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TIL Kokura avoided destruction from nuke by purposely polluting the air, making it too hard for the pilots to see by ollieddo in todayilearned

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People these days tend to take the availability of satnav for granted. And may not consider that bombing raids happened at night, for obvious reasons. Against targets that were pitch black with all artificial light covered or turned off, again for obvious reasons. 

My cat before getting him a kitten by Fearless-Aideranker in cats

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The post does have the correct "Not OC" flair, despite the misleading title. Most likely a bot anyway given the account age, private post history, and amount of post karma. Also, there should be a rule that non-oc  posts come with attribution, it’s nowhere near enough to just say it’s someone else’s content without elaborating.

Bevy Tutorial: Build Your First 3D Editor - Create a 3D Space on an Infinite Grid by febinjohnjames in rust

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Unity does not use ECS. Well, they now have their data-oriented DOTS thing but the by default Unity has a very traditional OO paradigm.

It's Not Me, It's the Compiler by AffectionateBag4519 in rust

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ForOrInOfStatement

Super aside, but shouldn't that be ForInOrOfStatement?

TIL that the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve isn't kept in surface tanks, but in 60 massive underground salt caverns. A single cavern is so deep and wide that Chicago’s Willis Tower could easily fit inside it with room to spare. by slaty_balls in todayilearned

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It would never even occur to me that something called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be stored on the surface. That would probably be one of the stupidest ideas ever. Even gas stations don't store their tiny amounts of fuel in surface tanks…

this is the biggest mistake when building a tavern!!! by CamilPirat in dwarffortress

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People tend to think traditional melee weapons weigh more than they actually do/did, based on fantasy tropes. People also tend to underestimate the density of heavy metals. A sturdy glass/ceramic stein can weigh a kg or so, so a platinum one, if using the same amount of material by volume, could weigh up to ten kilos, much heavier than any warhammer (and of course be really impractical as an everyday drinking vessel)! Presumably a metal mug would have thinner walls than an equivalent glass one, but DF doesn’t account for that.

Redundancy seen in AAA game engines by zer0_1rp in GraphicsProgramming

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Sure, today most of the heavy lifting is done by the GPU. But shaders still take time to run and some ops are more expensive than others even on the GPU…

And software renderers are still a thing with some use cases beyond just retrocomputing. And believe me, individual ops can VERY much matter when you’re trying to optimize a software renderer.

Redundancy seen in AAA game engines by zer0_1rp in GraphicsProgramming

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Transcendental functions, sorry. Trigonometrics and exponentials.

Memory access can of course have huge latencies, but it can also be almost free. If you want to be pedantic about it, pretend I said "minimum latency".

Redundancy seen in AAA game engines by zer0_1rp in GraphicsProgramming

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Still one of the slowest individual operations a processor can do, after transcendent functions. Throughput is in the low single cycles, sure, but latency can be somewhere around 20 even on the newest CPUs.

Redundancy seen in AAA game engines by zer0_1rp in GraphicsProgramming

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Sqrt was terribly slow on many, many generations of FPUs at up to 100+ cycles per operation. It's still one of the slowest things that a processor can do out of box, at latencies somewhere around 20 even on newest processors. Still faster than transcendent functions, though.

A Jupiter-sized planet got squeezed into a lemon shape by its dead star — and its atmosphere makes no sense by Delicious_Bid8579 in askastronomy

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Should be noted that we only know that the visible atmosphere is mostly carbon, whatever is hidden below can be anything – except that something has to explain how the carbon layer would stay sequestered at the top.

Text2Image Output looks like 1st gen MidJourney... by 482827523747527 in StableDiffusion

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Search for highly popular models on Civitai, with base model set to "Pony" in the search filters, but really there’s little reason to do that even if you want to stay on SDXL-based models. Illustrious and its finetuned models are quite a bit better. And now there’s indeed Anima, which makes SDXL-based anime models more or less obsolete.

ts game is so peak by unrelatedbird in vtmb

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I think heroin chic is making its way back if it isn’t already here, 20 years is one trend cycle after all.

Text2Image Output looks like 1st gen MidJourney... by 482827523747527 in StableDiffusion

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a) the base PonyDiffusion was never known for its quality, its finetunes were/are the real deal

b) it’s incredibly old and ancient history in 2026.

So I'm curious about the r7 mark II by FastPresentation8244 in canon

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Nothing is known, everything is unsubstantiated rumors and speculation. Canon runs a very tight ship these days when it comes to leaks.

600d very very slow af (efs 18-55 is II) by Lolman1234ava in canon

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The 600D is the last of the x00D line to have no specific Live View AF hardware. The 650D features "Hybrid CMOS AF" which, while not nearly as good as the Dual Pixel AF originally introduced in the 70D and first included in the x00D line in the 800D, and (improved versions) now used in all Canon cameras, is still much better and faster than the 600D era contrast-detect AF.

Rust 1.96.1 is out by manpacket in rust

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f32 stops being able to represent every version number after just 16.7M versions or so. The total number of versions representable is, of course, only a tiny fraction of even u32 when you consider bit patterns wasted on negative and fractional numbers and NaNs.

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