Joseph Tary

Fire alarm randomly goes off for a few seconds. Check it, seems fine. Replace battery just in case. Few minutes later, goes off again. Annoyed, pull it off the ceiling and put it on my desk while I google what might be going on. Look down, and see spider crawling out...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to my coworker @acutmore @TechAtBloomberg on advancing Await Dictionary to Stage 2.7 at @TC39 today 🎉 Promise.all returns positional results as an array. Promise.allKeyed allows named results inside an object 👍

@bozoid @UploadVR I see it mostly as a Valve flavored Quest 3. It's actually not great for the VRC folks, as it won't combine easily with FBT trackers and doesn't have full facial tracking.

@UploadVR Valve confirms that it doesn't give a shit, like for the past 5 years or so... this is limited edition snapdragon for VRC fanboys

Valve confirmed that it's not currently working on a new first-party VR game: uploadvr.com/valve-isnt-cur…

@SadlyItsBradley @BrandonLakeland Don't worry, that's an east coast thing. On the west coast we drink milk from plastic jugs while sitting in our two million dollar refrigerator boxes.

@BrandonLakeland Oh my god. Those animals

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My new C programming book is slowly taking shape. If you want to learn along, let's start with the basics of control flow: godbolt.org/z/3GerY3zEc 1/5

Douglas Adams knew how to open

@gregosuri Apple has better lobbyists?

I can never understand the reason why the feds want to take Chrome away from Google but not the App Store away from Apple.

Be good. Future AIs are watching.

ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down alecmuffett.com/article/109872 #ComputerHistory #icq #messengers

Corgie originated from Welsh and means “Dwarf Dog” … … and legends say that fairies used to ride them into battle. You are welcome.

Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the most powerful companies in the world are the exact same ones available to hospitals, students, and everyone else. For free. And not just to use, but to inspect, modify, extend, and redistribute. Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share. It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better. Open Source AI is in many people’s crosshairs today. They believe that giving free access to state of the art algorithms and models without any guardrails constitutes a danger to society, that the public can’t be entrusted with a research model that wasn’t hammered into a box of their designated dimensions. “As a large language model, I cannot…” Unfortunately, this is actually inside the Overton Window of possibilities right now. Let’s push it out. In the spirit of the first amendment, congress should make no law abridging the freedom to release open source software.

- Engineer: I invented this new thing. I call it a ballpen 🖊️ - TwitterSphere: OMG, people could write horrible things with it, like misinformation, propaganda, hate speech. Ban it now! - Writing Doomers: imagine if everyone can get a ballpen. This could destroy society. There should be a law against using ballpen to write hate speech. regulate ballpens now! - Pencil industry mogul: yeah, ballpens are very dangerous. Unlike pencil writing which is erasable, ballpen writing stays forever. Government should require a license for pen manufacturers.

@gamemakerstk I think from an enforceability point of view, it's just impractical to ban AI code/art from the jam. Relying on the honour system is just punishing honest folks. Maybe just ask that people label their contributions as either using or not using AI art/code?

Before I announce the date for the GMTK Game Jam 2023, I need to make a ruling or stance on the use of generative AI art and code in jam entries. I would love to get your thoughts on what's fair, sensible, or desirable for the jam! Poll below, but feel free to say more in reply.

@How2Drink Yeah, not sure why people keep thinking that meat has some magical property that makes neural networks made from it somehow magically better than digital ones.

The ethics of these machines is a wholly different question entirely- I just can’t help myself but push back against magical thinking of all sorts.

This is how your brain works anyway. “Inspiration” is an illusion created by one part of your brain being amnesiac about your sources. the AI you see now ARE functioning the same as we do.

@monstermeal Same.

I think daylight savings seriously messes with my head.

@SadlyItsBradley I don't think any MR demos are going to correct the fact they made a bad decision to cut eye-tracking to focus on MR. A $400 dollar headset with eye tracking would have been significant. A $400 incremental upgrade from a Q2 with better passthrough - meh.

Pretty surprised about the opinions regarding the Stinson design/feature set If they continue to go with it, they better show off some good mixed reality demoes for Quest Pro that would change peoples’ minds

@Chebitz How is training an AI different than a human learning by copying others art?

I love how my phone dutifully rings for every scam caller, but when I'm expecting an important call -- straight to voicemail...

An AI created this image from the text prompt "a propaganda poster depicting a cat dressed as french emperor napoleon holding a piece of cheese" i.redd.it/s92y7ozf43t81.… I approve.

@monstermeal Yeah, these ones always mess me up. Wordle 282 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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