A ray tracer written in pure CMake (by perverting CMake to do fixed-point arithmetic). For non-programmers, this is a bit like building a wide-bodied airliner ENTIRELY OUT OF LIVE EARTHWORMS (nobody tell Boeing):

Ray Tracing in pure CMake | δelta

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 29. What do you need to simplify in your work? Looks blankly at camera: why would I *WANT* to simplify my work?!? ("Accessibility" is not "simplicity". There are things I can do to make any given work more accessible, and I usually try to do them in edit/redraft: but simplicity itself is boring, and I abhor it.)

Hypothesis: the AI bubble is being supported by the fossil fuel industry's network of paid lobbyists *precisely* because it's the last remaining driver of increasing demand for their products.

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Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)

Close to 1 full goddamn gigawatt of gas (open-cycle, so the most inefficient kind) for the "Project Jupiter" site in New Mexico. This whole articl...

I REALLY HATE that this is clearly true.

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Anon Opin (@anon_opin@mastodon.social)

Look, I think Starmer's as much of a prat as the next guy but we can all take solace in the fact that we can call him that without risking the FBI ...

#WritersCoffeeClub Nov 28: In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work? I try not to self-insert. Self-insertion is the persistent vice of bad fanfic (hint: there is good fanfic too, it doesn't fall for the self-insert nonsense).

New Dalek Invasion strategy just leaked: this time, use camouflage!

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Tom (@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social)

Attached: 1 image I'm concerned that the vacuums are plotting something.

Stanford Institute report on the economic impact of Brexit:

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

The Economic Impact of Brexit

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It reduced UK GDP by 8%, investment by 18%, employment by 4%, and productivity by 4%. Also reduced Treasury tax revenue by £40-80Bn/year. (Note that this is NOT a UK think tank but a US one so more likely to be ideologically in favour of Brexit as a starting point.)

Bah. It's sunny outside and I wanna go out for a walk, but it's also blowing a strong gale (literally Beaufort Scale 8 winds) and I live on a street with lots of slate roof tiles of questionable vintage and integrity 20 metres or so overhead and NOPE

HELLO MY PRETTIES, AND WELCOME TO THE INTERNET FOR ANOTHER DAY OF "EAT SLOP OR DIE OF INFORMATION STARVATION" —Sam Altman toasting Mark Zuckerberg with a 70 year old single malt, in the panopticon red room in the bunker under the lagoon on Billionaire Island, probably

"The first person who can combine teledildonics with online payments will come into money"— Brian Aldiss (Possibly apocryphal, source @npub1exmu...e4zr )