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I'm just barely awake... I hate waking up tired. Probably gonna scour the corners of my kitchen to see if there's any coffee left, because I'm absolutely running low.

Oh, may as well dump these two here before I completely forget about them - I'll be shaking off the odd mental haze (or trying to, at least) in the meantime.
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"the only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it"

-- attributed to Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of the C programming language and a foundational figure in computer science

#programming
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I'm writing a #novel. Sci-fantasy, post-apocalyptic, based in the Palladium Books #Rifts world.

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Some little space hexagons will be available in my store tomorrow :apartyblobcat:
(assuming I get everything done in time, heh :blobcateyes: :blobcatnervous: :blobcatree: )
Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScenesbyColleen

@xyfdi @realcaseyrollins Okay that makes sense. I don't agree with blocking social media sites, but that alone isn't something to start a riot over.

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@realcaseyrollins It looks like they're rioting because the government banned popular social media services.

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Yup, enshitification is literally the law, but muh capitalisms!

Also note that the limited liability corporate structure itself is a government fiction (invented by the British government for the east india company), not a market innovation. There is no capitalist mechanism to privatize profits while socializing liability, so in a true free market you would probably not even have megacorps to begin with, because the liability load would be a natural limiting factor.

@wowaname @chris @nicholas @gerrymcgovern Lately, I've been thinking that those "Late Stage techniques" are a result of the Ford v Dodge ruling which requires all publicly-traded companies to prioritize shareholders above all else. Just look how Valve is able to prioritize long-term growth because they are not publicly traded. Honestly, I think the situation would be much better if the Ford v Dodge ruling was repealed, even though I think it's unlikely to happen anytime soon.

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Realized I never added code to multiply color by alpha and it was screwing up antialiasing on a lot of my menu graphics (not that there was a lot of that in a game to be dominated by pixel art) so I went ahead and fixed that up quick. By the way, I am planning a custom texture container based on QOI and a load of other mostly uncompressed codecs, which I will also be publishing. Wanted a platform agnostic container where I can have the same file name on every platform but with different encodings just for convenience.

@Owl @HUN7R355 @johnnydoomsayer His entire news site is filled with AI generated articles and his live streams has AI cohosts.

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There are no "parties": there's only the uniparty theatre.

The one advantage that IT jobs have over CS jobs is that IT jobs don't require you to have both a GitHub profile and a personal website all under your real name.

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