An interesting way to try to spin disposable spaghetti code as a positive.

I didn’t know they played the washing machine game!

I quite liked Lylat Wars and had a surprisingly good time with Lies of P, considering I’m not interested in souls-like games.

The highlight for me was the SM64 relay but other than that very little jumped out to me/us (my wife is an avid fan of GDQ too). Love the event but it didn’t seem to have anything much for us (like a Mario Maker relay race, rhythm games, that mad Crazy Taxi run with the live band, Spike Vegeta running DKC:R, etc.).

Guess we’ll see what SGDQ has to offer!

If it can only handle tasks I can do myself it’s not very useful.

My experience has been that more complex cases it simply cannot manage. It’ll swear blind that it’s got it right and the result will be super specific to the example provided. If I knew what the strings would be exactly, in advance, I wouldn’t be writing regex 😂

That’s the thing though - I find that what it saves me in time writing it costs me in reviewing. I hate reviewing.

Shall we ask it to write functional regex too while we’re at it?

If so, is it any good?

I imagine if one writes janky spaghetti then it’s easy to think that LLMs will result in redundancy. My experience is that they’re like having an over-enthusiastic junior who doesn’t learn. Useful when one can’t be bothered to write something with very limited scope but is quickly out of their depth on anything involved.

So you think that 90-100% of programming jobs WON’T be replaced by AI within a decade?

Stop, stop, I can’t breathe!

This really hammers home how naff the rats in Dishonored were. They’re slightly prettier than these but with eleven years of additional technological progress my expectations were a smidge higher.

I tend to find them useful for taking nebulous, multi-faceted situations and turning them into a better understanding of what’s going on and then determining actual actions.

As in “different customers want us to do different things, some of which overlap, some of which take ages, some of which are quick, some of which take a load of work to even understand, and who have we got ready to tackle this stuff?”

The meeting takes a while and melts everyone’s brains by the end, but the result isn’t loads more long meetings.

Without being a capitalism apologist, I opted into being employed after years of being self-employed or a freelance contractors. I don’t have to do the admin and work gets delivered to me on a platter. The pay isn’t as good as it could be but I also don’t have to worry about taking time off for illness and I get holiday time too.

Crucially though, I opted into it. It wasn’t my only option.

If she loves it, why does she want to do less of it?

I meant more the “coffee makes you shit” thing. I’ve not encountered the idea across the pond.

Is this actually a thing? I’ve only ever heard it from people in the US.

I can only tell the difference when I see the two together!

That’s a bluetit…?

*Great tit?

Game development as a service.

Strangely I’m pretty aphantasic!

Clearly there’s something odd going on with how I store this stuff. Nice skill on the voices! I can identify some but other times I feel almost voice blind. I can listen to a podcast for literal years and struggle to tell the hosts apart (beyond “that’s someone else talking”).

If I was able to deduce it (no, phone, not seduce it, calm down!) I wouldn’t be asking. I’m not here purely to be a dick, despite appearances to the contrary.

I think the confusion here is that I can’t imagine the half-remembering thing with the costume. As in, being able to roughly remember it but not being certain upon seeing it. Kinda like when a name is on the tip of one’s tongue - seeing it tends to get the reaction of “that’s it!”.

(This might also explain why I don’t get what the title has to do with it)