Frankie Branch

Bored software dev. Likes extreme music (metal/electronica), NBA basketball, video games.

[Hair Metal Messiah @HairMtlMessiah]

Alright Degenerates!

People have asked me my thoughts on GRUNGE!!!!

Well, you miserable flannel fuckers asked for it. I FUCKING HATE GRUNGE!🖕

Grunge took Rock n Roll, shot it full of heroin, stole its guitar solo, dressed the corpse like an unemployed roofer and convinced Rolling Stone the fucking smell was “Authenticity”

The 80s gave us guitar Gods, monster riffs, screaming vocals, swagger, sex and enough excess to make Caligula tell everybody to calm the Fuck down!

Grunge gave us greasy dudes dressed like they were about to repossess your water heater.

And THIS was the revolution?!

Musically? Three chords, enough distortion to hide the evidence, and some miserable fucker moaning like a constipated walrus trapped in a dryer.

Then Nirvana hands us!
“A mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido”

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

That’s not lyrical genius. That’s a concussion playing Mad Libs.

Pearl Jam? Eddie Vedder sounds like a drunk moose trying to order breakfast through a scuba regulator. Every fucking vowel gets dragged behind the song until even the alphabet wants a restraining order.

But nothing beats the hypocrisy.

“We hate fame.”
“We hate corporations.”
“Selling out is bullshit”

Sure you do?!

Major label contract?Where do I sign?
MTV? Let me fix my flannel!
Arena tour? Hell yeah!

Funny how Captain Fuck Corporate suddenly found capitalism when the checks started clearing.

They didn’t hate selling out. They hated other bands selling out first.

Hair Metal never bullshitted anybody. It wanted loud guitars, giant solos, women, money, ridiculous hair and a party that required fucking legal representation.

Grunge showed up, pawned the guitar solo, pissed in the punch bowl, killed the fucking party and then gave everybody a lecture about why having fun made them shallow.

Fuck that!

It gave it a heroin habit, dressed it like a substitute janitor and convinced an entire generation that looking fucking miserable was a personality.

FUCK GRUNGE!

I said what I said!

It ain’t easy being Sleazy! #JLoS

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

@anicic_filip @BOENSAW The idea of a generic tick function for entities is really not great to begin with, because in a complex game you end up caring a great deal about what order things happen in, then you need to go to great pain to impose this order. Instead, you can just say "do A, then B, ..."

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Obama announcing death of bin Laden vs. Trump announcing death of al-Baghdadi.

[christina 死神 @chhopsky]

@Tocelot the CIA couldnt make me post something this embarrassingly clueless under threat of torture and you just typed it of your own free will. incredible

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

Which one(s) are you? https://t.co/8FCdVdT2ks

[Florian Hoenig @rianflo]

@kenpex

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

ChatGPT to me seems to weld an English professor’s writing skills to an encyclopedia’s knowledge base and a kindergartener’s reasoning ability, producing impressive and highly polished nonsense. The screen is on - at 8K 120Hz - but nobody’s at the keyboard.

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

did a huge update to the FTX contagion chart last night.

i've begun capturing their investors as well as their creditors, and there are now nearly 50 impacted companies listed.

https://t.co/uwK24EZFDn

[IGN @IGN]

It's one of the most fondly-remembered consoles of all time, with a library of incredible bangers. However, there can only be 25 of the best PS2 games...here they are. https://t.co/mi9JeIDY0U

[Bart Wronski 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @BartWronsk]

What a lovely tiny "quality-of-life" library for PyTorch!
https://t.co/JIa4mUShoh
(there's also a Numpy and Jax version)

Nothing fancy, just printing out shape + mean/min/max/std values, plus easy plotting of distribution and contents.
And no need for .detach().cpu().numpy().

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

This is *before* you get to the issue that what web programmers think are "best practices" is a complete trash fire that can be simplified out so that everything is more robust, less computationally expensive, and requires 1/10 as many people (or fewer) to run...

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Let’s get to know Twitter’s new C-E-Overlord, Elon Musk.

[🙊Christer Ericson @ChristerEricson]

Dijkstra’s anti-goto statement is 54 years old, uttered in a time when structured programming was barely invented and not well adopted. Elevating “never use gotos” today is akin to putting Old Testament nonsense up against modern science.

[High-Perf Graphics @HPG_Conf]

At the #HPG2022 in-person event, @BrianKaris presented his Journey to Nanite. He talked about the process of inventing the groundbreaking geometry engine in UE5, highlighting the perseverance, confidence, and fear that comes with research.

Watch it here: https://t.co/xVHLcBbK2m

[Filip Piekniewski🌻 🐘:@[email protected] @filippie509]

For years I've been claiming that our #AI being based in statistics is not equipped for dealing real world data. That data is most likely fat-tailed, and hence not possible to characterize by sampling. Let me explain this in thread below: 👇

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

Crypto is like calling a bicycle with square wheels "innovation". It sucks as a currency. It sucks as an investment. It sucks as a store of value. It sucks as an inflation hedge. It sucks at everything.

It's simply the wrong design for the metaphorical financial bicycle.

[Lucas Ou-Yang @LucasOuYang]

1) Labor cost difference between 🇨🇳&🇺🇸 leading to:
* engineers in 🇨🇳 don't write unit tests(!) they rely on QA to manually test each code commit
* 🇨🇳product teams r more hands on + rely on manpower (ops teams) to drive growth, opposed to passive + data-driven Western tech