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There was this FPS demo recently https://playcanv.as/p/qxGSuzYq/ People have also converted some small sections of Unreal 5 demos into splats https://superspl.at/scene/692c4f91 Or …

Current government has explicitly said that they will not lower hose prices: "We're not trying to bring down house prices," Housing Minister Clare O'Neil declared on ABC's youth ra…

John Carmack likes how Grok will tell him he is wrong. "I appreciate how Grok doesn’t sugar coat corrections" https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1985784337816555744

It really annoys me when fiction is based on real events, takes a lot of liberty with the source material that it enters into the public consciousness. The classic case is the "The…

I think it is mostly just a problem with Victoria - and they are are hardly conservative. Hospitals and ambulance service is a state issue and other states fair much better.

Windows built-in snipping tool (shortcut Win + Shift + S) also has a text actions button to extract text.

I think Japan did this last year https://japandaily.jp/japans-government-initiatives-to-boost...

Looking at your link, it seems to be US only stats? Best selling in 2024 world wide was Model Y even including trucks? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-best-sell.…

This is well outside my expertise, but some discussion happened at the time https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/56xxmb/the_str... Some people suggest that maybe Facebook …

I don't believe they are allocating 128 bytes, or accessing out of bounds memory. He explicitly states 128byte filename allocates 129 bytes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-…

It was from C++con 2016 - Facebook take on small strings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk&t=1343s I believe it is about a page that was conditionally returned to the ker…

Related to unspecified vs undefined. I recall some C code was trying to be tricky and read from just allocated memory. Something like: int* ptr = malloc(size); if(ptr[offset] == 0)…

I would settle for something like - "any network functionality in consumer devices must be open sourced and user modifiable" It is probably too high a bar for most manufacturers, s…

AoE2 is coming out on PS5 this year.

Didn't Tesla's top selling car (Model Y) get a refresh last month? Potentially a lot of buyers waiting to get the new model.

There is a counter at https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Higher levels of bisphenol A (BPA), a plastic commonly used in food packaging, were detected in urine samples taken from women pregnant with boys later found to have autism. Florey…

And the other reason for dlls for common system libraries, security. If a security bug is found in a dll that is shared amongst a lot of programs, that can be updated without havin…

If you are thinking about the C runtime on Windows, you can statically link those dlls into your program via compile time options. There are valid reasons for dlls however. The mai…

I don't think a town in Tennessee recently outlawed homosexuality in public, They just added: "No person shall knowingly while in a public space engage in indecent behavior, displa…

FYI there is a at least one science journal that only publishes reproduced research: Organic Syntheses "A unique feature of the review process is that all of the data and experimen…

Good video on the topic - there is a sun sensor on the dish - looks for the brightest object and orients to face it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbsHgE89qO4&t=340s

Classic skit on identity theft by Mitchell & Webb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E

On Windows, as part of PowerToys - there is a Text extractor. Works just like the screenshot tool except dumps text to clipboard https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys…