operations that are commutative but exhibit radically different performance characteristics if the arguments are swapped
I feel like a recurring issue in programming is:
- From a correctness and flexible-execution perspective, it’s preferable if you can specify things “declaratively”, i.e., in a way that very minimally communicates the constraints and properties, rather than just providing instructions to the computer.
- From a real fucking life perspective, you almost always want control over execution details, otherwise you will be shadowboxing with an evil compiler or query planner that is constantly doing things in unexpected ways, with no escape hatch.
Very very difficult to achieve both simultaneously. Halide at least tries this idea, splitting the correctness-specification from the optimization-specification, but I don’t have any experience with how easy or successful it is at this.
when we solve this we destroy programming as a discipline, so bit of a cursed quest item really.
So when Elon Musk bought Twitter and basically chopped it at the knees, I was a little worried for Tumblr as well as the rest of Internet meme culture, because a huge number of the ha ha funny pictures people post are tweets. I thought, oh no, a large part of meme culture is dying.
Little did I know that Elon Musk allowing anyone to buy a blue check would make Twitter go out in a blaze of beauty and glory not unlike a sugar maple in October.
Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they’re technically a fruit when:
A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.
B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they’re not even plants.
I literally cannot take anything lance armstrong says about trans people ever seriously for obvious reasons but also because there’s a museum somewhat near my house in the scottish borders which is a museum to clan armstrong, who were famous border reivers, i.e. people who would go across the scottish-english border and dismember people for their cattle and whatnot + at this museum they have portraits of all of these famous armstrongs, most of whom spent their entire lives turning half the population of cumbria into mincemeat, up in a hall, from which only 1 person’s portrait has been removed for poor conduct that shamed the family. can u guess whose
“israel is being targeted by multiple countries at once” yeah that’s what happens when you attack multiple countries. you’re operating in a very selective version of reality if you’re shocked and horrified israel would face any sort of retaliation
When three massive objects meet in space, they influence each other through gravity in ways that evolve unpredictably. In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding. Now, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen has discovered that such encounters often avoid chaos and instead follow regular patterns, where one of the objects is quickly expelled from the system. This new insight may prove vital for our understanding of gravitational waves and many other aspects of the universe.
This is such a transparently bullshit threat. 30 days places the deadline after the election. Biden is making an empty threat in order to trick voters into supporting Harris with the ability to pull the rug out once they’ve been fooled. He could’ve given this ultimatum at any time, it’s not a coincidence that he’s doing it now
this is higher than the gdp of roughly 40 countries. our election system is so deeply broken. this shouldn’t be allowed. Citizens United was like a sledgehammer to the back of what remained of US “democracy.”
Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel
IT’S BAD
PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS
EDIT: If you’re still having problems, it might help to switch from “Save/Save as” to “Export (as a) Single Layer”. Just. Make SURE the box labeled “Expression Color” is set to RGB. I’ve been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM
GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO
is there like….a way to check how to do that for procreate?
cause I’ve noticed the same thing so I’ve just been eye picking colors for like…two years now
THERE IS!
ive been noticing the EXACT SAME PROBLEM whenever i would export an image from procreate and it drove me CRAZY that my art would desaturate all the time. anyway, if you’re in a canvas, go to settings > canvas > canvas information > color profile
once youre in color profile, if your current color profile is display P3, CHANGE IT!!!!!! it is desaturating your colors. you’re gonna want to change it to sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 instead
if you’re starting a new canvas, you can just go to color profile and change it that way. im SO grateful for this post for giving me the push i needed to experiment with procreate files and finally see what was changing my art to be so desaturated
like LOOK at this!!!!
anyway yeah. tldr if youre using procreate, make sure your color profile is sRBG IEC6 1966-2.1
I’m really tired of seeing people broken up into labels of absolutes.
People are not just “good” or “bad”.
People are not a list of labels.
People are complex, situations are complex.
I know, that makes it a lot harder when you want to just write off everything someone’s ever done as bad – but that’s not how people actually are, and it would do everyone good to stop pretending they are.
I am tired of hearing about the fear people have in putting themselves out there. And it is a scary thing! Putting yourself out there means subjecting yourself to people who want a really good reason to tear you down, who will jump at the first chance to feel “good” by labeling someone else as “bad”.
I reject this. I reject the idea that there should be fear in speaking up and talking about experiences and trying to reach an understanding of a situation.
I’m unhappy to see people spitefully urging others to cut off ties with their friends under the guise of “well, that person’s just inherently bad, so if you talk to them you’re bad too.” That is fucked up. You definitely have the right to let the friend know you don’t want to hear about whoever troubles you, but you do not at all have the right to decide who their friends should be. This includes guilt trips.
Anyway, just try to be more aware of others. Everyone else is a person like you. They might not have the same experiences as you. They might not understand how their words are harmful, or how what they’re doing is wrong. They certainly won’t if you never tell them.
Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.
Nothing gets solved, no growth happens when you put people into a box from which you’ll never let them escape.
Yes, you absolutely must be careful about people who have tendencies and patterns that are harmfulto you. Sometimes people try to overcome those patterns and they fail, and you have to distance yourself from them: that is the sad reality of life. Sometimes though, they can overcome it. But they certainly won’t if the first thing you do is write them off after a fuck up.
Be sincere. Use your best judgment.
>Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up
sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked
up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.
Oh, I never forget that. In fact, that’s the worst part.
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
Pushing the idea that people are morally/ethically binary and permanently on one side or the other doesn’t allow room for growth. Things like cancel culture can further promote hatred because it discourages learning and empathy. You put this so eloquently and I hope this gets reblogged at least another 50,000 times!
Mistakes that I have made, and ways we learn to be better.
It’s easy to fall into this line of thinking even if you’re o guard for it and get swept up
My default state of thinking is very black and white and its super easy for me to spiral out. But like with any negative behaviour knowledge, time, and practice means the issue can be controllable and you can learn from your mistakes
I’m really tired of seeing people broken up into labels of absolutes.
People are not just “good” or “bad”.
People are not a list of labels.
People are complex, situations are complex.
I know, that makes it a lot harder when you want to just write off everything someone’s ever done as bad – but that’s not how people actually are, and it would do everyone good to stop pretending they are.
I am tired of hearing about the fear people have in putting themselves out there. And it is a scary thing! Putting yourself out there means subjecting yourself to people who want a really good reason to tear you down, who will jump at the first chance to feel “good” by labeling someone else as “bad”.
I reject this. I reject the idea that there should be fear in speaking up and talking about experiences and trying to reach an understanding of a situation.
I’m unhappy to see people spitefully urging others to cut off ties with their friends under the guise of “well, that person’s just inherently bad, so if you talk to them you’re bad too.” That is fucked up. You definitely have the right to let the friend know you don’t want to hear about whoever troubles you, but you do not at all have the right to decide who their friends should be. This includes guilt trips.
Anyway, just try to be more aware of others. Everyone else is a person like you. They might not have the same experiences as you. They might not understand how their words are harmful, or how what they’re doing is wrong. They certainly won’t if you never tell them.
Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.
Nothing gets solved, no growth happens when you put people into a box from which you’ll never let them escape.
Yes, you absolutely must be careful about people who have tendencies and patterns that are harmfulto you. Sometimes people try to overcome those patterns and they fail, and you have to distance yourself from them: that is the sad reality of life. Sometimes though, they can overcome it. But they certainly won’t if the first thing you do is write them off after a fuck up.
Be sincere. Use your best judgment.
>Most people are trying to be good, but they’re going to mess it up
sometimes. Try to keep that in mind. Even when people do really fucked
up shit, sometimes they are trying to do good. “The road to hell is paved with good intentions” and all that.
Oh, I never forget that. In fact, that’s the worst part.
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
Pushing the idea that people are morally/ethically binary and permanently on one side or the other doesn’t allow room for growth. Things like cancel culture can further promote hatred because it discourages learning and empathy. You put this so eloquently and I hope this gets reblogged at least another 50,000 times!
Mistakes that I have made, and ways we learn to be better.
It’s easy to fall into this line of thinking even if you’re o guard for it and get swept up
My default state of thinking is very black and white and its super easy for me to spiral out. But like with any negative behaviour knowledge, time, and practice means the issue can be controllable and you can learn from your mistakes
You can be depressed and not feel sad or blue. Depression can also be a haze of sleepiness, distractedness/obsessiveness cycles, and a twinge of irritability that can be hard to recognize because you might already be a “fiery” person. It can feel like a lazy Sunday that keeps imposing itself for weeks or months.
Can we just… I’ll leave this here.
and also a numbness. Not necessarily sad but no emotions whatsoever - just flat. Nothing is exciting, I can’t be bothered to be angry, nothing really even gets me to laugh. It’s all just “meh”.
i left a slice of ham outside the other day. and now it is gone. it would seem that there is some type of creature roaming around the out doors, but i must continue to do experiments to solidify my findings…
Lots of funny and strange stuff surrounding state direct democracy efforts. Some states introduce a single-subject requirement for ballot initiatives, meaning that each proposal being voted on cannot bundle multiple different proposals together; each has to be voted on separately. But this leads to weird situations like in Nebraska this year, where “legalize medical marijuana” and “create a state regulatory agency to monitor the medical marijuana industry” are two separate initiatives.
Meaning that it’s possible for Nebraskan voters to authorize an unregulated medicinal weed industry, but it’s also possible for them to create a regulatory agency for an industry that doesn’t exist
literally so embarrassing to have someone go “i don’t go here” or “what’s this from?” on my art and it’s a rarepair/crackship that is in no way representative of the source material… and i have to be like. well you see, the rest of the restaurant’s menu is not like this. i’m doing my own thing eating black olives right out of the can in the back-of-house. whether or not you want me to throw you a can, you have to understand that’s not what they serve out front
Sometimes you notice someone eating good olives out of a can and that’s what gets you interested in the rest of the auraunt
Seeing this out of context is what I imagine the website formerly known as twitter users must feel when they see a tweet that just says “(3/5) So, at this point, she had been arrested for arson and slapped me with a fish.” And none of the associated tweets
We don’t need to know what happened to the rest of the original werthers tbf
someone paid money for a type of twitter ad that’s usually meant for promoting TV shows and movies and used it to get your account to tweet out the word ‘carp’ and link the wikipedia page for carps when you click the link
so now for the last hour half of the tweets on everyone’s twitter timeline has been just the word ‘carp’
this is the most tumblr-esque event I’ve seen on twitter
the idea of protists is really funny. Ah yes, the kingdoms of life: Animals, Plants, Fungi, and Don’t worry about it:)
i just started taking my first botany course and politely op what the fuck is this supposed to mean
Well
Um
…
All creatures with cells that have the fancy stuff like nucleus and mitochondria are Eukaryotes. That picture is from the Wikipedia page for Eukaryotes.
Long ago there was just the Bacteria and Archaea. Then something weird happened and an Archaean ate a bacterium but the bacterium was not consumed, instead they became friends. By “friends” I mean “permanently merged together into an entirely new kind of life form that can do all kinds of fancy stuff with its cells.” This life form is your ancestor and the ancestor of all Eukaryotes.
One of those new, fancy life forms ate a cyanobacteria and made it into chloroplasts. This created the plants.
A few others decided to go multicellular and form tubes out of cells that could wriggle around, and they became animals.
A few decided to also go multicellular and team up into big networks of interconnected thread-like tendrils, and they became fungi.
But most of them just kind of went off and did their own thing, going about their single-celled business, evolving into all kinds of weird stuff without doing anything multicellular. And all of those guys got called protists. Every eukaryote that didn’t become multicellular is a protist.
The guys that went multicellular are just a few weirdos in these random corners of the tree of life, but they get all the attention cause we multicellular organisms are kind of self-absorbed (and we had to do some strange things to sand to turn it into lenses to see the single-celled organisms).
If each of those multicellular clades counts as a “kingdom,” how many kingdoms do the single-celled guys make? Good luck with that one. We keep finding more of them.
Every time we look at some more pond water, the taxonomists collapse into sobbing again. There are too many ways to be a little guy. Every time there’s a cilium or a flagellum somewhere it’s not supposed to be, or there’s something suspicious going on with microtubules or zoospores or helical structures something, or god forbid two guys get freaky and do another endosymbiosis again, they have to rewrite everything and there’s at least two fistfights and one brawl.
Protists: Just don’t worry about it.
Also I lied and there are plenty of eukaryotes that are multicellular and not animals, plants, or fungi, such as giant kelp
However those get called protists half the time too because with kelp, it’s easier than trying to explain what the fuck it is if it isn’t a plant, and with everything else, talking about it just starts an argument about what counts as a “cell” and what counts as “multi” for that matter and nothing good comes of it.
Wait wait wait. Hope do you argue what counts as multi. Anything larger than one, right? Anything larger than one?
Well
Xenophyopores found a cool hack to be unicellular but still get 20 centimeters long—they just have lots and lots of nuclei in their single cell.
They look like this. Of course it is in the ocean where all kinds of freaks are.
