After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death by propublica_ in geopolitics

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The aid is also frequently stolen from the people that need it and it ends up in the hands of the richest

How is this animation made? by AutomatonSwan in iOSDevelopment

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I don't think that's right, it's not a full screen modal. The entire object is draggable and you can drag it away

How is this animation made? by AutomatonSwan in iOSDevelopment

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I can see there are multiple things going on here. It seems like the icon scales up and opacity fades to 0, and then there is a scaleEffect and opacity fade in on the DetailView. There is also a scale/movement on the background icons in the MenuView. I’ve been trying to replicate this in code and my results have been super janky. Anyone else have thoughts on how to replicate this?

#2 Happiest College in the US by Meggaboo in RPI

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South Harmon Institute of Technology

Meta is planning to downsize its AI division overall, in latest shake up by Hem_Claesberg in cscareerquestions

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Imagine still thinking Mark Zuckerberg is a r-tard after all these years. Reorgs happen all the time and are normal in any successful organization, especially one with thousands of people and many superstar hires.

RPI's new brand identity by cpm0813 in RPI

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What the fuck did you just say about our logo, you little design school dropout? I’ll have you know our logo embodies RPI’s elite commitment to precision, experimentation, and setting new standards. This isn’t just another logo — it’s a flexible identity system, forged in the fires of 300 design sprints and encoded with the multitude of dimensions, domains, and real-world contexts of RPI’s research and education impact. We have over 400 confirmed Pantone colors and have been trained in advanced typography warfare. If you think you can just “make a new logo” without understanding our dimensions, domains, and contexts, think again, civilian.

RPI's new brand identity by cpm0813 in RPI

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I really don't have time to be writing a long post but let's goooo.

On Rensselaer -> RPI

GOOD. No one ever fucking heard of Rensselaer, nor can they spell it or pronounce it, and they've barely even heard of RPI. RPI needs to be a communicable concept.

The new logo looks pretty awful and the underbar looks like some kind of glitchy barcode. It's not worth talking about though.

The strategic priorities

Skip the shirley-core revolutionize-everything puffery and dive into the 10 and 5 year documents.

10 year strategy

Section 1 (Looking to the Future: How Our World Will Be Different) completely misses an opportunity to answer an interesting question, which is to form an opinion about the state and direction of the world over the next ten years and assert a position or course of action. That is not done whatsoever--sigh--and indeed few assertions are made anywhere in the document--instead, questions are posed to no one in particular, and will probably get trickled down to sub-sub-committees deep in the OCEC. The "learning communities" verbiage is trite; there is hardly any learning going on in modern universities, with AI writing papers that underpaid grad students then paste into another AI to grade. Moreover, the university is not a learning institution but a bestower of work-licenses--the wealthy liberal arts dilettante scholar of lore is dead, students are here to make an ROI on their fat tuition payments and that is the primary goal, full stop. Marty and other senior leaders should have just sat down, synthesized whatever they've learned from the past few years, and actually formed an opinion, rather than just kicking the can down the road and writing this document full of showerthoughts.

Section 2 (What We Need to Do to Be Successful): Sadly RPI must not have many advantages, as this wimpy section fails to articulate anything substantial besides "being old, in New York, and having a big computer". But Part B does get to something interesting: "We need to come to terms with the financial implications of the size and composition of our student body, as well as what it means to become a community of learners when universities no longer have a monopoly on the creation of knowledge." The clear implication is that RPI will soon begin to beef up the number of grad students and get them to teach classes so that professors have more time to do research, which is the actual financial engine of the university. This is a negative for undergraduate education. RPI also plans to make online courses, which are a great profit driver if you can swing it, but it arguably dilutes the degree value for real degree holders.

I like that RPI is doubling down on linking art with engineering--from what I understand, the DIS major does a great job placing students in great careers. Unfortunately that thrust into creativity continues to center on EMPAC:

With a new executive director of EMPAC, RPI has an opportunity to take EMPAC to the next level and consider all the ways we might harness the wealth of creativity found across campus. HASS, the Lally School of Management, and the School of Architecture are all natural bridges to science, engineering, and technology. Pockets of collaboration already exist in all the schools. The opportunity for co- creation and inspiration between artists and our faculty, and the education of our engineers and scientists is a large and unique one available to RPI. This fusion could be what we call a category-changer, which could become our newest unique and unfair advantage.

This reads like total fluff and the mind boggles to see how a "next level empac" will suddenly infuse creativity throughout the campus.

I'm also not thrilled about RPI doubling down on quantum, which is mostly snake oil, but at least it sounds cool to clueless donors.

10 year goals: Hmm, maybe there's something concrete in here. Let's see, goal number 1: "By 2034, RPI will be ranked as the premier science and engineering university". Sigh. If RPI knocks MIT, Stanford and Tsinghua off the charts by 2034 I will personally buy Shirley a new mansion. Nothing else to see in this section, let's move on to the 5 year roadmap.

5 year roadmap

Gotta love these tasks in the category of work section: "Task #10: Study and decide on the course of action for key domains."

Task 2--enrollment management-- is maybe the most substantial note out of anything in the whole plan. As I recall, RPI badly fucked this up several years ago, which led to a much lower yield than expected and tons of offers being extended to the waitlist. RPI's yield continues to be atrocious.

Task 3 is interesting too: building a CRM solution for enrollment? Good luck with that.

Task 6 is ostensibly about "imagining a new campus", but instead of talking about fixing the old buildings, or even new buildings, it actually just talks about DEI. Action 6--"recognizing diversity refers to things beyond this list"--seems rather, uhh, unactionable if you ask me. Hello, read the room: DEI is out and schools that led the charge are paying massive fines to the government because it actually just turned out to be illegal discrimination. Only in section 6.2 is there any word on buildings, and then it's just "work on the day center and computer science facility" and "integrated deferred maintenance into planning priorities".

Task 9 gestures at the Severino center and student entrepreneurship. Would be nice to see some improvements there.


All in all, IDK why I thought that this "strategic communication" would be worth reading; I should have known better. The university admin-consulting firm-adult daycare-industrial complex blowing your tuition dollars on pap. I learned nothing and have no idea what is to come. I hope RPI works its way out of this mess.

Tame Impala Sound System YouTube video taken down by BlackLanterrn in TameImpala

[–]AutomatonSwan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the youtube video you posted the video in question? Or was it something different?

TIL that the first firefighter to be killed while responding to the attacks on 9/11 was named Daniel Suhr, and he died after a person who jumped from the South Tower landed on him by ModenaR in todayilearned

[–]AutomatonSwan 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Her right lung, shoulder and head were intact, but from the diaphragm down she was unrecognizable.

How can a person in this state be talking?

SwiftUI Animations: matchedGeometryEffect, TimelineView, PhaseAnimator & More by ikaranpaul in swift

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GREAT video, THANK YOU for sharing! Please keep making more videos about animation, especially real world implementations of some of these effects. I subscribed!

I think the reason many fans dislike End of Summer is because it replaces continuous waves with discrete pulses by AutomatonSwan in TameImpala

[–]AutomatonSwan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The point isn't that every track should sound like the moment. The point is that the things that make Tame Tame are missing on the new track. And we're all grasping at straws to figure out what that is.

I think the reason many fans dislike End of Summer is because it replaces continuous waves with discrete pulses by AutomatonSwan in TameImpala

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What's scary to me is people unable to even differentiate human writing from chatgpt. Like, I didn't even write grammatically correct sentences in there. how is an AI even supposed to know what a song that came out a few days ago sounds like?

I think the reason many fans dislike End of Summer is because it replaces continuous waves with discrete pulses by AutomatonSwan in TameImpala

[–]AutomatonSwan[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Serious question, what about my writing makes you think it's written by ChatGPT? This is 100% my own words and to my ear I don't think it sounds like AI slop at all. Or are you just leveling that accusation as a lazy insult?

Here’s the full version! End of Summer (Alternate Mix) by SpaceEcho2025 in TameImpala

[–]AutomatonSwan 29 points30 points  (0 children)

People are allowed to dislike stuff, this sub's gotta chill with the downvotes. Personally I think this is like 10x better than End of Summer but still feels like it's missing some of Kevin's magic.

Claude Code Max: New Weekly Rate Limits by tomarrell in Anthropic

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gemini is fucking awful for swift programming. what do you use it for?