complete with some BS explanation

“For child safety!!!111”

“I understood that reference”

i didn’t think I’ll ever see those sequence of words

Gabe : Thank you for your service

Scrolling this thread in office has been quite nerve-wracking

I’m afraid a federated micro-blogging website using ActivityPub doesn’t/can’t exist ;_;

I am playing Stardew Valley and there is so much to do in the game that I’m set for this year.

If your poop isn’t soft, you need to drink more water.

I unfortunately had to buy “A Way Out” and “It Takes Two” to play it with my spouse. I’m sorry.

But I installed the “Fck EA App” with great pleasure (https://github.com/p0358/Fuck_off_EA_App).

Doesn’t matter at this point. He’ll pay Trump another 1 million dollars and this news will simply vanish.

Nice

Thanks for this. Got a burst of nostalgia

but I’ve accepted defeat in trying to understand it

I may have shared the link but even I don’t know how it how it works.

It’s like admiring the Eiffel Tower; you can understand that it’s a marvel of engineering without understanding the underlying engineering concepts. Such experiences are rare but they truly humble you.

Regarding the square root, understand the following concepts

1. Bit shifting simply shift the bits to a certain side (Left or right) => 0010 << 1 → 0100
2. Mathematically, it multiplies or divides the input number with a factor of 2, depending upon the type of shift
3. If you shift the number n with a nice shift amount x (I have greatly greatly over-simplified this), then you can calculate the inverse sq. root since inverse square root is 2^(-1/2)
4. Calculating the inverse square root manually will take lots of clock cycles, which was not feasible for a FPS game with the limited h/w
5. Bit shifting is a lot faster since we are not computing, but instead shifting

The resultant shifting gives us an answer which is close enough to the answer, and that is good enough for FPS games for calculation of reflections.

Source for bitshifting

PS: Someone who is more experienced in this domain can correct me if I’m wrong.

I am still in awe of the fast inverse square root method used in QuakeIII. Good times.

He also does not “become a samurai”

Correct. That’s why I said symbolically.

but you never see the character on screen again

I maybe incorrect but towards the end of the movie, the Emperor asks how Katsumoto died, to which Tom Cruise replies “I’ll tell you how he lived”. So he was alive?

I might be terribly incorrect.

But i remember that Tom Cruise’s character switches sides in the movie after spending time with the Samurai (He was captured by them). He trains under them and becomes a Samurai. In the end, they fight against the (British?) and lose due to a gattling gun. All the Samurai die except for Tom’s character. So symbolically, Tom is the Last Samurai.

“Given the chance, they would definitely lock lips with the dominant male”

Next post, AI tells user to “get a job”

I have bypassed this issue by exclusively using open-source terminal software. If my softwares aren’t launching in 2-3 seconds, i usually try to find alternatives.

Practically speaking, we are at a turning point regarding Nvidia on Linux. Things were bad before but they have improved significantly. Newer drivers from Nvidia are partially open-source and they seem good so far.

As long as your GPU isn’t too old, it should be fine. Bur you should verify before commiting.