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Teledildonticist. Arctic Fox. Cube.

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See also: @buttplugio

The answer to "how did this ever work" is usually "well it helps if your representation is actually using the correct fucking coordinate systems"

me 16 years ago: Ok but since the legs on the novint falcon aren't usual offsets we have to use a weird high dimensional parallelogram representation with a feedback loop in it for stepped approximation

vendor: what if 3 spheres got all up in each other's shit

programming is looking at code and going "fuuuuuuck"

engineering is looking at graphs like this and going "fuuuuuuck"

half of social media: how dare you replace meat/corn land with data centers

other half of social media: how dare you attack data centers to defend the meat/corn trade

me, eating a hamburger made of AI: I hereby accept the award for being the most american american to ever exist

*is instantly gunned down*

Just told a dev acting coked up due to LLM coding that “you just built the code equivalent of cop rock”

Unfortunately we are far enough from the 90s that they did not understand how perfect my metaphor was

btleplug, the Rust bluetooth le host library we produce at Nonpolynomial, is now part of the Servo web engine project!

Which is kinda ironic considering our macOS platform support was ripped out of early Servo builds.

https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/43529

Dear SF Bay Area (and/or driving distance to Urban Ore) Kink Community:

$350 for adding this to your dungeon seems like a fuckin' steal.

it's amazing how young people really can't process the amount of trance and industrial music sampling material being made at this very moment in time

Oh boy, someone asked r/cscareerquestions if they should put @buttplugio work on their resume.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1rju9lz/could_contributing_to_an_nsfw_github_repository/

Everyone saying that we’re going to get a vacuous pop performance for Super Bowl half time next year

But no, nfl too smart for that.

It’s gonna be so hardcore, over the top political that it will absolutely confuse the shit out of everyone

calling it now

LAIBACH FOR SUPER BOWL HALFTIME 2027