This appears to be the coin in question: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/gas-town/ - up 222,513.21% in the past week! (And down 25.26% in the last 24 hours. But... suppose it goes back up again?!)

3 hours later, the 24h change is down just shy of 90%. To me this looks like a classic shitcoin pump and dump.

This reminds me of Moldbug's Urbit. I can't be bothered to look it up, but his comment was along the lines of "existing words bring assumptions, so safest to make new ones". To which, my comment would be: perflufflington flibnik qupnux.

It's the noise you hear at about the one minute mark when the digger is reversing: https://youtu.be/BljL3XO0fyg?t=59

Actual cri du lynx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtsdVQWGibQ

Oh this is horrible.

We don’t want people run over by reversing vehicles, but also, if I had to listen to that every day, I’d leap in front of them.

IMO, in person it's much nicer on the ears than the old single-tone beep that they used to have. It's less jarring and easier to locate where the noise is coming from, ye olde beep seemed to come from everywhere at once.

The sprite is a pretty outdated thing these days, but is the term sufficiently unused to make it free for reuse?

It’s not even really outdated or unused. Just about everyone who makes 2D games still uses the term “sprite” all the time. The meaning has become slightly less specific, but otherwise is really the same.

I thought this was a post about graphics.

Not even remotely outdated. This was a terrible name to select.

What's a sprite?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics) is the one I'm thinking of.

A graphical object composited just in time in display scanning process.

(Or in other words, a graphical object on screen that is not present in a framebuffer of any kind.)

There was a time before 8bit video games.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sprite

I personally associate the term Shakespeare's The Tempest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(The_Tempest)

This is immediately what popped into my head, and I clicked the link thinking it was going to be some old-school game dev content.

Regardless of the usage of the term Sprite, the real measure of how appropriate it is to use the term for something else is how many people get confused in this manner. I can't really tell what the average reader would think because my background is in game development, so my view is not representative.

I think people can get bogged down in the technical weeds over what a sprite is in graphics. Historically it started out as mini graphics overlays in hardware. There was a transition period motivated by Amiga documentation to have Sprites and Bobs, to distinguish, and perhaps advertise, the use of the Blitter. When software or Blitter Sprites became nearly ubiquitous, they returned to simply being called Sprites, the fairly rare use of the original form became known as Hardware Sprites. Usually it was only mouse pointers that remained as Hardware Sprites

Obviously the term Hardware Sprites is not strictly a distinguishing label either. They are all controlled by software using hardware with some degree of balance between the two.

Most Android devices have hardware that's capable of rather interesting version of hardware sprites. Hardware real-time compositing with scaling and colorspace conversions.

Rates are based (at least in principle) on the rental value of the building, making the gain concept irrelevant. The rent would be the same.

Suppose you don't use Windows though. What's Microsoft going to do then?

I think they would do the same thing that Apple does when you buy an android phone, to continue the metaphor

It doesn't make much difference in terms of the actual gas. It's an alternative transportation mechanism for what's basically the same sort of stuff.

That's for only one of the subtypes of visa. The official site (https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...) mentions a few more options, which would probably turn out to cover onlyfans if you get the right sort of professional advice:

> The O-1 nonimmigrant visa is for the individual who possesses extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics, or who has a demonstrated record of extraordinary achievement in the motion picture or television industry and has been recognized nationally or internationally for those achievements

It is the only one that actually writes to memory. It's occasionally convenient, but it's also largely unnecessary: the caller can typically make multiple calls to printf, for example, noting the return value for each one. Or use strlen and fputs. And so on.

The C11 printf_s functions don't support it at all, so it's clearly already on the naughty list even from the standard's perspective.

The US population (~350m) is about 4 times that of Germany (~85m)...

Which has to be a pure coincidence, since the reported numbers are relative to population size. We could conclude that there are 4x4=16 times as many people with such high BMIs in the US, but that is not that useful

Several studies conducted during the last 50 years have shown that lower intelligence is associated with a higher body mass index.

So this is why SE Asia is kicking the crap out of the US and Europe?