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
USPOL
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.
Louis Ingenthron
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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.
@slightlyoff Agreed, and this paradigm needs to be applied in other axes as well. Work primarily in C#? You should know a bit about Visual Basic (higher) and C++ (lower) and have an inkling of assembly (much lower). If you only know one layer, you'll inherently limit yourself.
@annmlipton The same audience as any NFT product: idiots.
US, China, war, Taiwan
@z_everson I really find it hard to believe that will come to pass. Too many rich and powerful people in America would lose too much money if trade with China was halted due to war. They won't let the government take away their source for cheap child labor.
@spaceflight Yes, introducing water vapor and heat to the atmosphere is the point.
Also, the asteroids could be of other types of ice than water, such as methane or dry ice (CO2).
@spaceflight Not for artificial craft, generally, no.
The use case in question was to ablate a natural body (i.e. an ice asteroid) through a planet's atmosphere to modify its environmental conditions, i.e. as a step in terraformation.
@brad_frost And staggering to think how impossible that will be for future generations because of how badly we've mucked up copyright law.
If my "eat the rich" mentality wasn't cemented before, the fact that SVB paid out bonuses immediately before failing has done it.
People say that if America raises taxes on millionaires and billionaires, then they'll just go and run their business in other countries.
Good. GTFO.
So the federal government is now stepping in to make sure the rich folks don't feel any pain so they don't retaliate by destroying our entire economy.
And, yes, I know "retaliate" is really "panic like a herd frightened sheep" but still.
We really are just peasants living in a world built for oligarchs.
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
