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I see your drunk MuBae and raise you drunk BaeRyS

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For those of you less interested in the nitty-gritty, the main points are:

• Single Core emulation is now the default for non-mobile platforms (Dual Core had been for the longest time, since it used to be necessary to get games running at full speed, but it causes all kinds of instability and is not necessary on modern hardware)
• Performance issues in the Disney Trio of Destruction have finally been solved with game patches
• General Bluetooth Passthrough performance improvements + specific support for a chipset used in many modern Bluetooth adapters
• Improvements to custom texture pack management and performance
• Low-level DSP emulation regressions have been ironed out
• Option added to reduce time drift caused by lag (apparently useful for online Mario Kart Wii as well as speedrun timing accuracy)

I always love reading these updates. As the core emulation and additional features have become more and more refined, the scope of the additions has become less earthshaking, but it’s amazing to see the continued passion and dedication developers have for continuing to push the limits of accuracy and improve the experience for people using Dolphin across the spectrum, from mobile gamers all the way up to reverse engineers. By this point, I imagine there are contributors who weren’t even born when Dolphin was first released in 2003!

It’s not great, tbh, but it’s not awful. It’s got heart to it even though it’s pretty hamfisted in its execution. It wins points back by having an all-female cast (thus side-stepping a lot of the gross stuff that can come with male power fantasies) and for having such an absurd premise. So I can’t say that I’d recommend it, but at the same time, I ended up watching it all the way through when I’ve definitely dropped “better” shows.

Though it’s such a a silly premise that it’s kinda jarring when people die.

See also: that isekai bowling anime from this season, Turkey!.

Oh, hey there! Thank you for encouraging to make that Tabs Anonymous post! Other than two days ago when I was just having a rough go of things, I’ve managed to go four weeks with making sure that I close at least 10 tabs a day, and I’ve been tracking my progress here. I’ve gone from 1545 tabs to just 728, meaning I’m more than halfway to 0! It gets harder the fewer tabs that are left, since eventually you run out of the low hanging fruit (zero chance I’m gonna clear triple digit tabs again like I did on day 2), but even acknowledging that there’s no way I can keep up this pace I should be more or less done by the end of the year, which is amazing considering that this is nearly two years of tabs that I’d built up (the earliest ones are from November 2023). It’s something I thought was basically impossible until you gave me that little push to make a concrete goal and state it in public to give myself some accountability.

Absolutely no pressure, but if you’re up for it I’d encourage setting a specific, achievable, measurable goal; could be 10 tabs a day, 5 tabs a day—whatever seems doable. For me, actually keeping track of it in a little spreadsheet has made all the difference. I don’t know anything about spreadsheets, really, but I was able to bodge one together would let me punch in the tab counts from my different browsers on each day and then calculate the totals as well as the changes and overall percentages. Being able to see those numbers change every day has really helped motivate me, since when you’ve got so many tabs open closing 10 doesn’t make an obvious visual difference.

In the end, though, it has to be something that you really want. Like, on an abstract level, I’d love to have beautiful toned abs, but it’s not something I care about nearly enough that I’d be willing to put in the required effort in terms of diet and exercise. With tabs, though, it’s something I’d been thinking about for a long time, and even though it can be difficult sometimes I find it rewarding and worthwhile. Even if tab management isn’t something you’re feeling right now, I’d encourage you to apply that framework I mentioned to something else to create a S.M.A.R.T. goal (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound). The “relevant” bit is what I just talked about (something that’s personally meaningful) and, well, in the particular case of tabs “time-bound” is automatic in that a finite number of tabs with a minimum net daily reduction will have a maximum number of days that it could take. But if your goal were to finish a game, write a fanfic, or run a 5K, you might want to set a specific date.

(Sorry for the word vomit. As silly as it might sound, this whole tab thing has been really invigorating for me, so I get a little too excited when I talk about it!)

It says on that site that the data can be accessed via Dataverse, but I don’t see the ECDB in there. However, the Global Terrorism Database from the same project as the ECDB does seem to be publicly accessible. They mention the T2V (Terrorism and Target Violence in the United States) Data Dashboard on the START website which requires you to request access.

Also, here’s an alternative link to what I think is the paper in your first link where it can be viewed without institutional access, since the link in your comment sent me straight to a login page.

Also, while it is distorted, I don’t think this diagram is actually correct. When you measure the distance between two points on Google Maps, it calculates the shortest distance, which in the case of Russia is a polar route almost entirely over the Arctic Ocean—very much NOT the straight line shown in the diagram. Wikipedia gives the distance as 9000 km starting from Kaliningrad Oblast, which is an exclave, so if you shave off the ~500 km to the main western border of Russia it gives you ~8500 km (you can add a few intermediate points to Google Maps to get a similar result). Obviously still incredibly distorted, so the real takeaway should be that they’re comparable in size.

This website is fun to play around with since it lets you overlay countries on each other in the Mercator projection which really shows you how distorted it is. The default view shows you how the US lower 48, China, and India can comfortable fit inside Africa with about a Europe to spare.

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I get those very occasionally, but having them for months sounds incredibly unnerving—glad you seem to be past them, and hoping the best for you

I’m sorry that you’re also dealing with it, and thank you for your well wishes.

I can’t really tell if it’s gotten any better, but I think I mainly need to figure out how to stop ruminating about it, since that obviously makes it seem more intense. Guess I’ll try to fill my day up with things to distract myself!

Oh, this is awesome! Seems like my suspicions were correct about WebP, then—looks like Safari on some older Apple devices and IE11 are the sticking points? I’ll make sure to stick to (A)PNG in the future

idk if you saw but I made an indexed color version of silly-liberator

which is 39.5 KB at full res and 15.5 KB at a comparable size (130 px tall) to the one that’s there now

so almost exactly a 50% savings over the current 32 KB emote. If the issue is that it’s a native WebP and doesn’t have a PNG fallback, the PNG is also more lightweight at 19.5 KB (so a ~40% savings)

(Is there a list of general guidelines to adhere to when making emotes?)

also thank you for your tireless efforts in ensuring we have the best damn emotes in the Fediverse

Woke up a few days ago with fairly loud tinnitus in my left ear. I get transient tinnitus every now and again, but it’s usually very brief—maybe 10-30 seconds. But it hasn’t let up at all this whole time, and I’m starting to worry that it might be something that I’ll just be stuck with the rest of my life It’s honestly really fucking with me…I feel like I can’t completely relax because I just hear EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 24/7.

Holotori let’s go!! I hope someday soon I can be moomin’ on hexbear dot net.

Yay, it worked! Now, even if I disable caching, it loads almost instantly

Sui-chan waaaaaa…kyou mo erai!