xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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- Male
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- Linux Mint
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- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
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Someone just made a public domain version of Netflix.
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Update 14 of #MakeRoom has been released! This enhances the lighting system, adds new languages, 250 objects and much more! (it's also 20% off now!)
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2212670/view/662735945909405440
Objects can now be placed.
#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SDL #cplusplus
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Super excited to announce Kenney × Youtooz and reveal the Kenney plush! ✨
It'll be available May 20th and it's the perfect #gamedev companion (he'll listen to your code explanations)
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i'm not anti AI (even in games) but i think it should raise the expectations, like in most places.
if the AIs are so good why are programs still missing minor features everywhere and why are they buggier and bloatier than ever. "see we can now have a fleet of interns for cheap" should be raising the quality demand, not lowering it
if the AIs are so good why are programs still missing minor features everywhere and why are they buggier and bloatier than ever. "see we can now have a fleet of interns for cheap" should be raising the quality demand, not lowering it
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@mischievoustomato luddites is completely the wrong term. We're not talking about a cotton gin or metal lathe. Those things, baring hardware failure, generate the same end result deterministically if you use and maintain them correctly.
The weighted random code generators produce all kinds of things non-deterministically. They are not 100%, or even 95% reproducible machines. They would never qualify under the old six-sigma quality control metrics
The luddies were concerned about labor rights and did not start out as technologists. The current generation of software engineers are technologists, many who embrace good things. These things still have so many issues. I'm fighting one right now. At work, I'm now the lead on a project where my manager Claude-vibed $300 worth of tokens on his personal account per month and then took another job; and now I find new horrors every damn day.
I am not a luddie with the code demon, but I understand it's just math and weights and it's optimized to have catch all exception blocks and other things that swallow errors silently so things look like they work as your actually losing data.
@icedquinn that's a really good article; I dig the author's vibe.
I think the best way to use these things is limited; functions at a time. You never want it to generate so much you can't refactor it after (and you should refactor it after every time).
I'm sick of hearing about AI from both the supporters and the haters.
Who runs this account? It randomly boosts "popular" posts, except these posts are OLD, many of which are no longer relevant.
Supposedly, this bot would stop RTing you if you tell it to stop. I did multiple times, but it still likes to repost my old shit every so often.
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An AI will be reduced to slop if it trains on its own output.
An industry will break down if it believes its own marketing.
And a government will fail if it acts on its own propaganda.
Model collapse happens when a complex system breathes its own exhaust.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/model-collapse-when-ai-markets-and
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Is AI just a marketing gimmic made to cover up the fact, that we've hit the peak silicon with the 5nm technology?
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How hard do you think it would be to build small scale fusion or "free energy" ?
Put another way, how much of this is a true Hard Problem, and how much is academic stupidity and/or technology suppression?
Put another way, how much of this is a true Hard Problem, and how much is academic stupidity and/or technology suppression?
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> outspoken AIPAC antagonist rotated out for more compliant AIPAC recipient
america is a real country
america is a real country
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@xianc78 >They probably can't even go back to chasing their original dreams either because the cat's out of the bag and everything has been archived.
I'd argue it's more, they've been changed mentally to not ever do anything that isn't political. Some of them can't hide their powerlevel enough to make something someone will care about, and will literally complain about political games before posting swatiskas on Twitter.
Or worse, they'll just talk about their past life of going to some infamous rally and some internet feuds like it's some trauma dump. Or they overcorrect like a drunk driver and go to another extreme of the political spectrum.
But also, I think the big problem too is once you know how people act in this era, the "magic" of meeting cool people online is ruined hard. How do you know that this person isn't crying about you on Bluesky?
I'd argue it's more, they've been changed mentally to not ever do anything that isn't political. Some of them can't hide their powerlevel enough to make something someone will care about, and will literally complain about political games before posting swatiskas on Twitter.
Or worse, they'll just talk about their past life of going to some infamous rally and some internet feuds like it's some trauma dump. Or they overcorrect like a drunk driver and go to another extreme of the political spectrum.
But also, I think the big problem too is once you know how people act in this era, the "magic" of meeting cool people online is ruined hard. How do you know that this person isn't crying about you on Bluesky?
I think the worst part about the culture war was the mentality from both sides that everyone was the enemy unless proven otherwise, so you might as well pick the side that you find the least cringe/offensive. This ended up being disastrous in the long run because you had people who would otherwise be gamedevs, software developers, comic artists, cartoonists, etc end up being culture war grifters instead, and they probably only did that just to seek validation from their peers, and many (if not most or all) of them ended up being lolcows anyway, so it was pointless in the long run. They probably can't even go back to chasing their original dreams either because the cat's out of the bag and everything has been archived.
This even affects people outside of content creation because it brought in the trend of adopting (or LARPing as) some niche political ideology like AnCap, NazBol, monarchist, etc and making that your entire Internet personality, and then just locking yourself into an echo-chamber, either by blocking people you disagree with or bullying the shit out of them. Yeah, I'm kind of guilty of this as well (minus the personal echo-chamber part), but I kind of regret it. Politics and philosophical discussions can be fun provided that you have an open mind, which is why I think older-forums did it better by having containment subforums for heated discussions, but ideologies should not be your entire personality. It will get you nowhere in life, outside of doing podcasts or writing Substack articles for a living.
I don't know if we can ever go back to the way things were, especially given the sunk-cost fallacy is a thing and we are living in uncertain times anyway, but I really miss the days when politics and other heated discussions where in their own containment areas and people can just create and enjoy stuff online.
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@PurpCat @Morghur @Vidmastereon
This is the primary reason I've tried to disconnect from online politics in recent months and move towards making stuff instead. Blogposting will accomplish nothing.
This is the primary reason I've tried to disconnect from online politics in recent months and move towards making stuff instead. Blogposting will accomplish nothing.
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@Morghur @Vidmastereon >at least the fucking libtards will spend a pittance on the horrible shit they claim to support.
For every Undertale/Deltarune or even Cruelty Squad, there's so many flops, games that are like Dustborn but don't even get hate played.
Most of the time they end up consooming the big product, and their culture war wins in part have to do with things like the "long march through the institutions"/O'Sullivan's Law (when companies/groups are subverted), nepo hiring, etc.
The pittance they'll spend money on are shit like Marathon, Overwatch, etc. I mean AAA games where there's aesthetics or messages or pandering in them. Or it's just whatever Nintendo makes.
I think the big issue here is more, there's less people on the right making games. Most of the people from GG decided they'd rather be grifters like Quarter Pounder instead of being gamedevs and look where that got them. Meanwhile the left churns out slop that ends up only noticed when it's in the "LGBT gamedevs for Gaza mega-bundle" on itch.
For every Undertale/Deltarune or even Cruelty Squad, there's so many flops, games that are like Dustborn but don't even get hate played.
Most of the time they end up consooming the big product, and their culture war wins in part have to do with things like the "long march through the institutions"/O'Sullivan's Law (when companies/groups are subverted), nepo hiring, etc.
The pittance they'll spend money on are shit like Marathon, Overwatch, etc. I mean AAA games where there's aesthetics or messages or pandering in them. Or it's just whatever Nintendo makes.
I think the big issue here is more, there's less people on the right making games. Most of the people from GG decided they'd rather be grifters like Quarter Pounder instead of being gamedevs and look where that got them. Meanwhile the left churns out slop that ends up only noticed when it's in the "LGBT gamedevs for Gaza mega-bundle" on itch.
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Made some Ethernet cables today to clean up my embedded lab. One white jumper because the blue finally ran out.
Bottom shelf is modems that are for automated testing:
* Zyxel PMG5617GA (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* SmartFiber XP8421-B (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* Zyxel EX3301-T0 (EN7516 chip) Router only
* Nokia G-240G-E (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* ChinaMobile GS3101 (EN7526F chip) Fiber
* TpLink Archer VR1200V (v2) (EN7513G chip) DSL
And off to the side, another ChinaMobile GS3101 which I'll be sending to someone after I install OpenWrt on it.
Bottom shelf is modems that are for automated testing:
* Zyxel PMG5617GA (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* SmartFiber XP8421-B (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* Zyxel EX3301-T0 (EN7516 chip) Router only
* Nokia G-240G-E (EN7526G chip) Fiber
* ChinaMobile GS3101 (EN7526F chip) Fiber
* TpLink Archer VR1200V (v2) (EN7513G chip) DSL
And off to the side, another ChinaMobile GS3101 which I'll be sending to someone after I install OpenWrt on it.
- Sex
- Male
- Primary OS
- Linux Mint
- Programming Languages
- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
