@Demolishun Precisely. A lot of "woke" solutions are just to avoid the problem entirely. Getting rid of white people in media, getting rid of skin color in art, etc.

They miss the point. Different groups of people should be represented proportionally. Too little (blue people) and too much (actors hired to use their skin color to boost brand image) are both harmful solutions.

@Demolishun The tits are on purpose, and it's actually pretty strange that this woman has human-colored skin. I think they make these figures all sexually androgynous as possible so that it could be *anything* and therefore represents "everything" (or, more accurately in my opinion, nothing.)

The most popular skin color I've seen in this abortion of an art style is blue, because this art style was invented by Facebook back when they were woke (they have since realized that all the old people that use their site are the majority of the racist/sexist/xeno&homo-phobic population and have started de-woking in America, but not other countries)

One of the world's most unpopular artstyles which lazily tries to be "inclusive" by making body parts ridiculously unhuman - blue skin, giant hands, weird hair.

This way, when woke ideology is popular (during American democratic presidencies), companies can almost say that their iconography isn't all just white males, to appease cancel culture weirdos.

The funny thing is it's not popular with ANYONE because the "humans" in this design language don't actually represent ANY group; so minority groups are either not represented at all or like in this case so mutilated that it's almost a caricature and just serves to be more erasure of minority groups.

This looks to be a caricature of a non-white hairstyle (Sengalese/ passion twists or maybe Marley twists) on a clearly very white woman.

Isn't it funny that woke ideas usually end up being more racist!

@jestdotty now glazing and/or razing the AI is a standard prompting practice because it’s one of the only way to get results 💀💀💀

AI hype train riders will be like “nooo your prompt sucked, you’re supposed to argue with it and abuse it for 30 minutes and it will finally produce a 5 line unit test for youuuuuu”

@Hazarth honestly my experience with Python’s performance has made me avoid the language at nearly all costs. I used to be a Python Stan in college. I know that R competes with Python in the data science field. I’ve never tried it, but hopefully it’s better

@Hazarth it’s not the python that does that stuff. You hand it off to something performant. Python is just the orchestrator

Honestly who gives a fuck about performance and Python. The two things are complete opposites.

@retoor Zig is great, the only real drawback is doing things idiomatically requires a lot of research - and not the "regular" "research" (google), but instead, reading source code and going on zig-specific forums. Maybe even reading commit messages.

I know the longer we wait, the better Zig will be, but I really wish it could just enter 1.0 so we can start building a stable community around it.

@12bitfloat don’t worry, I’m sure that three-colored OpenGL test triangle will be a race car in no time!

@12bitfloat it’s 8 years old. Hopefully we can at least get a stable (between versions) stdlib and build system soon…

Ah fuck, he's back to posting about girls.

Ah yes. Death stranding.

@Demolishun doomers always have this opinion but it’s just as reasonable to conclude that keeping your patients alive is just as profitable because alive people are the type of person that need medical care not the dead ones

@azuredivay Well, looking at it, I'm not so sure it really gets rid of the VM.

.Net code execution is pretty complicated these days. A little-known fact is that C# code gets compiled down to native under certain conditions when running on the client machine. It looks like AoT (ahead of time) compilation does the same thing, but at compile time and not runtime.

Certainly what DOESN'T happen is it gets compiled to a native program like c or c++ does. It still seems to include the runtime and all associated bits, but AoT compiled as much as possible to reduce startup time and other costs. (and all the .net ecosystem is compiled into that single binary)

@retoor you’re blindly hyping. Dismantle my argument?

@retoor All you hype train riders say the same thing, but the problems we're having with the current neural tech are core to the platform. We cannot get them to stop hallucinating, it is impossible. The price tag and energy consumption is going to be insane for the foreseeable future.

AI suffers from the last-mile problem and even as the tech ages, the same core issues stand

@retoor Everyone knows about AI in America and there are extremely few practical applications outside of an unreliable chatbot and a generator of the world's most expensive bad photoshops.

@retoor Nah, AI slop is AI slop, the prompt is irrelevant. Your model has the finger issue.

@retoor Can't tell a damn difference, and the mainstream crap is even getting rid of the occasional extra fingies.

I don't trust it. The VM is highly optimized at this point, whereas native compilation might SUCK.

Would need to see some real-life performance stats and not just cherry-picked benchmarks before I even begin to think about it.

This might have been interesting before AI was mainstream, but it's just AI slop to me

Whenever I scroll through Instagram and a threads ad comes up, it’s all porn bots. Same caption and everything.

They’ve gotten real wild and have started showing nudity. I reported them for nudity. Got the answer back “this doesn’t violate our guidelines on nudity”

Of course the same fuckwit that runs Facebook would also make the worst Twitter clone

Good info. Done a similar thing for a different purpose. Wanted a button to be a certain size, but the interactive area to be about 10% larger (for aesthetic reasons. It actually worked really nicely)

Played it for a couple minutes. It's fun, it works well, looks good, and has satisfying animations. Bonus points for the mini tutorial.

Unfortunately there's not much to it. I think the answer to "what now" is easy! Make it less of a game demo and more of a game!

Sounds like something you’d do

Honestly we need some postman competition. How fucking hard could it possibly be.

@lorentz thanks, I actually dry heaved reading that.

@lorentz the idea of c++JIT piqued my interest. There's actually a library for it.

If anyone uses it for anything besides appropriate applications like a REPL, I will shoot them.

https://blog.quarkslab.com/easyjit-...

@lorentz Sure, if you're shipping LLVM with your C++ then you can do whatever the fuck you want, realistically.

That's a big "if" though. It's certainly not possible in the same way JavaScript allows - as a built-in feature of the language.