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FWIW: core-math project (correctly rounded libm) now has float16 and bfloat16 routines.'nhttps://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/

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  • @soatok I want them to federate, though.

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  • The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page

    (with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron) If you get all of your important technology news from "content aggregators" like Hacker News, Lobste.rs, and most subreddits, you might be totally unaware of the important but boring infrastructure work happening largely on the Fediverse, indie web, and other less-centralized communities. This is no accident. The rough consensus of these spaces has been strongly in favor of the…

    http://soatok.blog/2025/12/17/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-hacker-news-front-page/

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  • I went to the Museum of Science and Industry, before riding around Jackson Park. Then I took the Lakefront Trail all the way to the north end of the trail. #chicago #dusk #skyline #darktable #photography
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  • Hey hey friends who get , can you please share your favorite tips? I seem to be getting a new condition, lolsob. I think it's likely hormonal (i.e. peri/menopause).

    Right now things that help are: sometimes caffeine (sometimes that backfires), Tylenol (Advil does little), that headache music I mentioned before, getting off screens and away from bright lights and noise, rest, or VERY gentle movement (like slow zen-walking around the house).

    What works for you? (boosts welcome!)

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  • Detail of Robie House near UChicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. #chicago #architecture #photography #darktable
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  • @anton @thezerobit this project has taken up the majority of my free time and spare thought this year. I have no regrets. It is magic. It has been very rewarding and I highly recommend making visual programming languages.

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  • @bryan but, I have a severely negative reaction to companies requiring me to talk to people (or worse, an AI) on the phone. And T-Mobile got to the point where literally everything required a phone call, even things the "T-Life" app or website is supposed to be able to do, that never actually worked.

    Even once I was talking to a real person, getting a transfer PIN sucked. Just a miserable support experience.

    Not because the people are bad, but because the systems are designed to be hostile.

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  • @anton @thezerobit my recommendation is to find a 2D drawing API that you like, and experiment with drawing the basic primitives of your language, and seeing if it scales up acceptably. Once you have that, you can work out how to make those experiments parametric, and how to connect them to the underlying runtime of your language. Pick interaction semantics that are easy to implement. Every button in mollytime triggers on mouse down instead of up for example.

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    @soatok I want them to federate, though.
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    Detail of Robie House near UChicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. #chicago #architecture #photography #darktable
  • Underwater Jetpack is Almost Practical

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    Underwater Jetpack is Almost PracticalThe jet pack is one of those pre-war sci-fi dreams that the cold light of rational consideration reveals to be a terrible idea. Who wants to cook their legs with hot exhaust while careening out of control? Nobody. Yet it’s such an iconic idea, we can’t get away from it. What if there was a better environment, one where your jetpack dreams could come true? [CPSdrone] has found one: the world’s oceans, and have taken that revelation to build the world’s fastest underwater jetpack.Underwater? Yeah, water drag is worse than air drag. But there are two big advantages: one, humans are fairly buoyant, so you don’t need fight gravity with rocket thrust, and two, the high density of water makes small, electric props a reasonable proposition. The electric ducted fans on this “jetpack” each produce about 110 pounds of thrust, or just over 490 N. The first advantage is helped further by the buoyancy provided by the air-filled “hull” of the jetpack. That’s necessary because while the motors might be rated for submersion, but the rest of the electronics aren’t.Alas, wearing the device on the back is considerably less hydrodynamic than hanging on behind in the standard ‘water scooter’ configuration. While they’re able to go faster than a swimming human, the ESCs weren’t able to handle the motors full power so we can’t tell you if this device would allow [CPSdrone] to outrun a shark with those 220 lbf on tap, which was the design goal. Apparently they’re working on it.From the testing done on-screen, it’s safe to say that they’d at least need to hang on behind to get their desired speed goals, and abandon their jet pack dreams just as we landlubbers were forced to do long ago. Well, some of us, anyway.youtube.com/embed/RjUV6Y-baDY?…hackaday.com/2025/12/17/underw…
  • T-Mobile sucks so bad at this point.

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    @bryan but, I have a severely negative reaction to companies requiring me to talk to people (or worse, an AI) on the phone. And T-Mobile got to the point where literally everything required a phone call, even things the "T-Life" app or website is supposed to be able to do, that never actually worked.Even once I was talking to a real person, getting a transfer PIN sucked. Just a miserable support experience.Not because the people are bad, but because the systems are designed to be hostile.