People. Stop saying shit "runs doom" when it, at best, displays a shitty screenshot. It's not funny.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-play-doom-using-gut-bacteria-but-the-framerate-is-atrocious
Can you see the incredibly simple #ComputerScience 101 #bug in this code? Because I just spent the better part of a Sunday banging my head before figuring it out 🤦♂️
#Programming alone and having full control over your #GameDev codebase is great most of the time, but sometimes you just need a second set of eyes to reveal your blind spots.
I'm not saying there's no such thing as software bloat (there is) but the reason that your computer magically always seems to use 80-90% of the ram no matter how much ram you install is that the computer understands empty ram doesn't do anything but ram being used to cache files makes your user experience much faster
this is a good thing! if your computer stopped doing this everything would suddenly feel very sluggish and stuttery!
Using the opposite arguments for Ukraine and Gaza is really starting to piss me off.
something gives me the sneaking suspicion there's been some controversy over spelling at the #Wikipedia article on Beetlejuice
The thing about #tech #layoffs that people who haven’t been through it often don’t understand is that morale never recovers. The employees who remain will never have the same relationship with that company, bosses or peers.
Watching people you respect pack their stuff and crying on the phone with their spouses is something that never goes away. When I survived a layoff in my 20s I became a “do exactly what the ticket says” person. I stopped suggesting ideas, providing feedback, believing anything a manager told me.
If you are a company considering layoffs, especially a profitable company, you should approach it as “this department will have 100% turnover”. The second I got another job offer I left that company and six months later nobody who had been there at the time of layoffs remained.
I’ve seen that pattern play out multiple times.
Real story here is that a passenger got paranoid and caused himself and all his fellow passengers unnecessary delay. With knock on effects, no doubt.
Good work fella!
https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/virgin-atlantic-flight-canceled-missing-bolts-wing-777642-20240123
When I was a smartass computer nerd in the 80s and 90s, an eternal theme was people asking me for tech support help and me having to slowly, patiently explain to them that computers aren't scary, they're actually predictable, they won't explode or erase your data (unless you really make an effort), and they operate by simple (if somewhat arcane) rules. Edit > Cut, then click, then Edit > Paste. Save As. Use tabs, not spaces. Stuff like that. Maybe not easy, but simple, or at least consistent and learnable.
But that's not true anymore.
User interfaces lag. Text lies. Buttons don't click. Buttons don't even look like buttons! Panels pop up and obscure your workspace and you can't move or remove them -- a tiny floating x and a few horizontal lines is all you get. Mobile and web apps lose your draft text, refresh at whim, silently swallow errors, mysteriously move shit around when you're not looking, hide menus, bury options, don't respect or don't remember your chosen settings. Doing the same thing gives different results. The carefully researched PARC principles of human-computer interaction -- feedback, discoverabilty, affordances, consistency, personalization -- all that fundamental Don Norman shit -- have been completely discarded.
My tech support calls now are about me sadly explaining there's nothing I can do. Computers suck now. They run on superstition, not science. It's a real tragedy for humanity and I have no idea how to fix it.
My god, they get fast and loose with the science when the drama kicks into gear.
There were small issues throughout, but the S1 climax is just scientific nonsense.
Finally watching For All Mankind, and my biggest note is that this series has a critical lack of focus.
It's supposed to be about alternate history space race, but it keeps going off on tangents about women's lib and immigration and drugs and grieving.
It's like if every Star Trek episode was half about the adventures of the Enterprise and half about the mundane lives of the relatives of the Enterprise's crew.
#Republicans in #Texas declaring desperate #refugees seeking sanctuary to be an "#invasion" is some of the most cowardly racism I've ever seen.
What's next? Are they going to pass a law allowing the use of deadly force in response to the threat of a baby sneezing in their general direction?
#FreeSpeech jurisprudence, in its simplest form, can be analogized as the crazy hobo delivering sermons on the street:
You're free to voice any opinion you want.
But you can't force anyone to listen to you.
And you're not entitled to use anyone else's megaphone.
In other words, you have a free speech right to scream into the void, and the rest of us have a free speech right to decide if we give enough of a shit to listen.
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.