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@jimbob@aus.social C major and D major - explain yourself!
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mastodon 4.7.3I'm a Technical Art Director / TD (ex-Riot/Virtuos/Ubisoft/Funcom). I play obscure games, mostly RPGs and try to make one myself in a Sisyphusian effort. I've also got a soft spot for indy games and the amazing people who make them.
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Advice: If you're an Indie, there's NOTHING, except money, IP and resources, AAA has on you.
They're not better, more creative, better organized, better aligned just because they're big. I dare say, the opposite is just as likely, because they're big.
What you can do: use proper project management. Track time - esp. where it's wasted. Track quality. Track iterations. Automate where it makes an impact. Be data driven, but also speak face to face. Be creative and consider risk/reward.
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@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange your worst enemy, probably
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@fsinn@mas.to that'll show those pesky Canadians! say, you want some Freedom Fries with that?
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place which is a weird thing to say given that businesses have to pay for that with their Office subsciption.
But then again, even MS Windows Pro used to include solitaire.exe, giving hours of entertainment to bored office workers
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@riley@toot.cat @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io The problem with AI, for me, isn't so much the technology itself but myriad of low effort uses cases that stand in no relation to the resources wasted, being advertised to us by liars and grifters as the next big thing.
I do enjoy it when AI is used where it actually makes a difference, like in responsible research.
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@citizen428@chaos.social @andrewrk@mastodon.social That's why I gave up on all those online-first Evernote competitors. Those are the worst.
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@matejpp@tenforward.social @superflippy@mastodon.xyz I think it's about sending a signal to whoever Trump feels like is an enemy for believing in climate change. The guy is very much about revenge, grievances and making them public.
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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol @mttaggart@infosec.exchange IKEA furniture is pretty nifty how it’s easy to assemble, provides great utility and often lasts quite long. There’s definitely thought and design behind it. And of you need to furnish a place cheaply, it’s good value.
Now what’s really the equivalent of AI code are IKEA copycats. The kind of shoddy imitation where nobody thought of squeezing actual value into a small price point. Basically, cheap furniture trash as a quick cash grab
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@freediverx@mastodon.social @superflippy@mastodon.xyz I was watching this from China, which had a very drastic response, but the whole "I don't really care much" response from Trump and the thousands of unnecessary deaths in one of the richest countries in the world was shocking. guy should be in prison just for this gross act of deadly negligence
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@Viss deleting absolutely everything in a single API call? that sounds like some great and safe API design right there /s
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@Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place Blender is solid. good choice
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@rygorous sounds delicious! That totally explains why everyone wants to go to the moon and why the Americans lied to us about all the cheese since they were first up there!
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@mattblaze I thought he was gunning for the FIFA War Prize since he already has the one for Peace, and given how he's always "all military goals accomplished!!!111"
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@yiningkarlli kinda ignores that the expense with code isn't writing it. It's maintaining and adapting it in 6 ...12 .. 24 months from now.
As an AI bro you could say "whatever, screw refactoring, we just have AI write it all from scratch", but that doesn't sound super scalable either
Creepy Zuckerberg dog? Or the cute Bezos mutt? Which one is your favorite?
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@yurisizov@mastodon.gamedev.place the old "tech problem": just because it's an interesting engineering challenge doesn't mean you need to solve it.
paired with the old "sales problem": some idiots will pay for it, right?
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@mdiluz@mastodon.gamedev.place Whenever I seem MS's docs I'm happy I'm not programming for Windows (at least not with MS's tech). They should really get a clue from e.g. Qt how to make decent docs (although there are some rough parts even there...)
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@Lana@beige.party Note to self: I should watch the old star trek episodes again
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@c64whiz 86Box if you want accuracy - not just in terms of emulation but the entire hassle like config.sys tweaking and what not
DOSBox if you want it easy and just want to experience old DOS, old Games and Win 3.1 with great sound card support and good graphics scaling options + USB joystick support
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@aeva 2nd lesson "got oil paint on your clothes? Too bad. There's only one thing you can do - trash 'em"
From then I did all my oil painting almost naked, like a crazy art obsessed caveman
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@maxleibman@beige.party Every AI Bro: we're here to save humanity... in the far future! So right now, you will have to excuse the bloody mess we're making. Remember, you grand, grand, grand kids will thank us!
...and now get back into the lithium mines when you're done queuing for your water ration!
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@tokyo_0@mas.to let's not forget to include the "dark grey text on even darker grey background" folks
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@bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place sounds like a great plan in an age with high inflation, shrinking purchasing power, people being sick of being nickle'd and dime'd and tons of alternative entertainment forms available! /s
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@HopelessDemigod My Philips 386sx/20 had a 100MB IDE drive. I think I got it in '91.
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@wezm happened to a supermarket close by... fuck this timeline
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@victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place plot twist: Trump isn't an Agent of Putin, he's an Agent of Khameini
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@AlSweigart fake news. Trump is too dumb to use an AI
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@gavi aren't we all, aren't we all
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@tyzbit 2016: This... and Brexit (really, wtf 2016?)
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@404mediaco@mastodon.social After using Outlook for a while, I’m pretty sure that when you have 2 Outlooks and none of them works, then Outlook works as intended.
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@campuscodi@mastodon.social serves people right for using Chrome. Been saying it for years, but people are like "no, everyone uses it, blah blah"... and unlike Edge you can't even use the excuse that it's been pre-installed. Using Chrome is a choice.
Call me old fashioned. I know that Apple's OS update process is solid. But having used Windows for waaaaay too long, I still prefer a "clean install". Which also means I finally got to back up a lot of stuff
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@attoparsec@clacks.link that's basically every major road intersection in China
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@kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange "we totally lost morally, politically and economically, BUT... we achieved all the military objectives!"
(terms & conditions apply: COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE and SAFE does not imply free of charge, ...)
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@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Lingo was great. I enjoyed it much more than Flash’s Actionscript at the time
MacOS 27 Update... no "clean install" option yet, still shows Tahoe on my M1 Max, so I just upgraded the existing Tahoe installation.
First impression - Iiked the non-glass window decorations better, especially the close/min/max buttons. Otherwise, things feel pretty snappy and fast, which is nice, and everything, even Crossover/Wine still works.
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@dirkdierickx@mastodon-belgium.be 😂 I always preferred this form factor as it reminds me of my C128. I already had a breadbin VC20... and yes, I just bought one
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@fesshole and that's why everyone uses a standardized placeholder text your static analysis will flag before release 😀
The future is now, old man.
My wife just told me that everyone in China is already watching the latest fully AI generated soap. And man, it sounds like a real Chinese soap. The drama, the damsels in distress, the swooning, it's all there.
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@kev Switching is pretty easy. There's a migrate option from what I remember where you just point it to your github repo and it copies it
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@mcc
(or maybe 2.0 was? I just started my Windoze career with 3.0)
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@timixretroplays As ex-OneNote user (2000+ notes) I can only say, export your notes and be done with OneNote. MS clearly doesn't give a damn about it.
It's a program that should be awesome if it would just work and had the same feature set on each client (Mac, Win, web... made by different teams who don't talk to each other, I guess?) and weren't tethered to OneDrive.
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@elb@social.sdf.org The warning on it has "Ikea-man" vibes
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@feliks@chaos.social oops. picked up the wrong eggs when I was shopping...