Carlyle and the utopian dream

musician, programmer and card-carrying autist, trying to answer questions about digital art (got any?)

currently reading: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

RADDBG is extremely close to RSI. Ever since I started daily driving it to develop it, it was instrumental in making its own development faster. It’s only a matter of time before I’m completely out of the loop, and RADDBG starts recursively improving itself.

Be prepared.

[Aram Hăvărneanu @aramh]

Anthropic (and all the others) have pirated all books, illegally trained their models on them, then when caught they destroyed all books they could buy (inventing the practice of knowledge laundering).

But when the user wants to find a reference to a paper that is 94 years old, it's suddenly concerned about copyright violations.

It's not even about refusing a task (bad in itself), it performed the task just fine, but it decided to withhold information from you because Anthropic thinks they are above you.

These are the people who want to be arbiters of morality.

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

Odin's biggest and baddest release yet by far!

https://t.co/C4doyZBWHt

[Erfan Momeni @erfanmomeni]

Been experimenting with dispersion in my path tracer. Naturally, had to render some diamonds! 💎

[といとい @toitoitoi23]

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[radgametools @radgametools]

Hey, happy to announce that the RAD Debugger is now available for Linux (in alpha). It is early and preliminary! Expect random weirdnesses *for sure*, but it is ready to be played with!

https://t.co/XLpdRIMcUm

[Carlyle and the utopian dream @Scrybe52]

@LiveFromVR @the_aiju I think that's an overloaded use of 'depth'

[Retro Tech Dreams @RetroTechDreams]

SGI's 3D File System Navigator (1993) was real

[𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍 @GramanhFolcwald]

Old page for your Friday enjoyment, here’s to the changing seasons

[Christoph Niemann @abstractsunday]

This video was a happy accident. While waiting in a car during the Netflix shoot of my ABSTRACT episode, I drew a cyclist on the side window. Then the car started moving.
On view at my current show "The Moving image" at Museum Schloss Bonndorf/Germany.
https://t.co/LdtnX0p392

[ilokunst @ilokunst]

Ballpoint pen on paper.
#ilokunst #writing

[Maung Thuta @CypressDahlia]

Just realized gifs are no longer stored in either media tab so if you uploaded your art as a gif it's only gonna be available via direct search from now on. You might be better off just getting OBS and recording your gif as a video (you can just drag and drop it in the window)

[hiro☆ @o7FG56uTT9zbtLq]

廃橋

[Carlyle and the utopian dream @Scrybe52]

like that classic "which shape doesnt fit the pattern" intelligence test thingy, I'm sure the author could make a very compelling argument that's there's only 1 solution, but they're wrong

[Carlyle and the utopian dream @Scrybe52]

a riddle is just a puzzle where your assumed to know the design constraints of the puzzle itself, and thus, in a way, bullshit

[Vjekoslav Krajačić @vkrajacic]

I've been discovering new vibe coded file managers on a weekly basis lately and I've just gotten used to it.

Most are toy programs. A couple of things worth mentioning here:

- Vibe coding still won't give you top notch technical results. You can do better if you have the knowledge, even if you use AI to assist you.

- Programming != building a product as a whole.

- Designing a good UI and user experience is a whole different skill set.

- Building a good brand is another skill in itself.

- Creating and maintaining a good product website and presenting your product effectively.

- Vibe coding a toy project and putting it on github is very different from selling it to someone and taking responsibility for maintaining it.

- Marketing is again a whole different domain. Posting on social media, reddit, writing blog posts, creating showcase videos etc.

- Building and managing a community through discord, email or whatever platform you choose.

- Running your own company...

The list goes on.

Don't be discouraged by things like this. Put yourself in the user shoes. If you wanted a program that does job X really well, would you rather pay some money for a reputable product with an established community, reliable support, and a proven track record.
Or would you browse github for projects where you have to download the codebase and build it yourself?

And I'm talking about users who actually want to find something good, pay for it and get on with their work. Not those who complain on the internet about something costing money and not being open source. Those people would nag you even if you were on the toy project side of things.

So keep your head up and do what you're good at. Let others copy you. That's actually a sign you're doing something right.

[Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain]

One of the most difficult and rewarding parts of teaching is finding plausible intermediate steps between a naive first guess and the actual answer. Just telling someone the answer directly doesn't help. And one of the best places to find these steps is the historical record.

[ilokunst @ilokunst]

Ballpoint pen on paper.
#ilokunst #writing #art

[Cotterzz @cotterzz]

Golfed cloud is now 759 chars and is also cloud.