@rufustheruse.bsky.social
Technorati of Leisure. And doodler. Pre-doodler as software-enator, at Microsoft, Intel, and Axon. Pacific Northwesterner who loves to explore and plays way too much Destiny 2 / Xbox. Lover of Sci-Fi. Star Trek > Star Wars but both are great. 🖖🤘
Boooo. @amazonprime.bsky.social video is getting as bad as @netflix.com when it comes to giving up on glorious, epic shows. I still mourn @greatdismal.bsky.social 's "The Peripheral" cancelation, in addition to "The Expanse." Well, I guess I'm putting all my eggs & hopes into Apple TV+.
AI newspaper content that's hallucinogenicly bogus = different kind of lazy fueled by generator hubris and publisher greed. #AI is not akin to the calculator because calculators don't occasionally tell you the wrong thing. Authentic, high-quality, organic content is going to need a label. #Organic?
This is... not good. So my 2017 car has front facing cameras for safety, it has a backup camera, and maybe one day a dash camera. Tesla cars are all about the camera, no lidar. So this #Volvo is going to go driving around, blasting away everyone's camera? Let alone the stray urban selfie drive-by...
Washington State has a page reflecting significant #layoffs. #Microsoft popped up today, the first since 2023. 2023 looks like a year of suck if you search for Microsoft. I think there's been more cutbacks since 2023 but not enough to register.
Best wishes to those affected. #techlife #MSFT #jobs
As a dev lead, I triaged all incoming bugs, like crashes. I'd load up WinDBG and figure out what the crash was so that I could factually justify why I was assigning the bug to a person or group. THIS... this looks like heaven. Esp. if it can debug crashes w/ the PPL C++ thread library (🤮). #MCP FTW
A nice data-based discussion of how shipping is looking with tariffs. It talks about the tariff pre-surge and looks at data, especially with the port of LA, of what's down so far. TL;DW - chaos in the logistics system now, June+ empty shelves.
#tariffs #economy #shortages
Today's cover song discovery: Joey by The Dead South, one of my most favorite songs by Concrete Blonde. It's a nice country twang re-interpretation. #CoverSong #ConcreteBlonde
Alright, my new winner for best @stephenking.bsky.social adaptation is "The Outsider" on @hbomax.bsky.social . Totally fantastic with great acting - esp. Ben Mendelsohn - and surprise, Cynthia Erivo is playing Holly Gibney. Sorrowful and super well done. #TheOutsider #HollyGibney #TV
May 16th can't come soon enough. Apple TV+ continues to be on fire for science fiction.
#Murderbot #AppleTV+
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...and now I can pay my taxes! Oh, wait... booooooo!
2024 #TurboTax is buggy for me -"continue" buttons don't continue. I ran into error 25300. I tried some online searching and then asked #Claude.ai for recommendations. The error is fixed! From your %temp% directory, delete Intuit.Spc.Map.Features.WindowsFirewallLog. Go @claudeai.bsky.social .
I love Cliff Mass. I was ready to be without power due to severe weather, plus I parked my car under the trees to avoid damaging hail. The event was a nothing burger. And I wasn't surprised because Dr. Mass put out a post saying why he thought conditions weren't right for bad #pnw #weather.
...this Prey is what I started playing yesterday on the Xbox Cloud Streaming service. It is not a remake. It starts totally differently with no jukebox. I played for about an hour before I finally hit the WTF wall, did I have the wrong game in mind?
One of the best video game beginnings I experienced was from Prey. My character is in a bar, I choose to play "Don't Fear the Reaper" from the jukebox, then everything goes to hell as aliens pull us & the bar upwards to their ship, the song still playing. But there are two Prey video games...
It's good to keep in mind the *Multiplier Effect*.
Given the number of job reductions in progress right now, I remind myself it's not just those jobs lost. The jobs help support other jobs, and those support jobs are at gone, too. Microsoft job supports 4-5 additional jobs. Brutal ripple effect. 🦋😖
I've been reading @wired.com since issue #1. It has had its ups and has had its downs (the dot com years being the worst - phonebook sized issues with wordy articles to sell more ads).
Anyway, right now WiReD is on fire and this is a great boss move.
"Hello, this is the Streisand Effect calling. You ordered a jumbo-max effect, is that correct?" -- so I'm totally reading this book now... I just have to figure where I can buy the #ebook from that's not a place as bad as #Meta.
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May all car makers be permitted to follow #VW. I have a 2017 #Subaru. I got a 2024 loaner and it had no real buttons for climate etc anymore, all screen that you're fat fingering and glancing at real quick to ensure you're pressing the right control, vs. dials and real buttons. I'm not buying that.
🤣Who's got ten thum,bs and a new mechanical. keyuboard? This guyQ!!!🤣
I bought an Alice layout keyboard from Keychron. It's heavy enough to be a weapon! But different from my poor last Microsoft ergo ekyboard, which was slowly peeling apart. Anyway, I obviously have to get used to a new layout!
502 Kindle books in the queue, 502 Kindle books, click to download the next, see it's a success, 501 Kindle Books in the queue... #Amazon #Kindle #ThisSucks #BuyMyEbooksAnywhereElse
I cannot wait! 🖤 I recently finished the last (so far!) Murderbot book🖤 - I plowed through the series. I was having Murderbot dreams… with ART being a real obstructive butt to me. Hmm. 🤔 Who should do ART’s voice in Season Two? I want a golden voice that can easily slip into malice.
(5) Oh, and during the very last bit of The Corrupted alt-strike, I did stand on top of the rock out of the way of the repulsor shield and just kept hammering away on that boss... #RepulsorOrRepulser -- wikidiff.com/repulsor/rep...
(4) Also for the final stage, just keep playing Gambit if you think you can't wipe out four guardians as an invader. I played enough that it happened w/in one day.
(3) For the final stage, taking out an invading guardian counted for me, so I didn't have to do a lot of invasions. Xenophage, baby.
(2) You're going to be doing a LOT of Gambit. Align this with Xur exotic cypher quests and the Gambit Pathfinder. Keep an eye on the Vanguard Pathfinder and drop in there to finish that, too.
(1) Do the quest to get Xenophage, if you haven't already. Xenophage can rule Gambit. You can two shot invading guardians (or invade and take out). Though... I did something different at the lighting of ritual chalices...
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Thanks to @timesausages.bsky.social video, I finally pursued Malfeasance in @destinythegame.bungie.net . I saw it was a special version of "The Corrupted" strike (my least favorite) so I bore down and got it done. And I just got the catalyst! Advice (cont): #Destiny
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Well, my match-mates have been given the 'bird' twice while in Excision, so I'm going to give that a rest (I mean, right when "Call to Ghost" gets activated, boom).
Thanks for the updates and thanks for being on @bsky.app ! I've missed the updates since ditching the other 💩❌ place.
I discussed this concern w/ one AI researcher and his idea was to take code and transform it into an Abstract Syntax Tree and train the AI on that, too, in a way training on a generic idea of coding, one that is a concept that could then be transformed into any language. We'll see. 🔮