Meanwhile in Dwarf Fortress women used them as ablative armor.

(The priority of child care was set so high that dwarves would carry their babies into battle, with predictable results.)

It’s mostly padding after the first hundred million years.

During Trump’s first term it came out that Roy Moore, an Alabama Republican running for Senate, was a rapist and a pedophile (naturally he was Trump’s endorsed candidate).

Not only did Moore not drop out of the race, he almost won the election. And he only lost because enough Democrats showed up to vote for his opponent - the Republican voters still mostly supported Moore even after he admitted to going after teenagers.

That’s just RPS “humor” (or humour given they’re British). They started as a comedy review blog and have kept the decades of in-jokes and references despite all the actually funny writers being long gone.

Modern RPS is a hollow shell of what it used to be.

Yeah, you should take another stab at it.

They got rid of Medieval Tapestry Art Baby?

They were referring to Mario and Luigi matching the Italian flag.

Hitman has massive open levels set in scenic European cities, lavish resorts, beach villas, old manors, and a bunch more. It’s a social stealth game where you try to blend in as you explore the levels and get close to your targets, so it would be pretty easy to roleplay as a vacationer if that’s what you wanted.

Mon petit chou-fleur.

Last I read the “deal” is saddling EA with $20 billion in debt, so here’s hoping.

But also, leveraged buyouts are fucking disgusting and should be illegal.

Did they remember to cover the other ones mentioned at 4:20 in the video (igloo, starfish, traffic cone, flip-flops, Eiffel tower, cotton candy, fork)?

The seahorse emoji remains my favorite for showing how LLMs are completely incapable of handling obviously false information in their training data.

One of the linked papers makes the claim that the circuitry would be less complex than that needed for floats, but also includes this note:

Floats have one advantage over posits for the hardware designer: the fixed location of bits for the exponent and the fraction mean they can be decoded in parallel. With posits, there is a little serialization in having to determine the regime bits before the other bits can be decoded. There is a simple workaround for this in a processor design, similar to a trick used to speed the exception handling of floats: Some extra register bits can be attached to each value to save the need for extracting size information when decoding instructions.

The proposed system also lacks NaN and separate positive/negative infinities, so it wouldn’t be a drop-in replacement.

I’ve managed to create a compression algorithm that reduces files down to a single bit. I call it “is this file ‘loss.png’?”.

It’s guaranteed 100% lossless with any input!

Ah, Apache Commons: for those who felt Java’s standard library wasn’t bloated enough already.

(I kid, I kid, though it was always funny just how many basic features seemed to be missing from Java back in the day despite its massive bundled library, leading to seemingly every major project adding Commons as a dependency. Not as much as thing these days AFAIK)

I feel obligated to post a link to this excellent (albeit incomplete) writeup of posits and unums, which can more accurately represent common fractions in memory at the same (or lower) bit size compared to traditional floating point.

Said page also includes the single best slightly-above-entry-level explanation of how floating point works I’ve ever seen.

Delicious, nutritious snow.

Flashbacks to the Invincible train scene.

Rule 3: SD CARD CORRUPTION

Rookie mistake. Next time store your swapfile on Google Drive so it’s their problem!

Don’t forget the Yuffie expansion for the first game that they made early adopters pay for (though it’s now bundled with the game).