wow... so cool....

This is one I'm happy to help with :D

It started way before GPUs were ever made. Reproductions of 'master works' were used by students of art.

Caballero Chubin (yes, that was her name) was one of the first to comodify this, way before the printing press. She would cut the master work into square sections, each to be reproduced independently by students, to then be stitched together and resold as a replication.

Notably, Chubin's Grid it was not a simple grid, but rather, semantic "sections". E.g. She would make sure there was no boundary over Mona Lisa's face, and have the same artist depict the whole section.

Chubin maintained an index of who worked on which section.

Cutting into sections enabled rapid production of a single reproduction, but also allowed reproductions of part of a whole work (say, of only Lubbert Das's gaunt visage) to be made and sold.

This same concept was applied to early computer graphics. Tiling is used by modern renderers, but the Chubris matrix (a portmanteau of Chubin and a developer known only as "Vris") intelligently used larger tiles for less-complicated and less-important scenes.

The "Chubris matrix" is not the grid itself, but rather, an optimal way to define and index sections of the grid. (This was when every byte mattered, remember).

The indexing was used as the inspiration for foveated rendering for VR, but also as the inspiration for PNG's compression algorithm, and more.

TLDR: It defines a non-uniform grid which is very useful for rendering.

i'll settle for a mech

fried gender transday

jane bennet, everything the same but set in the regency era

Justin Bailey was described to me as a weird old pun assuming Bailey actually was slang for "Bathing Suit" back in the day. So it needs to be a weird old pun.

More importantly, make sure that NARPAS SWORD has a similar parallel. narpas was my first real screenname so it is very very important to me that it's an even more powerful password cheat code

The only reason I’m inclined to believe the number is the specificity of it. Despite it being “worse” if he had said a million, or one and a half million, I’d believe a round number was made up. 1.8m is a little to specific. I think he heard that number from someone in a briefing and liked it so it stuck.

You're right he would not

this assumes that 1. accurate and timely population numbers stick in donald trump's head and 2. he is able to reliably retrieve those population numbers and deliver them aloud. i don't find it unrealistic that israel has murdered 300 thousand in gaza since oct 7 but using donald trump as a source for anything seems extremely dubious to me

i knew this was coming

MP4 with time powers would be cool but I think I'd rather just have a good ass normal Metroid Prime game.

tomatoes are also a good source of vitamin c

in this world mother earth might transition and get top surgery and then he would be flat. and i would support him in this.

that's amazing, i've got the same combination on my luggage!

i was just about to say that

It does seem like the fascists will be successful in their soft coup d'état. Too many people are staying at home and dissociating instead of resisting, and the few thousands who want to fight back are still stuck doing ineffective things like peaceful protests or calling "their" representatives. There are too many liberals, and not enough leftists. Hopefully the incoming repression will radicalize more people, but will it be enough to mount a real resistance? Millions are going to suffer or die before then, and it's the worst feeling knowing that there's nothing you can do to stop it right now.

It's unclear whether the maga regime will fall due to a civil war, or world war 3. Or, maybe there will be a "greater" american empire, like the ancient roman one, that will persist for hundreds of years before crumbling. None of these outcomes are good, but while the future is uncertain, the only certainty is that we can't simply give in. We may be tired, we may feel hopeless, but we have to keep fighting. Our survival, and the survival of the most oppressed masses, depends on it.

I saw an AI generated advertisement for adult diapers and I thought it was created by an enthusiast of the diapers. It seemed oddly endearing, but I didn't understand why he was posting it in the "Aged Urine Therapy" group I'm in.

But it turns out it was created by the person who manufactures them at home and sells them exclusively on Amazon dot com.

This group isn't funny like I thought it would be, it's actually quite sad. The people drinking their urine are people who are far down a path of desperation.

So I also feel like Dr. Manhattan sometimes

The Sonic the Hedgehog who lives in my head said this in Sonic the Hedgehog's voice. I'd like to present that exchange to you:

SONIC: It's Transgender Thursday babyyyyyyy!

TAILS: But I'm not trans, I think-

SONIC: Happy Transgender Thursday!

This might be true if you like pineapple on your pizza

your profile (name, picture, "about") is visible once you've sent the first message (or reply)

yes, they will.

your name, about text and profile picture are visible to your signal contacts — username and phone number aren't.

you're like the dr manhattan of posting

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THATS RIGHT

Therapy went from $20 to $100 because of insurance shenanigans. Had to cancel. It wasn't doing anything for me, but I wish I didn't find out by being billed for two sessions at $200 total.