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by tombert 8mo ago
Sorry, no, you shouldn't just handwave away bad behavior just because it's common. That's ridiculous. If big corporations do things that are unethical, they should be called out, even if they're common. Saying "wel
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by tombert 8mo ago
One person wrote books like JRR Tolkien. His name was JRR Tolkien, and those books are widely celebrated by millions of people as classics. I don’t have any issue with people using an engine like Godot or Unity or RPG Maker or Unreal or an
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by tombert 8mo ago
I have no fucking clue. It's been kind of depressing me. Software and cartoon trivia are basically the only things I'm good at. No one wants to pay me for cartoon trivia and AI can do that better than me anyway, so the only th
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by tombert 8mo ago
I've been feeling this. I don't really feel like it's a "bad" thing; I've said for a long time if a job can be automated, then it should be automated. I still do believe that, even if I am probably on the losi
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by tombert 8mo ago
Wow, I already didn’t like him. Reading this feels validating.
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by tombert 8mo ago
IIRC, Dave Grohl actually gave a lot of shit to Metallica, claiming that it would be one thing if this were some indie band selling cassettes having their music stolen, but it's another when multi-millionaires are crying that they aren
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by tombert 8mo ago
I'm 35, I very suddenly got tinnitus about a year ago. Like, I remember one day I didn't have it, and when I woke up the next morning I did. I went to an ENT hoping that it would be an earwax impaction or something, but nope. I
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by tombert 8mo ago
Forth is so interesting. I've been doing a lot of Forth lately; it's a kind of weird language, and it makes your brain think in a way that is very different than basically any other language out there. It allows you to work at ef
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by tombert 8mo ago
No, I'm in my mid 30's. Unless I win the lottery (which seems unlikely considering I don't buy lottery tickets), or I managed to get some obscenely lucky with shares at a startup, I realistically will need to work for at lea
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by tombert 8mo ago
I have had the opposite experience. When it was just asking ChatGPT questions it was fine, I was having fun, I was able to unblock myself when I got non-trivial errors much quicker, and I still felt like I was learning stuff. With Codex or
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by tombert 8mo ago
I actually paid for a license for Aseprite a few years ago. I'm not 100% sure why I did, other than "this seems neat". I like it a lot. Pixel art is shockingly approachable and the animation stuff in Aseprite is pretty fun.
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by tombert 8mo ago
Interesting, I actually have a thinkpad p16s, surprised I didn’t notice ECC availability.
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by tombert 8mo ago
I feel like a heathen; I'm using Neovim.
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by tombert 8mo ago
I at least personally think it's a fight worth fighting for. Well I say that, it's not like I'm doing anything about it outside of complaining on the internet, which is nothing.
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by tombert 8mo ago
I am not sure I've ever seen a laptop that has ECC memory. I'm sure they exist but I don't think I've seen it. I would definitely like to have a laptop with ECC, because obviously I don't want things to crash and
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by tombert 8mo ago
I find it frustrating that apparently we just gave up on Trump giving up his tax returns, or putting his businesses into a blind trust. This was a big deal in 2016~2019, but I guess the entire world just decided it wasn't worth it. Now
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by tombert 8mo ago
I've quit jobs and been laid off from jobs and I will admit that when I do, I always kind of hope that the company goes bankrupt the day after I leave because I was so important. Companies I've quit or been laid off have gone ba
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by tombert 8mo ago
Man you really took issue with a small part of what I said. Writing forty paragraphs about your opinion of the “many eyes” thing is interesting enough, but I stand by what I said. If Flash player had been FOSS I think it could have been in
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by tombert 8mo ago
I have heard lovely things about Delphi’s and C++ builder’s fun factor (maybe from you on this very forum actually :) ), but I have not used those so I cannot speak to it. At least of the stuff I have used, Flash is the most fun. Admittedly
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by tombert 8mo ago
That doesn't surprise me, honestly. I wish they had been able to figure out how to do it, but licensing and patents and whatnot have held back lots of innovation.
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by tombert 8mo ago
Sure, maybe, but I think if it were FOSS'd back in ~2005, then these security issues could be addressed by a larger set of eyes, including the browser-makers themselves. If this hypothetical universe happened, I think we'd have ha
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by tombert 8mo ago
Yeah, I actually got into Flash because I wanted to be an animator some day. I made some crappy cartoons but sadly my art skills never really improved, even with a fair amount of practice. But in the process I learned about ActionScript an
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by tombert 8mo ago
Well said, and I completely agree. Since Flash was an animation-first piece of software that still had a fairly robust scripting system, it was able to create very unique and interesting pieces of media that can kind of only exist as they a
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by tombert 8mo ago
I'm cautiously optimistic that it could work. It's been quite awhile since I've written ActionScript [1], but I remember when I wrote it I didn't write it significantly differently than C#. You still have similar Java-s
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by tombert 8mo ago
I gotta admit I don't really know what you're talking about. I think Flash was fun to develop in. It was easy and fun to write a game in it and it was something a lot more approachable and easier to distribute than trying to cobbl
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by tombert 8mo ago
I think Adobe should have open-sourced the Flash player like 20 years ago. If they had done that, then it could have been incorporated into the web standards (or at least something somewhat inspired by it). Instead it took like 10+ years f
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by tombert 8mo ago
I agree, I love Flash more than nearly any other piece of software that has ever been on the computer, and it's one of the few things I miss about moving to Linux away from Windows. I can still run Flash MX 2004 via Wine and play with
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by tombert 8mo ago
Heck yeah. I've said it a million times, but I stand by Flash being the most fun development environment ever made. Being able to draw your cartoons, make them a movie clip, export to code, edit things around without having to re-cou
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by tombert 8mo ago
Umm, I would argue that Fascism shares that honor actually.
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by tombert 8mo ago
My point still stands. I think a lot of the awfulness that has come out of the implementations of socialism has come from greed. North Korea’s awfulness came because Kim Il Sung decided to appoint himself as king right after their revolutio

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