was in the paris metro a few years ago they were announcing 'beware of pickpockets' in 9 languages

i was like, mon ami, i from village area in poor country and things are not THAT bad even back home

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 1d

the nobel committee is taking quantum computing one step at a time

first CHSH and now Josephson Junctions

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 2d

bro the first chapter of SPQR is about the Catilinarian conspiracy

WHO THE FUCK WRITES A BOOK LIKE THIS? its like writing a book about the history of WW2 and starting with the july plot

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

Out of Icarus, An Inconvenient Truth, and 13th

Apollo 11 (2019) by Neon. may be the single greatest documentary ever.

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

it could also be because i am absolutely horrible at estimating how much time each section would take

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

probably because you've been building to it for a while in many parts and a complicated system just started working with all its pieces in place

usually what happens w me when i see 'time leaps'

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

"As Gorbachev argued more than once, the dissolution of the USSR was never put to a referendum vote. Did the vote for Ukrainian independence mean the dissolution of the Soviet Union?" ~ serhi plokhy

seems the dissolution of USSR was either inevitable or maliciously forced, not 'agreed' upon

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

disney pixar started going downhill the day they decided on recognisable IP

everything since moana was just downhill

Winnie the Pooh (2011)Wreck-It Ralph (2012)Frozen (2013)Big Hero 6 (2014)Zootopia (2016)Moana (2016)Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)Frozen 2 (2019)Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)Encanto (2021)Strange World (2022)Wish (2023)Moana 2 (2024)

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

people who have had this path:
Blacksky <- bluesky <- x <- mastodon <- x

i have a doubt: why are you so afraid of commitment?

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

jfc. Oh and according to leaflet.pub/1960400b-dd5... Bluesky can hide Blacksky posts from Bluesky users, but cannot ban them.

So, You Want to Leave Bluesky...

The most important thing you need to know is:

leaflet.pub

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

companies should start building around having leveled policies and not specific requirements

like all i need to have is SOME VPN app which supports openvpn, not the very specific insecure spying piece of shit my bank wants

∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

any app which now asks for any specific data which it doesn't NEED, i am blindly removing. some painful, some easy

but this nonsense of 'oh unless we know every second of every angle of your life, you may be a bot, who knows?' is not going to stand

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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∇ @dy-dx.bsky.social · 3d

at this point the only hurdle between me and any game is the the god awful steam store

can someone please help Valve w building a half decent app. it's ok if its electron, vscode is alright. whatever they've on now, is worse than Teams