Notices by Josh Simmons (dotstdy@mastodon.social)

genuinely hard to put into words how angry this makes me. what if we took the past decade or whatever of incel losers harassing developers across the industry whenever a woman character in a game isn't "hot" (read: servile) enough, and then have nvidia give them a "bigger tits and ass" plastic filter they can throw on top of everything. i wonder how good it is at making all the black characters white, i guess that's what the boffins at nvidia hq are working on now. good job fellas

Dlss5 is great news for the incel crowd, weird demographic for nvidia to be courting, but we'll see how it works out for them.

@whitequark I've had more or less the same experience with a huge "there's no way it should be this hard" vibe. I wonder how much of it is just because everyone has to be compatible with all the other ridiculous container software, and thus get trapped in a cycle of despair.

@whitequark @hailey don't worry we can put everything in a container and then there's no baseline to compare to!

@dalias that's just because nobody makes commercial desktop software for Linux tho

@mcc your post made me curious so i now have learned that the 3.8km long underwater tunnel that forms part of the Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden where I live contains approximately 600k square meters of concrete. By comparison, the Burj Khalifa took approximately 330 square meters of concrete.

@mcc want to build a train tunnel, that'll be 500k people plz

@nikitonsky @jplebreton @scottjenson now try dragging three things from the top right of your screen to the bottom left and back again one by one :')

@jplebreton @scottjenson One fun part of my own usage is that drag and drop is practically pretty okay *if I two-hand the touchpad*, assuming the trackpad multi-touch isn't broken. But almost exclusively, when I use a trackpad it's one handed, and drag-and-drop is a nightmare. It makes me wonder whether this is a maladaptive trait from mouse usage, or if it's due to trackpads themselves (no actual button anymore?), and broadly it makes me wonder how people actually touch their touchpads.

@whitequark Actually getting around to watching the whole video, and I think one aspect is the way people assume that since there's advanced technology involved, we're like a day away from finally removing all those pesky human parts. But like, it just doesn't make any sense to do that. The machines are there to make the simple repetitive parts incredibly fast, the humans are there to adapt to circumstances, and to robustly handle complex tasks. We're *so, so far* from automating complex stages.

@whitequark I think what a decent cohort expects from food prep is basically a microchip fab

@whitequark like "oh that's disgusting I'm never eating a biscuit again"

@whitequark in a much lower tech setting I'm also often despairing at the comments on 'how it's made ' food production YouTube videos. Like people totally freaking out about a big stand mixer and conveyors

@whitequark @zrb ime they recast them often enough into basically anything that's lying around, but yeah it's slightly odd. Cake tin maybe?

@enkiv2 @XauriEL it doesn't protect individuals very well, but it is the framework through which most professional authors and artists and whatnot make a living. So gutting it has a direct material impact on those folks. Also ai memes aren't destroying copyright, they're just allowing one specific group to ignore it. Even if you hate copyright, weakening it in a way that exclusively benefits these companies is pretty bad.

@jplebreton @dalias @glyph so it's a leap of trust to dig into somebody's writing, and oddly an even larger leap to casually read something. and if somebody is untrustworthy (for anything from being a bit of a goose, to having outright hostile intent, or you know being a chat bot), then to me it becomes a bit of a question of "do i feel confident in spotting the failures and twists in this domain" / "do i feel like spending the time digging through to find them". often the answer is just... no.

@jplebreton @dalias @glyph yeah, i guess i believe the idea of the naked unadorned fact is a core fallacy. "facts" are a surface level statement where the rest of the iceburg is made up from all the inherent explicit and implicit context. Even if a fact seems right, one can't feel secure in that knowledge without investigating the whole mess underneath. Yet our brains don't care for that rigor, and will happily remember (and misattribute) snippets from the most garbage trash you ever read.

@pixelschubsi @whitequark "Optimized SVGs are magnitudes smaller and often also faster to render than raster images most websites still use today" this is not true, the only reason svg rendering is "fast" in browser engines is that they cache the results of rasterising the svg in a regular old texture. (you can kinda build an svg-like thing that can run on the gpu and render in real-time, but it's not something that's widely deployed in browsers, same goes for text glyphs & emojis)

@joe @zwarich purely from a 'practitioner' perspective, i usually regret building things with more fancy pattern matching when i come back and try and read it later. i think in some sense because there's a lot you need to keep in your head to read the patterns, but I guess also just because if you have complex conditions you're probably already in for a bad time. This is perhaps even worse due to the slightly unfortunate rust syntax around some of the more advanced pattern tools.

@whitequark gotta leave some bugs in, as a treat