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Memes and Pop Culture: The Invisible Hand of Transparent Backgrounds
In the tapestry of contemporary pop culture, few phenomena have risen with the meteoric impact of memes. These bite-sized, often humorous snippets of culture capture sentiments, moments, and events with remarkable precision. While the content of the meme is the primary draw, the unsung hero behind its rapid creation and dissemination is the transparent background image. This article delves into the synergy between memes and transparent backgrounds, revealing the subtle yet pivotal role they play.

A Brief on Memes
At their core, memes are units of cultural information that spread virally. Originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book 'The Selfish Gene,' the term 'meme' denoted an idea, behavior, or style that spreads within a culture. Today, in the digital realm, memes have evolved into images, videos, and text that are shared, remixed, and repurposed ad infinitum.

Transparent Backgrounds: The Meme Catalyst
Transparent backgrounds act as the canvas upon which meme artists (or anyone with a sense of humor and a smartphone) paint. Here's how they bolster memes:

Versatility: Transparent backgrounds allow meme creators to superimpose images onto diverse backdrops without any unsightly borders, making them fit seamlessly into a myriad of contexts.

Speed: In the fast-paced world of internet culture, where relevance can be fleeting, the ability to quickly overlay a transparent image onto various scenes means memes can be produced almost instantaneously in response to current events.

Customization: Given their adaptability, transparent images can be tailored to specific audiences, locales, or situations, making memes more relatable and shareable.

Professional Look with Minimal Effort: Even those without graphic design expertise can create polished memes, as transparent backgrounds eliminate the need for intricate photo editing.

Meme Culture and Transparency in Action
From the notorious "Distracted Boyfriend" to the ubiquitous "Pepe the Frog", many iconic memes leverage transparent backgrounds. Such backgrounds allow these characters to be placed in novel, often hilarious contexts, amplifying their virality. For instance, the "This Is Fine" dog can be found superimposed onto various disaster scenarios, its transparent background making each adaptation look seamless.

Commercialization and Transparent Memes
Brands, ever keen to capitalize on trends, have harnessed the meme's virality. Transparent background images enable businesses to integrate popular meme formats with their products or messaging, fostering brand engagement in a language the digital generation understands.

In Conclusion:
The partnership between memes and transparent backgrounds is emblematic of today's internet culture: dynamic, adaptable, and instantly recognizable. While the meme's content provides the humor, relatability, or commentary, the transparent background ensures its aesthetic integrity and versatility. In the vast digital ocean, where memes are the waves that garner attention, transparent backgrounds are the currents that drive them forward. https://icons8.com/photos/transparent
That's exactly the point. You can do that in your own head, but you can't communicate that to other people. For every amazing thing you've ever seen in a movie screen, imagine how much MORE amazing it was in someone's head before that. But you can't capture that in full.

And, much like the scientific method can take something that "everyone knows", and turn it into the basis for a branch of science, the process of getting this down in paper forces you to document all the nuances in your head, making that final idea even richer and fully consistent.
Not in Toronto (I live in Houston), but we actually did the opposite.

Living 30 or 40m away from the city was great in theory, but sucked given that we did that trip every weekend (or sometimes during the weekdays). Also, the suburb we lived in was not walkable at all. The sprawl was insane and sidewalks were a rarity.
> I think that proper version control should be immutable. If history is changeable, what's the point in having history at all? It ceases to be "history" and becomes just a fable or hagiography.

Many git users agree, including the kernel from memory. By that I mean there is often some git tree (maybe called "production", "main" or "master") were "fast roll forward" is the only style of commit accepted. Ie, on that tree, you can't change history. But when you're using git to built a commit to that tree, you are allowed (and in the kernel's case expected), to clean the history up, removing all your mistakes and experiments, so the people following the main branch don't have to wade through all that crap.

So the difference is git allows it to be a policy setting, whereas I take it Fossil forces it to be turtles all the way down.
Mpwshell – A shell for those that prefer Macintosh Workshop
Crazy that people risk their life to save a couple bucks
Perhaps the endpoint of this will mimic the moment Prince changed his name to a symbol and instead of using the symbol, media settled on calling him The Artist Fromerly Known As Prince, or TAFKAP.

So, Twitter is now X but when we tire of explaining away the inherent confusion of a single letter name, we'll converge on calling it TWFKAT.
I feel like there is something about a third party being involved here that makes it way more reinforcing than a python script.

Also, the relationship with the chatbot seemed much deeper than you can get with casual engagement on an Internet forum.
Here’s my distinction that I think is at the heart of this: effective vs addictive

I think something is effective if it helps the user accomplish a task they want to partake in and addictive if it convinces the user to check out other unexpected content. Eg Facebook is addictive because people spend hours scrolling their feed hoping to luck into dopamine, but I would say they’d just be benignly effective if that time was an intentional activity that people just find valuable to be worth it — say, searching for information on out-of-touch loved ones.

There’s infinite edge cases to evaluate and make intuitive calls on from there, but that’s my high level definition. Do you see why I would defend the proposed UX change following it?
Agreed; const is one of those features that is so good I wish a lot of other languages (e.g. java) had it.
if the client can't tell you what they want, and there is no process to get to an answer, how could this be done any better?

as for the contract, if the client can't settle on a goal i would fall back to hourly billing with an open ended contract. not every contract has to start with a specific deliverable.

but really, the better approach in this case would be to start with roadmapping or similar. let's spend X hours/days to analyze your business needs and come up with a proposal.
For one, RSS is probably more reliable than emails, which has deliverability issues.

Of course, they will now have to deal with badly-behave clients that re-download the whole RSS feed each time they fetch updates. I guess they pick their poison.
This is surprisingly hard, if the walls killed the snake it would be near impossible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37467078

Is there a way to get Awk to emit a non-terse version of the script passed in?
ie awk '/test/' -> '{ if($0~/test/){print $0} }'
IDK it seems semantically right
Cheap and easy controlled substances are a manufacturer’s dream. It’s expensive because we have a captive healthcare system and they can do whatever they want.
If they show.
Godot has a web editor [1] in case you don't know yet.

[1]: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/editor/usin...
It is often that, so fair on your part too.

What I have seen happen is people basically get going on Raspian and start to like it. Myself, I have used UNIX flavors since SGI IRIX and I find Raspian simple, well supported and easy to use.

A fast Pi, plus a solid load of OSS packs quite a punch!

Dev tools for many languages.

Open, Libre Office and friends suddenly makes for a very cheap, effective desktop one can use to get a whole lot done.

Anyone inclined to work with OSS can grab one of these little Pi computers can do a lot. I use them that way frequently.
I thought SiFive is actually one of the best though?

Espressif has a bunch of Risc-V designs too. Not high performance but easy to find and use.
As a fellow Montreal-er I agree with you in principle. Our city is beautifully diverse, and it's decently lively. Many of my peers agree that living in Toronto is infeasible, economically, and culturally. That said, I've found that living in Montreal is far from ideal.

A big issue is that Montreal's salaries are, as other commenter have said, upwards of 30% lower here. With rising rent and real estate costs, people are living outside their means. More than that, though, companies outside of Montreal are loathe to hire Montrealers remotely as well. It's not just because of the decline of remote friendly workplaces, but also the language laws in Quebec. Any legal department worth their weight will look at Quebec's requirements for companies to serve Quebec employees in French, and promptly conclude hiring there isn't worth it.

It really seems like no matter where you end up in Canada the cards are stacked against you. Vancouver is just as expensive as Toronto, and Montreal has all the aforementioned issues. At this point I'm considering running off to Europe, but I know that has its own host of issues as well. I might just be falling victim to analysis paralysis, but I definitely feel stuck.
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This drifts off topic, but you don’t think Harris would be the goto candidate to pick up the ticket?
This, exactly. Underestimate to our detriment...surely military intelligence assesses it clearly, but the prevailing story in the press is the reverse. I wonder why that is?
Go read some history: that was built by various contractors, such as Rocketdyne that manufactured the engines.
Worker co-op!!!!
> Very similar to meditation. The best meditation advice I got was to just sit down, focus on doing nothing and be OK with being bored. Not some breathing techniques, how to focus your mind, posture etc. That comes later, very naturally, after you get curious about improvements.

Chilling != meditation. Like I get that chilling is helpful for you but words have meaning and that is not meditation.
It's pretty common to see "posted on X" or "posted on XYZ" as a way of indicating interchangeability for the record.
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It's not bad, but not all that comfortable on my left hand pinky finger.
You can import discs from Japan for about $1.50 a piece. Players/recorders aren't that hard to find on Ebay, I even found one at a local "reuse center" but I did have the laser burn out on my NetMD recorde, tried to get another on Ebay, and the laser was burned out on that one.
I think I found it extra confusing because this action (check out previous commit, do some work, merge with main) was completely supported in my previous dvcs of choice, Mercurial.
Almost all self-help books have this flaw. I think most of them won’t sell without providing something that looks like a solution. But to get that solution, they dress up the author’s badly-founded personal beliefs as final truth, support the thesis with cherrypicked personal anecdotes, and pretend they’ve thoroughly tested it all.
If the pressure on the upper surface of the foil is below atmospheric, this could be used to suck air down a tube. I have no idea if this is feasible, or would be useful if it were.
Sure, I know. That is the blurry option. There is a free utility that causes choices with "(HiDPI)" at the end of them to show up in the list of possible resolutions even when using a non-HiDPI monitor, and that is how you get a non-blurry scaling factor of 2.0 on a Mac.

(Also, it hasn't been called Control Panel for 20 years.)
I think you lost the plot. Bringing up AMD's low-end mobile processors in a discussion of whether their desktop processors are well-suited for a home server with ECC is pretty far off topic.
They mention another post covering broader issues, just highlighting this as the worst:

> I want to emphasise that the “Safari not responding” bug is far from the only issue effecting VoiceOver users on Mac. As our recent post on problems in macOS Sonoma and the replies outline, there are numerous other VoiceOver frustrations and failures impacting users.

As a web developer who is committed to supporting blind and disabled users in general, I'm just getting deep into all of this now, and so far I can say that VO is the worst of the three screen readers for web usage. It has fallen far behind on standards support for modern aria attributes, completely ignoring many of them in practice, to the point where it's not possible to always achieve intended screen reader behaviour in VO.

Much as with Safari, Apple only seems to pays lip service to support of VO, completely blind users seem to only ever use VO if given no other option, but many online stats muddy OS usage with web usage to make this less obvious.
The problem with open ended is the client becomes their own worst enemy in terms of managing their budget versus feature trade off. After all , no client has an endless pool of money.

Certain stakeholders may also be disconnected from the budget so you may get conflicting feedback.

I’m not suggesting it can be done any better. I can only think of staying away from those clients .
Cats also purr when they are injured or sometimes when they are scared. This is believed to be a form of self-soothing.

I've actually been able to replicate my own form of purring at roughly the right frequency, but it takes a lot of air moving across the vocal cords to do that, and you end up hyperventilating. But, it does produce slightly different sounds on the intake versus the exhalation, as you hear with real cat purring.

I can't do it for long, but I can do it.
The cheap old varieties of insulin are still available and still cheap. What's expensive are the newer analogues which make it much easier for diabetics to manage their insulin levels.
Recently it’s a small list, but physical currency is one example. They do outsource the paper etc, but if you compare costs and results to private companies doing similar work there’s no incentive to outsource the full process.
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You only know there are no mutations if Foo itself does not contain any indirections. Additionally, the compiler generally cannot assume that Foo_bar does not modify Foo as it is legal to cast away const as long as it is not originally a variable declared as const (so in your static Foo example it would be UB to cast away const).

static + const is valuable, but const parameters are merely a convention, there is no actual enforcement around them and due to aliasing the compiler generally can’t assume the parameter doesn’t actually change anyway.
We'd love to move beyond Nvidia.

The issue (among others) is we achieve the speech recognition performance we do largely thanks to ctranslate2[0]. They've gone on the record saying that they essentially have no interest in ROCm[1].

Of course with open source anything is possible but we see this as being one of several fundamental issues in supporting AMD GPGPU hardware.

[0] - https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2

[1] - https://github.com/OpenNMT/CTranslate2/issues/1072
It is not as sharp as it could be, and someone on this site once commented that he notices the difference (between Mac and Windows, where the software doesn't introduce blurriness) even on his 4K monitor.

(You could ask me why if I hate blurriness so much, why am I still using a 1080p monitor. My answer is my high-DPI monitor is coming soon.)
I’ve been her 30 years. I’ve never found much use for const. I value brief simple code that doesn’t rely on things like const to tell people what’s going on.

Codebases have their own conventions and design patterns. If you have that const is a needless formality.

Code should be being simple and clean first, constantly stating things that are obvious 90% of the time isn’t that.
Yes https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/amazons-project-kuiper...
Crazy that people who can't survive without insulin, food, and rent money see the risk of dying from violence as less than the risk of dying from poverty.
Have you Googled Civica Rx?

> Headquarters: Lehi, UT
> I would assume they have processes in place that incentivize quality.

> you think that OpenAI would not have given this a bit of consideration?

Those are just assumptions though. The issue is not “this was labelled as a shoe, but it’s a car”, the issue is about depth vs superficially, which is harder to verify. See also https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-int... for a well-sourced article on the subject.
ctrl+F for Baseline and you'll see a part where they show the two models' outputs with the same prompt.

I didn't look closely to see whether this is deterministic with the right temperature and top_p or whatever.
Crazy that people without a few bucks have to risk their lives to save their lives.

Diabetics die very quickly without insulin.
one of the most enjoyable projects i was working on was where a customer came to us with a complete and functional demo and our job was to make it work with an actual backend. and as it happened i already had a complete and functional backend, so all we ended up having to do was to add APIs on both sides to tie them together.
No one can be told which stock to use. Buy reams from at least 3 different manufacturers, take a random sample from each, and have a neutral third party number and randomize the specimens. Sharpen your pencil and write one full page, noting how the graphite glides against the wood fibers. Leave a margin of at least 3 centimeters, and if you must erase, use only natural rubber.
I feel like Harris isn't exactly going to inspire people to vote. She's a little better than Hillary, maybe, but that's not saying much.

It's too bad Democrats have such a terrible time finding candidates with some charisma and likability; Obama's election should have taught them a lesson here, but it seems they never learned it.
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"Hitting back" is a very generous interpretation of "don't get killed by the hornet (but don't kill the hornet either)". Not that I'm sad, it's great, but I think it was fair to hope for more based on the title. I also don't see evidence these are "new combat skills".

Anyway, linked study with full text: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05329-5
Linux seemed to loath svn with a passion. I really some comment from him like "they simply don't get it". With the benefit of hindsight, he was right.

But he did throw the baby out with the bath water. They got the data structures wrong, the overall concept skew whiff (a commit is the code at a point in time; how you got there is just meta data), but the higher level interface wasn't bad. He could have done worse than to base the porcelain command names on svn.
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Obscene what-aboutism. Not a huge surprise in view of the title.

Someone could prove that 20 former Presidents committed all sorts of crimes and that would provide zero evidence to dissuade me from my view that MAGA followers are the single biggest threat to American democracy since the Civil War and that Donald Trump is their mentally ill clown.
But they won't have anywhere to sell their products. Most of their economy gone just like that.

The internal Chinese economy* is at 80% as against 20% for exports.** Of those exports, the US plus Europe are about 30%. In other words, if the entire West is decoupled from China's economy, the Chinese economy still has 80%+ (70% of 20% = 14%) or a total of 94% left. The West is not actually as important as it thinks.

* The Chinese internal market size is four times the size of the US market for consumer goods. And that's apart from the the Chinese rolling in cash reserves that lets them afford to build lots of infrastructure, just like the US was able to build back in the 1950s and 1960s.

** Back around 1980, the US internal economy was around 95% and the external trade was about 5%. In other words, back then, the 'Rest of the World' could have disappeared and the US economy probably wouldn't have noticed anything. Those times have long gone.
I heard from Techmoan very recently that production of the last ones was shutting down this year.
So why would you want this?
> I guess the author missed the years where Flattr buttons were popping up on every website, blog, and even comment ?

I mean I sure did. When Flattr was announced I loved the idea, and promised that I'd sign up the second I saw a flattr button on a blog post I liked.

I never once saw a Flattr button outside of brokep's own blog.
MAD is stable because people aren't rational beings and game theory is therefore nuts.

When I have 500 nukes headed my way, I wont stop to think "well, maybe the remaining 10% of my population can scrape by a living as dogs. Lets not retaliate and maybe they wont launch their remaining 500"

Ill think: "fuck 'em m! launch everything we got"
60 Minutes: Gen. Milley on AI and the future or warfare [video]
What does that have to do with living in California? And you know they have no track record yet right? They didn’t even exist until 2018!

The perennial issue is big promises, total shit delivery, way over budget and late - if ever. Regardless of where the subcontractor lives. They’ve already been talking about the insulin plan for several years.

But hey, maybe 2024 is the new promise.

Have you heard about our ‘high speed rail’ project, for instance? It isn’t even high speed anymore!
IMO, defining your own types is one step too far. Now everyone who is already familiar with C types has to learn your own quirky system to understand one program. I think it does probably make sense to be specific about the sizes though e.g. using uint32_t over just uint (and expecting to receive some architecture-dependent size you might not get with uint.) These types should be defined in the right header (I think it depends on compiler?) It's been a while since I wrote any amount of C so my apologizes if this isn't correct.
Been to both. The one in Romania had dusty stairways, and my nose went stuffy. Only the one in Poland had clean air.
I never had DSL.