basil @basilpa.ws · 25/09/2026support the workers, demand change but do not harass those that need to make ends meet. demand unionization and support others when they need it to fight the very same corporations they rely on to put food on their tables 000
basil @basilpa.ws · 25/09/2026i feel like a lot of people fail to realize that a lot of tech companies also fall victim to the influence of the shareholders and authoritarians just like every other corporation. sure the actual people making decisions on implementation could do better but capitalism is ultimately to blame 111
Reposted by basilshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't 3371921954
Reposted by basilbasil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026i think terrafirmagreg has ruined a lot of other minecraft modpacks for me because i have not found a comparable pack with a solid linear progression that has actual depth to every stage similar to tfg 121
Reposted by basil❤️jamie p!💚 @jamies.page · 08/09/2026the root of suffering is Advertisements 181847363
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026it definitely feels much more like an actual cross between factorio and a true survival game (i will die on the hill that vanilla minecraft is not a survival game anymore) than most other minecraft mod packs i've played 000
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026a lot of the depth of tfg can be attributed to the absolutely absurd amount of content in gtceu but there is also a ton of custom additions to the progression and early game challenges with terrafirmacraft that make it so much more interesting to me 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026and whenever a kitchen sink has a big lofty goal at the end (atm star, ftb pyramid, etc.) it's just a boring grind fest check list with no meaningful challenges or problem solving 110
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026kitchen sink packs are fun when you get a bunch of friends together and host a server for like a week but as soon as everyone picked a single mod and finished it (because the progression of the mods are ruined by each other overlapping in functionality) it gets boring and everyone stops playing 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/09/2026i think terrafirmagreg has ruined a lot of other minecraft modpacks for me because i have not found a comparable pack with a solid linear progression that has actual depth to every stage similar to tfg 121
basil @basilpa.ws · 21/08/2026in reality it Does Not Matter but out of principle i will convert to float before doing division even though the conversion is probably slower lmao 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 21/08/2026afaik integer division is not only less accurate but also slower than floating point division since floating point division is computationally a lot easier due to how the numbers are represented 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 21/08/2026people underestimate how awful integer division is in general it’s kinda wild 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 21/08/2026controversial take but i liked tabs v2 specifically for its improvement to speed of navigation between dms/servers and seeing the ux get worse and worse over time because redditors complained about literally any kind of change pmo 010
basil @basilpa.ws · 21/08/2026begging discord to bring back the double tap pfp to go to dms on mobile 220
Reposted by basillua 💫 @lua.pet · 14/08/2026en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Week...en.wikipedia.orgMy Weekend as a 28-Year-Old in Chicago - Wikipedia 282
basil @basilpa.ws · 10/08/2026yes i am mainly arguing the actual usefulness of the tools and not the resource usage of them, there are others much more qualified than i am to discuss the environmental impact of llm training/inference. i am simply a silly little midwestern creature who likes practicality 120
basil @basilpa.ws · 10/08/2026no matter the harness or prompting or context or whatever bs you throw at the llm it is still a glorified non-deterministic natural language template generator 120
basil @basilpa.ws · 10/08/2026after being made to use llm based code tools for work i still am of the opinion that it is at best a bandaid solution for bad tooling and if you take the effort to write out some templates/codegen for common/boring tasks (which is where llms actually work) it is like 99% less useful 131
Reposted by basilanya (+ iris) ΘΔ ☉∇ & @anya.pet · 09/08/2026made the annual pilgrimage to the dave matthews band chicago river poop bridge for the 22nd anniversary of the incident™ AND THE EXACT BOAT THAT THE SHIT FELL ONTO PASSED RIGHT UNDER ME 0124
Reposted by basilGaziter @gaziter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026what if she had an even bigger blade... 105105792458
basil @basilpa.ws · 31/07/2026data oriented design: vimeo.com/649009599 making systems programming accessible: youtu.be/Qncdi-Fg0-Ivimeo.comAndrew Kelley - Practical DODAndrew Kelley, creator of Zig, picks up where Mike Acton left off to teach us practical ways to apply data-oriented design References: - CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++": https... 020
basil @basilpa.ws · 31/07/2026understanding how the computer actually works with the instructions you give it is something more people need to spend time learning about 000
basil @basilpa.ws · 31/07/2026this applies even if you write python or javascript or some other high level interpreted/garbage collected language 100
basil @basilpa.ws · 31/07/2026i really do think everyone who does any kind of programming should watch andrew kelley’s talks on data oriented design and making systems programming accessible 210
basil @basilpa.ws · 28/07/2026the node_modules-ification of minecraft mods is kinda miserable. what do you mean this mod author with 1 content mod has 2 3 kB library mods that are required to use it. just bundle it into a fat jar oh my god 121
basil @basilpa.ws · 15/07/2026it's a fun little game to go look at userbenchmark and compare a recent amd card with a 900/1000 series nvidia card, actually mind blowing how awful of a website it is 010
basil @basilpa.ws · 15/07/2026i now have a 6700xt and my gpu issues entirely disappeared and everything is 10x as smooth. according to the internet's most reliable source of hardware stats, userbenchmark, it is 1% slower than a 1080ti lol 110
basil @basilpa.ws · 14/07/2026my ride home from the destination airport is not responding so i am stuck in chicago for another night I Love Ohare 000
basil @basilpa.ws · 14/07/2026we boarded the plane and i thought i was free then i got a text from united telling me it will be another 40 minutes. it has been 7 hours 100
Reposted by basilFORM #FORMFESTCHICAGO @artbyform.com · 10/07/2026FORM FEST CHICAGO MEETUP july 11th @ oz park @ 1pm CDT 2021 N Burling St, Chicago, IL 60614 (by the scarecrow) SEE YOU SOON 💜 #FORMFESTCHICAGO 0106
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/07/2026never have i had more hardware/driver issues than with an nvidia gpu 010
basil @basilpa.ws · 03/07/2026i think someone broke the rpmfusion nvidia 580xx drivers. i really need to get rid of my nvidia gpu keeping this cursed object is hellish 110
