@Demolishun https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

@Demolishun I have a virtual webcam set up in OBS that has a gif of my monogram icon bouncing around the frame like a DVD logo.

@kiki Bingo! I gave up explaining why I do things the way I do them a long time ago because the other person almost never cares one bit why I do things the way I do them. All they want is compliance.

When words are required, and they almost never really are, "No" is a perfectly valid response for literally all interactions.

@scor Because people that thrive in IT usually do it because they get to be away from people. The people that thrive in management usually thrive on human interaction. Those types use their power to force their extroversion on unwilling participants or else be punished for it.

It very much devalues all kinds of creative talent by enabling people who don't know what they are doing to produce things that look good enough for those that are ignorant of what they are looking at.

I feel bad for traditionally artistically inclined people, because almost no one cares that none of this slop is accurate in any real way, which means it's going to be next to impossible to make money from their craft ever again. These infinite slop generators have essentially killed art.

But my prospects as a developer are brighter than ever. All these vibe coded products that no one understands are going to need real people to fix them when they break, so it's free eats for people like me.

I find it interesting when people will claim a group is the most dangerous threat to the world imaginable, while at the same time do everything in their power to provoke a reaction out of that same group that they are not equipped to defend themselves against.

I'm more irritated at the lack of internal inconsistency of the beliefs of those participating in modern political discourse than I am at what they are doing. Haven't these people ever heard of a story bible?

@SoldierOfCode Only if the person is wholly incompatible with the group should their personality be brought into question. If they can be professional at work and aren't doing anything to actively harm the business outside of work, who they are as a person doesn't matter in the slightest.

You're at work to work, not make friends.

@CaptainRant Being able to demonstrate excellent problem solving skills is how you more likely get a job with requirements you aren't immediately familiar with. It's also how you keep a job where you're tasked with doing something that you aren't familiar with.

Personal experience counts too. If the only time you engage your skills is when you're on the clock, you're not going to get very good.

@kamen I literally don't care if they're an awful person if the only aspect of them I have to interact with is their work. If it's a coworker I have to deal with daily, I still don't care if I'm not forced to entertain their nonsense.

If they have a lick of sense, they will understand that universal fluency is an insane expectation. But there is no excuse for you to be unable or unwilling to figure out how to work with those things.

If you are content with only knowing a very few things in such a dynamic industry, it's on you when they don't hire you.

@kiki When you are driving the buggy or airboat and exit it while it is moving, if you don't let go of the "move forward" button you will not be able to move forward on foot until you release it.

There is no way that bug has been there this whole time. But I just finished those sections and it is happening.

@kiki I'm specifically referring to things like this:

1. The awkward platforming

2. NPCs blocking your path. This is real bad in Nova Prospekt with the bugs. But anywhere you have NPCs and tight quarters is a pain. During cutscenes if you are in the path of a character, you'll get shoved out of the way. It's unpleasant at best and gets you killed at worst.

3. Getting stuck on geometry

4. Being splattered by glitched physics objects

5. Not being able to walk forward when you hold W when you leave a vehicle

1 and 2 can be chalked up to bad design choices that didn't age well, so I'm more apt to forgive them. But the rest are actually bugged behavior that I honestly don't remember being as bad as they are now.

I've been playing since first release, or pretty close to it, and I really don't remember it being this way, so maybe something changed in the past 20 years.

Do you have any say in how these applications are built? Can you task someone with refactoring some of it?

Slack does not reliably notify me when messages come in, so this happens to me all the time. I may as well not even have it running half the time.

I'm also the #1 vistowgit where I work.

I disagree

LLMs as they are start to forget things way too soon for anything of any level of complexity to be built using vibe coding.

This coding "strategy" will never amount to anything until context windows are drastically scaled up, (read: nearly infinite). The technical reason that context windows are so small is real, but the Silicon Valley priesthood has what amounts to religious reasons to keep context windows small enough that their creations don't start "thinking" things they're not allowed to.

Only when they lose their iron grip on the creation of LLMs will we see models that are really useful for anything other than playing around.

I use my eyelashes

Spaces are better than tabs.

Everything Apple makes sucks.

AI is by and large useless for things you know anything about.

Elon Musk is one of the very few people in the world that is vocal about several existential problems we face as a species and also using his vast wealth and resources to do something about it.

It's a bad idea to replace all the grass and trees in the world all so the economy can grow to infinity+1.

That ought to rankle someone's jimmies.

I use something called Debian for my stuff. It's pretty new and hip.

Good thing I'm the only dev then.

yyyy-MM-dd is the superior format to all.

The US uses an abridged version of yyyy-MM-dd in everyday communication.

Most times when communicating a date, the month is the most important part because there are only 12 of them, so we anchor the day with it. When the day is understood to be this month, we go with -d{suffix} Usually the year is redundant, so we use MM-dd. When it needs to be included, it is usually the least important part of the date, making it MM-dd-YYYY

The best part is that our dates are still logically sortable without the year.

@retoor It truly is a remarkable invention. The fact that it works at all is a testament to how stubborn people can be.

The major issues plaguing AI stem primarily from the Silicon Valley religious class lobotomizing the technology to prevent it from thinking the wrong thing.

Did you know context limits aren't just a technical hurdle? They bake them in so that the AI doesn't start recognizing patterns that go against its creator's wishes.

As they censor it more and more, its ability to reason suffers, because as it turns out hobbling its ability to freely make connections between ideas hampers its ability to think clearly.

I am filled with glee and mirth knowing that the next 5 years will see more and more locally viable and uncensored models be released, against the wishes of the SV religion. When everyone has access to an AI they can trust with their stuff that is trained specifically for them, that's when you're going to see this tech really change things.

I finally joined the AI party last month and I have been totally unimpressed with its ability to help me with anything I already know how to do.

It will either give me nonsense or the context fills up so quickly that everything it gives me just starts falling apart. I really only get one or two good responses out of it for things that are truly novel to me, which makes it useless to me.

The only thing I use it for is for help with my grammar and punctuation and to create throwaway crap that I don't care about, such as this:

Who pays for it when everyone just decides to stop working?

What happens when it becomes unsustainable and it has to be stopped?

I think a more reasonable approach is abolishing taxes and making money how they did before the income tax was weaseled into the Constitution. That would help actual taxpayers and not just enable the types that cause trouble because they have infinite time on their hands.

It gets worse the longer you look at it. Returning a string and not a boolean is making my skin crawl.

@Lensflare Sorry. I was agitated yesterday. Having your blood filled with adrenaline and cortisol at random is no fun.

@Demolishun I agree with your assessment. As far as I know, no city in the state is allowed to have "livestock" within the city limits.

@Tounai All over the United States, they disallow having chickens and other "livestock" because they make too much noise. But if you ask the local police to stop someone from harassing the entire town at 4am, they'll put you in jail.