FergleFFergleson

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t worked with it myself as I’m not working on Japanese right now, but I had a recommendation recently for Satori Reader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that would explain a lot.

  I’m also guessing that at “up to 30%” of the company’s leadership decisions are being made by AI too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I go if I want to find someone to help me make an app game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three things based on other comments here:

  (1) <name of game engine> is free, try that!

  Be wary with this. They may be free for students or small deployment situations, but may have increasingly agressive demands as your user base increases in size or your seek some kind of profitability. I wouldn’t panic about, but do make sure to carefully review the licensing terms for ALL tools that you use in your process.

  (2) Learning/Tutorials

  Depends a bit on how you learn best. Youtube almost always has some good instructional videos. Most of the major tool/engine makers have large libraries of tutorials to draw from as well. Even very experienced programmers routinely have dozens of browser tabs that start from web searches that read “<name of my game engine/platform> how to do <specific thing I want to do>”.

  (3) If you look to hire or contract out some of the work, just realize that you will very often only get what you really pay for. Quality work costs more. One option you have is to spend the next year or three doing everything you can yourself. Get as close to complete as you can. Then go to something like Kickstarter and look for completion funds. “Look at how complete the game is. If I can just get a little bit of money, I can hire a professional <whatever> to do that one part that I couldn’t do myself”. This is especially usual for getting access to skills like art, music, voice acting, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be a bad idea to show up at a protest outside a Tesla dealership with a sign that says "Deny Musk, Defund Doge, Depose Trump"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone considering attending a protest of any kind should probably at least skim over some of this guidance:

  ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need to save money? You can literally just buy these for pennies, you don't have to go to the Olive Garden.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  waaaay back in my wild and misspent youth, some friends and I bought a 5 pound case of these from Costco. It was the mintiest weekend ever. Damn those were tasty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for providing that link. I knew about OSM, but didn’t fully grasp that (duh) it’s open which means I can help with the data. Time to get busy! :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, this is exactly what I went through today. I’m a paid Proton user, but ignored Proton Pass when it came out because I was already well-entrenched with BitWarden. Decided today to give it a real look. Generally pretty pleased with what I’m seeing, though I’m not entirely committed to shifting platforms.