It’s cool that Salman Rushdie has outlived 2 Ayatollahs.

On an exercise bike at a commercial gym. 1 hour it says I did 870 calories. Thats the most bullshit number I’ve ever seen, I did maybe 220-250. That’s at a 200lbs body weight, and 17%bf. I hope people don’t take these estimates seriously.

Iran targets data center facilities operated by Microsoft in drone strikes: FT everyone hates copilot

Im investing where I think AI will actually have a near-medium term positive ROI: pharma

I printed this out and went through it fairly rigorously with 2 complete readings over weeks and really thought about it. My verdict is: yes.

I wonder if this packaging designer did this on purpose.

I see why windows font smoothing has gotten shittier. I finally got high resolution monitors and it’s much better at this DPI

In Taiwan hospital getting preventative medical care that I cannot get in Canada because Canada isn’t a real country.

I was in Hawaii when Covid broke out. I was in Mexico when el mencho was killed and the cartels went to war, I’m in Taiwan now… if china starts shit I think I’m a real life Slothrop.

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

When I worked on an mmo more than 20 years ago we had an intermediate hidden value for healing food called “calories”. The value at max c lvl overflowed a 32bit int. Fuckers were chomping uranium.

I’m going to buy a licence now. I wrote a text shaper and gpu font renderer about 5 years ago for what would have been Iggy2. I deliberately avoided all things Slug because of the patent. Now I’ll buy a licence just cause. Thanks Eric!

Am I the only one who remembers the hoopla around gw bush supposedly cheating with the diebold voting machines? Now the other guys are cheating? I can’t keep up

I have a lot of respect for Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton. Whatever the fuck the NDP is now makes me sad.

2026, month 4.

What windows image viewer do people use these days? Still IrfanView?

When programming in C with GCC, you can declare functions inside functions. To my knowledge, it only works with GCC.

THIS NEEDS TO BE STANDARD NOW.