MoonMelon @ MoonMelon @lemmy.ml

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That sounds like a "premultiplied alpha" issue. Although I'm not familiar with this specific workflow, I always suspect premultiplied alpha issues when there's a halo like that. If there's an option try toggling it.

Back when corporations were first really being invented a judge complained they had "no body to kick and no soul to damn". That was 18th c. England when 12 guys would form a corporation to build a bridge, or whatever, and that was basically it.

If whatever Steven Seagal has is a 7 this is like a 4. That process, that disease, that whatever it is. It's how many d6 you have to roll to see if you turn into chaos spawn next turn.

You know what's also funny, the gorillas were different sizes because of sexual dimorphism. Decades later I was at a lecture about animal morphology and the lecturer mentioned that, among primates, humans are actually fairly androgynous. I think about that a lot too.

For all the cruelty we inflict on one another about it, an orangutan probably couldn't even tell you what the fuck we're talking about because male humans don't even have giant cheek flaps. Like the "angle measuring" bullshit that so-called "transvestigators" do would be absolutely hilarious to other primates because we invented this four hour long Voight-Kampff test since males aren't literally three times the size, with a nose like a tomato.

Plenty of choices out there…

Not for me unfortunately. There's a number of businesses with zero online presence. They maybe have a facebook page with one entry congratulating Becky's son Roger for graduating with the class of 2015, and that's how you find the phone number. It's like the 90s again, except there's no phone book now. I don't understand it. These guys must be making a living purely off the business they get at church.

The guy who dug my well asked why I decided on him specifically and I said, "Honestly? You're the only one who returned my call." I asked him why guys with a lease on a million dollar drill rig wouldn't return calls and he wasn't sure.

I really didn't want to interface with Facebook at all but, fuck me. I have to join the Ruritan Club, or some shit, just to find an electrician.

Yeah, disappointing.

I ended up making a burner account for this. I used a proton mail address and a plausible but fake name. My vpn kept getting flagged for special review where they, I shit you not, want you to send in a photo of a government ID. Eventually I found a VPN server that, for whatever reason, got passed this.

Then I spent 15 minutes hiding and locking every privacy setting I could find because I really didn't want to be shown to other people as a potential "friend".

I use the account just to monitor local emergencies and whatnot. An infuriating amount of local businesses and services only use facebook.

Trans people are vulnerable, that's it. You did nothing to deserve it.

When I was a kid I remember being at the zoo during feeding time for gorillas. The zoo keeper was chucking sweet potatoes and other things into the pit. Two gorillas were sitting next to each other, a big one and a small one. The big one got hit on the head with a sweet potato and immediately responded with violence onto the smaller gorilla next to him.

Gorillas are smart, there's no way he thought that the small gorilla was responsible for the yam to the head. But he couldn't attack the one throwing potatoes. That other gorilla was vulnerable and accessible. That's all. I think about that a lot.

Also, same gorilla enclosure where Harambe would be killed years later. It's like "come to Cincinnati, see our pit of cruel metaphor!"

I think the last time I celebrated any holiday was buying some champagne when Kissinger died.

Bugs? My favs are buggy to the point some of these bugs became their own mechanics

This is pretty much half of competitive Brood War.

Also quite a few great books in the public domain. Here is a website that curates, fixes up, and publishes free copies of classic public domain literature: https://standardebooks.org/

Cops can ignore. Prosecutors can decline. Judges can "sentence" to unconditional release.

The people can nullify.

I'd like to specifically highlight the Swill Milk Scandal also.

The New York Times reported an estimate that in one year, 8,000 infants died from swill milk. The milk from swill-fed cows, produced in dense urban areas and often priced as low as 6 cents per quart, was affordable to most of New York City's poorest residents. Swill milk dairies were noted for their filthy conditions and overpowering stench both caused by the close confinement of hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cows in narrow stalls where, once farmers tied them, they would stay for the rest of their lives, often standing in their own manure, covered with flies and sores, and suffering from a range of virulent diseases.

Sound familiar?

The Tammany Hall politician Alderman Michael Tuomey, known as "Butcher Mike", defended the distillers vigorously throughout the scandal—in fact, he was put in charge of the Board of Health investigation... Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations and ... shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous.

Sound familiar? However people were so enraged that eventually laws passed regardless, and then finally at the federal level.

Most people don't know about it, but this was basically THE incident that led to the modern FDA. It keeps coming up too. Recently we've had the raw milk fad, but also various melamine adulteration incidents (melamine is used to fool modern protein assays, but is basically the 21st century version of swill milk). There's also occasional "grass roots" efforts to loosen the regulation on milk labeling, ostensibly for plant based milks, but I am suspicious this is astroturfing by the dairy industry because it's exactly what they've been fighting for since the Pure Food and Drug Act passed.

You use super long daikon radishes to break up the soil and then disc them in. Breaks up soil naturally without plowing and acts as winter cover.

https://www.restorationseeds.com/products/fracking-forage-radish

Yeah I know this is just an AI generated meme, but people who look like this are actually pretty solar punk, in my experience. I first heard of fracking radishes from a 70 year old farmer, 15 years ago. This meme just promotes culture war bullshit.

Yeah, that worker is one of two in the entire restaurant. She has to take your order plus the five behind you, the drive-thru orders, make fries, bag it all up, take your monkey, clean tables, make coffee, refill the ketchup/soda/milkshake/yogurt contraptions with their various bags of sugary goo, restock counters/tables with all the varied plastic and paper geegaws, take out the trash, stock the walk-in, clean the bathrooms somebody sprayed with liquid shit, then count out and get to her other job by 3pm so she can then do it all again tomorrow. She doesn't give a fuck what anyone orders, it's just a blur of colors and lower back pain.

If she makes a face it's probably the best she can do to fake a smile because you might be a secret shopper who is going to ding her points for not saying, "Welcome to McDonald's Home of the McFlurry™ now with DoubleStuff™ Oreo™, what can I get started for you today because It Just Tastes Better!!℠" with the proper amount of obsequiousness.

There's plenty of reasons to hate the hellscape, no reason for anon to invent some.

Norfolk

I hope Groverhaus is OK.

Detached garage

Phew!

Coming from Python I feel like it's my partner and best friend. In fact the whole damn tool chain is amazing.

I don't want to dox myself, but I know what happened here. Performance was unacceptable on Series S, and it was unknown how effective optimization would be. BGS management is extremely risk averse, so they decided to add more loading areas. For example, making Neon multiple cells. Later the optimization team came through and it turns out that wasn't necessary but CK workflow is way too manual and bug prone to undo the changes that close to release. I don't remember if Purkey left before the buyout but Series S became the performance target and that made everyone freak out.

Ubiquitous in the games industry unfortunately, for at least the art side but often code as well.