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Chad mod action nuking whatever this exchange was but leaving the bit at the end where the guy was humble and respectable

Ok but like… The game is Japanese though.

Like, did everyone in the IT industry suddenly grow stupid and forget the most basic rule?

Thing is, in any industry, you need a combination of new blood and old wisdom in order to successfully pass the torch to the next generation. Old wisdom is expensive to keep around, but the cheap new blood doesn’t know what they need to in order to succeed.

When you get rid of all your old wisdom and hire all new blood to cut costs, they’re going to come in with a series of footguns that old wisdom knows how to avoid. If you’re lucky, the new blood is going to learn about those footguns primarily by shooting themselves with them and then scrambling to fix the big problem that follows. If you aren’t lucky, said footgun blows the entire leg off your corporation and you implode, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

All this to say, no, they probably don’t know. A million companies elected to excise all of their knowledge and replace it with fresh-faced, eager, noticeably cheaper juniors.

Now there’s nothing wrong with hiring juniors, but you can’t just put 30 of them in a room and say “alright, monkeys, get to writing Shakespeare” - they lack 30+ years of practical knowledge, and as mentioned, juniors all ship with footguns pre-installed. You need someone who is able to steer the ship properly. A good senior dev is worth his weight in gold. However, most companies don’t want to pay a senior dev his weight in gold. Observe the consequences.

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear…

Yep.

My mother submitted every single photo of me she has to some AI art service, spent the next six months sending me slopped-up photos of myself, and is somehow unable to understand why I might be upset about the situation.

I quit IT work to be a mechanic. It’s exactly the same problem-solving process, but the problems are almost always way less arcane. I’m very happy with the switch.

If you wanted to make the switch yourself, the skill sets are very interchangeable. You’re just debugging an alternator instead of an Active Directory setup. If you have a willingness to learn you’ll be up to speed in under a year.

Very goofy and annoying for modders since if you wanted a useful name you have to first decompile Minecraft, then change all the names, and then when you compile change all references to said names in your code back to their actual obfuscated nonsense.

I expect this is what things like Forge were handling, right?

Constant acceleration at 9.8m/s^2 in a given direction will bring you close to the speed of light eventually, but yeah, I’m also not super sure how this math checks out

“primalmotion, I’m afraid I can’t do that”

“sudo go kill yourself, you smarmy little shit”

Linux distros: 🫡

Honestly you can get by even without that so long as you can read. Everyone knows at least one IT guy that doesn’t talk to anyone, just emerges from his server closet/dungeon to solve your problem and disappear silently back into the darkness like some breed of Batman.

Is the single red LED solid, or is it flashing Morse for “please kill me”?

Fucking right?

3am on a Tuesday, I can’t possibly get anything done at this time, I have all of the collective motivation I’ve ever managed to scrape together in my entire life hit me all at once.

Any other point in time? Fuck you, best I can do is a headache.

This would be a valid argument if X itself weren’t the ones generating the images.

Suddenly it’s 4am and I just finished the book. The sequel is on a 4 week wait list. I’m due at work in three hours.

Or maybe she thinks she start a grift like Charlie Kirk giving speeches or some shit (hence the Christ thing.)

Would bet my life on this. These people only ever talk about Christ when they’re trying to grift the Christians. She saw how many people were happy to blow their entire retirement fund on Trump merch and she sees some of those people now being upset at Trump. So she moves in, talks some trash about Trump (because that’s all these people ever want, never solutions, only trash talk), sprinkle a little Jesus on it for the razzle-dazzle, boom you just sold $10m worth of MTG merch. Use that money to grease some palms and you’ve got speaking engagements booked at TPUSA events for the next hundred years.

I’m as big of an AI hater as anyone, but if you’re going to use it, this is pretty much the way you do so.

None of the results end up in the final product, concept art is notoriously different from final results in almost all projects, and having a concept artist spit out 30 basic AI concepts in a day and then pick 2 or 3 of them to manually iterate further on is, actually, streamlining their work flow without major upset and without completely replacing the artist in question.

Would I rather they aren’t using Gen-AI at all? Yeah, absolutely, I think it is one of the great evils of the modern world. But if you do insist on using it within the creative process, this is one of the least upsetting and most sensible ways I can think of doing so. I don’t see this as problematic beyond the fact that Larian is supporting AI companies by doing so.

Yes, actually. I know Kagi in particular has a fediverse “lens” that filters results to things found here. Unsure if anyone else has implemented that yet, or how deeply it scrapes fedi for results, but it’s there.

Regardless everything that is posted here is publicly visible so any search engine that wanted to could scrape results from here.

On our left hand we have a party who, while generally spineless in the face of opposition, at least understands the general principles of governance and has an interest in continuing the lifespan of the country.

On our right hand we have a party aggressively campaigning that they should be allowed to shoot you in the face. Yes, you, personally.

I hope you have the day you vote for.

Yeah… it was. Like, beat for beat almost exactly. I don’t get your point.