@whimsical > '(...) at one employer i just stopped showing up.'

Interesting. I had a colleague who did just that, too. I kind of wonder why he did that, though. The employer must've pissed him off, somehow... or he was just very unprofessional... or there was some other reason.

@Hazarth Yup. I imagine being interviewed by an LLM would suck. I've seen a few vids && they weren't exactly filled w/ optimism for the practice.

@Lensflare Quite true.

@Lensflare > 'I had a Windows Phone'.

I still own one. 'Mass Effect Infiltrator' was the selling point. One of the best mobile experiences, given the touch screen-only controls.

Ah, the 'Xamarin' another familiar word.

Hmm... I think the the source code of the 'Descent' has been made public for the reason of showing people what a released game's code quality looks like.

'Mike: The main reason is we figured a lot of people aspiring to work in the

game industry would like to see production "quality" code. There are two

reasons for this. One, you can learn a lot by looking at working code.

Two, people will see that you can write a decent game without writing

beautiful code.'.

https://github.com/videogamepreserv... .

/* An outstanding game, btw... I remember this being one of the first PlayStation games I played on the platform. 1st game I remember that had you control something in a fully 3D space. */

Indeed, fuck performance reviews. At least in my experience, those are mostly about things !related to actual performance. I have no idea how many times people had been bitching about me being ornery /* Snek's dolphin actually taught me this word, fun. */, even though most of the time I had been presented w/ some asinine idea or some retarded behavior from another party, so I would reply in kind. On the other hand all the skill-related scores were always on a high, satisfactory level, which I consider to be the only reliable && meaningful metric.

@Lensflare > 'In the meantime MS has killed almost every nice SDK and framework and you can bet your ass they will kill again.

So never invest in something that MS made.'.

/* Me, looking at all the Xbox console generations I own. */

Sigh...

/jk

I do like their consoles. Their controllers, also. Xbox 360's is still one of the most comfortable ones. Xbox One's is a good improvement, the D-Pad is good at last. Something Sony has gotten right since the PlayStation era.

But, speaking of XNA, I remember needing it precisely because the friend had been using it for his game, && he would send me builds that I had to compile myself. Fun times. So yeah, I also heard a lot of praise for the framework.

Windows Phone was supposedly a good one, too. Writing code, debugging, && profiling it was supposedly very easy, too. /* Unlike for the competition at the time. */

I used to be stoked on 'XNA' && 'Silverlight'.

/jk

/* OK, but on a serious note I had a friend who liked XNA && made a game using it, though. */

Ever watched 'The Outer Limits S02E02 - Resurrection'? https://imdb.com/title/tt0667939/ .

Is this one of those?

```

Step 0: Do x,

Step 1: ?,

Step 2: Profit.

```

/jk

@whimsical > 'Before AI, I didn't do docs. Now it became one of my favo things. Projects are more finished than ever. Even when I write something myself, at the end it will go trough AI for finishing touch, without exception.'.

Well... just remember that you could be an outlier in this whole thing... also, the docs could be wrong, or incomplete... like, for example, one of your dwn manuals directed to something generic like 'git clone https://www.my_company.com/my_repo' or something similar...

> '0 should be the default.

Negative numbers should mean thinner and positive numbers should mean thicker.'.

...unless you're stuck w/ integers, for whatever reason. Then 0..255. Right?

@jestdotty Good pick... cherry pick... git-cherry-pick.

/* Hahaha... OK, don't mind me... */

@wojtek322 Well... gamification in such a product sounds like a brilliant idea...

/s

Seems like their priorities have been whacked if they wanted to include those before finishing the product. Especially when probably no one asked for the feature.

...could be worse... They could want you to make 'fun, but !too fun' experiences w/ monetization. Then, you'd be dealing w/ the Beelzebutt, the Canadian devil. https://youtu.be/zqk9V0fBl7w .

"Freemium. The 'mium' is Latin for !really".

/jk

Has the path at least been laid out w/ beets?

/jk

@Lensflare > '@retoor mentions stopped working 😅'.

Yeah, the proxy `https://dr.molodetz.nl` hasn't been working the whole day, either.

@Lensflare > 'you sneaked in tomato to brag about your knowledge that tomatoes are actually fruits, didn’t you? 😅'.

Well... @donkulator beat me to it. It's a fun little weirdness, though. You kinda expect fruits to be sweet, then you have this thing - a tomato, that is a fruit, but isn't sweet.

I do love tomatoes, though. Especially when cut in slices && sprinkled w/ this seasoning by Kamis the 'Lemon Pepper'... which is basically a mixture of salt, lemon, && pepper, all ground to tiny bits. If you pour some vinegar on that combination, it's even better.

- SSDD.

- No 'one' favorite, but: [cranberries, blueberries, apricots, tomatoes, pears, oranges, lemons] ...in no particular order.

@afaIk > 'It's like saying because there's Slim we live in magic times.'.

There's plenty of 'magic' to go around. We each have different things that fascinate us, as such some of us might use the phrase. Perhaps you're taking things too literally.

@afaIk 'How can you question that? because there is AI we live in magic time? ok thanks bye.'.

I question _everything_. That said, I don't have a problem w/ a person being happy w/ the LLMs. I have my opinion, but don't see any reason to reject the claims of others. If a person finds the LLMs useful, good for them.

@afaIk > 'because it is, it lacks of profound and real thinking, the author finds we live in magic times because he uses perplexity and whatever the fuck, pathetic. btw this place is completely pathetic, you guys here are in a monologue, 10 guys playing tennis with each other here?'.

Well, you're certainly entitled to have your opinion. As far as the closed circle of often varying or opposing ideas / stands on subjects, I see no problem w/ that.

@afaIk > 'No sugar = no dentist.'.

!true. You may still need a dentist, even if you don't consume sugary treats. That said, many things that aren't treats contain sugar, too.

To add to the fun on linguistics:

```

en_US : pl_PL

potato : ziemniak || kartofel,

soil : ziemia,

Earth : Ziemia,

oven : piekarnik,

furnace : piec.

```

@afaIk > "We live in magic times"

> pathetic.

Out of sheer curiosity... why?

Hmm... must make things very efficient...

...&& !at all confusing... yes...

/s

@whimsical Well... IIRC some vaccines do include either dead or severely weakened bacteria / viruses, whatever. Probably depends on the vaccine.

@Lensflare ...he's probably one ugly motherfucker. https://youtube.com/watch/... .

/* Continuing the joke, because hell, why !do it? */

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.

I learn stuff, too. Usually when some topic pops into my head, I visit Wikipedia, then open one of the related links, then open a few others, && so on.

@Lensflare > 'Oh come on, let them make war in peace!'.

Well put, sir.