I’d say Quaternions are necessary purely because they avoid gimbal locking common with 3 axis Euler rotations.

I know in Blender all other rotation options are really just quaterinions under the hood. But an advantage Euler rotations have over quaternions is continuous rotation. I can set 2 key frames with linear extrapolation and have them just continue along each axis forever. Everything quaternion ideally should be bounded to the 4d unit circle.

Gen Z slang.

Its been hitting me. Can’t use old.reddit without logging in and new reddit is an abomination.

And yet its still an accurate description of how grand narratives about destiny and rightful ownership are used to justify the brutal killings of others.

Do not confuse descriptivism for prescriptivism.

Nope. Because of loopholes like private sales, someone can privately purchase a firearm from another person with basically nothing more than a look in the eye, a firm handshake and an exchange of money.

To purchase from a gun store there are rules and regulations that apply, and a very simple background check but really it doesn’t take much, and with enough money most processes can be “sped up”

I’m on the same side as you, vehemently fuck generative AI, however the difference between some LLM output incorrectly telling you that you have cancer and a shitty coder vibe coding with severe vulnerability is the ability to place blame, there’s a person who’s job it was to make sure info is secure and the vibe code actually works. There is no singular person who is traceably culpable for shitty AI output telling you bad info.

Except AI is an over engineered autocomplete operating completely off of statistical models. Knowledge is not statistical or random. I should get the same outputs to the same inputs.

Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.

This article is infuriating, she’s still a conservative after everything she experienced, after realizing conservatives have no principles other than power, and that she was a disposable token to be spent when convenient. And her big conclusion is that conservatives overreaching is leading to their downfall, and not the lack of principles or abject hatred of anyone who isnt cis, het, white, and male.

UMIN?

Oh I agree, I am still on the side of FOSS and decentralization, still that comparison to the Protestant Reformation just twinged something in me.

Why aren’t you doing anything to stop the further degradation of our constitution then?

That… doesnt bode well for decentralized networks considering how Proteatantism became a force of political power just like the Catholic Church.

Its less about a food safety problem at taco bell and more of an extremely low quality food problem. Their meat is about 88% beef, binders and fillers and some seasonings.

Do you have any evidence that thats the case?

How so?

If you’re dealing with pain and trauma, therapy might be a good idea. Making dark self depreciating jokes online probably isnt going to actually help you deal with it.

Do everything you can to help the people affected by the policies that isn’t direct violent confrontation. Direct confrontation will be used as an excuse to crack down harder. Warn others of ICE presence, help people get out of an area quickly and safely, defend people being attacked, record the interactions, never be the aggressor against ICE. Its tragic but Alex Pretti and Nicole Goode have become rallying symbols and examples of the awful behavior of ICE. Yes there is a dedicated online effort to smear them, and there are still people countering the messaging. If you find that you’re in a position where simple sabotage is possible, do it.

Make peace with the fact that helping others is a dangerous proposition, and only you can decide what you are capable of doing and how much you’re willing to risk.

I’ve found self deprecating humor or telling stories about fucked up shit happening to you is rarely funny and usually elicits more of a awkward fake laugh and/or pity vibe than a belly laugh vibe.

Lmao it kinda does.