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_benui

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:unreal: ui programmer @ epic games โ€ข views are mine and wrong โ€ข he/him

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_benui, to unrealengine
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I wish there was a way to improve the C++ parsing used by code highlighting. It's not great for macros.

_benui, to random
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goals for new site upgrade:

  • no jquery
  • all webp (sorry)
  • everything searchable via lunr
thelettuceman, to random
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guy from "10 meals for beginner cooks in college" assumes i know what an aromatic is

_benui,
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@thelettuceman that's someone who isn't into romance

cheeaun, to mastodon
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Been trying this out secretly for the past few weeks โ€” a "catch-up" timeline page. Did whole bunch of iterations, where I myself is the guinea pig, but this time reaching a point where I just got to share it out in the public.

  • NOT final design, still very experimental, only on my local machine
  • Instead of algo timeline, this is focused on data-grid-like UI for configuring exactly what I want to see.
  • This honestly could be another full-fledged app/client by itself ๐Ÿซ 

Demo of Catch-up page where it shows the Home/Following timeline with configurable filters and sort options.

_benui,
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@cheeaun This is awesome, but isn't the name a risk? It's a pokemon name, you could get a cease and desist or something

PHIL_FISH, to random
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to skip this promotional experience, do a little dance

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH sony patented that already sorry

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH i'm lovin' it oh my god i'm lovin' it nooooo

glassbottommeg, to random
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I think my biggest worry with the AI counter-push is it's going to generalize into folks going after procgen and generative art. Which are totally different (and much older and much less creepy) things.

Though I also wonder if it'll kick off a wave of players wanting a sense of Craft, which might just finally sway tastes away from infinite procgen content slurry games? Which would actually be nice?

_benui,
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@glassbottommeg Nah, the ai people have way too much money and power on their side. Anti-AI people like me are fucked.

jonikorpi, to random
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Tried living without an adblocker for a few months, again. Just gave up, again. Itโ€™s only gotten worse: ads are not only intrusive, bloated, laggy and full of scams, but now broken too. Kept regularly having them break major sites, especially on mobile.

Does ad garbageness vary by country? Like, do for example developers of US-based sites perhaps see better ads, and end up thinking itโ€™s tolerable to have them because of that?

_benui,
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@jonikorpi Why would you try to live without an adblocker?

_benui,
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@jonikorpi "the web as it is" is an interesting idea but there's so much variation in how people see the web: a huge % of people use adblockers, then there's screen size, browser, accessibility, locale, blocking JS/cookies etc. etc.

PHIL_FISH, to random
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in canada, a brand new full price videogame is 103$ after taxes. thatโ€™s for a regular edition.

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH you're back in canada? welcome back buddy

_benui, to random
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@kenney Can I ask, what software do you use for your website? In particular your knowledge base?

PHIL_FISH, to random
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adobe is next. thatโ€™s going to be harder as iโ€™ve been using photoshop forโ€ฆ. 33 years? jesus christ. and i dont want to use anything that calls itself gimp. no thank you.

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH Give Affinity a go, it's pretty close IMHO.

PHIL_FISH, to random
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whatโ€™s the best alternative to gmail? ideally one where i can import my message history. trying to excise google out of my life.

_benui,
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@PHIL_FISH I use Protonmail, you can import your history

sinbad, to random
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I can relate to this very much: https://aftermath.site/a-full-sized-atx-case-minimalism-no-logos

_benui,
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@sinbad no lights, no glass, none of that shit

_benui, to random
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one day i will slough the carapace of twitter and live eternal, shiny and free as pure rss

but not today

kenney, to random
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Hello my little pumpkin pies! Did you know you can enter the secret code 'kenney' to unlock a Kenney plushie in the MakeRoom demo?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/MakeRoom/

video/mp4

_benui,
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@kenney siiiiiiiick

dergell, to unrealengine
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Oh, and also a shout out to @_benui and his excellent website. Especially the page about advanced delegates was very helpful in the past two days!

_benui,
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@dergell You're very welcome!

_benui, to random
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When programming something, you use all the tools at your disposal to work out what is happening in your program when it goes wrong.

You can set breakpoints and step through with the debugger, inspecting the value of variables. You can print to the screen or to logs.

You can record huge amounts of data and play back what happened step by step to work out what went wrong.

๐Ÿงต

_benui,
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I hate this LLM big data AI stuff because it takes power out of the hands of humans. We no longer make systems that we can fix and understand, we are reduced to trying to trick the system into doing what we want.

_benui,
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@scottmichaud unfortunately?

My point with this thread is that real programming gives you a huge range of tools with which to understand a problem.

LLMs are black boxes.

_benui,
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@wirepair it reminds me of when I had to use Unity. Poking a black box until it did what I wanted.

_benui,
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@oscb some humans do, they're called monarchs or dictators

_benui,
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@StompyRobot that's why if a human does that we prosecute the human.

If a machine does that, the blame is spread neatly between the driver, the AI algorithm, the data, etc. it's just a bug. Nobody is responsible.

_benui,
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@StompyRobot

> Car owner and their insurance company would work, too, because in the end, that cost will end up being borne by those using the cars.

The car owner would claim "I was not driving, the car was driving itself."

The car manufacturer would claim "It's just a bug. We have a billion lawyers to win our case."

> Once the robots are safer than the humans on average (which Waymo already achieved)

Sorry this is factually incorrect. They have blocked data release, lied about accidents

_benui, to random
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I don't know a single person who uses threads. Twitter, Mastodon, Cohost, Bsky, Insta, even Facebook. But who the fuck uses threads.

_benui,
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@j0hnny twitter seems most active still, followed by here, followed by bsky.

each has its own audiences though. here is more popular with godot users and open-source people. bsky just seems to be social stuff, not tutorials.

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