It's cute how they use watermelon models to demonstrate slicing. But the blog itself is more about different departments in the company communicating with each other, not the actual programming.
(Another observation: if the base of an object is flat and touches flat ground, Blade Mode is unlikely to generate pieces from vertically slicing the object.)
#metalgear
Nova festival: Israel ‘withheld warnings’ about Hamas massacre by George Grylls
Israeli spies and military commanders held late-night meetings just hours before the October 7 attacks to discuss an imminent Hamas assault and knew of the threat to the Nova music festival, according to an investigation.
The first meeting took place close to midnight and the second one at 3am but attendees concluded that Hamas was holding a training exercise on the Gaza border rather than preparing for a terror attack, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.
In a sign of the seriousness with which the warnings were taken, Israeli troops were ordered to increase drone surveillance flights, a unit known as “Team Tequila”, which was specifically trained to prevent abductions, was deployed to Nahal Oz, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza, and two commando teams were alerted to the possibility of an incursion.
But no warnings were passed on to the organisers of the Nova festival, which was taking place near Kibbutz Re’im, just three miles from Gaza, where 360 people died and a further 40 were taken hostage.
Organisers said that if they had received a warning even an hour before the attack, they would have been able to evacuate the site.
I am not interested in the contents of the article. The phrase in the headline is significantly more interesting:
"not morally required"
There are many things I am not morally required to do such as supporting either side of the war, but not supporting Israel is more likely to be categorized as "antisemitism". Obversely, the word "islamophobia" has disappeared from the propagandists' dictionary. The trend has completely died since 2020 and is unlikely to be revived to shame the people who don't support Palestine.
(I know Arabs are a "Semitic" people, but the media pretends Semite is another word for Jewish.)
#israeli-hamas-war
I remember seeing promotional videos for Metal Gear Rising that showcase the bosses in the game, but I can't find those videos anymore. The top results are now YouTubers who recorded the cutscenes.
I was curious about what Mistral says in her Japanese dub. Thanks to the subtitles, I can piece it together.
Based on how online tools acted when I queried these characters "toppu" appears to be a single word represented by two kanji. Otherwise, the kanji individually have very different pronunciations.
Side note: I like Mistral's English dub more than her Japanese dub. In the former, I can hear her combined French-African accent, not so much for the latter. In Japanese, she also sounds a lot like Ragyo from Kill la Kill, not as unique as her English dub.
#jp#metalgear
Today I learned three new Kanji from a yewtube video.
I haven't delved into Katakana yet, but the wallpaper says
二がス イン パりス
#jp
今日 は なに しよう かな
"kyou ha nani shiyou ka na?"
(What should we do today?)
I learned this phrase from the disgusting French cartoon Peepodoo.
In the episode "Barubaru-chan", Peepodoo plays an eponymous video game, dating a fictional-within-fiction character Barubaru-chan. She represents an anime girl but appears as an animated photograph of a woman.
The pronunciation sounds like
"kyou wa nani ..."
However, the topic marker in Japanese is pronounced "wa" but spelled は.
(Dakuten and handakuten added to corresponding kana: k-related syllables become 'g', and so on.)
゛
゜
k
g
s
z
t
d
h
b
p
#jp
I told myself to learn Japanese even though it is one of the hardest languages to learn coming from English.
[Obligatory complaint about Kanji.]
I managed to get a hold of Genki. In the Kanji section, it says:
Kanji are Chinese characters which were introduced to Japan more than 1500 years ago when the Japanese language did not have a writing system.
This is a statement I took with skepticism since the erasure of history and culture occured throughout the ancient times. But this would mean the Japanese language did not have a writing system prior to 500 CE.
I had found a website that I probably wouldn't be able to find through a search engine in the future. (Very old looking, goes against established academic canon, will probably be out-competed by newer search-optimized websites).
I would have never guessed as it looked more like a drawer.
#jp
Trying to rescue civilians in Metal Gear Rising.
It appears any time when PMCs get alerted, they execute their hostage before turning their attention to the player. Today, I found civilians are invulnerable to rocket launchers which solves the hostage problem.
#metalgear
@israel on Twitter shared a link to a "hamas.com" (do not click). The following archive links are for the same statuses.
The first contains the community note which warns that hamas.com is a website set up by the Israeli government. The second link shows the context and reply chain leading to the community note.
Users queried the term "hamas.com" on web service Virus Total. The results returned "malicious", "malware", "phishing", and "suspicious" according to the security vendors it sources from.
#israeli-hamas-war
A number of online sellers on Amazon are offering garments bearing the controversial phrase "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," which several Jewish groups see as an antisemitic chant.
has appeared on t-shirt, hats, and other merchandise sold on web stores. In the United States, a trademark has been filed for the phrase on November 17, 2023 (serial number: 98275013).
I decided to keep track of events since war erupted in the Middle East again (Israel or Palestine).
In 2002, The Guardian had published the full-text of Osama bin Laden's Letter to the American People. This month, the letter had been taken down as the document had circulated on TikTok, a vlogging platform used primarily by Gen Z.
The letter as published by The Guardian can still be accessed through web archives.
The game's intro scene depicts an old PC booting. I didn't think I should use any regular monospace font for the intro, so I found Perfect DOS VGA by Zeh Fernando.
A review of a denpa-themed visual novel about a chronically online girl and her goal of obtaining 1,000,000 subscribers.
I recently got a Kullervo warframe. One of the adventures I took him on was a random Grineer mission. During which, I fragged a baby lich and claimed her. So I found Kullervo as a progenitor #warframe yields a fire elemental lich.
