Stephen FarrugiaNever before has “I work in the tech industry” sounded so much like “I work in the tobacco industry”
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Michael B. JohnsonDuring production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?
3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.
Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?
No.
IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.
So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.
It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.
Plenty for Finding Nemo.
saljamthis ai bubble is going to burst any minute now, and we all know what that means: cheap data centre rack space in huge quantities.
can we use server racks to grow salad instead of swindle? i set out to find out: https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyThe mystery of Unicode ⍼ (U+237C) has been solved!
Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉
Alison CreeksideThe Prime Minister of Spain on FB 3 hours ago:
"The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR."
"The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain.
Our response then must be our response now:
NO to violations of international law.
NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs.
NO to repeating the mistakes of the past.
NO TO WAR."
Trump and Netanyahu launch their war and Canada, the Gulf States and Europe all sign up for it.
We are ruled by a bunch of pathetic criminals. Very single one of them.
Ian Douglas ScottIt's probably a bad thing that the "Turing test" entered popular culture but the "ELIZA effect" didn't.
Natasha 
🇪🇺NewScientist: "Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments"
This is both so logical and yet absurdly like a science fiction story ...
Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory infection RSV than existing antibody therapies, and are now being developed as preventative treatments
Martinus Hoevenaar