Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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Man. First review of my paper from last night contains *multiple* instances where the reviewer just says they are “tired” of the “here’s what we did” style of writing. No substantive issues identified.
I’m not going to stop writing these easy to read papers. Papers looking hard to satisfy some idiot whose grad students have been doing all their work for years isn’t a priority. If folks think a paper is too basic because of a genuine novelty concern, they can find substantive issues, but the fact that your work has to *look hard* is just such a fucking rebuke. No wonder everyone thinks CS is worthless.
Anyway, I am angry at this attitude. Not at any person, but the attitude at top venues that values hard looking work with irrelevant bullshit.
Back when my last student was graduating, they had killer results with one of their recent innovations. They wrote up the work. It was nice but boring. Then I told them to add a formalism. They argued, this is irrelevant, it adds little, it doesn’t guide our understanding. And yet, after adding the formalism the paper got rave reviews, because it *looked* like a contribution. But the formalism was something we hacked on at a whiteboard in three days, quite far away from the months of genuine innovation that it took to get to the real kernel of the idea…
Let the machines take over eh…
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@NicoleCRust "Academic power structures as they currently stand are toxic - as evidenced by the outcomes" - Kay Tye
As relatively junior scientists, some of us have talked about academic toxicity in the past only to be harassed, silenced, ignored, or forced to leave. I'm glad that someone in a position of power acknowledged the toxicity. I hope that the toxic hierarchy collapses sooner than later.
Us choosing a cooperative form of governance at neuromatch.social, instead of a typical top-down hierarchy, is our attempt of trying a different power structure. I hope that we see more of such experiments permeate throughout academia.
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hey anyone around here have a CPU with more than 32 cores
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I feel like the gameplay teams behind most AAA open world games don't have a good handle on why walking around in nature is intrinsically enjoyable in real life
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@runevision ok so to tie this back a bit, my advice is if you're making a game and your game is not a AAA game, then simply avoid copying design formulae from AAA games, and then your game and its production will have a different set of problems than the ones AAA games often have.
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@runevision A friend and former coworker of mine has a compelling theory that AAA teams build open world games like this because it allows for a lot of parallelism in their production, and the reason why it always feels like they filled the game with incoherent disconnected Content sprinkled around the map with a poisson distribution is because that's literally how their production was structured.
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Pro tip: Every time you see the word “inflation” in the news, just replace it with “record-breaking corporate profits”. #CorporateGreed #notInflation
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@hyphen don't forget the final paragraph
"Anyway, everyone should have access to good public transportation because freedom of movement is a human right and meeting a broad spectrum of humanity is good for your mental health and spiritual welfare."
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there is no sign that says "you must be this androgynous" to be nonbinary. you can be nonbinary right now, as you are.
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We gotta bring back the word "whelmed" for when you're not quite overwhelmed but also you've got enough going on that you don't really know what to do with yourself and yet you're still managing even if just barely.
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So I know you’ve all seen that “tired Oompa-Loompa” photo from that #WillysChocolateExperience disaster. Please know that there is a human being behind that meme, and she is not enjoying the attention.
These are actors, and they showed up for a job. They got screwed along with the ticket-buyers.
https://www.tiktok.com/@kirstypaterson3/video/7340997397910211873
(It's still under warranty so hopefully should be someone else's problem)
I think the motor in our plant shredder just burned out
Am I missing something or is the "Bluetooth mesh" specification really actually just "abuse BLE advertising packets by broadcasting/floodfilling all your traffic in them, but Officially Sanctioned"?
In summary, I guess, the critiques of Walkaway reveal a lot of interesting things, but more about the readers than about the book
Another frequent observation is people complaining about the characters being "too perfect" even though the book goes into quite some detail about their imperfections - and I'm wondering if there's some misperception going on here, in the sense that the reader kind of missed the imperfections because the overall tone is focused on "that doesn't make them awful people" rather than the "did something weird or wrong once and is now irredeemably tainted" narrative that you'd find in most stories
Loosely related, I can't help but notice that a lot of critiques of the story basically boil down to "it's unrealistic because it's not full of horrible people".
And like, nobody making that critique seems to have caught onto the part where the culture selects for people who aren't horrible, and gives people in general reasons to be supportive and collaborative... instead just assuming today's cultural norms and the hierarchy expected from that, even though that hierarchy is specifically what the story contradicts
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Listen, I'm so friggin disgusted over what is probably happening over at Automattic (Tumblr, WordPress dot com) so, if you have a blog over at WordPress dot com, I will help you migrate to a self-hosted WordPress install. Yes, for free. From a professional web dev.
Email me: aimee@foundationwebdev.com or send a contact form submission at www.foundationwebdev.com/contact/
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Not to mention this is also bad for video game preservation. Years from now, the servers meant to handle your account creation will probably cease to be, and the games will be unplayable unless someone cracks them. The shortsightedness of this industry never fails to amaze me.
- Website
- http://cryto.net/~joepie91/
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
