There’s a post on Reddit about the matter from a few years back: https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/gar8j0/does_anyone_know_where_magic_circles_in_anime/fp1hnnz/

The university of potato ice is actually just daigaku imo ice cream. Other than that it seems accurate. Oppai ice is a real thing.

I did a course in photolithography, including a lab session where I literally made an unpackaged ASIC by hand, using technology that was current in the mid 90s. Etching silicon and doing photolithography is completely out of the reach for a hobbyist, even from scratch, even with 30 year old technology. Reusing a random chip and adding to it is simply impossible.

Essentially, you are looking at the following problems with simply creating a new chip:

1. Need access to a large clean room
2. Need a furnace that can heat up your silicon wafers to silly temperatures in order to do doping via sputtering.
3. Need chemical handling equipment, including safety gear required for handling hydrofluoric acid.
4. Need a photolithography device with your designs.
5. Need to cut, test, and package chips after they are created.

And the additional problems with using an existing chip:

1. Need to decapitate the existing chip and remove it from the package.
2. Need to work with a single already sliced chip instead of a wafer.
3. A completed chip will have metal vias that cover a large portion of the silicon, you would need to perform your chemical etching without harming these or any silicon that has been used.
4. Generally, Asics don’t have wasted space, but simply larger components. There would be no footprint available for your design, even if your hobbyist tooling was smaller than the one used for the components, which is probably wouldn’t be.

Quest 64 exists despite Quest 63, Quest 62, … Quest not existing.

I suppose that the most likely scenario is that the evidence was something that Tesla provided to the police. Whether or not it was tampered with is an open question though. Teslas are equipped with a gorzillion cameras, but also Tesla has access to deep fake technology. Tesla says that the guy manually deactivated autopilot then slammed the accelerator and drove right into a house. But he wasn’t intoxicated and it’s not clear why he would intentionally do such a thing. It wasn’t late enough that it was likely to be the guy simply falling asleep at the wheel.

Anyway, it would be very interesting if Tesla fabricated the driver turning off autopilot intentionally to save face/dodge consequences, but I don’t know how likely that would be.

If you floss regularly your gums won’t bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.

For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn’t going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.

Describing a phenomenon is different from endorsing it.

Mamdani signed an executive order (printed in comic sans) eliminating bed time for New Yorkers so that they can watch the Knicks in the playoffs.

Not to be contrarian, just running a Matrix server is awful, and Matrix has been plagued with security issues in the past, including basic crypto gaps due to lack of domain understanding in the implementation, which is shocking for what is touted as a security first project.

Moreover, I don’t know of any acceptable alternatives.

I’m generally one of the first people on any FOSS bandwagon. I’ve been using Linux as my daily driver since 1999. Matrix is not simply “not as good” or “not up to feature parity” as alternatives. It is in my opinion unacceptably bad and the project leads seem to be actively hostile to efforts to make it better.

Every simple numeric metric you use to measure a programmers productivity will be gamed and defeated. This was a lesson learned in the fucking 90s. Amazon should know better.

I have a framework. I’m not aware of any others though. But I do remember that physical wifi switches were common on HPs back about 15-20 years ago.

Get a laptop with hardware switches for the camera and microphone, tbh

The way that arsonist was able to melt the weird pointy top into something more appealing was really a thing of beauty.

Bouba > Kiki

Oh! My bad! I completely missed that the functions were continuous (it isn’t required for 🍊 to be a metric)

Careful ⚠️ there is not guaranteed to be an element such that |🍎(x) - 🍇(x)| is maximized. Consider 🍎 (x) = x if x < 3, 0 otherwise. Let 🍇 (x) = 0, and let the domain be [0, 4]. Clearly, the sup(|🍎 (x) - 🍇 (x)| : x ∈ [0, 4]) = 3, but there is no concrete value of x that will return this result. If you wish to demonstrate this in this manner, you will need to introduce an 🐘 > 0 and do some pedantic limit work.

Anyway, to prove this is a metric we must prove that it satisfies the 4 laws of metrics.

1. The distance from a point to itself is zero. 🍊 (🍎, 🍎) = 0

This can be accomplished by simply observing that |🍎 (x) - 🍎 (x)| = 0 ∀x ∈ [a,b], so its sup = 0.

2. The distance between any two distinct points is non-negative.

If 🍎 ≠ 🍌, then ∃x ∈ [a,b] such that 🍎 (x) ≠ 🍌 (x). Thus for this point |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)| > 0 and the sup > 0.

3. 🍊 (🍎, 🍌) = 🍊 (🍌, 🍎) ∀(🍎, 🍌) in our space of functions.

Again, we must simply apply the definition of 🍊 observing that ∀x ∈ [a,b] |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)| = |🍌 (x) - 🍎 (x)|, and the sup of two equal sets is equal.

4. Triangle inequality, for any triple of functions (🍎, 🍌, 🍇), 🍊 (🍎, 🍌) + 🍊 (🍌, 🍇) ≥ 🍊 (🍎, 🍇)

For any (🐁, 🐈, 🐕) ∈ ℝ³ it is well known that |🐁 - 🐕| ≤ |🐁 - 🐈| + |🐈 - 🐕|, (triangle inequality of absolute values).

Further, for any two functions 🍍, 🍑 we have sup({🍍 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) + sup({🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍍 (x) + 🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]})

Letting 🍍 (x) = |🍎 (x) - 🍌 (x)|, and 🍑 (x) = |🍌 (x) - 🍇 (x)|, we have the following chain of implications:

🍊 (🍎, 🍌) + 🍊 (🍌, 🍇) = sup(🍍 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) + sup({🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍍 (x) + 🍑 (x) : x ∈ [a, b]}) ≥ sup({🍎 (x) - 🍇 (x)| : x ∈ [a, b]) = 🍊 (🍎, 🍇)

Taking the far left and far right side of this chain we have our triangles inequality that we seek.

Because 🍊 satisfies all four requirements it is a metric. QED.

QED stands for 👸⚡💎, naturally

What happened to 🍇 and 🍍?

but can I say he’s wrong? I don’t know.

Not a cult. Not a cult. Not a cult. Not a cult.

Anakin brought balance to the force by slaughtering all of the Jedi.

Before, thousands of Jedi, like 4(?) sith.

After, 2 Jedi, 2 sith. Perfectly balanced.

Gmail data gets used in LLM training. I wonder how Gemini 2.5 would auto complete “The code to the nuclear football is”…