luciole

luciole, 1 hour ago

Just please don’t be smart ass and choose a non relevant top-level domain because it looks cute. .io is for the British Indian Ocean Territory. .af is for Afghanistan. queer.af actually got taken down by the talibans.

.com and .org are both open TLDs and totally fine. If you’re afraid to be understood as organization, you can go for .com. It’s the default of the web by now.

If your service can be understood as some kind of web application, you could look into .app as well.

luciole, 21 minutes ago

The .io TLD has been the subject of controversy for a number of years despite (or because it is?) being hijacked by tech.

EDIT: More about it

luciole, 18 hours ago

I have played some of the Avernum games. In my opinion it’s peak Jeff Vogel. If you’re fine with the graphics, you’re in for excellent writing, nicely done non linear exploration and original world building.

luciole, 18 hours ago

Siralim Ultimate is a very special monster collector. The sheer amount of everything is delightfully overwhelming, the depth is nonsensical and the grind is real. I love it.

luciole, 1 day ago

Right?! I freaked on the same paragraph. Most depressing thing ever said about game dev. These suits would rather fire everyone and play stonks all day if it earned a dime more. I’m so mad for the massive creative force being crushed by this broken system.

luciole, 8 days ago

the salad making jokes

luciole, 8 days ago

Signs get more severe as OP heads back home. Housing crisis and so on.

luciole, 8 days ago

Nah it’s biohazard. If I had to guess I’d go for upcoming zombie apocalypse ground zero.

luciole, 8 days ago

They sure like to use nondescript generative AI pictures. Can’t figure out what’s under the hood of their “Code Teacher” LLM. Most lessons are behind login.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/c1894d81-0ee9-4c87-a5ae-1ef2d90d42d7.webp

luciole, 8 days ago

Avec sa logique, on conduirait toujours sans ceinture, une bière entre les cuisses, fier de notre dash chromé, rutilant de boutons métalliques pointus.

luciole, 6 days ago

Congrats! Hopefully your next boss realizes the delay you’re asking for is a small price to pay for hiring someone who cares.

luciole, 6 days ago

Diversity: it’s good for everybody! neocat hug bee heart emoji Also, it’s wise to get used to being taught new things by younger people, lest we become stuck in the past shudders.

luciole, 9 days ago

J’ai eu la même réaction à propos du vandalisme du chantier Northvolt. Et le manifeste est encore plus repoussant que l’acte lui-même. C’est le genre de ton qui n’a jamais mené à rien de bon dans l’Histoire. C’est bête, parce que sur le fond je suis d’accord avec eux : l’auto est le problème et il faut transformer les espaces de vie qu’on s’est construit. La voiture électrique est une fausse bonne idée. Mais les moyens que ces activistes emploient ne font que faire reculer la cause qu’ils prétendent défendre.

luciole, 12 days ago

Are passionate about the development lifecycle of other engineers and their pain points.

If you’ve been coding for 55+ years, you’ve almost gone through a whole engineer life cycle and you most probably know a lot about pain points.

luciole, 14 days ago

I want to ditch Windows, I really do, but when I get free time I want to either play a game or tinker on some side project. I don’t want to fiddle with drivers and what not for my OS. A year ago I killed a few weekends trying to get a Ubuntu partition nice and cozy for gaming but I got fed up fighting with all kinds of issues on basic things. The fact that games actually running correctly on Linux is hit-or-miss as well… It’s a hard sell (even though it’s free). Microsoft seems to be hell-bent on convincing me to try out some other Linux distro at some point though.

luciole, 14 days ago

I do! You mean like an actual second physical drive? Does that bring advantages compared to partitioning a single drive besides the space?

luciole, 15 days ago

Reducing emotion to voice intonation and facial expression is trivializing what it means to feel. This kind of approach dates from the 70s (promoted namely by Paul Elkman) and has been widely criticized from the get-go. It’s telling of the serious lack of emotional intelligence of the makers of such models. This field keeps redefining words pointing to deep concepts with their superficial facsimiles. If “emotion” is reduced to a smirk and “learning” to a calibrated variable, then of course OpenAI will be able to claim grand things based on that amputated view of the human experience.

luciole, 16 days ago

Reddit a aussi été au départ cette petite plateforme où les gens éduqués et ouverts se regroupaient. Il n’en reste que cette manie de tout regarder de haut. Les utilisateurs de r/quebec adoptent le ton du reste du site. Je le prends comme une leçon de ne pas fonder l’identité d’une communauté sur la conviction de sa supériorité.

luciole, 16 days ago

Was asked some months ago, unfortunately not much came up.

luciole, 20 days ago

Wrong article?

luciole, 21 days ago

Oh this is interesting, but how do we get identical twins then? How come we get two gastrulation processes doing the exact same dance side by side, if not DNA?

Also I didn’t know about Copy Cat. Being a clone and coming out nothing like the original, what a cat thing to do. They’ll wiggle out of anything, them adorable bastards.

luciole, 23 days ago

Just be careful not to idealize the past as some golden age of gaming. During the SNES era, worthwhile titles were few and far between on top of spotty regional availability on account of profitability (supposedly). The bar to entry for gamedevs was huge: the dev tools were obtuse and the distribution methods were shit and centralized (toy stores, computer stores, magazines). The offer was also ridiculously sanitized, at least on consoles.

It’s great that we can still enjoy the good games of the past, but I absolutely love what indies come up with nowadays. There are so many and they’re so creative! ❤️ Some talented big studio devs even manage to release something nice once in a while despite the organizational structure they work in. I never want to go back to gaming in the 90’s. Furthermore, I’m of the opinion that there are many past titles being hailed as classics solely based on some unconscious nostalgia for youth (I’m looking at you GOG).

luciole, 28 days ago

The actual research page is so awkward. The TLDR at the top goes:

single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video

Then a little lower comes the big red warning:

We are exploring visual affective skill generation for virtual, interactive characters, NOT impersonating any person in the real world.

No siree! Big “not what it looks like” vibes.

luciole, 28 days ago

I really liked the original 2DS personally. The announcement left everyone incredulous as the device sounded and looked like a dumb downgrade. I mean, it was hard to tell if it was joke or not. In the end though it’s light, cheap, tough and surprisingly comfortable.

luciole, 28 days ago

Cheaper than many phones as well.