If there's a unit test and you can give the correct response, I think it absolutely should be refunded and more. Otherwise, the stage of proof would be too hard.
Stepping on my soapbox: Treat your mind, body, and present moment as if they're sacred. As if you could live a thousand lives and they would be sacred every time. All the other stuff, it's just this once.
Cleaning a mind of random grievances and addictions is good. Letting a body be weird, dance wrong, move in funny ways, sing poorly: this is good too.
The whole "purpose" thing is a side-effect. It can't be sought directly, I think.
I had similar feelings with art generation. The early midjourney was definitely impressionistic, and I just kind of like impressionism. It's cool how accurate these have become, but they also feel closer to uncanny or boring.
Yeah. It really does seem that Microsoft is giving up on... everything? Like Xbox is kinda out, Windows is not great, and their AI never comes up as meaningful.
I wouldn't personally work for them ever. I've only heard bad things about their codebase... and I know people like to complain, but it's usually comedy levels of bad.
Sure. I spent some time designing the architecture for a system like this last year, based largely on my experience dating a prolific social networker for many years.
Would love to chat about it. There's no PM, so you can find my email at https://sephreed.me by clicking "contact"
I'll join your team if you find something. Would love to work as a group, rather than lone contributors.
Currently I'm looking into Deno and Ladybird. The latter has been nice enough, though the onboarding is little more than "compile yourself, then search for an issue."
I'm currently discovering Helix because I'm creating an LSP. I had tried to do the work in Zed, but Zed requires compilation with each update. It's for the sake of sandboxing, but it slows everything down immensely.
Basically: servers focus on serving their data, and then it's up to the user to figure out which "renderer" they want to use to display it. Ofc defaults would be provided.
But, say, you wanted to view tweets in a table form: no problem.
Or maybe, you want to have a really wacky "whip the llamas ass" UI for podcasts: go for it.
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The big benefit of this is that it would allow for artistry in websites, rather than the boring old blue, black, white, grey material design.
Then it grew into having a state management system. And now it's easily the best framework I've ever used... super fast, light weight, extremely malleable, easy to understand.
I keep intending to release it, but I know just how much fun it is putting something out in the world... I don't want this project to turn into my life.
It doesn't use native elements, and instead goes from React Components -> HTML Text -> Native Elements. So then the moment you have two elements interacting it falls on its face. Like forms.
I've spent the last two years writing my own framework because I hated React so damn much.
It really doesn't have to be that complicated. Granted, I still use a bundler, but it's really easy to set up. I had my friend walk through it all... he seems to think it's great.
I try not to go by "Software Developer" anymore because too many managers have gotten the idea that it's something you just do. Which it is if you're only working in frameworks... the stick houses of code.
1. Type a couple words relevant to the topic or your feelings on the topic into a gif search engine.
2. Pick whichever gif suits the context best.
3. Watch as everyone thinks you're super clever.
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I mean, I get it. Most people just want funny pictures, and I love sharing memes with friends. But something about reaction gifs just boils my blood. I'm very, very bothered by them. If someone posts a relevant comment, or video: great. If there's something really clever about the reaction gif: good job. But most of the time it's just kind of related, and not really a discussion at all. Or worst of all, a "wow" "lol" or "wtf" expressing funny face.
In 2013 I imagined this industry as being the next big thing. Mixed with VR, Deepfake, and Voice changing tech, literally anyone could be anyone fucking anyone.
Thank you Buttplug, for getting us closer to that dream.