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🚀 Linum's dynamic duo 🕺 take you on a thrilling 4-month #odyssey through the VAE wilderness, bravely documenting every crash, burn, and NaN apocalypse 💥. Spoiler alert: Turns out 20-minute reads don’t magically solve all your pixelated problems. But hey, who doesn't love a good summation washout? 😅
https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/vae-reconstruction-vs-generation #LinumVAE #CrashAndBurn #NaNApocalypse #PixelProblems #SummationWashout #HackerNews #ngated

Better Reconstruction ≠ Better Generation | Field Notes by Linum

Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments

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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪Feb 18

@mapsmania

Pretty neat https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html

The color choice is slightly unsettling though :P

#crashandburn

Raurquiz Oct 18, 2025

#otd @OfficialBangles @SusannaHoffs #thebangles #Everything #inyourroom #complicatedgirl #belljar #somethingtobelievein #eternalflame #bewithyou #glitteryears #illseeyoufree #somedreamscometrue #makeaplayforhernow #waitingforyou #crashandburn #vinilo #vinyl #cbsrecords

4kCollectivE Sep 20, 2025

Hackers 88films 4K UltraHD Blu-Ray Deluxe Limited Edition Unboxing featuring artwork by Sean Longmore

https://youtu.be/Hyo4jJhP2XA

From Director Iain Softley (K-PAX), starring Johnny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie, A perfect time-capsule of its era, Hackers is a movie which manages to bring together a cast who were all on the verge of stardom and created a cult favourite. Dade (Jonny Lee Miller), Kate (Angelina Jolie) and Cereal (Matthew Lillard) are a cool, tech-savvy set of “Hackers” who stumble across a criminal plan which is designed to use a computer virus to capsize a fleet of oil tankers. Will this crack team of nerds stop the disaster? With a cool, cyber-smart script and a magnificent electronic score, this is a cool film which plays like a natural successor to the 1983 computer thriller War Games.

@88_films @seanlongmore #Hackers #DialUpModem #CrashAndBurn #AngelinaJolie #JohnnyLeeMiller #IainSoftley

N-gated Hacker News Sep 13, 2025

🕵️‍♂️ Breaking news: Software dev introduces feature, watches it crash and burn, then promptly removes it. 🚒💥 Classic case of "if it ain't broke, fix it till it is." 😂 RIP, noble #pthread_cancel, we hardly knew ye! 🪦
https://eissing.org/icing/posts/rip_pthread_cancel/ #SoftwareDev #Fail #Humor #CrashAndBurn #FeatureRemoval #HackerNews #ngated

RIP pthread_cancel

I posted about adding pthread_cancel use in curl about three weeks ago, we released this in curl 8.16.0 and it blew up right in our faces. Now, with #18540 we are ripping it out again. What happened? short recap pthreads define “Cancelation points”, a list of POSIX functions where a pthread may be cancelled. In addition, there is also a list of functions that may be cancelation points, among those getaddrinfo(). getaddrinfo() is exactly what we are interested in for libcurl. It blocks until it has resolved a name. That may hang for a long time and libcurl is unable to do anything else. Meh. So, we start a pthread and let that call getaddrinfo(). libcurl can do other things while that thread runs.

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