Claudia Doppioslash

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Reminder that the market has zero idea what it's putting money into most of the time

‘Greatest slip backwards’: Pirates of the Caribbean director says Unreal Engine makes films look too much like games | VGC Gore Verbinski says the increased use of Unreal Engine in movie production means VFX don’t look as good…

Verbinski is right! Finally someone who does not blanket blame "CGI".

"I just don’t think it takes light the same way – I don’t think it fundamentally reacts to subsurface, scattering, and how light hits skin and reflects in the same way."
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What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID‐19 pandemic? The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission res...

This paper goes into more detail on why infection control and public health leaders in 2020 were close to a century out of date on how infections are transmitted in aerosols. Mechanistic science training is inadequate in many medical programs.

The errors would be funny, except for all the death.

Most of them are up to their eyebrows in Cialdini-style cognitive traps and have completely lost sight of the fact that subjective experiences don't tell you anything about the effects on a system, organisation, industry, or community. Anything sensible will likely fall on deaf ears

working on a piece about Pebble and its ecosystem versus what supplanted it and put together this header image of a handful of apps/faces and it just makes me irrationally angry at Google and Apple for how badly they've both blown cultivating ecosystems of wearable software

I think we need to stop treating CEOs as these delicate flowers when they champion the plagiarism machine that kills the planet tbh. "Won't someone please think of the CEOs? People are being really mean to them about their anti-worker decisions" is crazy

Hybrid Working! Do all your zoom calls after spending an hour commuting!

Looking at you, Rout ledge 😂

I try to buy directly from the author whenever possible, many indie authors have their own shopify.
Buying from the publisher for the stuff I buy has been hit or miss, some have some hellish DRM schemes 💀

On that note, never buying a Kindle ever again, Amazon keeps updating and restarting it whenever they like, they ain't even pretending I own this device any more.

New Year resolution of buying all my ebooks from ebooks.com, which seems to be the only ebook seller that actually respects their users? And with Calibre I can manage to read them on my legacy Kindle.
I'd use bookshop.org but it seems like yet another walled garden.

I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas.
#ProcGen #GameDev

Do confirm that Blackwell's are brilliant for overseas English language books. Shipping is very reasonable, no extra duties to pay, thanks for recommending as I would not have thought of looking at them

Copper merchant Ea-nasir says people should move beyond calling copper ‘substandard’

So what I'm reading is "slop" is a very effective word, and we should say it more when referring to generative AI slop.

Thank you for the confirmation, Mr. Nadella!

*Correction: cognitive dampening tools, not amplifier tools.

LLMs destroy critical thought.

Okay, AI puke it is

I propose "Nuisance Capitalism" as a designation for post-AI economic system

Personally, I’m pretty sure the core skills in software dev are perishable.

This would explain why many senior devs see diminishing returns from LLMs over time. The skills necessary to spot when LLMs fuck up might be deteriorating over time.

Modern tech is inhospitable to the kind of stubborn bullshit-despising hackers that for generations used that laziness and spite to get shit done.

What's funny is you can tell exactly why it output this string.

When it stole literally all of Stack Overflow, it stole tons and tons of people's explanations of how to make a program that produces random character strings.

One of the easiest ways to do so, contains *this* ASCII string.

A type of practice that I find interesting historically is the rigorously untrue. Astrology, for instance, was often a very tightly defined practice with a seriously requirement of learning: it just wasn’t actually real.

Since Firefox has sold out to AI, and keeps accidentally deleting my data, I use LibreWolf now, a de-enshittified version of Firefox. So far it works well.

wanna read a scary short story?

you right click an infrastructure secrets blob in 1password and accidentally send it to god knows where with firefox ASK AN AI CHATBOT context menu nobody asked for.

Yeah I imagine some disingenuous AI pushers think even the unwanted popups users get about "Try our new slop feature" count as opt-in because the user hasn't clicked "Yes, enshittify my experience now" yet

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Even more than the fact that we're going all in with an approach that makes no sense in theory, let alone in practice, I'm disappointed in how easily people accepted the toxic sludge that a handful of robber barons ground our information ecosystem into as simply the cool and exciting new tech thing.

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry

My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society

Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable