bitowl

Software developer

[Satisfactory @SatisfactoryAF]

To address extreme levels of factory building, we've applied the following temporary limits:

- factories may only consume 6000 MW of power / day
- players can only build 600 conveyor belts / day
- you can no longer pet the lizard doggo

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

Overriding the proprietary prompt of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to make it:
1. sass you
2. scream
3. talk in an uwu voice
4. be distracted by a toddler while on the phone with you

[Sophie H 🎲🏳️‍⚧️ @mxSophieH]

(Credit goes to @docky for the idea)

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I grew up in the golden age of SQL injections but GPT3 injections just hit different 🤣

[Ron Gilbert - Not here anymore, on Mastodon now @grumpygamer]

A little something we've been working on for the past 2 years in complete secrecy.

https://t.co/qwmxpYjpe5

[Adam Kay @amateuradam]

A quick thread on in the importance of being careful what data you share - even if you're the Queen. Today, Her Maj tweeted this lovely picture, gor bless er, etc. You might think that the contents of the red box would be official business. And you'd be right. 1/6

[eevee 💨 @eevee]

every stated advantage of NFTs, dismantled by the very people shilling them:
- they were stolen
- centralized platforms blacklisted them (they can't be resold), based on the former owner's word
- the former owner still uses the avatar they lost, insisting it's still theirs really

[Andrew @Andrew_Taylor]

The pretend code on the laptop screen in the stock photo at https://t.co/9lUwhHwPh5 is user-editable.

[sirocyl @sirocyl]

what's a good hex editor - preferably for windows - for annotating structs and stuff?

I'd normally use audacity but I figure there's gotta be something better for this

[Omar 🍋 @ocornut]

- User submits a mysterious clipboard issue
- @PathogenDavid patiently digs into system locales, encoding conversions, line-endings etc., fails to repro but somehow finds a fix involving line-endings format.
- Someones shows up with an answer *ouch*

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

It is entertaining to look through WebKit's "check if you're on a major site we recognize and patch some stuff accordingly" source file:
https://t.co/LJi0f3P7Gk

[bitowl @bitowl]

Trying to understand all the legalese in an employment contract is yet another "worst part" of trying to get a job.

[Cabel Sasser @cabel]

i'm not sure if anyone who bought the European PS4 Retail version of Untitled Goose Game noticed this

but if you did, i'm sorry. there's a very obvious explanation

[John Collison @collision]

"When will AI reach human-level intelligence?" they asked, not realizing the AI had blown right past us to a higher plane of consciousness. https://t.co/VU9lrcPtxk

[bitowl @bitowl]

@BustaSnutt I'm a big fan of U+202E in my LinkedIn name :D