I was thinking about employee burnout, and I might have made a realization... how much damage is caused by loss of curiousity (by lack of time and/or motivation)?
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Scott Michaud
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mastodon 4.7.3C++ Developer (on paper; more GPU) @ Riverside.fm
Gamedev, Physics & Education @ QueensU, Puns.
Former: LightTwist, Inc.; Eliot Research; PC Perspective
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Joined November 08, 2022
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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com @samiamsam@mastodon.social I think he's not taking corruption and nepotism into enough account. He keeps arguing that it would make no sense, but we live in times when things that make no sense happen on the regular.
So this is _not_ a character modeling tutorial. Holy crap that must of taken a lot of effort.
(Context: This person puts out videos where they pretend their animations are sentient beings.)
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@augieray I strongly believe, as with the religious establishment in the New Testament, that a significant portion of life is a hypocrisy test.
It explains basically everything about Donald Trump... a born rich, wise-as-a-stump person who prides himself on all seven deadly sins.
I think it's pronounced g'peg.
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange And then, of course, there will be attempts to exploit parents whose initial reaction to lock things down... because every source of complacency is fair game if someone is a scammer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_Parental_Controls
That one sold the kids' private information to marketers.
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@JoeAce967 @aggiepm It's on time, but do they have a gate?
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com My late grandmother used to read me this bug report before bed.
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@mjg59 Of course somewhat ironic because you'll sometimes get oppressor on oppressor conflicts... but, like Alien vs Predator, whoever wins, humans lose.
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@evan We're talking about things that the author clearly wants to be shared?
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social It's a cock-up tale.
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@theogrin On 4/20, no less.
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@Azuaron@cyberpunk.lol @OutOfSpace@berlin.social I think they didn't realize that you and Kevin were different people.
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@SnoopJ Oh hey it turns 29 in a couple months. Neat.
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@bvibber@wikis.world Retired: undefined reference to 'CEntryPoint'
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@rstevens I can appreciate this joke... :3
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@AmyZenunim This (the screenshot) is exactly the opposite advice that I give for gamedev. I used to get a lot of "what books/course should I read/do before trying to make a game" (or similar).
My response is to stop putting rites of passage in front of yourself. It's going to be hard either way. If you do what you want now, then you'll at least care. Expect failure and ask for advice when you have tangible problems for your specific goals. A book's a reason to give up.
If you choose the low-fat ranch with your chicken fingers, are you literally skinny dipping?
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@saddestrobots@jorts.horse Meanwhile, the build systems that they use.
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@wakame@tech.lgbt @cwebber@social.coop If only we had reliable fusion energy... ... ... (/s)
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@goerp@mastodon.social @paulasimoes@ciberlandia.pt It needs to go away, though. That's our job (as citizens exercising our political freedom... figured I'd clarify that).
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@LoganFive We've very much explored hotdog on a stick.
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@SnoopJ Or they played Star Fox 64.
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@SnoopJ "There is one person on board the trolly" the question giver says, grinning ear-to-ear.
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@gsuberland@chaos.social @SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange Come on, now. They were already disappointed by Reader's Digest. No need to kick them while they're down.
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@potch@toot.cafe Wouldn't that be a funny restriction to self-driving cars? No patches less than 16 years old.
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@morenonatural@todon.nl @chexum@hachyderm.io @saddestrobots@jorts.horse I usually end up writing a python script or an executable and just running those on the command line.
One time I was asked to parse JSON in a bash script. They recommended that I used sed. I normally do as asked, but that time I just wrote a Python script because all the build servers had it. They accepted it, though. They apparently never thought of it.
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@mitsuhiko Convince them to switch to a license that drops to MIT/etc. on abandonment? Okay you could do that. GPL would be dumb for Entity A.
Alternatively, Entity A could write their closed-source software for Linux. There, Entity A could go away, but Entity B could rely upon _the platform_ always providing GPL guarantees. GPL makes sense for _Linux_
Entity A can be long gone, but Entity B can still beat Linux into a configuration such that Entity A's software works as it did "forever" (2/3)
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@cabel@social.panic.com ... phrasing.
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@simon_w@cloudisland.nz @xssfox@cloudisland.nz
Santa Claus sends his regards. H0H0H0
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange I kind-of want to see one work, which would involving jumping around, especially if the minute ticks are also alphabetical.
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@mitsuhiko A permissive license allows an entity to become defacto standard, and then rug-pull. Forks are possible from that point, but it's flimsy.
Conversely, if downstream protection doesn't apply, then GPL doesn't make as much sense.
There was one permissive library that I saw (Apache IIRC???) whose documentation was mostly examples, and the examples were GPL. 😅 What was the goal!? (Likely a goof.)
Ideally, all creations would belong to everyone in society, but we're not at a utopia yet.
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@jerry@infosec.exchange The pilot episode for Tom and Jerrymander?
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@ami_angelwings Happy slightly belated Birthday!
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@mitsuhiko Weakening _the platform_ by reducing its copyright duration wouldn't help. In fact, it'd make it easier for someone to poison pill it by reducing the attack duration to ex: 2 years, at which point people wake up and realize they are reliant upon proprietary _parts_ of a platform, which they need to somehow unwind.
Moving away from "platform" and GPL makes less and less sense. It's nonsense for Entity A's goals. (3/3)
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@sueW@mastodonapp.uk This reminds me of the last verse of I Feel Fantastic (Jonathan Coulton).
So I'm at the "calling my coffee machine the caffeine machine" level of alertness at the moment.
It's quarter-to-5 in the afternoon btw.
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org Personally, it lead to me canceling Microsoft 365. Curious how that factors in.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social That should be enough for a FoxKat.
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@gayint The biggest controversy is the CEO's yacht. It floats.
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@mitsuhiko Of course all of this assumes "capitalism". If we lived in a utopia, then everything would be public domain and art could survive for hundreds of years, studied in future generations like Shakespeare.
We wouldn't need to reconcile people who want closed-source with a society that wants ideas to be preserved forever.
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@avi@chitter.xyz I can't get over how much it looks like a turkey that's begging to you.
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@dgar@aus.social That'd be the opposite of Higurashi Gou.
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@mconley My solution to this is to always buy the same SKU of socks. Replenish the pile when they generate holes... which for some reason is like 3 packs in 3 months with my body type (bone structure?)