MAWP!
InvertedParallax
joined 2 years ago
Good news!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/louisiana-republicans-school-desegregation.html
One of the major jobs of the department of education was to enforce desegregation, now scotus has cleared the way for a new wave of segregation academies, like under Jim crow.
They have to be religious, but if your church is all white then your school can be too!
The south has finally risen again :(
Interesting parallel:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/german-soviet-pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact?Secret_Protocol
Russians loved the nazis, and agreed to split Europe with them too!
But then again, they'd been genociding jews, Ukrainians and everyone else for centuries by then, I suppose they saw kindred spirits.
Can see that, it's hardcore, and Tom Hardy is Tom Hardying the shit out of it.
Yeah, the pace is stupid, the problem is it's 22 minute shows, and I think they're trying to finish in less than 10 episodes.
For 22m shows they should do 18-20 er season, but the format generally sucks for anything except comedy.
But I was optimistic because the short length also means it doesn't have to be burdened by all the overwhelming pretense of the heavier stuff, it can be chill about it.
I'm making a point that we need more casual, cheap stuff like this to fill in viewing hours, with a few prestige shows for the high end.
Twot was trying to be prestige and ended up a complete disaster, while starving other good shows of that cash.
The boys is also fairly cheap in comparison (getting more expensive obviously as time goes on, but nowhere near twot/trop).
Tech companies had so much money they started throwing money at shit, that was the problem.
Don't Trust Him!!!
He made Martin Scorsese cry, he took his picture, and he railed him raw, he railed Marty raw!
I need to explain to people why this is so amazingly stupid:
You are literally giving Europe an excuse to put tariffs on American goods and services, which they want to anyway, to encourage domestic producers.
Also, you're making it easier for them to buy directly from south Korea, Japan and even China, especially since those countries can't sell as easily to the US.
For Europe this is an absolute win/win.
But honestly, this sounds like a way for Trump to put pressure on Europe to back off on Ukraine, as he probably thinks the EU is reliant on US LNG, which is kind of isn't really.
Murderbot
It's not ... A great show?
But it's fucking cheap (small cast, limited sets so far), and it's trying to be charming.
It's the streaming equivalent of comfort food.
We need more content like this to keep streams full, then we have a few prestige shows like andor or whatever.
What we have now is crap writing burning prestige money (twot/LOTR-trop) and leaving us with unwatchable crap.
It’s not Bluetooth - it’s WiFi, using a proprietary blob for authentication.
You've literally missed my whole point.
Playstation link is this exact same thing, and btw, both controllers are dual-mode bluetooth and "high-speed wireless interface", which is basically wifi or wifi-direct or some proprietary variant.
My point is, why isn't it like Playstation link which just presents as HID devices and usb-audio devices, without a driver at all? Same low-latency, they even do LDAC.
if your input is barely too late for one 125Hz poll,
So those polls are generally isochronous to the USB bus transaction state, not based on polling frequency of the CPU, what happens is:
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USB interrupt URB comes in to HCI controller,.URB descriptor written to descriptor chain.
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Controller adds to descriptor chain, once chain length > WAT (| Timeout), interrupt and start processing incoming URBs.
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In interrupt controller, follow chain, push URBs onto usb stack queue, trigger handler tasklet
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Stack processes URB, routes to proper class driver
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Class driver checks if URB has file handle open (or has open ref from drivers like HID/input).
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If so, poll or other input read() returns value.
Now it's possible there are multi-input poll reads in games, and I'm doing linux of course.
For MSFT it's URB -> IRP -> WDM filter driver stack -> kernel32/directinput or win32 input stack (WNDPROCs after routing).
In any of these cases, I'm struggling to see how interrupts would come in faster with the same code on PC.
See, the same code probably runs on both MSFT and normal hardware, so it's going to have the same structure, unless you actually believe a dev team is optimizing input latency that much, that's often the lowest priority, they'll optimize video lag more because it's more noticeable. The engines themselves use DirectInput, and that's routed through to libinput in WINE, and the same for all devices.
Btw, DirectInput has a device-based interface, so it couldn't poll like this anyway, basically each controller has its own input queue that is round-robin and pluck stuff out of their input stream when available.
In any case, you're not getting the latency improvement, both because it's so different in software and because nothing can appreciate this.
I'm not trying to be extra autistic for no reason, I've just had to make these decisions before, and these are how we have to think.
Also ends federal judicial contempt enforcement when the government ignores a ruling or injunction.