Rare reference

“He’s got gills!” (Waterworld)

Zoom in on the eyebrows

That cat is going 😈

Haha, you’re the exact user (type) for whom I meticulously frame my photographs for to avoid incidental information or reflections 😅💯

Salad fingers is alive and kicking still

😂 My man Kenshis

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8374040/

Abstract:

The meta-analytical results obtained allow us to estimate the prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population at 4.5%. That being said, this rate varies depending on the participants’ sex (higher in males), the type of sample from the general population (higher in samples from organizations than in community samples or university students), and the type of instrument used to define psychopathy. In fact, using the PCL-R, which is currently considered the “gold standard” for the assessment and definition of psychopathy, the prevalence is only 1.2%.

So the scientific estimate is between 1.2% (strictest criteria) and 4.5% (loosest criteria).

4.5+1.2÷2 = 2.85%, which is close enough of an estimate to use in casual conversation (roughly 3%).

Weird; I came pre-installed with this weird thing that tells me if what I’m doing is right or wrong, absent of cultural norms.

The joke here is that it doesn’t exist in everyone, we just presume it does.

The assumption of pre-existing universal empathy turns out to be a fatal flaw for a collective, even when the absent rate of empathy is small (<3% of the population).

My grandmother, bless her soul, grew up on a farm and her solution to psychopathic tendencies in society is to “tie a bag of potatoes or stones to them and drop them in a river”.

I said: “Grandma, what about rehabilitation?” She didn’t exactly understand the word completely but she said: “After killing six people and two children, the river does it.”

And you know what? Even then, capital punishment still feels wrong.

Full body allows you to move your arms and legs in VR. Joints are approximated using IK, and the more trackers one wears, the closer it approaches to film grade motion capture quality.

Full body virtual reality is cheap and affordable ($1-2K vs $145K in 1994 and $Millions in the 70s)

I watched Serenity in theaters on opening day not knowing anything about Firefly, and when Wash got speared, I shit you not, half the audience audibly gasped and more than a few people sounded in genuine distress.

I watched the TV series later and understood why.

He’s a leaf on the wind — watch how he soars ~

Argentina.

Meatwagon is right. The content is where the creators are, and they’ve all left Reddit; myself included.

I was sliding it back and forth as fast as I could, because I didn’t understand the puzzle at first, but then I saw there’s an sorting optimization puzzle and thought that I was clever only to find out it’s tedium.

Halfway through (or so I thought at move 80), I was just curious to see how ridiculously long the puzzle could be, shifting pieces back and forth

So the answer was: I thought the puzzle was easy, and I was humbled, and stubborn.

I solved it and wasted time, and used that time to warn others to not bother with the puzzle

I thought I was clever, it took me 300 moves with only 8 disks.

Literally just easier to pick up the entire pile and move it over, or rotate the entire game and say Tower #1 is Tower #3 now.

What the actual fuck is this

I love electric cars, prefer them over gasoline, but a Ferrari should look like a Ferrari

The chassis/vision design concept artist should be moved to a different division…

I just need AV2 to not blow chunks on VR/Streaming.

AV1 is currently hamstrung by decode compute costs, I’m sending 6K video @ 120 FPS and at 200 Mbits (25 MB/s) it looks like pea soup.

At 400-500 Mbps (62.5 MB/s), you have twice as much network overhead but somehow H.264 still decodes faster even though it’s twice as much raw data per second.

For straight up video file compression, AV1 seems to be absolutely unmatched if you use “peak framerate” (say 120) and then VFQ / variable quality set to like 35.

I was able to convert a 900 MB (!!) H264 video of VR gameplay (6K across, 3K/eye!) into 96 MB, and slide right under Discord’s idiotic 100 MB limit.

Unable to comply. Insufficient user permissions.

Uninstall Instagram? Why I’d never!

/S

It’s exactly what Warren Buffett said about him; an interviewer in 2016 asked: “What do you think about Trump winning the presidency, he’s a businessman”

Buffett laughed and says: “Yeah, every business he has run, he run straight into the ground.” (Still thinking it was a theoretical question)

Reporter goes: “Yes, but he is President Elect”

Buffett’s smile just kinda melted as he realized the new “business” he would be running, was the U.S.

(The full interview is difficult to find, so I found a short one minute snippet remaining on YouTube)