@thecittiverse.bsky.social Who are you?

@samperson.bsky.social Was re-listening to @noodleawesome.bsky.social and your discussions on dev logs and formed a question: There is an obvious problem with talking about systems work because it's all code. Thoughts doing things like swapping to MS paint to draw as you go as a fix?

@samperson.bsky.social this is your fault. (conversation about C. Thi Nguye’s books/inerviews)

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Time math is absolutely fucked in google sheets. yes dividing 2 hours and 26 minutes by 1 minutes and 30 seconds equals 2338~ hours. How kind of you to let me know...

I thought at least I’d be safe. They will leave no stone i unturned in the pursuit of ultimately empty data centers.

Working on recording call in bits for a joke radio station for a GTA race event and I'm trying to channel some @noodleawesome.bsky.social ad spot energy by recording the the phone call through a sound board with the EQ set to "Guy blasting music from his PSP". sounds like piss. 10/10

i love making space warlord baby trading simulator.jpg www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/i-...

Anyone else out there have arguments about how Discord age verification won't "save the kids" and will grossly enable the potential targeting of marginalized people and censorship.

It is as the prophet @samperson.bsky.social foretold. Up the constraints baby! www.threads.com/@everythingo...

The more I see "competent engineers" hyping up "vibe coding" and "never checking the code", the more I'm convinced they should not be engineers or allowed near any code ever again. Clearly they never had any passion for the craft and just want to pump out startups they can sell as fast as possible.

“Robots are now all Elmer Fudd” is the best new sentence I’ve ever heard.

A cunning ploy, Adobe, but you forgot one thing *slides jewel case out of my sleeve* My highschool computing teacher was my friend's Dad

Hey. you. @samperson.bsky.social yeah you. I was listening to the Dreams episode again (yeah I re-listen on loop until new episodes are out, fuck you I'm not weird) and I was reminded of how me and my friends spent so much time dicking around trying to make games in the warcraft 3 level editor.

@finalv3.zip Ok so we’re aligned on “talking about generated output isn’t a good argument“ but where do we stand on “even with mid or good output, the editor re-shittened it somehow“. Like an artist still need to do the compositing people. Also Sting. images.cdn.prd.api.discomax.com/s2kHf/4f5s4P...

If this guy told me I looked like a soup sandwich I simply would never recover.

Out here thinking “fuck it maybe I will rebuilt the transmission in my other car because fuck you I can do anything” like some kind of _insane person_

We’re in Chicago.

Out here figuring out how to get system info out of /proc files cause Microsoft did give C# and API for it on Linux. how are spending you Sunday at 6 am.

All web frameworks fall into one of 3 categories: too bloated (like angular), overly complicated abstraction (like svelt), or react. And you should avoid all of them and use JQuery instead. Updating the content after an async request should be table stakes. Not 6 hours of research.

"gemini needs to feel safe and loved to generate quality output" we used to beat the shit out of office printers

I like when dudes try to act all tough by threatening you with weapons I not infrequently get such threats and it's always along the lines of "you think you're so tough, come meet me and my *literal gun*" Like yeah bro I bet a gun would kill me too what's your point

Hey @samperson.bsky.social you like esoteric software projects right? Found pictures of a moving box label maker I made with receipt printers from work you might enjoy. also shopping lists I guess?

I swear to god mongodb is to most obtuse piece of software I've ever encountered. The shell sucks and the documentation actively gives me a migraine. No wonder people forked it.

Me at midnight after hours of trying to diagnose random CI build errors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2... Thanks @samperson.bsky.social

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

anybody got a source for this video? the editing is inspired and I need to know if the person responsible has more where this came from

This post brought to you in part by all the goddamn drivers who somehow can't see the big thick white line they're supposed to stop *behind.*

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Here’s the panel I did with Cory Doctorow a few days ago in Seattle! youtu.be/Tz71pIWbFyc?...

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse. Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam." theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

me, April 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

I have long been trying to figure out how to describe the part of me that is innately averse to/understands the concept of "paying for convenience" because if I could infect with world with it I would.