Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
Louis Ingenthron
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Good morning all. I woke up to this magnificent piece of nature's art on my bedroom window this morning
@evanpeterjones Both sides are huge hypocrites on this one. If your reasoning changes based on your desired outcome, you're not actually reasoning at all.
I've come to expect that from the GOP, but that liberals do the same thing with no self-awareness drives me up a wall.
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@evanpeterjones Yes, it is. That was my point. The GOP has taken the expansionist position on 2A.
@darkuncle @drewharwell Printing a version string is trivially easy, but it's not what this algorithm is designed to do.
Asking ChatGPT what version it is is like asking a video game executable to open text files for editing.
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@evanpeterjones They aren't in the constitution. That's the point. American liberals want 14A to protect them as if they were.
Which is a good thing! But my OP was about them using expansionism to protect personal liberties like marriage and abortion while simultaneously using originalism to strip away personal liberties for guns. The hypocrisy undercuts both arguments.
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@evanpeterjones I didn't forget. Those amendments did some of the heavy lifting, but not all of it.
For example, it took a fairly expansive interpretation of a combination of 14&15A to enforce the Voting Rights Act for 40 years to prevent voter disenfranchisement on racial lines (until it was killed by SCOTUS in 2013).
To be fair though, maybe "marriage and abortion rights" would have been better and more timely examples to make my point than "slavery and voting rights".
@brody Yeah, making things do what they're meant to do is "business" and making things do what they're not meant to do is "art".
It's been YEARS since I last worked in someone else's #codebase (I'm typically a solo #developer), and it is so much fun. It's like #archeology, trying to get into the mind of someone you don't know to understand how and why they did things.
@maxkennerly Yeah, and when TV/Radio came out, there was a subset of the population that believed whatever came out of those boxes was true. 
Familiarity will breed contempt.
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It's utterly bizarre to me how American liberals are so against constitutional originalism for things like voting rights or slavery, but are happy to turn around and argue that 2A should be evaluated only in the context of 18th-century muskets and militias.
Pick a lane.
@annmlipton I hope they don't apply that test to other rights, like suffrage.
@shriramk @NIH_LLAMAS @malwaretech Decent human beings have a moral obligation to reject those who uphold or enrich racists, even if they do so in their op-ed section.
@RoguePlayer They're fancy computer mad libs. If language models are somehow the end of us, we'll die a particularly stupid death.
@maxkennerly The fact that the NYT thinks language models are capable of love to declare is just sloppy reporting from people who don't understand what they're interacting with.
@brad_frost Pick a good "accept suggestion" key early if you don't like tab (so you learn the right muscle memory).
Other than that, just enjoy!
It takes some time to learn where it really shines (usually more formulaic code), but once you get the hang of it, it's a great productivity booster.
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Or perhaps, just perhaps, the nation’s supposedly leading business newspaper would have better seen these failures coming if they had focused more on market, economic, and business conditions and less on obsessively rooting out the woke menace of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and veterans(!) gaining token admission to the corridors of power and wealth.
I'd really like to see the internal memo at #LinkedIn for what qualifies as "spam" that's worthy of being moderated, because at this point it might just be a blank page.
@seldo In my experience, that's a fine attitude only for folks who are happy with limiting their potential.
There's a great deal of wisdom to be found in the lower level implementations that translates directly to the quality of work at the higher level.
Understanding how the fundamentals apply to the higher-level frameworks can be the difference between a worker bee and a trusted expert.
Just got that amazing-yet-rare feeling in software engineering where I prepared a base layer of software just right so that adding top level features is just easy and fun and intuitive and everything just works first try. It's incredible. Gonna enjoy it while it lasts and go knock on some wood.
@brody Didn't they rebuild the terrain engine from scratch for this game?? That does not bode well.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
