sophies.games
Programmer, game developer.
Always using the correct amount of cynicism.
https://sophies.games
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on one hand as a British person I wish my country had a bit more kick-ass in it, but on the other, well, I'll take a powerless symbolic monarch over whatever the fuck the US has going on right now
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it's not like the new stuff is even being made by different people - Sam Altman and Elon Musk were crypto guys before they were AI guys.
maybe the average person just really bad at being sceptical, such that even people who are above average at it in business/media are still really bad at it.
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maybe my perspective is warped. is it not a widely held view that social media has done preventable damage to society? or that crypto turned out to be a massive scam? or that gig economy apps squeeze workers and restaurants?
do people just not connect these things to the tech sector at large?
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people say that history repeats itself, or it rhymes; over the course of decades, people die, and their lived experience of the past - and thus, knowledge of how to avoid the mistakes of the past - dies with them.
yet, somehow, mistakes *we all fucking lived through* are being repeated. argh!
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yet the average person - including government officials, business leaders, and investors - is not that sceptical about the shiny new tech thing. chatGPT is the fastest growing app ever, the UK gov is trying to gut copyright for AI.
yet by the most basic heuristic, we should all be sceptical of it.
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very cute!!
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I also appreciate this movie's powerful commitment to being Set In 2009. I understand that's when it was actually made, but if you made it today as an exaggerated pastiche period piece, you wouldn't change a thing.
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Isn't the move here to sell your wrapped one and buy an unwrapped one?
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I've been super into this guy called Ari who has a crazy rig for making hip hop beats on the go. He walks around NYC making fire beats for talented singers/rappers you've never heard of, it's kind of magical to think there's beauty like this everywhere.
youtube.com/shorts/ILdgH...
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oh that would be great, I really need a strong attack boon to complete my build
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to be clear I think it rules that trans people name ourselves this way, but it is also the kind of thing someone would only name themselves lol
the only thing that would be better is if it turns out to be a cis man who's just Called That for some reason
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I don't know that it's possible to get good at image generation, the models are pretty unwieldy and love blandness. I suppose you could bash together multiple generated images in photoshop, or use your own sketches/photos to prompt them more precisely, but yeah, at that point you're just doing art
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it's a shame but also these people are aspiring full-time Ideas Guys, so they were already beyond saving
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(also worth noting when code is boilerplate-heavy it's generally considered a bad thing, but sometimes it's unavoidable, like if you're using Java)
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That latter category sounds very narrow, but if you think about an artist wanting to automate things in Photoshop/Excel/etc, it can be a big unlock.
Speaking of PS, there's also Generative Fill, which saves some of the tedium of image reconstruction usually done with the clone stamp tool.
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As a programmer it drives me a bit nuts how often their programming ability is praised; they're fairly awful, but can be useful for narrow tasks, like autocompleting boilerplate heavy code, or helping someone who doesn't really know how to code write small programs.
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for tasks that primarily involve categorisation (eg. spam detection) I've heard LLMs can be quite useful.
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Could definitely do that with something like Uncharted, though I fear I would spend the whole time just watching it lmao
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oh nice, I got Violet on mine too 😄
bsky.app/profile/soph...
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I have to assume there's a US version of the show, and it's not Mark Wahlberg talking to old posh brits from the UK show that I know, lol
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Which is why everyone should pay $50 a year to The Verge 🫡
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to be clear I'm not attacking Feldman, she didn't have to do the right thing here and clearly means well, it's just a bad sign of where we are as a culture.
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one of us! one of us!
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WWDC is gonna be a riot, maybe even literally
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My understanding is that it's fine so long as you can explain it well, and I wish I could remember where I read that so I could give you more detail lol.
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from what I've heard it does work, at least if you have an existing codebase, since it can pick up on patterns in the rest of the code.
agreed boilerplate is a self-inflicted problem, but, well, a lot of the world runs on Java and it's not going anywhere anytime soon unfortunately.
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for boilerplate-heavy code it can be quite good, and for people who can kind of code but not really, it gives them the capability to write simple programs, which can be a big unlock by leveraging scripting options in software like photoshop or excel.
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the other big thing people use it for is writing documents/emails, and, well, at worst it produces nonsense and at best it's just insulting to expect someone to take the care to read something you didn't take the care to write imo.
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given it is fairly useless for looking up information, and that is the main thing people use it for, I think blanket calling it useless is fair. like, a laser is also useless unless you have the kind of job where you would know what to do with it.
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how about we theradon't
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for the good of film and even the MCU I wish he'd said no
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yeah, I've seen websites of the management companies that do this kind of thing for rich people. they even brag about getting "higher yields" for equivalent properties in the same area. blech.