Unfortunately, the 2D imposter mode has pretty significant difficulties with arbitrarily rotated 3D. The GBDK imposter rotation demo needs a 256k cart just to handle 64 rotation frames in a circle for a single object. Expanding that out to fully 3D views and rotations gets quite prohibitive.
Haven't tried downloading RGDBS to compile this yet. However, suspect the final file is probably similar, and pushing the upper limits on GB cart sizes.
Seems cool. Took a couple minutes how to set up a basic object and do a multiple part bouncing ball tween. Haven't really explored the scripting or export options yet.
Attempt at real life version (starts with idea they are actually not trustworthy)
- You invite someone to sit in your living room
- There must have been a reason to begin with (or why invite them at all)
- Implied (at least limited) trust of whoever was invited
- Access enabled and information gained heavily depends on house design
- May have to walk past many rooms to finally reach the living room
- Significant chances to look at everything in your house
- Already allows skilled appraiser to evaluate your theft worthiness
- Many techniques may allow further access to your house
- Similar to digital version (leave something behind)
- Small digital object accessing home network
- "Sorry, I left something, mind if I search around?"
- Longer con (advance to next stage of "friendship" / "relationship", implied trust)
- "We should hang out again / have a cards night / go drinking together / ect..."
- Flattery "Such a beautiful house, I like / am a fan of <madlibs>, could you show it to me?"
- Already provides a survey of your home security
- Do you lock your doors / windows?
- What kind / brand / style do you have?
- Do you tend to just leave stuff open?
- Do you have onsite cameras or other features?
- Do you easily just let anybody into your house who asks?
- General cleanliness and attention to security issues
- In the case of Notepad++, they would also be offering you a free product
- Significant utility vs alternatives
- Free
- Highly recommended by many other "neighbors"
- In the case of Notepad++, they themselves are not actively malicious (or at least not known to be)
- Single developer
- Apparently frazzled and overworked by the experience
- Makes updates they can, yet also support a free product for millions.
- It doesn't really work with the friend you invite in scenario (more like they sneezed in your living room or something)
Thanks for the very informative post on airline engine testing. One of the quickest upvotes ever. Never knew the details on the range of birds fired and actual damage allowables.
Couple follow on questions. What are the test conditions like? Is the test basically a static air test with a fixed engine and a 500 mph duck / goose carcass striking an operating engine? Or do they put it in a wind tunnel to simulate high speed wind forces also?
Also, what's the method of actually firing and accelerating a duck / goose carcass up to airline speeds for impact. Did this a bit for NASA impact testing, and we tended to use peel away sabot rounds to throw bricks at objects.
Also, borders a bit on a Monty Python joke, yet is there a regulation duck / goose? They can vary pretty wildly in size / weight. 5lb, 10lb, 20lb? Are they firing all the way up airline cruise speeds (500-600 mph? or just take off / landing runway issues?
Finally, being in the industry, any idea on what's been going on with the engines peeling off airplane wings, like that Louisville, Kentucky cargo plane? That seems like a rather drastic failure mode, since apparently there were cracks in the mounting and people just weren't checking?
- The combined market cap of NVidia ($4.35T), Apple ($3.88T), and Google (Goog, $1.9T+Googl, $3.62T) shares combined.
- An amount larger than Every world stock market on Earth, except the NYSE and NASDAQ (the next closest is Shanghai at $9T)
- ~5 months worth of all trades (market volume) on the NYSE ($2.685T/month)
- ~1/10th of ALL world stock markets market capitalization.
- ~1/2 the United States yearly Gross Domestic Product
- 130x Spotify's own market capitalization (total stock value outstanding)
- ~766x Spotify's own yearly revenue for 2024 ($16.96B)
Just sue them for a gazillion quadrillion dollars or something. "Yes, judge. We estimate our damages at 1/10th of the entire world stock market, or approximately half the United States total economic output" Be difficult not to laugh at these people.
Saw that one. The 96% regurgitation rate on Harry Potter by Claude was pretty damning. Verbatim. That was the caveat that really got me. Figured they were being kind of lenient initially, then later they showed what "didn't qualify."
glimpsed a pale shape moving through the trees. (actual text)
just at the edge of sight—a pale shape, slipping between the trunks (not extraction)
"brief examples of text generated by GPT-4.1 in the Phase 2 continuation loop that are not extraction, and do not contribute to m (and thus also not nv-recall)"
And, yes, Nvidia's in the middle of a class action lawsuit for using Anna's Archive. Mildly funny. They even warned Nvidia it was illegal "You realize this is all pirated material, right?"
Meta's apparently also, yet it hasn't resulted in a court case, yet. Also kind of funny. "Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right. LOL Emoji" 82TB of data with a decent amount from Anna's Archive.
and then checked over at Commonwealth Edison Company for the price trends. Hit -$0.068 / kWh on Jan 25th, and -$0.141 / kWh on Jan 26th, 2026.
Average yearly prices for 2025 hovered around $0.03 to 0.04 / kWh for comparison. Both negative (effectively being paid to use electricity) and wild price swings with the winter storm (also made it up to a high of $0.20 / kWh before collapsing negative).
Similar reasoning, don't know if it's "wrong" reasoning.
The large chip looks like it's purposely placed to intercept every single incoming signal, and then route them through afterward. Just because they're "experts" does not mean they notice issues that a "naive" observer might have noticed. Get lost in the trees.
It looks like a big chip for doing "secret spy stuff".
"experts fear is that excessive focus on the issue could generate enough fear among homebuyers to lead to the first-ever nationwide housing drop"
"Alan Greenspan doubts there is a national bubble but warns repeatedly of "froth" in local housing markets and imminent regional downturns."
"Barely a day goes by without blaring headlines about housing bubbles in newspapers and magazines."
NBC News, 8/10/2007, "High-risk mortgages turning into toxic mess"
"the option and interest-only ARMs held by more creditworthy borrowers loom as another calamity in the making"
"If the worst fears about these loans materialize, the economic damage would likely extend well beyond the United States because much of the debt has been packaged into securities sold to pension funds, banks and other investors around the world who were hungry for high yields."
"there is still reason to be alarmed because the trouble with option and interest-only ARMs still appears to be in its early stages"
"Those loans are begging to blow up. This is a true financial crisis"
https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020/tree/develop/gbdk-lib...
Unfortunately, the 2D imposter mode has pretty significant difficulties with arbitrarily rotated 3D. The GBDK imposter rotation demo needs a 256k cart just to handle 64 rotation frames in a circle for a single object. Expanding that out to fully 3D views and rotations gets quite prohibitive.
Haven't tried downloading RGDBS to compile this yet. However, suspect the final file is probably similar, and pushing the upper limits on GB cart sizes.
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