And anxious I suppose. Journalism should be synonymous with “people” and healthy society.
AI and journalism is going to yield one giant ball of misinformation.
I would love to say “we need more printed papers” like the good ‘ol days, but people don’t much have the patience to read by and large.
To be honest, at one time I was worried about the young generation and devices. But I’m starting to see older family members are getting plugged into the algorithm.
Honestly it’s way more satisfying to work analog. Experiencing the colors in “real life” spatially. Also, collaborating with others and being able to share the process in a studio rather than on a screen is an amazing experience.
Another thing is the fog rising up to create diffusion on the light. Even the best VFX in the world will only ever be an approximation to the real thing.
Agreed 100%. C is what it is and that’s a good thing.
However, if I were to request a feature to the core language it would be: NAMESPACES. This would clean up the code significantly without introducing confusing code paradigms.
Namespaces are nice, but to my knowledge require name mangling which isn't a thing in C. I'm curious what you mean by "clean up the code significantly" and "confusing code paradigms" because in C you typically prefix your functions to prevent name collisions which isn't confusing or too noisy in my subjective opinion.
Name mangling is an implementation detail to fit into UNIX linker design space, not the same approach as other compiled languages with modules, with their own linker.
Also name mangling (which in this case would simply be appending the namespace name to the identifier) would be trivially implementable in C.
In fact on some targets the assembler name of identifiers doesn't always match the C name already.
Although as someone almost always explicitly qualifies names,
typing foo_bar is not very different from foo::bar; the only minor advantages are that you do not have to use foo:: inside the implementation of foo itself and the ability to use aliases.
Yeah you’re right. I guess folks who want C++ stuff should just use C++…
I guess I should have reworded. I don’t expect that feature in C, but if I were to reinvent C today I would keep it the same but add namespace and mangling.
Adding an explicit prefix to every function call is a lot boilerplate when it’s all added up.
Curious if they could simply piggyback on the Signal source code. Lots of folks try to reinvent the wheel these days. Just like protocol buffers reinvented ASN.1 + PER and so-forth. Even the crypto folks at protocol labs opted for the former in place of an established standard.
No. I wrote about this a couple of years ago (https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/62598.html) and the answer is that while Signal solves the cryptography problem, the other hard problem (ie, everything to do with key management) is still up to whatever's on top of the Signal protocol.
Honestly it just boils down to one overhyped method of web design: MOBILE FIRST.
Mobile-first designs create gargantuan gaps of information sparseness on any larger form-factor.
Folks should go back and re-read ethan marcotte‘a Responsive Web Design. He goes from actually a desktop design and shrinks it down. No mention of mobile-first.
So, start with a design, and consider how it works on both form factors EQUALLY. None of this mobile-first crap unless building an app, a whole app, and nothing but a mobile app.
People letting some other entity control their dollars with an expectation to grow by itself is flawed. These people are handing their money over so the corporations use it to their advantage by introducing these toxic products to begin with.
If “every day people” lose their money because they handed it over to someone else—that’s on no one but themselves.
People need to be investing in local businesses instead and take FULL responsibility for an investment that they actually understand.
If someone with the resources of a retail investor can do enough due diligence on every company of an ideally very diversified portfolio to determine which companies are committing crimes, someone with the resources of the US government can do so for every company and prosecute them. If the government can't figure out that a crime is being committed, how could we expect the average citizen to do so? There's just no point in making it their responsibility except as an excuse to say it was their fault.
I should have clarified but I mean with respect to financial loss, not culpability.
Every dollar is a unit of work, and people are saying, “meh, you guys do the work and pay me something.” They abdicate responsibility out of laziness. Gone is the good old fashioned entrepreneurial spirit in favor of indentured servitude.
That would be ideal. But I'll bet people won't do this though. I wouldn't. I don't have time to do the due diligence. So the downside is that you have a lot more "dead" capital that isn't doing anything productive and is slowly losing value due to inflation. Dead capital means it's harder to fundraise, to borrow money for your mortgage, etc etc.
Now I'm not saying that's necessarily /worse/...but we should be clear about what the real downside is.
The best local investment one can make is in the land. I'm in a rural area in the Pacific Northwest, surrounded by "baby" trees and the skeletons of the old forest that used to be here. The list of foods that indigenous peoples used to eat around here is long, and I would be happy to thrive on that alone. Now, though? There are a few huckleberry spots within walking distance, some mushrooms now and then, elk of course (I get why people pen cattle, but elk and other game require much less maintenance, along with some effort and consideration when hunting), some greens (I've been eating nettles for the past month, on top of good grown elsewhere thanks to petrochemical fertilizers), some invasive greens (dandelion and oxeye daisy), and probably some things I'm not yet aware of. I'm not fishing the river, as there's not much fish there anymore.
The best investments we can make for life is towards community and the land we're on. I don't need an easy life, I need a meaningful one.
I hate to say this, but the OP is right. Nothing will change until we stop supporting the problem. I think the best course of action is to stop supporting corporate culture. People really do need to stop working for all corporations. We need to stop blaming them, we are supporting them with our energy, time and money.
Find a job at a local honest establishment, or create your own service.
Make it a priority to stop supplying these establishments with power.
Use your skills in a place where you have direct control over the outcome of your work.
Anything less is just you trying to convince yourself that you can carry on blaming others for the problem you/we created/are creating.
When corporations are unable to find people to work for them, something will shift.
I’m sorry you get downvoted because that’s basically the truth.
Previously retirement was done by investing in your children and environment. It makes a lot of sense, is a lot more secure and positive than any of the bullshit we came up with.
Only reason current system works is because mistakes get diluted and peoples don’t have much choices because of monetary control.
This is the same for any creative process. Any painter could describe how they’re reasoning about a composition and what-not. But ultimately each individual needs to digest technique and make it their own.
Writeups like this are great though because it can at least share the tools used and give folks some place to start.
Thinking about this though it’s really the big tech companies manufacturing “the latest thing” to be tossed in the bin after a year. Dollars over longevity. Then they become “no longer maintained.” Could we STILL use a 3g network? Or is there a simpler, slow network that should be good enough barring our pointless desire for cat videos?
And some folks wonder why companies still use floppy disks on air-gapped infrastructure. Because it fucking works don’t litter it with complexity to modernize.
Now… the situation with skills to manage infrastructure? Now that the whole AI thing is happening? The internet is going to be fucked people. It’s time to go analog.
If you think about what is fundamentally required for a game, in an ideal world, you don’t have any programmers at all—just artists and game designers.
I mean ideal as in the physics notion of an ideal spring, simplified from all of natures forces so it may be modeled in a useful way.
In the same way, an “ideal” game is one separated from its inner workings, and what you’re left with is the user experience, beautiful artwork, music, and engaging entertainment value.
I think this is missing the creative aspect of taking an idea and turning it into reality. Developers spend all day finding the middle ground between an idea that won’t work and a simple realistic solution that will
Sure and that’s a reality today. That process will still happen. We’re talking about AI’s doing that for us don’t forget. And those mechanics will still be driven by prompts and such, but the nitty gritty will be automated.
