Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
me seeing the "9 games that define you" trend going around:
if you saw the nine games that define me you'd hurl
thinking about my last visit to the game store where a cool looking trans femme walked in, confidently asked for the copy of Gex in the display case, paid, then left
I've started a gene discernment working group among my friends as well. i know for sure chromosome 6 has to do with body width, and 0 has to do with overall torso size. Justin the developer also told me that some chromosomes only do things in relation to others so, it's pretty deep and esoteric!
Pretty huge issue with Arc Raiders and Discord integration logging all of your DMs while the game is active
timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...
Anyway I don't trust "discord integration" and neither should you. the less my applications and ganes share information with each other the better
So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...
This is from one of the former Infinity Ward/Call of Duty co-founders:
it really is one of the funniest and deepest and most brilliant games I've played
more like "you're welcome"
Pretty huge issue with Arc Raiders and Discord integration logging all of your DMs while the game is active
timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...
Absolutely not. Not only because I have already tried LLMs to help with my coding but also because they are wrapped up in funding some of the most morally reprehensible companies that do not even remotely align with my values. I'm not interested and I'm not willing to spend a single cent on it
i have like 4 sketchbooks full of diagrams like this for when i was working on STREET UNI X
we live in entirely different worlds
overhearing corporate AAA game devs talk about burnout and work tasks and employment and interviewing and stuff at a local cafe and I'm once again grateful I've sorted out a career of smaller scale gamedev instead of giving into AAA allure when I graduated programming school
the is relevant to web dev as well for sure, I'm gonna be making loads of these diagrams as I ramp up on my personal chat room I intend to start making once my parts arrive
currently sorting out the audio manager in it's solitaire
AI coders: idk how to do this, I'm gonna ask the AI how to do this and then try to understand what it tells me
Me: idk how to do this. im gonna draw pictures of the conceptual arrangement until all the bases are covered, then programming it is just a matter of translation from image to actions
we in video games have an even greater obligation to make noise and not yield in the face of the right because our industry's complacency and cowardice is a significant catalyst for how we arrived at this outcome. angry gamers are cowards. call their bluff, every time.
It's my time! You can always count on the daffodil's breaching the cool soil!
Allan-Quatermain 23h Great question! There are actually several layers here worth untangling, and believe me when say that this whole thing is one big, tangled, knot. Is Israel unique in being associated with "right to exist" language? Essentially, yes. The phrase "right to exist" as applied to a state isn't a recognized concept in international law; it's a political formulation that became prominent specifically in the context of the Arab-lsraeli conflict. The phrase gained enormous diplomatic weight when it was embedded as a precondition for peace negotiations: in 1993, as part of the Oslo process, the PLO formally recognized "the right of the State of lsrael to exist in peace and security" in exchange for Israel recognizing the PL0 as the representative of the Palestinian people (U.S. State Department- The Oslo Accords and the Arab-lsraeli Peace Process). This built on the framework established by UN Security Council Resolution 242 (1967), which affirmed the right of every state in the region to "live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries' notably using the language of living in peace, not a state's abstract right to exist (Yale Law School Avalon Project-UNSC Resolution 242). No other state in modern diplomacy has had its "right to exist" made a formal precondition for negotiations in this way.
Do states even have a "right to exist"? This is genuinely debated! Multiple legal scholars have pointed out that no provision of international law grants any state an inherent right to exist. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Self-Determination notes that self-determination was interpreted in the 1960s as the right of colonial territories to become independent or adopt any other status they freely chose, but this is a right of peoples, not a guarantee that any particular state will persist in perpetuity (Princeton Encyclopedia of Self-Determination Legal Aspects of Self-Determination). States either exist as political realities or they don't; throughout history they form, dissolve, merge, and split. The philosopher Ernest Renan argued back in 1882 that a nation's existence is essentially a 'daily plebiscite," it persists only as long as its members choose to sustain it.
"Right to exist' vs. "right to self-determination"....are they the same? No, and you're picking up on the crux of the matter. Self-determination is a recognized principle of international law, enshrined in Article 1 of the UN Charter, which lists among the UN's purposes the development of "friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples (United Nations Charter, Chapter It's further codified in Article 1 of both the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, where it is described as the right of all peoples to "freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development' (Cornell Law Institute Self-Determination in International Law). A state's "right to exist" by contrast, is about the legitimacy and permanence of a particular political entity with particular borders. You can affirm a people's self-determination without endorsing any specific state configuration, and you can affim a state's right to exist without necessarily addressing the self-determination claims of all peoples affected by that state. The Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre notes that self-determination has acquired the status of jus cogens, a peremptory norm of international law, and that its obstruction, particularly through the use of force, constitutesa serious violation of international law (Diakonia lHL Centre Self-Determination and International Law). The "right to exist" enjoys no such legal status!!
The American Society of International Law further clarifies this distinction in practice: international law bestows on all peoples the right to self-determination, but the right to external self-determination (i.e., secession and independent statehood) only applies in extreme circumstances, such as colonization or severe persecution (ASIL Insights Sterio, "Self-Determination and Secession Under International Law" 2018). So when you hear "Ukraine has a right to self-determination" versus "Israel has a right to exist," those aren't just different phrasings of the same idea. The first invokes established international law and locates the right with a people. The second is a political demand with no direct legal basis, directed at the permanence of a specific state. Completely separate issues.
uncharacteristically good answer from r/AskHistorians on the language of "right to exist" that has me thinking about this deeply.
I certainly think the right line on this is that Jewish people have a right to a peaceful existence in the levant but Israel does not have a right to exist.
Israel deserves nothing. Less than nothing.
toothache famously one of the worst pains it is possible to feel. horrific
I think for this to be considered a "hard" decision one must have more than a little bit of fascist capitalist bubbling inside of them
Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river
The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.
They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.
The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.
others: how are you today?
literally me, literally, no exagerration, actually saying these words: wishing death upon the the US empire
profit motive and scalability is the only thing that matters. sustainability does not pay the bosses
endless war crimes. republicans should all be forcefully removed from power forever.
meanwhile my programmer friends struggle to find work because all these arrogant douchebags are pretending to be doing it instead
I forgot about the fact that why is getting paid for this
