fargeol

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Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago

Well, since every modern tech logo looks like a butthole (https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes), this is coherent

TIL that Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is the bearest of all bears – "ursus" means bear, and "arctos" also means bear, so the scientific name translates to "Bear bear bear" in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 53 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2381/

Is there like a cheat code for dating apps? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
The menu on the Titanic from the day that it hit the iceberg. in c/historyporn@lemmy.world
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

« -what kind of lettuce?
-Iceberg !!! »

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/607/

Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)

"Wario" is a Japanese portmanteu of Mario and "warui" (bad), but in Finnish "Wario" is also a homonym of "varjo", "shadow". in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Waluigi is warui + Luigi

tropospheric ozone vs stratospheric ozone in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
Ah yes... NULL has been shipped in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago

This happens every time your [object Object] gets stolen

Gramps believes in the old school naval tech in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

"Are you Spanish ? Oui kill Spanish for the king of the French"

Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969 in c/historyporn@lemmy.world
[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (11 children)

If you want to see what the code looks like, it's on Github: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

Google tapped billions of mobile phones to detect quakes worldwide — and send alerts in c/privacy@programming.dev
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Is there such a thing as a manually curated search engine? (lemmy.world)
 

When I search for anything on Google or DuckDuckGo, more than half of the results are useless AI generated articles.

Those articles are generated to get in the first results of requests, since the search engine use algorithms to index websites and pages.

If we manually curate "good" websites (newspapers, forums, encyclopedias, anything that can be considered a good source) and only index their contents, would it be possible to create a good ol'fashioned search engine? Does it already exist?

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Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer? (lemmy.world)
 

The movie Toy Story needed top-computers in 1995 to render every frame and that took a lot of time (800000 machine-hours according to Wikipedia).

Could it be possible to render it in real time with modern (2025) GPUs on a single home computer?

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