@lorentz semver might be a bad choice for a game like MC, but the game is a platform in and of itself. People rely on the mechanics of the game like devs rely on the API of a library.

Major features like terrain gen, redstone logic, entity logic, etc. are pretty important to a minor but still vocal and important part of the community.

MC Java edition is like an intro to game dev. People have made fully featured games entirely within the game itself.

That's why I rant about compatibility. It should always be safe to upgrade a patch version. It should only really be used to fix issues within the game.

This is, to my knowledge, the first time they've so boldly screwed with game fundamentals in a patch version.

@lorentz I usually play 1.8.9 because it’s really snappy.

When world generation changes, a lot of players simply create a new world.

My world is relatively new already so ungenerated chunks are near my base.

Which means I get this shitty meshing of new and old terrain within view distance of my base :(

@lorentz yeah, that's been a part of Minecraft culture for a while. That's why it's one of the only major games to have a version selector in it's vanilla launcher.

@lorentz I don't give a shit if it's guaranteed or not! A PATCH version of the game shouldn't modify terrain generation! That's fucked, and rant I shall do.

@BordedDev nah didn't catch the news I guess

My best guess is the new generation system messes up on small and especially handwritten text because there's not enough context (it generates the image pixel by pixel, left to right) for it to understand what itself is doing. So the text gets garbled.

Revisiting this because of a notification, I didn't notice the mug...

I wonder what the fuck is going on here because supposedly the reason the text generation works now is due to a different method of image generation.

So how come the previous issue is present here? How does that make sense.

It still suffers from the last mile problem (“tha”, “Suys”), but I’ve been seeing these images and it’s really insane. An actual leap forwards in AI tech.

Long overdue though. AI image generation was previously incapable of doing anything except nature landscapes and close up face shots

Yup. Candy crush in the START MENU, advertisements DISGUISED AS EMAILS in the outlook app. Bloatware AI slop in your image viewer.

Welcome to enshittification, there’s nothing you can do about it except kill yourself.

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As someone who maintains and/or builds steam engines, fuck all you needs for appropriating my title!!

Seriously though, people being pretentious about titles is so gay

Half of their code is AI generated.

Because of this, they need to work 12 to 15 hour days fixing bugs and patching security holes.

Good to see!

@Demolishun almost definitely holding the phone to their head.

The punishment is inequal to the crime IMO though unless he was also driving poorly. A fine, two weeks without a license, and court just for answering a phone call?! Jesus fucking Christ, man. Just give the guy a fine or a point on his license or something.

Here’s something I do sometimes which helps GPT be less of an idiot.

I tell it not to answer with any code.

The code is usually garbage (coin flip chance) but the info can be very good.

If you tell it to answer without code, it’s usually a lot less misleading!

To do work is the nature of humanity. Our technology hasn’t changed that yet.

UBI would be a disaster

My favorite language. Sparklesnakesparkle

So bizarre how they give an AI a human photo

AI hype train riders be like “it will solve a bunch of problems but is still too stupid to replace any jobs”

I asked it to circle the rusty part of an overhead connection. Here is the real version of what the latest model gave me.

“Oh well it’s not good at-“

You can stop right there. I agree.

Actually Amazon is ahead of the curve here with their failed “just walk out” store concept.

The challenge there was finding out where to hide the Indians (they chose India)

Maybe you’re just out of CPU cycles on your mobile CPU

It’s just as bad as Java and only slightly worse than c.

However, Microsoft has heard your woes. There’s an option in visual Studio called top-level statements. This makes it so that you don’t even need a main function, you can start writing code directly in the file like a python project or similar

I don’t use them because
-writing namespace and class is not very hard
-top level statements look weird

Everyone always forgets good old Algo

That’s okay, Algo doesn’t like to be Perceived (TM)

I’ve thought about implementing my own bloom stuff but never thought about encoding data into it. If I didn’t know any better I would say you reinvented DEFLATE

@Lensflare no it’s something like “Imitation is the highest form of flattery mediocrity can pay to excellence” or something

From the comments:

"Hey y'all, I made the most prominent fork of this extension "Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You)"

The maintainer went off the deep end last year. He pulled the (originally apache 2) source offline, then started threatening to sue people for hosting alternative versions, including them in other IDEs, etc. Genuine lunatic."

@lorentz yeah obviously the right choice is pagination or cursors depending on the use case. But I was just absolutely shocked you reached a limit there. I’ve worked with some endpoints where we have needed to up the limit a bit, but never gotten to the max

6K rows exceeds the maximum serialization length in .Net? How the fuck? Does it include embedded image or file data or something? The max length of a .Net json serialization should be constrained by system memory….

@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 💀💀💀