Sinuousity

@Sinuousity@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years ago I conducted an internal months long investigation into Bigo Live and about a dozen remarkably similar apps. They were cookie cutter template apps with slight tweaks to test market trends and engagement, all produced by one single corporate entity: ByteDance. While sharing my findings with the team did result in new child endangerment policies being enacted internally, it is absolutely disgusting to see these apps are still at large, getting worse, and the massive tech company I worked for did essentially nothing to help externally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t sound like a great company. Anyone who at this point believes an ‘AI’ agent can outright replace human labor is not paying attention. 100% just another AI scam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to Help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like doubling the workload is better than quadrupling the size of the project inheriting a bevy of features and tools you likely won’t touch at all. Sure it’s stripped out later (ideally), but I like less bloat and that includes during dev when I might have to dig through 3rd party code with its own conventions and standards packed into a ‘source available’ library with potentially dogshit or absent documentation.

  Also yes, it’s good practice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boss fights definitely, your sentiment reminds me of Warframe. Don’t miss farming bosses. However, there are a lot of ways randomized loot can be implemented, and I wouldn’t call all of them dark patterns

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t answer that, but absolutely it is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: Technology Improves Incrementally Over Time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The two types of jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VBA is horrid and incredibly outdated. I’ve written c# code that ran identical calculations on data being run through excel at literally over a million times the speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1? The shadows. Or well, the *lack* of them.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Environment and character work was generally great in 4, but just look at that Phantom ‘explodes’ in the very first mission… It’s remarkable how weak some of the presentation in the game was. While 4 did have some talented people working on the franchise still, it was obvious by then that 343 no longer cared and QA was absent. Also way way too much lens flare