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obviousdwest

@obviousdwest@hachyderm.io

Online game developer, distributed systems, software. Compassionate philosopher. Home improvement, tools. Science. Sustainability. Democracy, equality. Dachshunds. Books, movies. The Princess Bride.

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obviousdwest, to climate
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Cambridge claims that using recycled cement as flux in steel furnaces (which can use recycled steel and renewable electricity), the resulting slag becomes Portland cement again, usable in concrete. This can reduce global co2 emissions by 7.5%. https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/cement-recycling

TheTempleMom, to random
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More phrog.

obviousdwest,
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@TheTempleMom Loafrog.

bitinn, to gamedev
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Can older gamedev share some wisdom on how crunch manifest in the early 90-00s era?

These days crunch feels like a “feature” of game industry:

  • yes, by market cap we are definitely one of the biggest video game companies.

  • but even within it, your choice is to either crunch to meet increasingly difficult deadline;

  • or see your project cancelled in 2-4 years, then either continue on with other big projects or get layoff.

Are the 90s’ crunch different?

obviousdwest,
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@bitinn I disagree w the third bullet. Companies w good product processes that avoid burning out their staff will outlive those that constantly crunch. A healthy long-lived game studio is not a single sprint to a single launch, it must be multiple titles over years. And you can’t afford to lose successful teams by pushing them too hard. Plus better team members will be able to choose studios that don’t suck like that. Thereby making those studios more successful.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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This driverless Waymo came to a full stop in the bike lane ahead of us, even though there was plenty of space in the passenger loading zone a few feet away. I waited to see if the Waymo would ever pull into the loading zone, but I got tired of waiting after 5 minutes.

A photo taken showing the front of a Waymo that is currently parked in a bike lane. The Waymo is in the bike lane, but there is an empty space a few feet away from the Waymo that is painted with a white strip (indicating it is a 10 minutes passenger loading zone). The LCD screen on the top of the Waymo shows the letters "JC", which is the name of the passenger it is picking up.

obviousdwest,
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@docpop Can they hear you honk/ring your bell?

arstechnica, to random
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Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature will record everything you do on your PC

Recall uses Copilot+ PC features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

obviousdwest,
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@arstechnica Better not use “show password” anywhere from then on. LLMs leak their training data. So if someone later queries it on your machine (encrypted storage or not), that’s a problem.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Ron DeSantis Makes “Climate Change Isn’t Real” Official Florida Law

😆😭😡🤣
(went for emojis as lost for words!)

https://newrepublic.com/post/181622/ron-desantis-climate-change-florida-law

obviousdwest,
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@pvonhellermannn He didn’t do this alone. The State legislature had to write it and the majority approve it. There is a lot of crazy or corrupt people involved in this. Didn’t make the headline, but banning offshore wind is also stupid. Guess that industry didn’t pay big enough bribes.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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obviousdwest,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat My wife said: there’s a missing colon. (But crocodiles don’t read)

rayckeith, to random
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    obviousdwest,
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    @rayckeith I can’t find a news story about this one. Is it real?

    kellogh, to random
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    on OSX? Run this now:

    python -c 'print("yo "*28800)' | say

    obviousdwest,
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    @kellogh I just play a short video in Media Player, and click Repeat. To be truly annoying, your audio loop should include a random sleep.

    heidilifeldman, to random
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    Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/

    obviousdwest,
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    @heidilifeldman You used the word courage. My wife used the word coward. I think that’s right. They really are acting like they are afraid of what will happen (to them) if they rule against him and if he were to win. That reinforces the idea that these are really mob boss trials, and our justices are compromised (willingly or not).

    obviousdwest, to random
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    Why didn’t the questions include one where the President assassinates a Supreme Court Justice for being corrupt in his eyes? Immunity for that? Would they have taken the case more seriously then? Considered the longer term consequences?

    18+ Frances_Larina, to random
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    "HIPAA will now protect medical records for out-of-state abortions"

    (new HHS rule)

    https://19thnews.org/2024/04/hipaa-medical-records-out-of-state-abortions/

    obviousdwest,
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    @Frances_Larina Good. Now to protect HHS from attacks on its power (Chevron Doctrine) to define HIPPA.

    shoq, to random
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    I am so sick of paywalls. We have to find a more sustainable form of journalism. All general news articles should be free after 24 hours. Feature articles can stay behind the paywall. Those who want or need superfresh news can (and will) pay.

    obviousdwest,
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    @shoq This war started when they made the ads so obnoxious. Overlaying the content, popups, sound on videos, flashing, etc. A couple of ads for relevant products in the gutter or headers would be fine. But they had to amp it up. So we had to protect our eyeballs. Same w tracker cookies. Couldn’t leave it alone; escalated; triggered. Sigh.

    molly0xfff, to random
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    was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm

    we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans

    obviousdwest,
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    @molly0xfff “bigger” is the wrong word. That implies what you thought…each bigger than its image. “Biggest” would have communicated to compare real-life sizes. It’s a kind of misplaced (assumed) pronoun problem.

    lilithsaintcrow, to random
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    Is it just me, or has package tracking just...stopped working, lately? I mean, it's always been somewhat janky at the edges, but the last few times I've been expecting something, both USPS and UPS have simply not been able to tell me where, when, or sometimes even what the hell.

    obviousdwest,
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    @lilithsaintcrow It could be anywhere in the information chain that the data is no longer being exchanged. Tensions between say Amazon and USPS could result in undocumented changes to the data APIs. DeJoy could be doing it on purpose to make USPS look bad. UPS may be in dispute w Amazon about the amount of business they get. Or, yes, it could be greed. Pay us, or we downgrade the feed.

    sundogplanets, to random
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    The last few days, every single Zoom meeting I've been in with a group of astronomers has started with "so did you get to see the eclipse?" followed by several minutes of excited geeking out about whatever cool things everyone got to see. It makes me very happy to hear about lots of people enjoying how totally cool our planet is.

    obviousdwest,
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    @sundogplanets My brother sent me this image (Hayabusa-2). It gives a sense of how far the moon is. And just the right distance for short or anular eclipses. It seems so unlikely a setup. The precise balance of the math is fabulous to me.

    molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence
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    I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

    https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

    obviousdwest,
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    @molly0xfff It sure uses a lot of power and cooling water to do a meh-job. Maybe using an intern (or fiverr) would be a better choice because it also helps a person.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Helping someone else is the most important thing you’ll ever do.

    obviousdwest,
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    @StillIRise1963 Some people refuse to ask for or to accept help. They are depriving their friends of the joy of giving help to someone they like. Be generous! Ask for help when you need it.

    lauren, to random
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    Trump's criminal NY trial will begin Monday with jury selection. Court will meet four days a week (not on Wednesday). Trump will likely be required to be present for all sessions (absent special permission to be absent). Cameras will not be present, but reporters will be permitted to report via text in real time from the courtroom and overflow room. This will be the first ex-president (or President) to face a criminal trial in U.S. history.

    While it is not completely impossible, the likelihood of anything further delaying the start of this trial is considered to be very low. Trump has lately been sending a barrage of filings to the court and appeals court to try delay; they have all been turned down quickly so far at this late stage.

    obviousdwest,
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    @lauren He could claim to be ill. Hard to argue with that, from certain perspectives.

    augieray, to random
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    Get infected and you're protected from ? No!

    STUDY: "Overall effectiveness of infection in preventing reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 JN.1 variant was estimated at 1.8% (95% CI: -9.3-12.6%), and demonstrated rapid decline over time since the previous infection, decreasing from 82.4% (95% CI: 40.9 to 94.7%) within 3 to less than 6 months, to a negligible level after one year."

    https://academic.oup.com/jtm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jtm/taae053/7642557?login=false

    obviousdwest,
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    @augieray That’s a negative value on one end of that confidence level. Indicating that for some people, getting an infection increased the chance of getting another. Nice.

    obviousdwest, to animals
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    Lazy afternoon.

    sundogplanets, to random
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    It's snowing steadily. It's spring break for my kids and partner, so they're off for one last ski trip (skiing on the prairies is awesome: affordable and easy, but I just really am not a fan of downhill skiing).

    I am home to take care of the (too many?) animals, and I guess get a lot of work done? Not feeling super motivated this slow, snowy morning though...

    obviousdwest,
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    @sundogplanets As a kid, I used to love cross-country skiing when it was actually snowing. It’s quiet. And you can go places (even near your home) that you’d never try in the summer (eg too boggy, or tangled). You’d see winter animals. I was never very athletic, and was always pretty solitary. But cross-country had a way of actually getting me outside and doing something. This was in The Pas, Manitoba.

    eniko, to random
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    It's hilarious to me that the same species that can't even be persuaded to filter the air in schools thinks it's somehow successfully going to make space colonies on mars

    obviousdwest,
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    @eniko Yeah, but on Mars, air will be on the market. And we all know how free market competition makes everything better.

    rbreich, to random
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    Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires.

    Trump wants to double down on his tax cuts, which have already fueled billionaire wealth.

    This isn’t complicated.

    Billionaires are funneling cash to Trump’s campaign for a tax break.

    Anyone else supporting him is being duped.

    obviousdwest,
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    @rbreich @mastodonmigration Let’s remember that as we aggressively go after the billionaires. They started it.

    w7voa, to random
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    NBC News plans to drop ex RNC-chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor following an internal on-air revolt, reports Puck News' media reporter Dylan Byers.

    obviousdwest,
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    @w7voa That sounds like: “I still think it was a good idea, but you are forcing me to do this”.

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