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No, AI Will Not Doom Us All. We have REAL AI Problems to deal with instead.
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs No, AI Will Not Doom Us All. We have REAL AI Problems to deal with instead.

i really appreciate this person’s views. from a developer with experience so it’s informed too!
it’s exactly what i’ve been saying. AI doomerism is another version of AI hype (or marketing) and it inevitably helps that industry… especially in avoiding responsibility.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaFT...

29.10.2025 09:14 — 👍 39    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.

I note this one in particular.

30.09.2025 04:53 — 👍 37    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 4
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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works) How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"

Fantastic, interactive article about realtime blur algorithms by FrostKiwi! blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

10.09.2025 14:37 — 👍 36    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

It's been pretty useful so far; for example found out that string params on animation events cause a lot of GC allocations.

08.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Make a snapshot, go through some stuff that I think may have a leak, make another snapshot and compare. For smaller leak may have to do this multiple times, but don't see what other options we have.

08.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

AI photo/video analysis on iOS is arguably one of the most useful features they've added. So many times I wanted to find a video of the new kitchen or some document, or even to check to see if I have a book on my bookshelf. It's nuts how well it works. It annotates which part of a long video has it.

03.09.2025 11:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field.

There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

01.09.2025 04:03 — 👍 5175    🔁 2095    💬 63    📌 71
4 Panel Comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy is reaching down out of shot. He is massively straining to pick something up

Panel 2: Purple Guy, coming up empty handed, sweating and mad, says “SHIT. This thing is like Thor’s Hammer!”
A tiny child enters the panel. The child is very small and weak.

Panel 3: Child bends down out of shot

Panel 4: Child reappears holding a very small pencil. Purple Guy is livid.

4 Panel Comic Panel 1: Purple Guy is reaching down out of shot. He is massively straining to pick something up Panel 2: Purple Guy, coming up empty handed, sweating and mad, says “SHIT. This thing is like Thor’s Hammer!” A tiny child enters the panel. The child is very small and weak. Panel 3: Child bends down out of shot Panel 4: Child reappears holding a very small pencil. Purple Guy is livid.

AI Slop Merchants, the purple guy is you

12.04.2025 22:16 — 👍 5955    🔁 1583    💬 43    📌 8
Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.

My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...

31.07.2025 13:03 — 👍 3598    🔁 1039    💬 8    📌 66
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Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...

If you missed it, there's a new Murderbot short story at: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

18.07.2025 13:21 — 👍 1016    🔁 309    💬 28    📌 0

Numbers are LTR anyway so the chart you showed look more natural to than if inverted.

18.07.2025 15:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Most software makes a mess when trying to do RTL layout, so people end up accepting this. Also it may look weird to flip the whole thing depending on the bigger context. This is readable and doesn't have any serious issues, so maybe it's best not to do more changes.

18.07.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, technically you would want to flip the whole thing so that the checkmarks are on the right (which is kinda bothering me), BUT I've seen worse in some official documents, so this isn't that bad.

18.07.2025 13:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

To me it looks fine.

16.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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sphere #illustration #scifi

19.05.2025 20:05 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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copyright rules, ai drools, and plagiarism is for suckers who have no soul Have you ever had a conversation with someone over a topic you know a great deal about, but the person you’re talking to definitely…

New article! NEW ARTICLE!!!

Let's talk about the ways that plagiarists and AI are trying to automate sociopathy and why copyright might actually be a powerful tool to fuck with 'em.

And, how do we make a world where even copyright is no longer necessary?

docseuss.medium.com/copyright-ru...

11.05.2025 19:42 — 👍 1066    🔁 439    💬 18    📌 114
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Our upcoming game: ✨Squeakross: Home Squeak Home✨

🧩 Solve relaxing, picross-like puzzles
📦Decorate the perfect home for your rodent friend
🐭Beginner & Rodent friendly
🧀More info soon...!

Coming 2025 PC/MAC

Wishlist on Steam: s.team/a/2871440

01.11.2024 20:28 — 👍 359    🔁 127    💬 19    📌 32
Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils
YouTube video by Folding Ideas Mantracks: a True Story of Fake Fossils

New Folding Ideas!

Mantracks: A True Story of Fake Fossils

youtu.be/2UDXdqqJQPE

10.01.2025 16:32 — 👍 5164    🔁 1195    💬 129    📌 167
Windhawk The customization marketplace for Windows and programs. Customize your programs with available code snippets or create your own customizations.

WindHawk is also a good tool to bring back some of the old taskbar features: windhawk.net

09.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Affordance - Wikipedia

One thing that is not talked about enough is Affordance. Level/interaction design in games usually is pretty inconsistent and it adds to the confusion

30.12.2024 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hate the material on the XB1 Series controllers. I have Elite2 myself and it's pretty nice to the touch.

29.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I had to snip out my favourite moment from #TheGameAwards. @laratlarian.bsky.social's words echo the heart of every developer. The industry needs to listen.

We just want to make cool stuff for people.

#indiedev #gamedev

13.12.2024 05:04 — 👍 2346    🔁 692    💬 30    📌 69
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NAIAD OUT NOW! 🪷
Finally! After 5 years of development and dedication, I'm excited to share my first game with you.
Immerse yourself in a poetic, dreamlike, and serene experience. 😊

✨ Steam (PC/Mac)
✨ PS5 / PS4
✨ Xbox Series / One
✨ Nintendo Switch

10.12.2024 21:24 — 👍 1214    🔁 364    💬 66    📌 53
When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

When you pose the question to a language model, what you are really asking is, “Given the statistical distribution of words in the vast public corpus of text, what are the words most likely to follow the sequence ‘what country is to the south of Rwanda?’” Even if the system responds with the word “Burundi,” this is a different sort of assertion with a different relationship to reality than the human’s answer, and to say the AI “knows” or “believes” Burundi to be south of Rwanda is a category mistake that will lead to errors and confusion.

This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)

www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

05.12.2024 03:50 — 👍 2139    🔁 789    💬 51    📌 63
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Announcing:

🦆 A Waddleful Life 🐤🐤🐤

A sweet little game where you play as a duck raising ducklings.

Wishlist now on Steam!
#indiegame

24.09.2024 22:49 — 👍 828    🔁 278    💬 53    📌 66

I learned about the McNamara Fallacy from @docseuss.bsky.social's article in the spring and now I'm seeing it e v e r y w h e r e.

I'm increasingly convinced that this is the root cause of so many of our problems.

27.11.2024 17:13 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

We updated our Facepunch.Steamworks fork!
✔ Built against Steamworks 1.61
✔ Exposes all the new Steam Timeline stuff needed to have full Game Recording support in a game
✔ Added support for Dynamic Cloud Sync
✔ Added support for Steam beta branch querying and switching
✔ Available as a UPM Package

21.11.2024 21:46 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

another day making control 2. everyone keeps asking me if they can kiss ahti. buddy, they won't even let ME kiss him.

20.11.2024 07:28 — 👍 3358    🔁 931    💬 50    📌 34
Graph showing 17% performance gain for 2026 boxes in a spinning tumbler.

Graph showing 17% performance gain for 2026 boxes in a spinning tumbler.

The benchmark suite in Box2D has unlocked some easy optimizations. For example, how much should a bounding box be inflated? This is hard to answer without benchmarks. So I tried several values and ran the benchmarks for each one. Result is a 17% gain on this scenario and no regressions elsewhere.

12.11.2024 17:45 — 👍 26    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

In today's episode of "What am exactly I waiting for here?" I waited for Visual Studio to open 477 projects in a Unity Engine generated solution. It took > 15min. Did I attach a profiler? Why of course I did, because I ran out of patience and Superluminal is my only friend.

07.11.2024 12:23 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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