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Final Trump Tax Bill Version Released

Posted by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 15 2017, @11:19PM (#2860)
1 Comment
News

The sausage is made. You may now officially commence the bitching that you prepared long before you knew what was in the bill.

Chamath Palihapitiya Threatened?

Posted by takyon on Friday December 15 2017, @06:30PM (#2859)
4 Comments
Business

Previously: Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out

Palihapitiya's initial remarks included the statement that Facebook "overwhelmingly does good in the world". Maybe that wasn't good enough for somezucky?

Former Facebook Exec Who Suggested Social Media Was Destroying Society: I Love Facebook

He's already rich. He can feed his kids. But can he protect them from the reach of Facebook?

Expensive ITER Fusion

Posted by takyon on Wednesday December 13 2017, @03:48PM (#2850)
4 Comments

Origami Cube Bitmaps For Christmas Decorations And Suchlike

Posted by cafebabe on Tuesday December 12 2017, @08:42PM (#2847)
2 Comments
Code

For Christmas 2016, I released a rotating torus and fractal animation. Admittedly, this was test data for a video codec but it was also a fun and frivolous software. For Christmas 2017, I've automated the algorithm for converting 1, 2, 3 or 6 bitmaps into a bitmap which can be folded into origami cube with the pictures on all sides. This has a variety of uses including corporate branding; like an unusual business card. It is also great for making unique Christmas decorations. Indeed, I've now got some really strange Christmas decorations including cubes of:-

  • A six sided dice.
  • James Bond actors.
  • Clover, Sam and Alex from Totally Spies.
  • Pinky Pie from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
  • Bob Dobbs, the Cheshire Cat from Disney's version of Alice In Wonderland and a hexagonal toroid from Mathematica.
  • The Ford Escort RS2000 from Fast And Furious 6.
  • Characters from Wingi's BunniSpace.
  • Goatse.
  • Tubgirl.

The program uses the current verion of the generic Makefile for C programs using libgd. This works with a local copy of libgd-2.2.2 and libgd-2.2.5. Like previous programs, it also requires a local copy of libpng and zlib. On Linux, via bash, invocation is as follows:-

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/build/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 4.png 5.png 6.png output.png

If you don't have six images, it also works as follows:-

./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png 1.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 1.png 1.png 2.png 2.png 2.png output.png
./origami-cube 1.png 2.png 3.png 3.png 2.png 1.png output.png

Further documentation is inside the archive:-

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end

Debug test data which should be saved as test1.png and suchlike:-

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end

Example data for a dice:-

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end

Bug fixes and other examples may follow. Actually, bug fixes are most likely because there are multiple techniques for folding an origami cube and I don't think that I'm using the most common technique.

(Usual instructions for uudecode process.)

12-Year-Old Girl Flies From Virginia to Interview Roy Moore

Posted by takyon on Tuesday December 12 2017, @02:34AM (#2846)
5 Comments
/dev/random

Roy Moore Emerges from Self-Imposed Exile to Chat with 12-Year-Old Girl

Trump Group Sends 12-Year-Old Girl to Interview Roy Moore Ahead of Alabama Election

Millie in Alabama (5m49s)

Roy Moore seemed delighted to be interviewed by a friendly, innocent, and untainted young reporter. He touched her at 4m49s into the video.

Dennis Rodman Has Secret Message From Kim Jong-un for Trump

Posted by takyon on Monday December 11 2017, @07:06PM (#2845)
2 Comments

Rolls Roil

Posted by takyon on Sunday December 10 2017, @07:15PM (#2842)
14 Comments
/dev/random

Racial dispute at beloved bakery roils liberal college town in Ohio

The three students were arrested after punching and kicking the white shopkeeper. The 18- and 19-year-old students said that they were racially profiled and that their only crime was trying to buy alcohol with fake identification; the shopkeeper, Allyn Gibson, said the students attacked him after he caught them trying to steal bottles of wine.

The day after the arrests, hundreds of students protested outside the bakery. Members of Oberlin's student senate published a resolution saying Gibson's had "a history of racial profiling and discriminatory treatment."

Few colleges put the "liberal" into "liberal arts" more than Oberlin, which in the early 1800s became the first in the country to regularly admit women and minorities. But it also more recently has become, for conservatives, a symbol of political correctness gone awry and entitled youth.

News articles in 2015 quoted students decrying the school dining hall's sushi and Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches as cultural appropriation. The divisive, voice-of-a-generation actress Lena Dunham, famously a 2008 Oberlin alumna, was quoted in Food & Wine magazine as saying, "The press reported it as, 'How crazy are Oberlin kids?' But to me, it was actually, 'Right on.'"

Kepler Announcement on Dec. 14

Posted by takyon on Friday December 08 2017, @10:21PM (#2836)
2 Comments
Science

NASA Hosts Media Teleconference to Announce Latest Kepler Discovery

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine learning from Google. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence, and demonstrates new ways of analyzing Kepler data.

NASA and Google are both users of the D-Wave "quantum annealer", ostensibly for machine learning purposes.

Mycroft AI instaaaaaallled!!

Posted by Gaaark on Friday December 08 2017, @05:48PM (#2834)
11 Comments
Software

Welp, i got MycroftAI installed (should i say, FINALLY installed).

Had to jump through hoops and stand on my head holding the rabbit ears sideways, but yeah....

There are a lot of skills that aren't fully working, but so far it has a lot of things i need, like knowing the date and time, lol, and being able to set a quick alarm ("Mycroft, set an alarm for noon""Mycroft, set an alarm for 30 minutes").

Changed it from "Hey Mycroft" to just "Mycroft" cause saying Hey Mycroft EVERY SINGLE TIME is just a pain.

I think i'll suggest an 'interactive mode' where you can say "Hey Mycroft go active" and then it will just try to answer everything thrown its way until told to go out of 'interactive mode' so you don't have to say Mycroft so often.

Right now, it is telling me what pi is to 1000 decimal points, lol. Fun times!

Playah gotta keep playin'!

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Edit

Was able to open smplayer with Mycroft, but it sees/hears palemoon as two separate words and kaffs, lol.
Was happy to see it open smplayer, and tomorrow plan on trying other programs.

Wonder what happens if I ask Mycroft to open Mycroft? Duelling AI?

Will have to see about changing its default error message to "I can't do that, Dave" ;)

Cheeto Jesus, Speaker of Truth

Posted by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 08 2017, @04:32PM (#2833)
16 Comments
News

CNN ran an article yesterday full of butthurt that Cheeto Jesus has been keeping too many of his campaign promises. I figured I'd share it with you lot so the regressive progtards among you could share in the butthurt too.

A politician who actually does what he told voters he would do seems almost unfathomable in Washington, a town of broken promises. For Donald Trump, being a president who delivers is especially crucial, since it's one of the golden keys to his so far unbreakable bond with supporters.

The need to live up to that image helps explain why Trump, who is under ever-increasing pressure from the Russia investigation, on Wednesday recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital despite the widely acknowledged risks.

It was just the latest instance of the President obstinately honoring the bumper-sticker vows he made to his ultra-loyal supporters -- even those that horrify the political and foreign policy establishment, media critics and allied leaders.

Have a nice weekend argument. I may or may not have time to step in and egg things on further, we'll just have to wait and see.