cmd+Q on macOS is great.

Unreal 2 black hole cannon

It is your choice, and you can customize it to be on the left.

How would you magnetize something with alternating current?

Yeah, I was swimming as a child and eventually took lessons later on. It’s like second nature now, not knowing how to swim seems like not knowing how to walk to me. I can’t imagine what it’s like. I never swam competitively or for exercise, just for recreation.

This is actually why I like it more than most other sports - I can actually tell what’s going on and see the plays because of the stop / start.

With high movement sports like football (soccer), hockey, or especially basketball, it just looks like a bunch of people going back and forth and I have a really hard time figuring out what’s going on.

DOOM: IDDQD - god mode, IDKFA - all weapons / items

SimCopter - I’M THE CEO OF MCDONNELL DOUGLAS unlocks all helicopters

You know that drive has a 1 year warranty, right?

HDDs have a bathtub failure curve no matter who makes them.

When I was putting together my NAS, WD was selling their NAS grade drives without disclosing they were SMR. They got hit with a class action for this.

They’re all trying shady shit, no HDD will run forever, no corporation cares about you, so use whatever you want and backup your data.

I have 114TB of Seagate drives right now and they’re fine. I’d use WD too, or HGST. The fanboyism around HDDs is so strange to me.

Picked up a Rotring for my wife a while back and she constantly gets compliments on it. Really nice weight and feel to it.

Sometimes the always on healing works so good cells start doing things like reactivating telomerase and ignoring the signals for programmed cell death and become cancer, sometimes turning effectively immortal.

I really wanted to like it, but nothing about the game hooked me. The world was cool and graphics were good but the core gameplay loop was tedious. I was hoping for a more interesting or threatening world to explore. The random objects placed by “xXXgamer420xXx” didn’t help my immersion. I wonder if the game would have been as successful if Kojima’s name wasn’t attached to it.

I put in about 6-8 hours and never came back. Not that it was bad or anything, but I just don’t have that kind of time and it wasn’t particularly compelling. I might try it again some day, but I didn’t really understand the hype. You deliver boxes for likes and try to not fall over while walking forever in a kinda scary sci-fi post apocalypse world. What am I missing? I heard great things about it making the journey less of a slog, but if anything, it made traveling feel like more of a slog. I just had to not fall over. It’s not like I was finding that much cool stuff along the way, just occasionally a slightly useful bridge made by some other player.

Losing what.cd was like losing the musical library of Alexandria. Redacted is pretty good, but it’s just not the same.

Alexander the Ok - 101k subscribers, does some great hour long engineering / computer science videos. F-14 central air data computer (first microprocessor), Minuteman missile (led to the first desktop computers), B-29 turret system (networked mechanical computers), and Buran (not really computers, but a really good video anyways).

Might be an 18.1 or 18.2 feature

I’m not pretending to understand how homomorphic encryption works or how it fits into this system, but here’s something from the article.

With some server optimization metadata and the help of Apple’s private nearest neighbor search (PNNS), the relevant Apple server shard receives a homomorphically-encrypted embedding from the device, and performs the aforementioned encrypted computations on that data to find a landmark match from a database and return the result to the client device without providing identifying information to Apple nor its OHTTP partner Cloudflare.

There’s a more technical write up here. It appears the final match is happening on device, not on the server.

The client decrypts the reply to its PNNS query, which may contain multiple candidate landmarks. A specialized, lightweight on-device reranking model then predicts the best candidate by using high-level multimodal feature descriptors, including visual similarity scores; locally stored geo-signals; popularity; and index coverage of landmarks (to debias candidate overweighting). When the model has identified the match, the photo’s local metadata is updated with the landmark label, and the user can easily find the photo when searching their device for the landmark’s name.

It’s not data harvesting if it works as claimed. The data is sent encrypted and not decrypted by the remote system performing the analysis.

From the link:

Put simply: You take a photo; your Mac or iThing locally outlines what it thinks is a landmark or place of interest in the snap; it homomorphically encrypts a representation of that portion of the image in a way that can be analyzed without being decrypted; it sends the encrypted data to a remote server to do that analysis, so that the landmark can be identified from a big database of places; and it receives the suggested location again in encrypted form that it alone can decipher.

If it all works as claimed, and there are no side-channels or other leaks, Apple can’t see what’s in your photos, neither the image data nor the looked-up label.

First girlfriend, real small town energy now that I’m looking back on it. Not interested in trying foods from various cultures, her idea of a vacation would be something like Disneyland or a resort, not going out to foreign cities and experiencing them. Definitely would not have worked out.

She ended up marrying my ex-best friend when I went off to college. Worked out better for both of us, honestly. No way I could have stayed in my hometown doing the same things more or less for the past 20 years.

Redacted. Frankly though Bandcamp has most of what I want and I don’t mind paying if it’s reasonable. I only turn to RED when I can’t find it on BC. Movies and TV though I’m 100% pirating regardless.