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Comment · 7 days ago
Yep, this is basically the outlook of ChatGPT etc in america, when they try and stop china scraping them. I hope they go bust as soon as possible.

Honestly people need to wake up to this industrial level theft, and get some laws in place. If someone did this by hand you'd call it either a DDOS or IP theft, even if license is permissive. Just cos its from a machine doesn't excuse.

Comment · 7 days ago
AI is industrial scale theft. Like if someone else did this we'd be looking to courts to sort this out.
Comment · 1 month ago
We've had transpiled languages for decades, we really dont need a glorified dice to create rule based translation.

Everything is a nail at the moment.

Like people using LLMs to refactor. Refactoring is a solved problem, we've had decades to get nice tooling for this.

Comment · 1 month ago
Nah I'm good thanks. Call me old school, but I'd rather understand how things work, and try and keep a maintainable codebase. Rather than just get some random rust I've no idea what it is, or why it does it, pushed into prod.

I think this is going to be todays 'cheap outsource' culture. Good enough to keep shareholders happy, an apparent boost in productivity, before tanking the reliability of the company.

Remember when we used to scorn stackoverflow developers, or PRs that were more than a few lines long. An every morning git pull is now bigger than my terminal buffer, its complete chaos. Numbers game to keep the new metrics world gamification going. Its dire.

Comment · 2 months ago
Lost me at QT.
Comment · 11 months ago
This is awesome! Been tracking the bug for what seems like Gimp 3 levels of time. But great job all involved.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yep, I was on mailing list etc. Unsubscribed when they did the AI announcement. Its not for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Nah, its just them playing the victim. You can totally get noticed in a big company. Or overlooked in a small.

Throwing in the towel and saying I'm not going to bother in the future... yeah I'd never be hiring you in the first place.

Comment · 1 year ago
This...

And tell you what, the posts on linkedin and the blogs like this, where the take away is 'I got fired and next time I'll work LESS'. Really?

Errr, might want to reconsider that strategy, unless you think that you are going to get binned no matter what, and just cruising until that happens is the solution. Just seems like a massively negative outcome.

That, or they are going for the spiteful 'hopefully I convince everyone else to lower the standard, so others get sacked, or so I look good again'.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well just pre-ordered the 120hz amd. If the RiscV drops in, I'm going to be very impressed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Are companies legally obligated to give cost of living? Nope. 7% given the number of layoffs in the tech sector seems amazing in my view.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was working on an F1 game back in the PS1 game. The studio wanted to fire one of the track texture artists. They pulled him up for a texture that was on the back of one of the break boards...

'whats this?'

Now given it was like a 16x16 texture, he could have said anything..

'its <name> as a stick man with his ** out!'.

Handed them the ammo.

However, related to the moon, we did a demo / prototype one time, and put it into a soft QA cycle before sending to publishers. One of our QA (rightly, but sigh) raised a bug saying the moon was upside down, and given the location of the game, it would be rotated.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Flat I can just about tolerate, the stupid padding round every single element is what bugs me.

There has been loads of studies showing the amount of mistakes in coding or spreadsheet type work goes up massively with having to scroll windows, but yet, gtk3/4 is a bloated, oversized mess.

Mice precision has increased, so why on earth do we need toolbars that can take upto 1/8th a 768p screen. Stupid.

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