Sean Barrett
nothings.bsky.social
Sean Barrett
@nothings.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈 ally, BLM, gamedev (Thief, Promesst), Indie Game Jam cofounder, popularized C header-file-only libs w/stb. he/him Larry, I'm on DuckTales. https://nothings.org
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That's just the injection of novelty the Bond franchise needs!
A

I'm sympathetic to people who view it as B for shorter, A for worse graphics, but because the meme creator coupled them so casually and directly, I have to assume they meant A for both, regardless of many people's appreciation for shorter games. (Of course they COULD have meant B, what do I know)
To be clear, I'm looking for *readers*. You don't have to implement it, maybe I shouldn't have humorously abused the term "beta-test".
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
It's a good example but he explains it terribly.
I will never understand why anyone grants this guy any authority.
they've done a lot of shenanigans to allow for-loops on ints to remain efficient. i believe some of the C Undefined Behavior optimization stuff has been because of this (e.g. maybe something like assuming 32-bit loop index can't overflow allows it to use a 64-bit int)
I've written an article with a hopefully-complete technical description for implementing planetary atmosphere rendering as seen from space.

Looking for readers to beta-test the rough draft. Mutuals get priority. DM for link.
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Sigh.

Darth Vader Fortnite AI stuff dropped less than a week after I decided to quit. I don't know what I'd have done if I hadn't already decided.
As one who in 90s dutifully manually typedef'd int32, int64 for portability and used bare ints for 'natural register-sized'—as wisdom of the time recommended—the betrayal in 64-bit era of ints being declared permanently 32-bit 'because too much code would break' put me on permanent F.U. to all this.
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As I’m sure you already know, the Edmund Fitzgerald met her doom 50 years ago today. In honor of this somber occasion, here’s a very detailed bathymetric map of Lake Superior.
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no joke Seattle: check your fucking ballots to make sure they were counted!! there are a Bunch of incomplete or invalid ballots in our age range right now, and it's a quick check to see if yours went through okay. it's not too late to fix it!

info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...
King County Elections
Led by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters.
info.kingcounty.gov
I feel like I pondered this very issue not four weeks ago, although I don't remember who now.
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3 years ago Elon enabled the funniest day in Twitter history.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
The only way I'd tolerate it is if the VAs were literally paid exactly what they would have been paid to record the lines later. (The studio still gets a benefit of guaranteed to get the lines in a timely manner and locking in the rate.) But I'm sure that's not the deal; that will never be deal.
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
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OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
Remembering that amazing brief period on Twitter, dunno, maybe 3-6 months after Elon's acquisition, when we spontaneously decided it was coming to an end and everybody started posting their favorite past tweets of all kinds. It was a beautiful wake for a service which still technically hasn't died.