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by CM30 3y ago
I'd say that video game modding and hacking communities have a similar vibe to them, as do fan created content sites and communities in general. Probably in all causes because being unable to legally make money from your activities sca
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by CM30 3y ago
Ah, I remember doing this all too well. Or at least, with the very similar <meter> element anyway. God it was a nightmare. There was no standardised selector for various parts of the bar, so I had to use a bunch of awkward -webkit and
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by CM30 3y ago
To be fair, this could also be said about everyday life too, which is also why folks with Aspergers (like myself) tend to struggle. Social norms seem to basically down to "don't speak out unless absolutely necessary, especially no
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by CM30 3y ago
And on the other side, having autism, ADHD, etc doesn't necessarily mean you're a super smart child prodigy either. Some people have those diagnoses and are just of normal intelligence, just as some gifted people are neurotypical.
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by CM30 3y ago
And there's even an example commit showing the exact process needed to add a new Pokemon to Pokemon Yellow: https://github.com/pret/pokeyellow/pull/102/commits/62e692f7...
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by CM30 3y ago
That's a good point really. Not many people realise that the majority of the population doesn't buy many creative works at all. They'll only go to the cinema maybe once a month, buy perhaps a few video games and tabletop game
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by CM30 3y ago
It's the same with most creative fields really. The vast majority of people earn very little from their work, and a few really skilled/lucky folks at the top of the field earn a fortune. See also music, art, game design/devel
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah this makes sense to me. He covered interesting and unique topics, and posted about them on a regular basis. That's extremely difficult to do in any medium, let alone something like video where filming and editing demands are signi
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by CM30 3y ago
Damn, this is a video I didn't want to see today. I love Tom Scott's videos, and just about everything he's ever made has been a great watch. I still remember the VPN videos debunking common myths about them, and the one abou
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by CM30 3y ago
Happy new year folks! It's just turned 2024 here in the UK, and I'm hoping it's a great year.
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by CM30 3y ago
Never said I myself had no passion for tech, or wasn't working on interesting projects. Just that it feels weird that tech seems to get this far more than say, accountancy or architecture or brain surgery.
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by CM30 3y ago
Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being th
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, one of my major moonshot goals was to release another demo for my long developed game project, and to have about 80% of it completed by the end of the year. Unfortunately, I kinda miscalculated how much work was needed to get the proj
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by CM30 3y ago
I use it quite a bit, alongside Mastodon and BlueSky. It's not released Twitter entirely at the moment (and honestly, neither of any of the other services), but there are a decent few gaming and tech creators I follow there, and my own
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by CM30 3y ago
Exactly this. If your company cannot afford to stay open if it hires a certain number of staff, then it simply cannot afford to have that many staff and should hire less (and find a way to do that work with tech or what not instead). If it
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by CM30 3y ago
Honestly I've always wondered what would happen (and how much the entertainment world would change) if a company like Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc did just that. Or heck, if it turns out you need the rights to train LLMs and its easie
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by CM30 3y ago
Damn, didn't know there was a proposal for Sass like environmental variables that can be used in media queries: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-env-1/ So in future, at least one of the limitations mentioned in this p
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by CM30 3y ago
Well, quite a few projects both at work and for personal hobbies. At work: My team failed to finish developing a marketing subsite for the company which originally had a November deadline. This was part because things weren't planned o
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by CM30 3y ago
This is sadly not too surprising; a quick glance at what does well on YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, etc will show that a high percentage of the userbase are probably under 13, and that percentage probably jumps even more when counting minors in
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by CM30 3y ago
That's also rather common. Happened to me with one of the jobs I was interviewing at in the early days of the pandemic, and a few more in the years before that. Sometimes it even gets to like, a telephone interview, take home test and
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by CM30 3y ago
The new normal? This has been the case for years for almost all job applications. Maybe if you're lucky and the company has put you through like 4 rounds of interviews you might get feedback, but the general rule seems to be that usefu
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by CM30 3y ago
Okay, here goes: - At least one major court case plays out over AI, and that completely changes the future of the technology. I personally suspect it'll be found that using copyrighted materials for LLMs is copyright infringement (in t
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by CM30 3y ago
ASCII art also played a big role in the early video walkthrough world too. Back then, sites like GameFAQs only accepted plain text documents for their guides, so ASCII art was the only way to add any form of images or decorations to your wo
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by CM30 3y ago
CSS Nesting will definitely be great to use in future projects, and I'm super happy to see it in vanilla CSS now. But to be honest? I think CSS was fun for a while, simply because all the stuff mentioned in the intro of the article rem
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by CM30 3y ago
Yeah, I don't blame him for not wanting to make this kind of content at all. His answer to why kinda sums it up perfectly: > It’s something I’ve always wanted to avoid doing because people are immediately rewarded for it, and then y
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by CM30 3y ago
Sadly I agree with this. It seems like the best summary of how most people treat free speech is basically: "If my side is the underdog, talk about how important it is and complain that we're being censored, and if my side is winni
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by CM30 3y ago
The second one feels like a major part of the puzzle here. Poorer criminals tend towards more 'blatant' crimes, the kind that usually bring the police down on them hard (burglary/robbery, assault/murder, dealing drugs an
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by CM30 3y ago
The best solution is something that's unique to your service, and doesn't exist on any of your competitors. Remember that automation is only cost effective at scale, hence bots are written to target commonly used systems rather th
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by CM30 3y ago
Doesn't even need a crooked reporter, just a troll/extremist/propoganda creator and a news organisation without much interest in fact checking/research. In fact, forget deepfakes and disinformation campaigns. What should
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