Evelyn Estelle

@levork@graphics.social I think what you miss from the house analogy is that it's a "very efficient looking house": Everything is fine on paper, but if you start living in it you notice the problems: the plumbing is a mess that will start to leak in 6 month, the counter -- despite it's size -- has bad space utilization, there should be a shelf on the wall, the wall sockets and light switches are all located at slightly inconvenient places, the wallpaper gets dirty at the smallest provocation and is impossible to clean without damage, the AC requires maintenance by a licensed technician every couple of months, etc.

@andnull @davidrevoy I'm also happy for it. I needed something positive. By the way, compared to regular LLMs, Rubber Duck has excellent security and privacy. It is also free from most copyright issues. I should have made an April's 1st webpage...

@tedmielczarek@mastodon.social @levork@graphics.social In a sense, this might easily be the same phenomena. The way I see it we have a lot of problems that are present without AI -- companies cutting corners is definitely one example -- but AI has the tendency to magnify these problems to ridiculous proportions. Copyright would be an other excellent example.

@denodell@mastodon.social The same thing happened with Internet Explorer in the 2000s. When developers built for IE, sites broke elsewhere, and standards compliance became secondary to just making it “work in IE.” We spent years digging out of that hole. Funny, when I had to build a site around 2010, my read-the-manual-centric workflow resulted in the opposite observation: Everything works, while IE requires a workaround. It is obviously the same phenomenon, but when you flip the narrative, the most popular browser is suddenly the broken outlier. There is one thing the article does not discuss though: While it is a big issue that they don't test on multiple browsers, their biggest failing is that they designed their site in a way that it does not degrade gracefully. HTML is written with fault tolerance in mind. Unknown tag? Ignore or just treat it as plain text. Unclosed tag? Just continue on best effort. Half of the document is missing? Just show the half that actually arrived. Would the site be a bit broken? Yes. Would it still be mostly usable? Also yes. Same goes for CSS. Even if it doesn't arrive, your site should be usable (albeit, ugly) with HTML alone. The strictest part is JavaScript, and it is a very permissive language as well. There also exist transpilers that can transpile bleeding-edge JavaScript into old JavaScript for compatibility.

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @Tom@kein.monster Well, if they would be experienced coders, they would notice the most obvious issues and fix it BEFORE sending it to review.

@JeffGrigg@mastodon.social @RandomHost@tech.lgbt @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @Tom@kein.monster AI genereting code, and then AI reviewing code sounds like "I don't even care if it works, we count productivity in lines of code". At this point, do you even have customers with real needs?

@Daojoan More controversial opinion: When I think about it, it should also apply to politics: If your steam library is empty, you are not allowed to make decisions about games. If you are not trans, you don't get to decide anything about trans people.

@hannah@posts.rat.pictures When I need to explain software development to people, I should just send this image.

@ozzelot @Phosphenes @AnarchoCatgirlism I mean, they at least eat their own dogfood That's good in my books. Of course, that doesn't make the rest right.

@4censord @mcc How do I make them want to?

@laprice@beige.party Okay, realistically, I'm the "angry infrastructure nerd", but my soul yearns for "blossom in the ruins" instead. It's just sounds more hardy and sustainable.

@lykrast@eldritch.cafe @ExpiredPopsicle@vt.social Aren't we all? Ah yes, I always forget that not everyone is a poly lesbian who wants to be a catgirl or robot.

@cwebber Very nice info-graphic. I hate this timeline.

@Impossible_PhD To make a pun with cyberpunk slang: Gotta get more chrome.

@gamer Are game engines complex enough to qualify me? :QueerCat_Trans: You left out the "depressed privacy advocate, activist, anarchist".

@keithamus This is devious. As someone who last touched CSS a decade ago, it is indeed hard to tell the real properties from the made up ones.

@crazyeddie @mcc Oh, I like this. How do I get started?

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @rally@mastodon.social This is how I read the title: Not My Type Of Game (Wait, There Is More. This Is Exactly My Type Of Game).

@notsoloud@expressional.social @apzpins@some.apz.fi @Tuuktuuk@piipitin.fi Despite having a lot of diacritics, there is no ä or double aa in Hungarian, for me it looks like a mix of German and some neighboring country.

@laurie@hachyderm.io Thanks! It is somewhat easier on my eyes.

@laurie@hachyderm.io Time well spent. I understand that it is part of the joke, but is it possible to make the sideways text a bit easier to read? It is a bit too small on my monitor resolution.

@ChaosKitsune@woem.men Like this?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8kGxcBdXYs

@twipped@twipped.social Also, you know what a detailed description of software is? It's code. :blobcat_derpy:

@indigoviolet@tech.lgbt Wait until you interact with the computer game indistry, it's full of GaaS. :blobcatupsidedown:

@eickot@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I'm pretty sure this is not the solution. A good counter-example is most of the USA: large areas of single use zoning, leading to giant suburbs without even a small grocery store nearby. This forces you into a car even if you just want some fresh bread.

@adhd_coffee I'm on this image and I don't like it. I can relate, although I'm only diagnosed with Autism.

@TarkabarkaHolgy Funny how they waited until Orbán is out of the picture, and did not act years ago... :neocat_sad:

@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org @maaikees@sw-development-is.social You couldn't have summed up my job better. Many of my tasks are predominantly about talking with the stakeholders to figure out what they actually want.talking with colleagues to figure out what the idea behind the current code is. The actual theoretical research, coding and fixing review comments is surprisingly fast compared to it.

@lritter I don't know, the universities are very split on the matter.

@aphyr Sometimes I wonder if adoption of LLMs with it's steep external costs (people trained to be dumber and lazier while data centers keep polluting the environment) is one of the Great Filters. Oh well, it was nice to survive as a species.

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place Wow, sokol_ and std_ are some very neat looking libraries. Especially compared to today's prevalent framework bloat...

@GyrosGeier Seeing that this only affect a small geographical region -- not even a full country -- it sounds unprofessional to put this into core software like systemd. My professional advice is that it should be a collection of separate, optional programs and plugins the admin can install to satisfy local regulation. I know it's probably not that popular around systemd, but the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing and do it well" is still a very good one.

@kaliranya@vtuber.house Understandable for multiplayer games where you need the player base so people don't just sit in empty lobbies. But yes, in general I prefer shorter games that respect my time. If a good story is 10 hours (or just 3), I prefer a short game instead of a padded out one. If a game ends and I still want more of it, that's a game that did not overstay it's welcome.

@whitequark @mcc You read ToS? :neocat_think:

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo Wow, there are a lot of servers to choose from, where do I even get started.

@titia@toot.community @apzpins@some.apz.fi There was this awesome computer game titled Brütal Legend. As a native Hungarian, I'm pretty sure I'm not pronouncing it the way the designer intended.

@SuperDicq Thanks! Based on the wiki, I gathered that Wizard's Den is a safe bet. Although I have seen more OOC action than what I expected based on the rules. I'm having some trouble differentiating the mostly vanilla servers from some that might completely change gameplay, so thanks for the tip.

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to That game pops up in discussions here and there, is it good?

@reu@woem.men @nicopap@tooting.ch Glad to be of service. :blobheart:

@ell1e I'm pretty sure I got from this post to this article, but I can't reconstruct the URL chain. Regardless, this looks relevant: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/

@Sobtanian@mstdn.games @ilookloud@retro.pizza @apzpins@some.apz.fi Never understood why someone would tatoo something in a language they are not fluent enough to recognize the mistakes....

@eickot@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Ah, okay, my bad. I think I just misinterpreted "business around housing". You meant businesses involving housing, while I misinterpreted as businesses in the physical proximity of housing.

@SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to I see. It is intimidating/hard to get the hang of it?

@petrillic @0xabad1dea @at5RSSbot Well, suspending them is never a mistake in the first place.

@nicopap@tooting.ch Do you have other trans people or just you? Is this an on-site or remote position? (Either way, I'm about to go on parental leave, so not the right moment to make a career move, but more information never hurts.)

@titia@toot.community @apzpins@some.apz.fi Learning from experience, I'm somewhat uncertain how to pronounce Pokémon.

@wohali Excellent! The only problem is that now I want to see the others. Like the elegant Soyuz lady. Or the asymmetric weirdness of some of the Atlas 5 configurations: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Atlas_V_family_%28cropped%29.png

@minmoonuh@sunny.garden Me after seeing eldricht horrors beyond my comprehension: time to close my work laptop and take a walk in the park.