What on Io happened to Mission Impossible's final film? Can't even be blamed on the director, considering the previous great films he's done. That was just.. oh dear. There were some good parts, but over all so many bits that broke disbelief. Best bad bit was the powering up sound on the globe shot.
One day, it'll be realised humans using fast, metal boxes for careless daily use—treated as 'homes away from home'—was a stupid idea. Even the psychology is bad.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Death isn't the only terrible outcome, any collision is serious & too many happen. Not only to bad drivers
Funny how the only people stating 'you don't need to learn to code' any more are mostly CEOs... and CEOs who haven't got a clue about #coding.
Almost like they don't know what they are talking about.
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"The revolution will be generated!" ...and then promptly break when things get too complex.
#ai
Ticktock, I'm not kidding, the first page I land is 404.
myspace still exists??
Guess these companies don't look after their websites as much as they look after their apps. Or, dare I try the apps and find them in just as bad a state?
So far #bluesky has had no bugs and does what it's supposed to.
I must be way out of date with #socialmedia.
Every service that I've tried recently is bugged as an insect museum..
Instagram, broken.
Threads, broken.
X, first post I saw was a massively celebrated tweet about how climate change 'had been happening for years, so it wasn't man made' —we'll skip X.
Had the strangest (good) day yesterday.
A day where I know words will fail to capture the indescribable threads of effervescence that streamed my consciousness over a period of hours.
My balance went from dark, to bright, to an entirely new quality of light.
People are infinitely surprising #life
This might seem to be an obvious point to make.
But I am very thankful that #music coalesced from the history of our existence —into what it is today.
Without music, I'd be a much less happier person.
It can turn almost anything around.
Especially the delicate balance that passes for our psyche.
This is a public sanity announcement...
"Please remember, there are much more interesting, safer and less antagonising things to do than football."
That is all.
(as if certain people already listen to signs, or apply sensible thinking as to where is polite to play.)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Depicts Photoshop's generative fill being used to attempt and fill a white material area, but the feedback is anything but white material.
"AI will take over."
Will it? better keep it away from table cloths and smart uniforms then —as the concept seems too wild for certain models to handle...
#ai #therevolutionwillbecompartmentalised ...and very much dangerously broken.
What's it called whenYouLookAtTheSkyInAPoeticKindOfWay & think —I'm finally nearing the end of a personal project?
To get this feeling correct, you need to:
- have started said project over 2 decades ago
- have a strange relationship with hats
- exist somewhere beyond the stratosphere
#persistance
If this were true, then at the same time we wouldn't need CEOs or other hypemongors any more either. So clearly, it isn't. Unless of course you want to run a site in a dangerously broken state. Perhaps people may start to realise what good devs actually do.. #ai #hype www.semafor.com/article/05/2...
What's it called when you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way.. and everyone around you is (still) complaining about #JavaScript? When you ask them what they think is better, the languages they proffer can only achieve part of JS' reach, devspeed & capability.
Every tool has its place, even JS.
Not quite screenshots, well... actually this is the definition of a screenshot. Or, err... screen capture. But this is most of what game dev actually is (at least, it has been for me).
Annabel is finally getting shadows and light.
#alwtm #gamedev #2d #screenshotsaturday #spriteilluminator
Overlaid keyframes of a rock-like creature that is glowing partly from magma fissures, the image creates an interesting shape, that looks almost like the letter A.
A Rockite, is it friend or foe? #alwtm #gamedev #2d #animation
depicts a 2d anime character for a web game overlaid in multiple keyframe positions, creating an unique shape that is almost a complete circle.
Annabel is really starting to take shape. #alwtm #gamedev #2d
Noooo. Leave Windsurf alone OpenAI. It was shaping up to be a good system, well balanced. Unlike OpenAI. I quit ChatGPT because Claude was better (and had more sensible owners), and I chose Windsurf over Cursor for making better choices. Now I don't know what to think. #windsurf
But I suppose that's the problem with a protest vote, no one really cares who they vote for —just as long as it isn't the current lot. However, I'm sure anyone spending a moment thinking about that will realise, that is the dumbest reason to vote for anyone, ever.
Guess we'll see what happens next.
And that's completely ignoring his relationships with the utterly dangerous & bonkers elements of America. Can you imagine, with US controlled by trump, and UK controlled by farage? We might as well give up trying to pretend that the human race had some level of intelligence. The ghost would be up..
Anyone wanting him to represent them has clearly never seen his embarrassing behaviour in the European Parliament, his low attendance record, his Russian State media appearances and pro Putin stances. That's not to mention all the investigations around what happens with his funding and use of money.
Oh dear. Although it is difficult to feel optimistic when presented with the state of many electorates & "leaders" around the globe.
Can only assume that all the votes for the Reform party are protest votes. No one can seriously believe that farage will do anything good for them. #election #madness
Very weird. yesterday was the day. After eight years of hard work, building various systems and microservices, knowing them back-to-front, and then jumping through the hoops created by constant new owners, I am now moving on.
Let's hope the next job and next decade goes a bit more smoothly. #change
Remember, there are no shortcuts without caveats. And the "bubble world of artificial intelligence" is very much ignoring these downsides. Some on purpose, some without meaning.
But the outcome is the same...
My prediction:
A storm of broken things is coming, and no one on the front line to help.
A negative precedent and has already led to many people I know in situations where bosses demand AI is used because it is the 'Deus ex machina'. Or worse, firing people because they believe they only need a skeleton crew and AI agents. They believe what they've read over their employee's experience.
I know the genie cannot go back in the bottle. But people promoting AI as the solution to everything need to balance it with reality. It does speed some things up, but it actually slows others down. Whilst they may know this, CEOs & non-technical people now think anything is possible & at fast pace.
Got nothing against anyone being creative & trying to build new things. I'd love the world to be more like that. But it needs to be done with effort. With people actually investigating how to do things safely. Otherwise they'll be setting themselves up for failure, or risking customer's data/money..
#AI, when used by those without knowledge, is an automated Dunning-Kruger effect. These people have no idea on how to keep data/people safe, how to avoid hacks, how to cobble together apps. And now, it will be harder to tell "bad apps" from looks alone. Professional-looking apps will be dangerous...
Posts like thenewstack.io/vibe-coding-... distort decision maker perspective. Article has reasonable points, what's completely missed (Can only think on purpose) is wasted time AI often brings & features it completely fails at. Not to mention the crap, bad coders will now #vibecode into the world...
People don't know what they don't know. Nothing wrong with using any tool, so long as you know what you are doing. But I wouldn't start up a catering business if someone built me an automated chef, that I didn't understand —who occasionally deleted the entire kitchen & baked a few staff. #vibecoding
Been a long standing customer of #Adobe, starting first and foremost with #Photoshop. Used it since the early battles with CorelDraw. However, the "business practices" that Adobe are now using are nothing short of dark patterns & subscription tricks —not to mention the software bugs/bloat. Shameful.
Anyone else still preferring to work with Claude 3.5?
Claude 3.7 is like working with a collection of Infinite monkey theorems. It is often completely correct, very wrong and completely distracted—all at the same time.
3.5 has its quirks, but it is mostly quite sensible.
#claude #ai #webdev #code
