Cube Drone

90% JOKES ABOUT SOFTWARE / 10% PICTURES OF CAT
Vancouver, Canada - Lead backend developer for all of virtual reality, or VRChat at least.

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2024-08-18 20:58:03

We have bags of extra cat toys because he gets bored of and destroys new toys so quickly , but keeping him away from the extra toy bag is its own challenge
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2024-08-18 16:19:11

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the finest setting on a box grater is sufficient and it comes with three whole other sides for the same price

2024-08-18 16:14:39

okay, #cooking opinion time: microplanes die too quickly, I don't like them

2024-08-18 05:51:06

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@npub1p4g…qlwm “ugh, Mondays”

2024-08-16 07:45:55

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@npub1gdc…9vxq
Nobody can see 30 years into the future. Having that child is making a gamble that things will be better, 5, 10, 15 years down the road. Which is... hopeful.

2024-08-16 07:39:20

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@npub1gdc…9vxq sure, there are narcissists, psychopaths, unfit parents abound, but... while I can agree that folks who do not care for their children should not have children, I can't offer much in the way of recourse

2024-08-16 07:37:21

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@npub1gdc…9vxq
seeing a grieving parent gives you an tiny window into how much they do, in fact, understand how seriously they take their responsibility to the life they've brought into this world

2024-08-15 19:04:15

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"Existence contains suffering, ergo, making people exist is doing violence to them. " is an extremely "I am going to have a second boss-phase where I grow wings and deal massive extra damage" kind of philosophy

2024-08-15 19:02:44

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I guess, in a different direction, calling anybody who doesn't have kids for whatever reason "anti-natalist" is wrong, on account of actual anti-natalists being _real weird_.
Some people just don't want kids.
Hardcore anti-natalists appear to believe that anyone having children At All is on the face of it evil, and believe in the voluntary extinction of the human race, it's actually an extremely Overwrought Anime Villain belief system.

2024-08-14 08:04:57

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@npub14x8…7fe6
why it was old man white supremacy all along
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2024-08-14 07:53:01

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there are loads of people
if someone has a one-in-a-million mental disorder you could still get 8000 people like that in a room together
that's why VRChat works

2024-08-14 07:50:15

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everyone knows that the only babies that matter are the ones your millennial daughter-in-law are not having, how dare she

2024-08-13 19:04:31

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@npub1pre…w6ne a backpack from the top down or the last thing a worm near an undead duck ever sees

2024-08-13 09:17:33

a little while back someone on reddit was complaining that all of the people on online dating are polycules, predators, or terrible matches
and - yeah - these are the people who either can't or refuse to remove themselves from the dating pool, which is why there are so many of them _in the dating pool_.
it's also why so many of your resumes come from folks who have a dozen consecutive jobs that are all 8 months long each

2024-08-12 05:14:17

fast company out there writing articles from the point of view of the smallest people you'll ever meet
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2024-08-12 04:07:25

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@npub1cpt…suqu Undertale/Deltarune hit pretty close, but Toby Foxes are apparently pretty few and far between

2024-08-12 01:56:36

What I'm looking for is a game that makes me feel like Earthbound did in 199X, but that seems like it may be too much to ask

2024-08-12 00:21:55

ah good my trans girl is on the way
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2024-08-11 23:59:23

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@npub1ayr…z6vn some people might say “what you have made there is a bologna sandwich my dude” but you know what Julia child’s cassoulet is pretty dang delicious

2024-08-11 23:58:20

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@npub1ayr…z6vn one time I made Julia Child’s cassoulet recipe, but instead of the beans I used bread and instead of the duck confit I used slices of bologna and instead of the sausage I used mustard and lettuce

2024-08-11 08:06:32

"I'm a big fan of Starman"
"You're a fan of David Bowie?"
"David who?"
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2024-08-11 08:04:38

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@npub1gm2…aurk case in point
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2024-08-10 19:35:46

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it would be slightly harder to simulate that one guy with a bunch of numbers in his name who's constantly pushing hard right accelerationism on every forum

2024-08-10 19:26:14

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if I were looking for communities to replace with an AI these would probably be the first, I feel like I wouldn't need a complex model or even an LLM, necessarily, I could do this one heuristically

2024-08-10 19:25:34

local communities on any platform like reddit are nothing more than a constant drumbeat of "what was that siren?" and "someone's dog pooped" and "i think I saw a criminal??" in small cities
and "oh my god big cities have homelessness and drugs, that should be against the law" and "the endless bike/scooter argument" of larger cities

2024-08-09 09:53:34

I spent the last few hours playing The Messenger on the Steam Deck and it's quite good, and also my thumb is a little numb

2024-08-08 03:04:58

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look, it's tragic, okay
every selfie death is a Cybertruck left sitting, unsold, on the lot
a NFT, orphaned, its wallet forever silenced
a bunch of ideas for AI art that never even got to get generated
reddit drama that you won't have read out loud to you
an ad read for Squarespace that you'll never get to hear

2024-08-08 03:00:56

it's going to be an uphill battle getting me to take "selfie deaths" seriously
https://slate.com/technology/2024/08/selfie-death-cliff-waterfall-hike.html
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2024-08-08 02:36:49

while it's getting _longer_, my attention span for personal projects lasts about Three Months, at which point I start to get fuckin' sick of them

2024-08-07 23:12:03

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@npub1szj…hvrq that is 100% of their job my friend

2024-08-07 22:55:21

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they've made a big show out of spending some time in VR themselves to try and appear less stodgy and corporate which is actually less convincing than watching Mark Zuckerberg do it

2024-08-07 22:52:39

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they've managed to enact a plan where they promise one another in a circle with limited at best engineering involvement that something important is going to be delivered by November, because that's when they would like it to happen
but it's no skin off my nose when they fly that particular plane right into a cliff

2024-08-07 22:50:13

any time I get into the weeds of actually building or maintaining our product, I'm happy as a clam, because software engineering is its own reward
and any time I have to interact with the vast new leadership team we've hired to make all of the new decisions about our product, I want to shoot myself in the head

2024-08-07 18:50:11

Hey #gamedev folk. I understand the momentum, but maybe it's time to stop using the internet as a channel for selling your games. It's starting to feel really gross whenever I see this now.
Maybe you post everywhere and the internet is just one place out of many. That's definitely something. But posting there, well, at all is basically saying you either agree or don't care about everything going on over there. It's becoming an ever-growing black mark. :P

2024-08-07 08:40:31

The most important thing I ever learned to say in Japanese was, of course, エラー: 翻訳サーバーに接続できません

2024-08-01 20:14:28

fuuuuuck
an OLED panel as your monitor is nice enough except
I wondered how they dealt with the "burn in" problem
It's by hassling you, mid day, to turn the monitor off for 10 minutes
:|

2024-07-31 20:45:52

slack: "I HAVE AN UNREAD FOR YOU!"
me: "i don't believe you"
slack: "look, open your activity window, I'll show you!"
me: "there's nothing here"
slack: "You haven't READ everything!"
me: "I'm going to click <filter by unread> and I swear to god, if you don't have anything for me."
slack: "YOU HAVE UNREAD MESSAGEEEEEES!"
boop
slack: "you have no unread messages"

2024-07-31 00:16:32

so, the BC Liberals were worried their name was too unpopular with local hicks and changed their name to BC United, which proved to be Much Less Popular,
man, this would be an awesome time to form a new party called the BC Liberals to further muddy the waters

2024-07-30 08:46:35

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I think that all governmental orgs and offices should be on VRChat, not because that's practical or a good idea, but because not enough government employees have to deal with caked up foxes on the regular

2024-07-30 08:44:50

one of the things I like about the fediverse is how weirdly optimistic and naive everybody is about the clout of a distributed social network that's compelling and fun, but absolutely has less users than the virtual reality video game that I work on for a living
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2024-07-30 08:33:28

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@npub1qgf…gwmn it's much more offensive on a LCD screen (where it feels like it's actively attacking your eyes) than it is on a physical page, where it's merely ugly

2024-07-30 01:20:44

“I shall call it the cabbage softball” - Jonathan Kohlrabi, 1856, spitballing name ideas for his new vegetable

2024-07-30 01:01:23

You ever see a design and think the designer was like “maaan, fuck the color blind”
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2024-07-30 00:29:02

i think one of the best arguments in favor of rust is that "I could write a database in it, and I'm a fucking idiot" ( https://logmunch.com )

2024-07-29 18:09:07

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@npub1jsg…lg2p
ah yes, these are the ones you use in canada when you want them to deliver your mail at priority speed

2024-07-28 20:44:27

post laser-eye surgery, I have a tiny bit of astigmatism in my left eye, which means it doesn't do quite as much work as my right eye, which means I get eye strain in my right eye really easily if I do something like "use a computer for 15 hours a day for multiple consecutive months" which is kind of my default state
the eye strain resolves as a twitch, which feels like my right eye is trying to escape my head, which I don't love

2024-07-28 03:56:49

Zapp just very imperiously summoned me downstairs to watch him eat a bit

2024-07-27 23:04:27

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Because "marquee.click" is my personal domain for Various Shenanigans, my first crack at this was "marquee radio" which had something like a 5% success rate.
Most of the time Alexa would hear "mariachi radio", and as much as I like non-stop mariachi tunes, it's not what I asked for.
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2024-07-27 23:01:42

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these, of course, only work within my home: it's in dev mode, I probably couldn't get my radio stations through certification, being as I do not have the legal right to rebroadcast this music (I _paid_ for the mp3s, and the radio station is for personal use)

2024-07-27 22:58:07

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I've got the device vibe a little better than she does. That's not to say it isn't VERY OFTEN just, like, 15% dumber than I want it to be.
A good question to ask Alexa is "what do you think I just said?" because it will often provide some context for a completely nonsensical response.

2024-07-27 22:57:13

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My wife has an unusual pan-American accent borne from being a military kid, but she's not unclear: instead I think she's just kinda mad that the device expects clear enunciation and refuses to play it's game, whereas I'm so in love with the sound of my own voice I can't help but go "Alexa, could you please turn the lights off in the living room?"

2024-07-27 19:14:42

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@npub130s…kfgt “my question is two questions; the first is more of a comment…”

2024-07-27 18:46:09

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@npub1qgf…gwmn I, too, anal

2024-07-27 09:50:15

sometimes I wonder if it's legal to advertise on behalf of other companies against their will

2024-07-26 08:26:17

watching 30 Rock and realizing that I'm Liz Lemon's (Season 1) age has hit me about as hard as watching The Simpsons and realizing that I'm Homer's age

2024-07-26 02:38:57

Fry the zucchini like it’s chicken
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2024-07-25 08:17:21

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@npub1vwv…9m80
"How bad could it be? There's only so much skytrain."
meanwhile, Squid:
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2024-07-25 07:11:51

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@npub1a4c…t2kf
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2024-07-25 07:04:58

layoff notifications are also written in the exonerative tense, it's like "X% of our employees will be leaving the company, we're sorry for the ones affected" as if they were hit by a fleet of buses one at a time

2024-07-25 06:06:31

does anybody else remember neon genesis evangelion
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2024-07-24 05:44:53

I am box #cat
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2024-07-23 22:03:41

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@npub1fv9…ngx0 correct, but it's like the difference in energy between a pound of coal and a pound of uranium: a pound of coffee beans is a 2 week supply, a pound of tea is a 6 month project

2024-07-23 21:59:19

nobody who's used to buying coffee ever expects how much tea is in a pound of tea

2024-07-22 08:51:02

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throwaway joke
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2024-07-22 08:27:44

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top tier prop
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2024-07-22 08:16:33

I think my favorite is the episode of #30Rock where Jenna and Kenneth conspire with Kelsey Grammer to steal hundreds of dollars from a Carvell iced cream store by ordering misspelled cakes
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2024-07-21 05:58:53

I’ve been ahead of the game for a long time, mp3s since always, but I’m starting to long for physical media. Give me a diskette, a CD, a cassette tape, something that operates with a satisfying clunk

2024-07-20 20:12:46

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I know, I know, "you're going to have loads and loads of children" is, like, tarot cold reading rule numero uno so the reader needs a lot of outs for that

2024-07-20 20:12:03

people who print interpretations the tarot just label every goddamn card with a woman on it with "fertility" which I think is some bullshit

2024-07-20 06:59:09

according to my phone I've played over 230 hours of Slay the Spire

2024-07-20 06:43:33

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@npub12rh…g0fk “danger is my middle name” is honestly just a fun thing to say

2024-07-20 06:11:42

I'm going to go against the common wisdom on this one. If you aren't confident enough to push to production on Friday, you aren't confident enough to push to production, period. Invest in your rollback and monitoring and staged rollout tech until you don't lose 20% of your week.

2024-07-19 22:21:56

more like clownstrike amirite?
(satisfied, he walks away from his keyboard, another day defeated)

2024-07-19 17:20:49

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@npub1qgf…gwmn "Therese" is a real name that exists
Thereese having diseese is obviously very silly, but such is the point

2024-07-19 01:26:52

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bwuce dwy
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2024-07-19 01:25:54

bwuce wayne
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2024-07-19 01:24:56

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@npub1qgf…gwmn "diseese" is just a slant pronunciation of disease

2024-07-19 01:24:21

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@npub1qgf…gwmn
a WAYNESTOWM
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2024-07-18 20:41:51

yesterday my #dungeonsanddragons players got to explore a cemetery where every single headstone was a "Here lies Bob, who drowned"-tier stupid pun
"Here lies Wayne, died in a stowm"
"Here lies Thereese, who had diseese"

2024-07-17 23:50:00

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@npub1qgf…gwmn
actually the result is different each time

2024-07-17 20:00:08

`curl --head https://loggo.logmunch.com | grep X-Powered-By`

2024-07-17 18:47:38

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like, here are creatures fundamentally incapable of understanding or caring about what you're trying to get them to do, and even if they were on board with your plan, they would not be able to do it well because they do not have the dexterity in their little paws to hold the cards right

2024-07-17 18:44:14

watching someone try to get the government of Canada to put up a public Mastodon instance is one of those things that's funny and tragic, like if they spent all of their time trying to get their cats to play Poker
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2024-07-17 08:35:08

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of course, you can get rid of Groggy with Morning Start, but once you start it's hard to stop
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2024-07-17 08:32:07

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all it takes is one bad knight and all of a sudden you understand why sleep is important

2024-07-17 08:31:31

this is the kind of stupid fucking pun I can't resist
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2024-07-16 17:18:52

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@npub1qgf…gwmn i don't know why I decided to make them hot dog colored but I regret nothing

2024-07-16 07:44:26

the fool and the magician
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2024-07-16 02:50:17

If you just learned (or are just now learning) that Sticker Mule is run by a hardcore Maga guy, and would like an alternative, may I suggest not buying stickers? You’re a goddamned adult. Don’t pay people for things printed on sticky paper. Replace your furnace air filter. Buy an immersion blender. Save for your retirement.

2024-07-15 22:25:35

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@npub1cpt…suqu usually things end up in a dedicated plastic baggie but the envelopes are often very thin and destructible

2024-07-15 22:10:16

I don't like it when board games have legacy mechanics. That 's too big of an ask of my time and friend group, and a lot of times they result in permanent damage to the game's innards as you tear up boxes and bits and bobs.
I've bought a few and I've regretted each one.

2024-07-15 21:54:43

i love this boring man and his mundane obsessions
something about checkered blazer and faded graphic tee shouts "this man is shaped like a friend" to me
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2024-07-15 17:21:53

nation’s women disappointed by three inches, again

2024-07-15 07:52:05

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really knockin' out those firsts though
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2024-07-15 07:43:22

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website wrong and dumb, report to administrator
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2024-07-15 07:39:54

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shucks
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2024-07-15 07:36:21

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hehehehe
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2024-07-15 07:34:31

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*irritated grunt*
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2024-07-15 07:33:43

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2024-07-15 07:32:19

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