Static Variable

An expert in cybersecurity, geopolitics and anything else that may be trending that day. Also a hypothetical liar.

[Static Variable @StaticVariable]

Be careful what you wish for...

credit @TopTruthSeeker

[George Roush @GeorgeRoush]

When journalists say "Xbox-Style controllers", they're talking about these:

The Freedom of Movement Control Unit (FMCU),
which is a universal, clunky, expensive... did I say EXPENSIVE handheld, clocking in at an eye-watering $2,200 per controller

Can you build a better one for cheaper?
Our nation needs you to.

[Static Variable @StaticVariable]

@TheActMan_YT Leave it be, start another ip. No need to turn it into another star wars.

[Arika @Arikalabs]

In 1991, Linux was tightly coupled to the 386 architecture, completely unportable, and bound to AT hard disks.

By modern software engineering standards, it was an anti-pattern. But it solved the only problem that mattered: running a UNIX like environment at home without minix restrictions. The entire modern internet is built on the fact that an imperfect, monolithic MVP written in C easily beat the over-architected professional systems of the 90s.

[Static Variable @StaticVariable]

This was one of the coolest scenes in the movie. All the firepower and the villain barely gets scratched, followed by "if it bleeds..." line. Pure 80s movie gold.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Predator’s "Shooting the Jungle" scene exists because the director got pissed off... and he hates it.

On set, John McTiernan kept getting heat from the studio for “not enough guns.” After days of it, he snapped: “Fine. You want guns? I’ll give you so much gunfire you’ll get the orgasm you’re itching for, and then we stop this nonsense.”

So he shot the absurd sequence where Arnie and the boys mow down half of Central America (actually Mexico).

The line “We hit nothing” was McTiernan’s message to the studio: the scene accomplishes zero. It wasn’t meant for us... It was a note.

Ironically, dumping endless bullets into the jungle (or anything else for that matter) became an action-movie trope, one McTiernan even reused in Die Hard a year later.

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

choose wisely

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[Static Variable @StaticVariable]

@yuanyi_z What do you mean, conservatives send 40billion worth of opera tickets, it is just going to Israel.

[Open//77 @open2077]

Here is more then 200 vehicles synced in cyberpunk multiplayer, working perfectly... imagine the potential with the servers rp and so on!
Even in @FiveM you cannot do this 😱

[Static Variable @StaticVariable]

Cool random number generator.

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

this random number generator is just three lines of shifts and XORs

George Marsaglia introduced xorshift in 2003

despite its simplicity it passes many standard randomness tests and became the default RNG in several game engines

[FruitBombComics @fruitbombcomics]

I’M SAD

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

When I read books by past generations I am always fascinated by how they build and own houses of their own, even without successfully selling tech startups

[David Tao @Taodav]

dang

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

BREAKING: The Fed introduces new $1 dollar bill

[Jiikae @Jiikae]

The myth of having a “cool” job is over. Every industry sucks. Embrace actual hobbies.