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Yeah, I replaced my 24 inch with a 27 inch and it's too big to have two of them on my desk.

The happiest I have ever been with my monitors was with 2x 24 inch 1440 displays (dell s2421sgf) - it’s not an IPS display but it’s a single panel high refresh rate with solid soft…

It’s predominantly artists, and art pipelines are usually fairly scalable .

For the most part, those teams are art teams. At my last studio, we had more artists than programmers, designers and producers combined. Games are still being made by small teams a…

Generally anti AI person who is a game dev here: > The lines might blur if an artist uses an AI to manipulate their own art that they made. Where’s the line? Is using tools in maya…

I think you’re technically right, but the point of the connector is to indicate what it will work with. It’s all well and good until you grab one of the white or black cables and p…

You’re somewhat underplaying it - plugging a cheapo random Chinese knock off cable into my MacBook is effectively useless. Plugging a 480Mb cable into a thunderbolt dock is effecti…

In the alternative world I use the cable that came with the device and I can tell apart from the other 10 black cables.

But the current situation is I can take two devices with a USB C connector, connect them with a USB c cable, and they won’t work. Is that really better?

That's not just moving actions though, that's moving _everything_ and taking on the maintenance of running it yourself.

And for the applications it not adequate for, a different cable should be used. But instead I have a drawer full of USB c cables and no idea which ones are which.

They’ve said that, but it doesn’t add up. The outages started shortly after the migration to Azure became the top priority, and before the load massively increased form agentic cod…

To what? That’s kind of the problem.

I found that reflection/meditation before bed didn’t work for me. I do my reflection/journalling as part of my “stimulating” activities so that my mind has an hour or so to process…

I did a CBT course on it, the steps were very roughly to stay up until I got tired and then get up at my target time. IIRC that was stay up till 4 and get up at 7:30. That pretty q…

I won’t claim to have any qualifications but generally the more I look after myself the better I sleep. The better I sleep the more I can look after myself.

That's a better approach than what I did, and I'll use that going forwards.

What was the outcome of the report to HR? I think if you work somewhere that this is the result, you're unlikely to have much progress challenging anything directly. In order to ac…

> I also think I write better code than an LLM in certain areas, but in most programming domains, the LLM knows more than I do across many dimensions. Remember that the quality of …

> I spent all those years Sleep changes as we age, so it’s possible that you were “fine” before.

I’ve always struggled with sleep. A few things that helped me (in order of importance) - go to bed and get up at the same time every day. Getting up is more important than going to…

Anecdotally, there are no engineers who I considered “great engineers” before who are now just posting slop. The great engineers are still great engineers - and I don’t know (or ca…

Yeah that’s exactly the person I’m talking about.

But that’s not what happens - people are posting the question into Claude and pasting back saying “here’s what Claude said”. There’s 0 value add in that - I don’t know if you agree…

At my last job, a coworker did this to me. The first time it happened, I ignored it. The second time, I responded in public saying “thanks but I can ask Claude myself.” Nobody ever…