frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 46 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Important to note this is the Royal Air Force. Unlike the US, the Royal Air Force covers both land and naval based aircraft.

It's a surprisingly good idea for carrier aircraft. The landing gear on carrier planes has to be extra durable because carrier landings are rough. Getting rid of landing gear would save a lot of weight and a big source maintenance.

Worked pretty well. The only reason it wasn't pursued was because carrier aircraft do land on regular runways, and nobody wants to convert every single runway to a bouncy version.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's not like they're part of a company whose core product is search.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Dime a dozen. It's not hard to get a used cop car at auction.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (7 children)

Actual impersonation. From a CNN article:

Around 3:35 a.m., another call came in when officers were proactively checking on Hortman’s home. When Brooklyn Park police officers arrived they noticed that there was a police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights on and what appeared to be a police officer at the door, coming out of the house, officials said. That individual immediately fired a weapon at them, Evans said, and exchanged gunfire took place during which the suspect was able to escape.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting

I don't think a cop doing this would shoot back at other cops. They'd report back that the perp was long gone and they saw nothing.

Edit: lol, the guy is a rent-a-cop

[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 1 day ago

There's a sizable number of Christians who say the Trinity is part of the definition of Christianity. That's dumb gatekeeping, but if they insist on it, then the first three Presidents were not Christian. Washington was a diest, which means he would reject any divinity status for Jesus. Adams and Jefferson both explicitly rejected the Trinity.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Guessing Tucker is more in bed with Russia than Trump. Russia is in bed with Iran. Now it's the worst foursome scene on Pornhub.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago

Yes, it is. All those white men had the freedom to push that Mexican guy to the ground and handcuff him. See, that's real freedom, according to the Ten Commandments. It's why we should put the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom, so people know what they say, and how they say DEI is bad. It's right next to the Commandments about how oil belongs to America and the KJV is the only valid translation.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago

He's the guy who looked directly at the eclipse, so yeah, he'd probably do that, too.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Bets on Donnie forcing it to go ahead anyway?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 day ago

Honestly, they'd be horrified at a bunch of things, some of which are on MAGA, and some on progressives. Maybe we shouldn't be taking the ideas of slaveowners from over 200 years ago as seriously as we do.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"You guys cured smallpox, and there's people who are working against the cure?" - Also Ben Franklin, who lost one of his sons to smallpox

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

How to win debates on the Internet 101.

In 201, you learn how to do it with more Latin.

 
 

There might be a good reason for this. Raster effects were already really good in newer games, and ray tracing could only improve on that high bar. It's filling in details that are barely noticeable, but creap ever so slightly closer to photorealism.

Old games start from a low bar, so ray tracing has dramatic improvement.

 

Not 100% sure if this is a Summit issue or something in Lemmy more generally. Here's the post in question:

https://midwest.social/post/10123989

The link to the blog works on my instance for the desktop. Several other users were reporting the link being broken, and it does break for me on Summit, as well.

When I hit the link on Summit, the requests on the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. It looks like it parsed out the "2024" from the original link and tried to use that in a Lemmy API call.

 

Here's the post in question: https://midwest.social/post/10123989

Which linked to my blog here: https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2024/03/2024-03-20-moores-law-is-dead/index.html

On my instance (midwest.social), this works fine. However, some other users were reporting a broken link, and I also see a broken link when using my mobile app (Summit). When it breaks, I see these calls in the server logs:

  • GET /api/v3/post?id=2024
  • GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All

Which appear to be Lemmy API calls with some of the actual link data built in.

 
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