Notices by Doug Binks (dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad You can get in both through some form of penalty.

@sinbad GenAI could actually be potentially useful here if you could train it on your own art and get it to make variants.

@sinbad For placeholders you could just use a combo of some icons like: https://fonts.google.com/icons

@sinbad One of my older air coolers came with it's own long screwdriver because of this.

Execs at Software Companies:

"User metrics for our AI features are on an upward trend."

The metrics:

- Searches for "How to turn off AI feature".
- Issue submissions for "How to turn off AI feature".
- Installer interactions with AI feature (uninstall button clicks).

Edit: Note that none of the above has been measured, this is a joke.

Many programmers knit in their free time but perhaps it's better to have a hobby that's not software development.

Potentially unpopular opinion about programming languages, and C++ in particular:

I do not want a package manager, I want to directly access source code.

I do want simpler build tools with their base interface defined at a language level.

@mcc @neauoire Devine can submit to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/filesubmission and select software developer.