Garbidgecollect surfaces etc...

Oh yes im pissed off that proton and cedega are in the news but im not and there dead ans burried. Looking at some of the changes made to direct3d it seems steam os requires that apps dont count activex instization and it wouldnt suprise me if it forced software nulling of buffers because thease some things that make strict directx 3d slow and by passing them gives substantial performance increases unfortunally someone put me in a cardboard coffin before i was able to roll this out when i wrote dirextx9 for vanilla wine many moons ago. So, im going to revisit direct3d with levels of strictness vs performance with some of the features being able to be rolled out across the entire activex architecrure in wine. I also wrote a text literal pdf importer and some other funky stuff along the way so you should soon be able to edit pdfs with a text editor instead of current vecror implementations the lengths someone has gone to to prevent the release of this are outstanding so hopefully its as disruptive as direcrx9 for vanilla wine was back all those years ago. If you find my corpse somewhere you know why.

SA has its history but the people who are left grew the fuck up and are by and large decent people. Seriously.

When I was in college I really admired Slashdot's anonymous posting / dedication to free speech, but at some point you learn the ironic Nazis are just real Nazis always feeling around to see how far they can push their limits.

With age and wisdom I'm convinced a paywall + relative freedom to ban paying users is the way to go. At least if people want to burn their venture capital money (or their personal money) to run bot or humans with an agenda on your site, they are paying handsomely for the privilege.

This is actually the answer though. SomethingAwful (for whatever you think of it) charges $10 since forever and its provided money for the site and for the most part kept out spam and bots. Combine that with human moderators who have the authority to ban people (or robots) if they pay that and start acting like a piece of shit anyway, and you walk away with a decent online community.

I rode a few while on a trip to Phoenix and it was way better than the average Lyft or Uber ride I've taken.

It drove defensively, I got to choose my own music and climate control, I didn't have an driver tapping on their phone to plan out new rides, or high, or bragging about how they've been driving since 5am, or complaining about how they've been driving since 5am.

This is coming from someone who is typically pretty skeptical of big tech bullshit and a fan of labor. I still use the cashier when there is a self checkout, etc. But the tech here is so good that its going to destroy all of those uber drivers (assuming it can sort of handle weather -- I can't speak to that)

Less stressed? Since this shit came out our management has lost their minds and every clarifying question/pushback has been met with "Ask ChatGPT".

They've gotten really lazy about specifying what they want and one slipped up and used the language that he was going "prompt" another engineer.

Sounds like you just need to bake "Hey i have a thing on my mind that's really been stressing my Mental Health" in front of every query

Lets not jump to conclusions, sometimes is was for the purposes of their own sexual gratification

I've made a career out of being this guy. (and the inverse of talking to the users so the developers don't have to) It's absolutely useful and despite a lot of other bullshit I'm glad my company sees it this way (until they replace me with a chatbot)

Nano works fine though

device.. Picard! Das Klingons!

I'm legitimately "Steve" at a much smaller tech company. I also do product management (lol) and QA (a cursory check before the customers really QA it for us).

I will never get any help, the only answer is to build out a magical LLM automation at the same time as responding to a flood of emails/tickets/meetings/calls.

I've learned not to ask for help as that turns into a homework assignment with due dates.

At least I still have a well paying tech job in 2025, until the house of cards collapses.

It's this, 100%. This shit is not intelligent, it's just really good at saying yes to every request with a smile, then offering to do more. This is why C Suite loves it so much.

oh your company didn't just shove Jira administration at the engineering team resulting in executives pinging them to do drop everything and add a new field or troubleshoot why their client couldn't see a ticket?