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  1. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    This week I’ve decided to start working on my own TUI text editor. I’ve spent the week evaluating languages and TUI libraries and today I started working on a version using rust and ratatui. I...

    This week I’ve decided to start working on my own TUI text editor. I’ve spent the week evaluating languages and TUI libraries and today I started working on a version using rust and ratatui. I don’t know if this will be the final form, but it should be a fun project nonetheless

    1 vote

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I’ve been exploring ncurses and a cmake environment - I want to take a short break from my goodreads replacement to try my hand at building a TUI text editor in c++ On that topic… has anyone tried...

    I’ve been exploring ncurses and a cmake environment - I want to take a short break from my goodreads replacement to try my hand at building a TUI text editor in c++

    On that topic… has anyone tried Imtui at all? Or otherwise got any recommendations or experience with c++ ncurses wrappers? There seems to be a bunch but I don’t know enough on how to speak for the quality of any of them

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon in ~space

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    I really like this idea - it feels like an extension of the 3-2-1, where the “one offsite backup” is on a different rock in the night sky as opposed to down here. Sure, that’s extreme, but this is...

    I really like this idea - it feels like an extension of the 3-2-1, where the “one offsite backup” is on a different rock in the night sky as opposed to down here.

    Sure, that’s extreme, but this is more for preservation than for “high availability” from aws or whatever

    3 votes

  4. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I’ve been continuing work on my goodreads clone. This week, I’ve been writing a bunch of html and css to work on the mobile interface for the navbar and the user entry options - the current...

    I’ve been continuing work on my goodreads clone. This week, I’ve been writing a bunch of html and css to work on the mobile interface for the navbar and the user entry options - the current struggle I’ve just overcome is just styling out a <details>
    in a way I think doesn’t look awful, next up I need to work on the dialog forms for adding new entries, then I can work on the backend POST requests those forms will make

    5 votes

  5. Comment on Why I cannot take a holiday... Work! in ~talk

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    I completely agree with this. My contract says 9-6 Monday to Friday, and 9-6 Monday to Friday is what my company get. No one (well, one person) as my number, I don’t have anything work related on...

    I completely agree with this. My contract says 9-6 Monday to Friday, and 9-6 Monday to Friday is what my company get. No one (well, one person) as my number, I don’t have anything work related on my phone. If someone needs me, it can damn well wait, they don’t pay me enough to work outside of contractual hours

    8 votes

  6. Comment on The problem with ChatGPT is that all of these websites like W3Schools and TutorialsPoint will go bankrupt in ~tech

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    The biggest problem is that these sites teach new devs incorrect things, or out of date things

    The biggest problem is that these sites teach new devs incorrect things, or out of date things

    11 votes

  7. Comment on The problem with ChatGPT is that all of these websites like W3Schools and TutorialsPoint will go bankrupt in ~tech

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    I agree here. There are many conversations to be had around Generative AI, but the death of shitty sites like those isn’t a thing to bemoan.

    I agree here. There are many conversations to be had around Generative AI, but the death of shitty sites like those isn’t a thing to bemoan.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Christopher Nolan forgot to credit over 80% of VFX crew on ‘Oppenheimer’ in ~movies

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    It’s common to some extent, but this is an extreme case. Each studio that works on a movie get a a “budget” of people they can put in the credits. How each department handles their allocation is...

    It’s common to some extent, but this is an extreme case.

    Each studio that works on a movie get a a “budget” of people they can put in the credits. How each department handles their allocation is up to them. (The technology department I work in usually only get a few names). My company was the only VFX company to work on Oppenheimer, meaning all the VFX names were going to come from us - we weren’t “fighting” with other companies for the space allocation, but Oppenheimer had given the VFX house so little space that only a dozen or so (I think the number was 16?) names could go on.

    I’ve seen posts on LinkedIn about people pushing to get their names out there or calls to unionise and complain about this, it’s become a big deal because of this movie. It’s worth noting that on the company page for Oppenheimer, they do list every name that worked on it (which as far as I can tell is SOP for dneg)

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Christopher Nolan forgot to credit over 80% of VFX crew on ‘Oppenheimer’ in ~movies

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    I can’t vouch for the site specifically, but I work for the company that did the VFX and it’s certainly true - although I didn’t work on this movie specifically

    I can’t vouch for the site specifically, but I work for the company that did the VFX and it’s certainly true - although I didn’t work on this movie specifically

    6 votes

  10. Comment on What's your favorite read of 2023 so far? in ~books

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    Yep! I thought it was really fun, good start to a Will series. There’s a going theory that it’s set in Fathom, another iteration in sector 11, but I don’t know if it holds up tbh

    Yep! I thought it was really fun, good start to a Will series. There’s a going theory that it’s set in Fathom, another iteration in sector 11, but I don’t know if it holds up tbh

    1 vote

  11. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I don’t know if this counts as creative, but I’m programming a Goodreads alternative in my free time to learn all kinds of things. I’ve had to restart recently because I made some bad code design...

    I don’t know if this counts as creative, but I’m programming a Goodreads alternative in my free time to learn all kinds of things. I’ve had to restart recently because I made some bad code design desicions, but it’s slowly coming along - I want to have something ready to use/show by the end of the year, but that’s not looking likely

    1 vote

  12. Comment on What's your favorite read of 2023 so far? in ~books

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    I think my favourite book this year so far has to be Waybound by Will Wight. It’s the 12th and final book in his Cradle series of martial arts fantasy novels, and despite coming out about a month...

    I think my favourite book this year so far has to be Waybound by Will Wight. It’s the 12th and final book in his Cradle series of martial arts fantasy novels, and despite coming out about a month ago, I can’t get the series out my head. I’ve been following it for a few years and now I’m just down because it’s over.

    2 votes