Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Mass surveillance promotes the Single Point of Failure that is totalitarianism.

Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it. #advice #workEthic #gamedev #creativity

Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about
#culture

Well -- well-placed enough for a joy-con as a mouse.
Also, note what appears to be an optical sensor in the Switch 2 joycons in that picture.

I think the #Switch2 joycons are going to have the ability to work as mice, maybe as a replacement for the touchscreen when the switch is docked.
Have it control an OS-level mouse cursor to emulate the touchscreen and adoption of this feature could be a breeze, and maybe even backwards-compatible with Switch 1 games!

#Nintendo

Design note: since the right joycon has its joystick lower than the left joycon's joystick, its buttons (ABXY) are well-placed for a mouse.

The #OpenAI #Sora video-generating AI is being really annoying. I'm literally uploading screenshots of Smash Bros. and it is telling me ThIs conTEnt Can'T bE SHoWn fOr NoW. wE'rE STill devELOping hOW wE EVAluATE WhiCH ConTent ConFLictS wiTh ouR PoLICies

Looks like Notch is going to start work on a "Minecraft 2" https://www.ign.com/articles/notch-says-he-basically-announced-minecraft-2

#Minecraft #Minecraft2

Don't worry, the worlds are OK.

Note: the data I got was from 2022. I had said 2025. (Can't edit posts.)

Screenshot from the PDF.

It appears that #E4M3 (the one without multiple NaNs etc.) has less range, and less precision near 0, but smaller steps between numbers on average.
E4M3 also has NaN, just one type of NaN (nice).
I'm not thinking about #deepLearning here in particular, but I think I prefer E4M3 personally (for what it's worth).

Interesting development. Never thought float8's could have any use, and here we are in 2025 with the potential use of them.

#computing #programming

Mastodon word count for this post: 499. (1 off, man 😁)

For #programmers:
You are familiar with 64-bit floating point and 32-bit floating point, and may have heard about 16-bit floating point (present in some GPUs), but there is actually work on 8-BIT floating-point!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.05433
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-arm-and-intel-publish-fp8-specification-for-standardization-as-an-interchange-format-for-ai/

There is the "E5M2" variant, a "truncated IEEE FP16 format" (nice if lacking FP8). Although, at the miniscule 8-bit level, you don't necessarily need multiple NaNs or need infinities, so there is the "E4M3" variant as well.

#IEEE754 #AI

Finished going through [almost all of] my #Minecraft worlds with my younger brother (also an adult). It was a nice and interesting trip down memory lane.

OK -- I don't know exactly what went wrong; but either way if it *was* a traditional manual ignition, the driver would have been able to turn the car off (they *were* getting instructions from the officer to stop the car, but it wasn't working).

Another 500-char-exactly post *fist-pump*

https://youtu.be/AdkMwlnf2ps
Runaway SUV video.

"When you hit the neutral button, nothing happens [...] push-button start?"
This sort of problem is exactly why dangerous machinery like cars must NEVER rely solely on buttons that ask the onboard computer to cut power to the machine.
In an actually well-designed car, you could just turn the key to shut off the engine... done.

It was always wrong to switch away from a physical ignition switch like in the old cars.

#Honda #vehicle #engineering #safety