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We've had transpiled languages for decades, we really dont need a glorified dice to create rule based translation.

Everything is a nail at the moment.

Like people using LLMs to refactor. Refactoring is a solved problem, we've had decades to get nice tooling for this.

Nah I'm good thanks. Call me old school, but I'd rather understand how things work, and try and keep a maintainable codebase. Rather than just get some random rust I've no idea what it is, or why it does it, pushed into prod.

I think this is going to be todays 'cheap outsource' culture. Good enough to keep shareholders happy, an apparent boost in productivity, before tanking the reliability of the company.

Remember when we used to scorn stackoverflow developers, or PRs that were more than a few lines long. An every morning git pull is now bigger than my terminal buffer, its complete chaos. Numbers game to keep the new metrics world gamification going. Its dire.

Lost me at QT.

This is awesome! Been tracking the bug for what seems like Gimp 3 levels of time. But great job all involved.

Yep, I was on mailing list etc. Unsubscribed when they did the AI announcement. Its not for me.

Nah, its just them playing the victim. You can totally get noticed in a big company. Or overlooked in a small.

Throwing in the towel and saying I'm not going to bother in the future... yeah I'd never be hiring you in the first place.

This...

And tell you what, the posts on linkedin and the blogs like this, where the take away is 'I got fired and next time I'll work LESS'. Really?

Errr, might want to reconsider that strategy, unless you think that you are going to get binned no matter what, and just cruising until that happens is the solution. Just seems like a massively negative outcome.

That, or they are going for the spiteful 'hopefully I convince everyone else to lower the standard, so others get sacked, or so I look good again'.

Well just pre-ordered the 120hz amd. If the RiscV drops in, I'm going to be very impressed.

Are companies legally obligated to give cost of living? Nope. 7% given the number of layoffs in the tech sector seems amazing in my view.

I was working on an F1 game back in the PS1 game. The studio wanted to fire one of the track texture artists. They pulled him up for a texture that was on the back of one of the break boards...

'whats this?'

Now given it was like a 16x16 texture, he could have said anything..

'its <name> as a stick man with his ** out!'.

Handed them the ammo.

However, related to the moon, we did a demo / prototype one time, and put it into a soft QA cycle before sending to publishers. One of our QA (rightly, but sigh) raised a bug saying the moon was upside down, and given the location of the game, it would be rotated.

I just don't get GTK / Gnome decisions anymore. Font rendering is one part, but my personal hate is the stupid over padded default theme. Coupled with the fact they are making it as painful as they can get away with whilst still saying they support custom themes.

Until they cut back on the bloated, padded default, no one is going to take gnome / gtk seriously as a productive desktop env. There is countless studies showing more scrolling or less information presented in all sorts (like finance, programming, creative writing etc), leads to more mistakes.

But yet, this is the default theme (gtk4) next to a custom one (Mojave-dark). Pointer (mouse precision) is increasing, why on earth would I need such a bloated UX.

https://gregloscombe-01.s3.eu-gb.cloud-object-storage.appdom...

Flat I can just about tolerate, the stupid padding round every single element is what bugs me.

There has been loads of studies showing the amount of mistakes in coding or spreadsheet type work goes up massively with having to scroll windows, but yet, gtk3/4 is a bloated, oversized mess.

Mice precision has increased, so why on earth do we need toolbars that can take upto 1/8th a 768p screen. Stupid.

The latest updates from httpie have an insomnia type rest client workspace thing.

https://httpie.io/product

Have a look at Matrix and Riot.im - slack has a ton of traction at our work, but trying to get people onto that.

Now they have dug up all the copies of ET, they can replace them with copies of Ride to Hell.