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JoshJers

@JoshJers@peoplemaking.games

I've been programming for way too long
Also sometimes I write or perform music
Mostly I talk about random bullshit
(he/him)

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JoshJers, to random
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Turns out I have a sprained middle finger

Objectively the funniest place to get a sprain

JoshJers,
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@glassbottommeg hahaha
I actually did break my middle finger once ... albeit, it was the other one

having that in a splint for 6 weeks was a neverending* source of amusement for me!

*sadly it actually ended in 6 weeks

eniko, to random
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my advice to anyone who wants to make a hobby programming language would be to make a lisp, except to simultaneously not worry at all about being anything like the big lisps in terms of design or syntax

so basically what i'm saying is use s-expressions

JoshJers,
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@eniko aww but that's the fun part!

I did all of that part and then stopped because I didn't have the brainpower to figure out all the type inference I want to do

aeva, to random
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I can't be bothered to look up the facts about the windows 11 ai thing, but I'm genuinely baffled as to who wants this, as well as why they need special ai hardware to make a keylogger that also watches you look at porn or whatever else it is that people use computers for

JoshJers,
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@aeva pretty sure "who wants this" is "shareholders" and literally nobody else

JoshJers, to random
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I have a handwritten note on my paper pad that just says "Give laptop IBS" and I do not remember writing this

eniko, to random
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Society: its just a 10am appointment and it only takes an hour to get there why are you complaining about it, sounds like you're just lazy

My job: yeah so we're gonna need you to be awake at 4am for about 3 hours to do this voice recording session

JoshJers,
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@eniko yeah the amount of time people have given me shit or called me lazy for sleeping late only for me to reveal that I slept 5 hours because I was getting shit done at night and went to bed at 4 or 5 is ... a lot

Sometimes they make the connection of "oh wow you sleep way less than I do!" and back down, sometimes they just cannot fathom that things can be done after they personally are asleep

JoshJers,
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@aeva @eniko Yup! I had one partner who, in the same conversation, was like "god I did not get enough sleep last night" when she went to bed at 9 and woke up at 7, who then said that I shouldn't be so tired because I "slept in" (from 5 until 11)

My current partner finally understood when I asked her why she can't just stay up a few hours later (she's one of those "gets tired, goes to bed, falls immediately asleep" people). Then she got that "oh it's just like that but backwards"

eniko, to random
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If you come into my mentions saying there are bigger problems than covid and treating it like a flu isn't the end of the world you will be aggressively told to educate yourself on the realities of covid (https://covidsafetyforschools.org) with a minimum of 8 slides from that course and if you then keep minimizing covid to me you will be blocked

The slides will show that an order of magnitude more children are hospitalized from covid than flu, that it kills way more than an order of magnitude people than flu does, that it's a vascular illness not a respiratory illness like the flu, which causes significant long term increases in potentially fatal cardiovascular events, that it causes likely irreversible neuron fusing which causes cognitive impairment, that it causes IQ drops cumulative with each infection, and that it greatly increases risk of developing alzheimer's and parkinson's disease

TL;DR if you're a covid minimizer and you like to follow me I highly suggest you keep it to your fucking self

JoshJers,
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@eniko Eniko: 1 Wrong Person: 0

mcc, to random
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Have you ever seen this website https://cyber.pink/

JoshJers,
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@mcc I miss when basically the entire web was just this

tiny pages that did weird shit

(am I wearing rose- or cyber-pink-tinted glasses? probably)

aeva, to random
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I need to get my mind off the bad. Anything good going on tonight for anyone? Feel free to share things your excited about or happy about or just cool stuff you've come across recently

JoshJers,
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@aeva I spent my whole day at work just clearing out tech debt and it was SUBLIME

I seriously love doing code cleanup

JoshJers,
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@aeva ...although for a brief moment I did accidentally make a recursive template type which made for a hilarious error message

JoshJers,
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@aeva so good

It would burn so bright

JoshJers, to random
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Do they have men's hair dye in Barbieland and if they do is the brand name Just For Ken?

(sorry Alan)

JoshJers, to random
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I'm an adult

JoshJers, to random
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Me: I'm not going to work on this new video project tonight I'm too tired

Also me, actively working on it: whoops it's almost 2am

JoshJers,
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For something I've been doing my whole life I really am bad at sleep

JoshJers,
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@eniko it's either that or sleep ever. I've made my choice 🙃

JoshJers, to random
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The only good thing about working in a codebase that has some vestiges of hungarian notation is that sometimes you have to name a variable "ppProducer" and it's funny every time

eniko, to random
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a pox on whoever came up with the fucking byte order mark

JoshJers,
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@eniko For UTF-8, I used to think it was useful, back in the early Unicode days when the web was basically made of extended ASCII text.

Now, though, it's annoying whenever it shows up because mostly everything is UTF-8 and now I have to have code to deal with "is there a specific 3 bytes at the top of a text file"

nyquildotorg, to random
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I think we can ban TikTok and stop American big tech data collection.

JoshJers,
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@nyquildotorg I mostly agree with you, but a weak counterpoint to this is that I don't know that this is "starting somewhere" exactly - the focus is in the wrong place ("China" vs "this level of data collection is inherently wrong") so I don't think the government will follow the thread that it should into "maybe it's bad no matter where the company is located"

I'd love to be wrong but I can't see there being any additional follow-through.

aeva, to random
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you ever think about how "copy" and "paste" don't have dedicated keys on most keyboards

JoshJers,
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@aeva good thing they're adding the Copilot key, a key which I am sure I will ever intentionally press

Dandelion, to random
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You can do that on itch.io, bud.

Maybe pull your head out of your AAA-nus and look around at the rest of the industry once in a while.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/former-blizzard-president-suggests-you-should-be-able-to-leave-a-dollar10-or-dollar20-tip-for-the-devs-because-some-games-are-that-special/

JoshJers,
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@gabrielesvelto @Dandelion no because I assume the tip also goes to the millionaire

JoshJers,
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@eniko @gabrielesvelto @Dandelion yeah I absolutely meant 100%

JoshJers, to random
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about a month ago almost every email I get has suddenly started going into my spam folder on gmail

and so now I'm basically marking everything as "not spam" but it just keeps doing it

I have no idea how to make it stop

eniko, to random
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Encountered a shader compiler that complained that it can't do a multiply between float and const int and like... come on! How bad does your compiler have to be that it can't handle that?

Anyway. After adding ".0" to every integer in Kitsune Tails' shaders the problem is now solved, but jesus christ

JoshJers,
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@eniko haha yep I'm pretty sure I hit that with the NTSC stuff in ... some compiler

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