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I like to think of AI in terms of the history of transportation as well. My main concern, however, is that while the rest of the world has been uplifted by advances in transportation in the form of cars-- I still live in Detroit and get to see what the repercussions of depending on 3 companies (weird how that's the case for AI as well) for your entire infrastructure does when those companies decide they would like to do something else somewhere else.

I cannot trust any of these companies when they talk about things like UBI will come about. No it will not, you will pocket that money and what once was a great and bustling city will literally crumble into rubble while the people are forced to fend for themselves. What happens when they abandon a country?

The future is bright for AI, but I don't believe the future is bright for the population.

func_godot works better than I expected it to the first time I used it, properly imports and compiles triggers, lights, materials, sounds, etc straight from trenchbroom so you really can do 90% of your work in trenchbroom. It's awesome for prototyping!

offtopic here but what the heck, I am learning C from you right now! You finally made pointers click for me after failing to learn them a handful of times in the past. Legend!

As someone who actively goes out of my way to stick to writing vanilla HTML/CSS/JS as much as possible, it's honestly hard to explain to people who only write within frameworks how good it's gotten. Use the proper tool for the job, of course, but it sparks joy!

Working with modern CSS is such a joy, and increasingly as time goes on I'm replacing huge chunks of JS with CSS which is a little boon in itself. Honestly, my only complaint is how long I have to actually wait to use new features.

Nesting and @layers make maintaining CSS drastically easier than it once was as well.

AI makes me sad because as a self taught programmer that reorganized and got my entire life together over the course of a year, coming from absolutely nothing, I was really trying to make this career start for about 3 years up until last year. Juniors, heck even Seniors, with degrees and experience can't even get jobs. Add in the fact that the low skill grunt work you once would assign to a junior can be solved by some models, why would anyone on earth bother hiring me?

I've tried networking, but most of my network is also looking for jobs or their entire department has been outsourced to the third world armed with AI. I'm occasionally writing some software for myself and for fun, but I truly do feel like I missed the boat and there's not going to be another boat arriving.

I will admit to skill issues, but how am I to earn valuable experience without ever being offered the chance to even skill up? You only learn so much on your own.

To be honest, this job has changed my entire life. I don't exactly work with Google but nonetheless it's the same job being discussed. Nothing really egregious has happened to me in the months that I've been at it, other than only having 4 hours to fact check and verify a huge amount of information for one job, and it just wasn't enough time for me so I didn't get paid. But that was once out of hundreds? thousands? of tasks.

Unfortunately, I decided to take software engineering more serious and try to make it my career and then the entire market nosedived, with no signs of recovering anytime soon. Breaking into this market has more or less been impossible for a junior, and dare I say: a junior in their mid 30s. At least within this job I do get to work with code every so often, and I get to do it from home while I'm at it which is a bonus.

It's inconsistent so I'm still learning and looking for software, but for the meantime it's been incredible.

Last night I rented the movie Sinners off of Google play and was beyond incredibly annoyed that the playback was 720p the entire time in chrome and Firefox, on both Linux and windows. I honestly feel like I got ripped off, and I got that 10 dollar Google gift card for free.

Something I discovered while changing the thumb track of a range slider just the other day, is if you add padding-top to the thumb, it will also add padding to the bottom.

Even better, you have to set its appearance to none for chromium before you're able to style it in any capacity, which probably makes sense to somebody but not to me.

I've been using HSL for the last year or so but have definitely ran into the weird color modification issues the article mentions. I've always just dealt with it, but to reduce friction in something that has happened to me multiple times - consider me intrigued.

My only complaint for usability has nothing to do with oklch but at the time of writing it does not appear that vscode displays the colorblocks or selector for oklch, which just adds another tiny bit of a painpoint for me.

Either way, going to be using it in my current side project!

The ability to use my own voice in other languages so I can do localization on my own youtube videos would be huge.

With game development as well, being able to be my own voice actor would save me an immense amount of money that I do not have and give me even more creative freedom and direction of exactly what I want.

It's not ready yet, but I do believe that it will come.

Love this! Love the design and font are fantastic choices as well. I actually just started last week building film grain into my current WIP and it really feels like it catches the eye so much more. Largely inspired by trying to make super high quality photos feel vintage by blurring + adding noise.

Exciting to see what more comes whenever you post. Digging this cursor blog as well.

Feelings of the public matter when groceries start costing double, or triple in some cases. What once filled my entire fridge now gets me one shelf. Rich propagandists don't feel this. Everybody in my life that I talk to however, do.