jazzcomputer's comments

I've often mused about how people get irritated by others being optimistic about change when the observers have tried change in the past and not been able to maintain it. I feel that the experience of that can lead to a position of cynicism that is defined by ones own limitations rather than the constraints of the system. They'll even suggest that people should be stronger in their resistance against the proven stickiness of platforms that use huge data to keep people in their ecosystems.

As someone who has eaten way too much sugary food I think my gut-brain coupling may have had enough of this. A few weeks ago I had a sugar binge one night and the cognitive effects were impossible to ignore the next day. Fortunately after 2-3 days I was back to normal but of my sample size of one, and in my condition (which is pre-diabetic) I observed a clear link.

It was a good experience as it's prompted me to get more serious about cutting back sugar, implemented as long term, achievable habit change.

It simply depends on what your needs are IMO - You can do great magazine design in Affinity, brochures, flyers, logos all that stuff. The only thing I'd miss in InDesign is image expand probably.

Also if you're making video games, and you don't need to export multi-res textures and work on the edge of file formats for advanced texturing etc, if your budget and needs are served by Affinity why spend on Adobe?

Shout out to those who give their time to open-source free to use projects. You make the internet a more tolerable place.

There's also the poll that was conducted by penn state -

It found that 82% of Israelis want to expel Gazans, and 47% of support killing all Palestinians in Gaza.

Article was featured in Haaretz - linked to here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poll-82-of-israelis-wan...

I had a break from ChatGPT for a few months and got back onto it last week with some questions about game engines. I noticed that this time it's asking a lot of stuff when it looks like I'm coming to the end of my questions - like, "would you like me to go through with..." or "would you like me to help you with setting up..."

Previously it felt less this way but it was notable as it seemed to sense I was coming towards the end of my questions and wanted me to stick around.

In response to this, I was going to craft a comment that critiqued the critiques and began with the same wording as the critiques but instead I'll say this...

A nuanced critique! - excellent.

Please, nobody reply to this comment.

I'm keen to make a vector game and want something fast. I was excited to read about this thing but when I saw Lottie it made me think that the animations would be quite closed data-wise, whereas the game design I have in mind has dynamic animation that would happen on the fly, or be a mixture of preset animations with elements that react dynamically.

I'm an almost complete code novice so I was wondering if anyone can tell me if this solution would allow animations that are constructed in code rather than just play start to finish etc as a preset thing that can't be easily augmented.

Flat silhouetted icons have a more versatile set of contexts - much like flat text does. Sure, you can express a lot in an icon that's 3D and whatnot but it needs its own stage to 'act' and really come alive, or else it'll just look a bit small, hard to read or a set of them will look too dense and over-egged on a shelf. Maximalism is visually demanding, and whilst it'll look cool, the context is too small for those kind of gaudy claims of some huge game-changer in aesthetics.- It's not I don't welcome them, as I do like diversity, but this is not gonna be some game-changer like when skeuomorphics was binned by Apple.

An elderly friend of my partner's family had her Facebook account hacked some time ago. Every so often, I get a friend request from an account using her avatar with the same name, but with some characters appended or some slight different spelling.

When this happens, I submit a report to Facebook and a few days later I get a message from Facebook telling me they have reviewed my report and that they've ruled that the account is not in breach of their rules.

Any lawsuit or quagmire they get embroiled in has very little sympathy from me.

As someone who has no interest in using this facility, I find it interesting that the author 'enjoys' BNPL, when they are not the main customer (unless I'm mistaken, it's people with limited cash flow). Enjoy in what way? - I guess the economic mechanism being something that wasn't previously applied to a basic human need? - I think the answer there for me is that this is emblematic of late-stage capitalism (which may perhaps last 100s of years), but it's a fine example in my mind because there are much more serious problems that could be solved with getting food to people.

Runaway Play

I also hear good things about Dinosaur Polo Club

I came across a game studio a few years ago here in NZ that does it right. I worked in a hot desk place that housed their studio in a space - they were never working past 5.30, had amazing staff reviews (they did them in a space where I could overhear them), have a good IP, good wage packages, excellent internal mentoring, a good gender split, recruit diverse staff.

I'm pretty sure there's a few other studios here too which are good. I'm just sharing this 'cos, well... it's nice to hear the positives.

I wonder what the chances are if there's a few of them within the Boötes void. It's pretty big.

I'm in my 50s and I'm currently mulling the conundrum of being an artist and designer with art and design side projects, and now having them sidelined by a new-found interest in p5js. I'm getting little glimpses of observing myself and how I'm responding to my side-project time being increasingly compacted by parenting, work and also a recent flush of training for a mountain run (in order to maintain some fitness) - I also had a temporary obsession with learning wheelies on my bike, which further compacted time available for javascript learning outside of work hours.

Anyways - this article was a good read, and I've enjoyed the observations in the comments - especially about the body and the ebb and flow nature of time spent on side projects.

I had a kind of burn-out last year where I'd work 'til 1am and then feel drained and grouchy the next day. A new found interest in sleep has been paying dividends, but I need to lean into it further.

Try hovering over the symbols on the card - though I couldn't get the morph one to work on Firefox

I love this - shout out from the Southern Hemisphere though - would love to see our version of it.

With image AI there are structural editing tools that can include the creator drawing guide images. I think there's a point at which this makes things a bit more like collage of found media, and I believe this is more of an authored creation when compared to Richard Prince's using someone else's Instagram selfie and repurposing that as his art by adding a comment to it and screen-grabbing it. What is and isn't art is sometimes to me, clearer than copyright ownership and sometimes vice-versa.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/30/8691257/richard-prince-in...

I'm learning javascript as my first programming language and I'm somewhere around beginner/intermediate. I used Chatgpt for a while, but stopped after a time and just mostly use documentation now. I don't want code solutions, I want code learning and I want certainty behind that learning.

I do see a time where I could use copilot or some LLM solution but only for making stuff I understand, or to sandbox high level concepts of code approaches. Given that I'm a graphic designer by trade, I like 'productivity/automation' AI tools and I see my approach to code will be the same - I like that they're there but I'm not ready for them yet.

I've heard people say I'll get left behind if I don't use AI, and that's fine as I'll just use niche applications of code alongside my regular work as it's just not stimulating to have AI fill in knowledge blanks and outsource my reasoning.

This feels like a article against the fur trade that was written on a rare animal skin.