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rodhilton

@rodhilton@mastodon.social

backend services engineering • Twitter alum • movie nerd • machete order guy • remote work zealot • hall monitors get mocked & blocked • facts my own & disguised as opinions

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Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge was the first RPG I ever played, and I was obsessed despite being unable to escape the first few floors of the dungeon. I used to read the hint book like a novel.

I completed parts 7 and 8, and that trilogy is one of my all time favorites.

The first game was a bit too primitive and before my time, so I am elated at a quality-of-life graphical remake built on top of the original engine. I hope they do 2-5.

https://www.digitaleclipse.com/games/wizardry

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@mwyman early in the pandemic I decided to set up dosbox and boot it up with multiple walkthroughs & vowed to actually complete the game.

Turns out there's an unpatched glitch that makes the game impossible to complete unless you know a workaround.

I feel better never having completed it knowing that it was essentially not completable in the state it was released.

Anyway I managed to complete it using the guides and the glitch workaround and it was everything my inner child hoped it would be.

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Imagine un-retiring your iconic character from Logan to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NebqFm0PoVw

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All I want in a lawn service is to be told a certain amount it'll cost per year, and then have every decision made by someone else.

Lawn needs to be aerated? Sprayed with some chemical? Mowed? Tall grasses need to be cut back?

Literally just pretend it's your yard and do it. Do whatever. Don't ask me what I want done, don't upsell me. Don't ever talk to me beyond "your annual payment is due" and frankly I'll set it up on autopay.

I want to never devote a single thought to my yard.

rodhilton,
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@PhD_Frog great idea, let me just ask the HOA real quick.

Oop they said no

rodhilton,
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@PhD_Frog really? I thought it was required.

We actually relandscaped the back with fescue that requires much less watering, but the front is still bluegrass.

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A friend is switching from IC to management, and was asking for advice. She hadn't thought of what I suggested so it's probably worth sharing more broadly:

Get someone promoted. ASAP.

The more junior someone is, the easier this is a. Whatever the promo process is at the company, follow it, and get someone a promotion, ideally within your first quarter.

Almost every "tell us about a time when" question you get asked in a manager interview can be answered with the story of doing that.

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bitch are you TRYING to lose? https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/05/20/biden-republicans-condemn-icc-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-israel-hamas-gaza

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Young Sheldon is the story of how a nerdy but likable young boy turned into an absolutely insufferable twerp after his dad died and then became tolerable to be around after getting married and having children.

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Tipping and Square ipads have gotten out of control in America generally but I think the most ridiculous one is the suggested tip at soft-serve ice cream joints.

I grab my cup, I fill it with ice cream, I spoon on the toppings, and I'm the one to put it on the scale. You literally press one button and then tell me how much I owe, and then I tap my own phone on the reader. I did all the work, why aren't you tipping me?

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The best part about a Trump vs Biden debate is how everyone is going to publicly project that their guy is going to destroy the other but secretly be edge-of-their-seat nervous about the guy they're going to vote for fucking up so badly that nobody else will vote for him.

Everyone who says they are excited for the debate is on heavy copium, they're all terrified.

Each of these guys is about to debate the only person on the planet who stands a chance at fucking up worse than them.

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LOL yeah case in point. Publicly projecting confidence while secretly so nervous about it that they've gotta block AND reply to indicate they were doing so.

Nothing shows how sure you are of your guy's victory than a temper tantrum at the mere suggestion he might not do great.

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When you get the purple Connection first and wonder if you might have a mental disorder

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How many days do you suppose we have before Dropbox announces they are selling everyone's documents to OpenAI?

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@sortius @MadiqIzichi @zmh oh what I'm imagining is the full StackOverflow style "abandon ship" move.

Company basically shuts down as it sells all the data it has to OpenAI, distributes the funds from OpenAI to executives as the business is shuttered. A last gasp.

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Hey Rackspace will you hurry up and finish going out of business? I haven't deployed anything to your cloud in over a decade and I'm real sick of your "come back" marketing emails that I can't unsubscribe from. Amazon ate your lunch, it's time to throw in the towel.

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Oohhhh he's back! The man behind the mask! And he's out of control, he's back!

https://www.ign.com/articles/jason-universe-horror-inc-announces-multi-platform-expansion-of-friday-the-13th-franchise?utm_source=twitter

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For fuck's sake, THIS is what they're doing with it?

I hate this so much. I regret rooting for you, Victor Miller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_dEgzuAcxQ

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Never get good at something you don't want to do.

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It's interesting how people are reacting to the OpenAI and Gemini demos on a purely technical achievement level without realizing it.

The audience ooh'd and aah'd when Gemini identified the speaker on the table when asked "what makes sound?"

Indeed, that's very impressive as a technical accomplishment. It's amazing for an AI.

The problem is that Google immediately took the leap to "this will help you in your day-to-day life!" & put it on all our phones.

Bruh I know what a speaker looks like.

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Often when we don't know something, my wife will search it on her phone. This used to involve her clicking a result or two and then announcing the answer.

These days, she just reads out the AI summary that appears at the top.

I shit you know, the last 10 times she did this, all 10 of them were wrong. And wrong in a subtle way that only stands out if you know what's right, or try to apply the wrong answer to actually solve a problem.

It's all very impressive but it's consistently not useful.

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Season finale of honestly was not great and yet the show as a whole was still the best X-Men thing Marvel has ever produced.

Really serves to highlight just how badly Disney dropped by the ball by securing X-Men rights in 2019 and then proceeding to use none of it in making the dreadful phases 4 and 5.

Honestly how do brainstorm the post-Endgame MCU with "X-Men" circled on a whiteboard at Disney HQ and proceed to make Ant-Man 3 and Moon Knight?

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I will live the rest of my life without understanding why Bill Maher uploaded the podcast episode in which Bill Burr completely demolishes him.

The man could have just deleted the video and instead he uploaded it for the world to see him bare his own red ass for Burr to spank

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/14/why-am-i-fing-listening-to-you-bill-burr-rips-bill-mahers-very-simple-solution-to-gaza/

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There's so much that GenAI can do and so many threat vectors it creators, I'm not sure people fully appreciate how utterly broken it's going to make the internet.

Think about how many web sites you use where all they do is provide a place for human beings to upload things, and show them to you next to an ad.

Every forum, every social media, every search engine, SO, Quora, they're all just places that slurp up human-submitted content.

AI can now generate all that content. They're all cooked.

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Most of the web is a connected series of mini-platforms that basically offer nothing but a restrictive interface to dictate what users submit, and make inferences about how it's submitted in order to do something novel in displaying it.

Publishers like news sites or The Onion or Cracked where the content displayed is developed in-house (though their use of AI is a whole other topic) may still have something to offer people.

But platforms are going to be overrun by stuff nobody wants to look at

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Most of these sites seem to know it too. They're all making last-gasp efforts sell whatever they slurped up from users to AI tools to get one last paycheck before they are destroyed permanently.

There's all kinds of stuff AI is going to impact, all kinds of problems it creates, but let's not forget that "destroying virtually every web site you use" is a top one.

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