Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Reheating fish for lunch in the office microwave everyday until they make me work from home again

#wfh #adulting

I want smaller tech companies that focus on a thing they care about, pay a bunch of people and everyone goes home on time.

because I have zero self-restraint, I went to tour those townhouse-style apartments over by the croissant cafe

true story: as I was touring, the leasing agent asked what building I currently live in

so I told her

"I have no idea why you're here, then, because that building has much better amenities and the units are so much nicer!”

😭

slapped the sense right back into me, thank you ma'am

Any recommendations for JS barcode scanning libraries?

I need to recommend a good library for the pharmacy supplier's website because I want them to have a good mobile UX.
They have a text field that on desktop is just filled in using either typing or a physical barcode scanner. But on mobile you'd have to provide the barcode scanning functionality yourself.
It should be able to handle datamatrix, EAN and CNK (which is a special MSI code)

mozilla withdrawing from mastodon due to a lack of funds but having enough money to finance shitty ai research is like finding out your local library closed because they spent all their money on an inflatable dinosaur exhibit

queers forming polycules for mutual support instead of benefiting from generational wealth is us favoring composition over inheritance

only in portland: the organizers of the annual “portland world naked bike ride” decided to take a year off

so another group decided to run a “world naked bike ride” in portland, instead

now the “portland world naked bike ride” folks are mad at the “world naked bike ride” folks and they’re duking it out in local blogs

Dear , why does this bus exist? An hourly bus doing a very large round through every corner of Wasmes, a village of 11.632 inhabitants without a train station. Why is there not a direct bus to Mons?

logging on to work in the mornings

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257

in case it's not clear: procedural generation is a term used in game design whereby a human-authored algorithm takes a random seed value (a big random number like 123908516 for example) and deterministically generates game content from that. this does not involve training a neural network, these algorithms are painstakingly crafted by hand to create the desired output, do not require anyone else's content to make, and this technique is over 40 years old

it's used in games like nethack (1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack, elite (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game), minecraft (2011), dwarf fortress (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress, rimworld (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld and many, many more

the fact that people are conflating procedural generation in game design which has a long and treasured history with "AI" slop is fucking tragic

Twink death this, twink death that - take care of yourself and age gracefully. You'll transcend the boundaries of body archetypes and stay beautiful.

This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md