My supervillain plan is a volcano-based targeted ballistic plasma launcher.

One of the disadvantages to being a server-focused engineer in games is that you really can't show off your work. "Here, watch these server logs scroll by so you can see this complex networked system work!"

Question that came up today: with as long as it has endured as the term for the base concept, is there any equivalent media prior to "Weekend at Bernie's" that is an example of the same idea?

Nobody should even care if he were a vegan because why the fuck does that even affect you. But Texas is pretty fucking stupid sometimes. The important thing should be is that we have an evil fraudster in Paxton and a decent human in Talarico.

My brain picked up the colors and shape there and immediately pictured that as a giant bouncy house.

My 6 years as a full-time employed server programmer on Tabula Rasa with a credit of "Additional Thanks" feels this so much

I am disappointed to learn that Google Keep is a thing that exists and is neither the fortified tower inside Google Castle nor sits on the borderlands.

Out of curiosity I did the math, and it ends up roughly 1/3 of my total allocated hours on a project for this month are the back and forth reviewing a single AI-generated pull request and subsequent AI-generated fixes.

Things I hadn't considered: when someone posts an AI search link into chat apps (Slack, Discord, etc) with link preview, the app happily loads the content from the AI site providing them with additional traffic they can use to claim more actual users than they really have.

I'm actually impressed how rapidly AI has entirely destroyed any ability to think at all for so many people.

I do not have enough remaining sanity to deal with the awful vibe code I ran into today trying to fix a smaller issue in the system. Pretty much my whole morning has been repeated "WTF is this?"

OH NO www.youtube.com/shorts/4oZIw...

Each morning I look at the quantity of spam in my email that has bypassed filters, the more convinced I become that running, working for, or using genAI should be capital crimes against humanity.

Fuck Elon. I used to love stargazing. But he's completely fucked it. Especially fuck him for screwing this up on my dad's birthday. My dad was the one who taught me about taking pictures of the sky.

A reminder to "centrist" democrats and basically all current republicans from Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Sometimes I'm sad at the loss of Flash. On one hand it sucked CPU and the ads were awful. On the other hand, how many memes would never have existed without it?

I have a crappy ancient dedicated linux system I use for testing. On that system running a full fleet of interconnected services plus database, I can test an application and processing each request takes <1 msec. On AWS hosts, that same code takes 60-200msec per request.

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I'd say it was the teletype where I played text adventures, but dad was a nerd, so we had an early Pong set hooked up to our console TV well before that.

What's you favorite ridiculous TTRPG character? Mine: Clark Grizwold in a Spirit of the Century game. Zero powers, all fate. "The Grizwold" is a mantle of power. There is always a Grizwold in the world. At one point, he boards an airplane and takes off, thinking it is a self-guided tourist flight.

Someone decided to take "enshittification" a bit too literally.

What is it that causes some subset of people to think it's appropriate to show up in an in-development game discord server and promote some other game?

For the "we should abandon red states" people: roughly 12% of these NO votes (7/59) were from Texas.

He is directly robbing the American people, and everyone involved here belongs in prison.

The stupidest AI-addled loss of all capability at thought thing I've heard yet from a former programmer turned vibe coder: "I asked AI to check for that string in files in this directory"

Slightly increase a band: Some Doubt

I am kind of impressed by the asshole who stole my mail and left an empty grocery bag in the mailbox to let me know they had stolen my mail.

I really hate having to look at AI-generated code. AI-generated code is *extremely* bad at code structure and modularization. It *loves* to create circular references between modules that should be independent and may need to be independent in contexts outside the current project.

Sometimes you can absolutely taste a post. It's not any wooden spoon - it's a specific wood used for the cheap popsicle stick spoon that comes pre-packaged with the ice cream cup.

Cosplayers plan to storm EA headquarters today to protest Saudi Arabia buyout

There is this one ad that's been coming up in regular rotation on Twitch that I will never *not* hear as saying either "Fuck me, more aliens" or "Fucking more aliens" as its tagline.

Being assigned a review of AI-generated code first thing on Monday morning = starting the week with a massive headache and rapidly having review feedback turn to just "nope"

Remember when we used to dial into the internet, and the machines would scream at us? That was a warning right?

Signs that AI is making people extra stupid: having to comment on a long ticket that purports to analyze a bug and propose a fix with "I'm having trouble finding anything here that is correct."

Why do I have to agree to updated terms of service in order to check/adjust the temperature of my fucking thermostat?

Perfect timing, Facebook. No notes.

If you are paying for Claude and you claim to care about astronomy or the night sky - think again. 🔭☄️ SpaceX's orbital data center plans would *ruin* ground-based astronomy & the night sky. Anthropic are partnering with them.

Apparently, the answer is: No. arxiv.org/abs/2605.03546

Does make you wonder just how many accounts over there are his sock puppets.

I deleted my earlier post about Chrome, because people complained about the security of some ads (that I couldn't see) in the top link. So, I'm just going to repost the other links I found in this thread. pureinfotech.com/stop-chrome-...

Every day now: what new AI bullshit will today bring?

This has me thinking again about the last two a/c units that have died here, and again wondering why they aren't better-designed in general. One died due to a lizard that had crawled across the capacitor terminals. Another died due to wasps nesting in the control electronics.

One neighbor has an obnoxious barking dog. Another neighbor has an air horn he sets off every time the annoying dog starts barking. A local bird has now learned to mimic the sound of the air horn.

"your monthly credits are included as part of your existing Unity subscription." How about you don't force your fucking AI bullshit on us and you reduce the subscription price instead?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that macOS Tahoe seems to be really fucking slow on a 2023 M2 Max Mac Studio, even just displaying the desktop.

Cat bumps the hotkey to open dev tools while the bsky tab is active:

Retirement funds and pension funds and insurance funds are already a trillion dollars or more deep into private credit. Every single major data center funding deal has involved insurance or pension money. Even the Anthropic private equity deal. www.wheresyoured.at/hatersguide-...

6 months since last update which means to correct some text in the game, I now need: * New Java version * New Android SDK * New Google Play libraries * New iOS SDK * New Xcode * New major macOS version * New major version of Unity