Howard Stark

[mymind @mymind]

for those who asked

enjoy ♡

[relationships.bsky.social @redditships]

Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book we bought from major online retailer. https://t.co/I20pnHz2jU

[Orion Reed @OrionReedOne]

I made an HTML/DOM viewer you can paste into your console to view or debug any website in 3D. Choose from random/gradient/clear colors or whether layers have sides.

You can save it as a bookmarklet so it's 1 click away. It's just a tiny IIFE JS function.
https://t.co/jnbveLYdmN

[Howard Stark @hstark666]

@SnazzyLabs I am enjoying my $40 used Dyson V6 kit that needed a new filter😂 spent $10, replaced the pre-motor filter & added a post motor HEPA. They do have really bad reliability and repairability though. The lack of battery cell balancing which result in RLOD is ridiculous

[Howard Stark @hstark666]

@SnazzyLabs Fold 6 definitely doesn’t have the same SoC as Fold 5? Also slightly brighter screens. I do agree with everything else you mentioned tho.

[Ashley M. Gjøvik @ashleygjovik]

🧵In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my home. Later I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off EPA, who raided them in 2023. EPA just sent me the report 💀⬇️

[Obbe Vermeij @ObbeVermeij]

There was no way we could fit the whole map of gta3 in PS2 memory. Streaming involves loading models from the DVD as the player moves around. This was the hardest technical challenge during the development of gta3 and was coded by Adam Fowler.

The closer models physically are on the DVD, the faster they are loaded. This is because the DVD needs to accelerate/decelerate as the head moves to a different track.

Adam tried to place models that were close together in the city also close together on the DVD. He also experimented with repeating commonly used files.

Even after placing models on the DVD efficiently, it was still not fast enough. Players would see the low detailed version of buildings and sometimes the road was missing.

At some point we couldn't speed the streaming up any further. We had no option but to slow the player down.

Portland initially had a big drag running all along the island. This was a worst case scenario. The player could go fast and there were loads of buildings to load. The artists changed the road layout to slow the player down.

In other problem areas, we increased the drag (air resistance) on the vehicles 5% or so. Hardly noticeable but it helped.

The streaming issues were the main reason we couldn’t let the player fly in gta3 (other than with the dodo)

Streaming was also used for vehicle models, npc models and music but the map posed the greatest difficulty because of the amount of data.

As models got loaded into memory and then removed, the memory would fragment into smaller and smaller blocks. Adam’s code constantly moved models around to fix this. This was tricky as models sometimes had to be moved while they could be rendered.

For Vice City, various code improvements were made. Better compression of models and textures. Smarter code that would load the detailed versions of buildings only if the player was not flying.

Streaming issues tends to get worse with older DVDs and older PS2s.

(screenshot by @TheSphereHunter)

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

French Communist Party Headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer (1980)

[Howard Stark @hstark666]

@SteveMoser Didn't believe it at first but the mini one is real too! It's used to connect ear cups to the headband though.

[Howard Stark @hstark666]

@mweinbach I have like 5tb of SSD and another 5tb of HDD in my desktop. Barely enough 😅

[Jesse Pence @JessePence5]

New developers: "I can't wait to work on a real, professional codebase and leave my spaghetti code behind!"

The codebase:

[Nirav Patel @cmonkey]

Sony Design Center from 1989 to 1999 was the pinnacle of consumer electronics industrial design.

[Howard Stark @hstark666]

@evleaks Nokia 808. Also LG Wing but that might not count as I bought it, used it for a few month, got frustrated by the 765G SoC and crappy software, and sold it for $150 more than what I originally paid. Really wanted to keep it though. Oh, and Focals by North.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

In the middle of the last century, almost any gorgeous building in need of remodeling or investment was almost always razed. The old Cincinnati Public library downtown is now a parking garage.

[saket @saketme]

Fun fact: Google Pixels have had this for at least 2 years now.

Android even goes a step ahead by keeping the subject locked in the center and stabilizing the preview to a small extent.

[Mishaal Rahman @MishaalRahman]

Check out this new app called "aBattery" on Google Play. It uses Android 14's new battery health APIs to show you information like the cycle count, battery manufacturing date, and more.

To use these battery health APIs, the app requires the BATTERY_STATS permission which needs to be granted via ADB. To simplify things, the app supports Shizuku so you don't have to connect your phone to your PC to grant the permission manually.

aBattery - Battery health by @san_laam: https://t.co/OkLgGayf69

(YMMV regarding the data's accuracy, as the app only reports what the OS tells it, which itself depends on whether the battery charging IC is reporting this data to the health HAL.)

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

America was supposed to be Art Deco - a thread of 10 iconic Art Deco designs 🧵

1. "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and 1959

[Hikari Calyx @Hikari_Calyx]

Allow me share you buyers that freak you out.
Buyer 1: How to power it on? How to connect the phone to PC? They're not using same Wi-Fi hotspot.
Buyer 2: I don't see a web browser on the phone.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Lmao. why Linux is safer than other oses?