Darius Kazemi
On Twitter they are doing #GameDevPaidMe. Here is my running spreadsheet of what I was paid at every salaried job I've had (3 game dev, 3 tech). There are notes for each job. I set this up a few years ago for the #talkpay hashtag and try to keep it up to date. 
Coyote of the Brown Grass
@darius Wow, that's cool. I can't even make mildly uncomfortable beats, let alone sick ones. I''m gonna check it out. Thanks!
Darius Kazemi
Seems like has a bandcamp too, they are doing their no-fee Friday again so you can buy some of his music there! https://verysickbeats.bandcamp.com/ Also his ebooks are GREAT, like I have never seen anyone systematically break shit down quite like he does. Like "Piano Chord Progressions for Beat Makers" was life changing as someone with no piano training
Darius Kazemi
Another day, another giant Twitter thread I have to do calling out incredibly harmful unsubstantiated claims from major research institutions. This time it's a CMU lab saying that 30% of of BLM tweets are "guaranteed" bots. I break down all the harmful assumption behind that on twitter. (Sorry to keep linking there but I try to hit the disinfo where it is actually spreading.) https://twitter.com/tinysubversions/status/1268220365790015488 
Dorian Gray’s Papaya
@darius unrelated, but when I saw your avatar pop up in TweetDeck for a moment I thought “did I open the wrong app?” Keep up the good work. 
forklift operator
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Darius Kazemi
@showerpickles welp. it's going down now.
Darius Kazemi
I'm on Snopes today talking about the "DC blackout" trending topic across several social network sites. It seemed to me to be a fairly complex operation spreading disinformation on all sides of the topic, entirely meant to sow discord. I even interviewed some of the people who got swept up in it for my research.
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Plugs Labradorite
@darius Thankyou for your article and investigation into all of this! Debunking stuff is really important work and the article sums up the issues and events really well. :D
MustelaPurpureus
@darius I actually remember setting my VPN to DC and having no trouble I was more confused and unsure about that than anything else
DNA Levity
@darius thanks for your efforts. Avoiding the spread of malicious divisive disinformation is a big part of why I created this instance, A space where kindness is core to all our interactions.
Darius Kazemi
This Trump speech is I think his most authoritarian to date and that is saying something. It's terrifying. He just promised to deploy the US military to any city whose government does not deploy "overwhelming force" against their own citizens. Even as an empty threat it's terrifying
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/sys/alicia
@darius I will say this: Yes, it's terrifying, but only for white people. This has already been the case for PoC since the founding of the country. It's important context, since if we're ever gonna combat these fascists properly, we're gonna need to listen to the PoC that grew up under what white people are only now beginning to see. We need their experience if we're to fight back properly.
Lien Rag
AFAIK the miliatary hate him and is less directly permeated by white supremacists than the cops or border patrols so it may be an empty threat - but you are right that it still is terriying.
Darius Kazemi
Here's a five minute speech from the Portland Fire Chief on last night's chaos here in the city. I'm still processing this and I'm not even totally sure what it means but it's a powerful statement from someone who has led a life of dedication to public safety and also has had to reconcile that with her lived experience as a Black woman in America.
Darius Kazemi
This.... is good. Cornel West on this moment in American history, on CNN. https://twitter.com/erikstrobl/status/1266552025740906496?s=09
Darius Kazemi
This article about the current decades-long work to recalibrate the notion of "height" in US geological surveys and so forth is fascinating and reminds me so much of like... in a video game engine when you get too far away from the origin and start losing precision in your floating point numbers and suddenly your physics starts to glitch https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/science/maps-elevation-geodetic-survey.html 
Soh Kam Yung
@darius This from the article: "Some Coloradans worry that a few of their mountain peaks will fall below a bragging-rights threshold under the new height system" reminds me of this movie starring Hugh Grant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Englishman_who_Went_up_a_Hill_but_Came_down_a_Mountain 🙂
Darius Kazemi
This news of the US leaving the World Health Organization seems... not good.
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Stable Jenious
@darius yeah, I got the noti and haven't opened it to read the article yet but what an absolutely short sighted politically motivated bullshit decision.  
Darius Kazemi
So basically the US used an embargo, with its explicit threat of violence attached (you can't embargo without a military to enforce it), to force abolitionist holdouts to join the United States. (Rhode Island of course was not a monolith and there were like, antidemocracy people in the mix who didn't want to join the US for their OWN weird reasons.)
Darius Kazemi
While you were chickening the thighs, I was thickening the chais 
Darius Kazemi
In my ongoing quest for simple React setups, this article is mind blowingly good: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/super-simple-start-to-react It explains how to set up a react app with just HTML and JS files, no webpack or browserify or anything. It is fully a toy implementation BUT it helped me understand a lot of the "magic" underlying React in a way that I never had before. It even shows how to write JSX embedded in the HTML file (by including Babel in a script tag).
Spindley Q Frog
@darius I absolutely shipped non-public-facing code this way when React was first taking off, in order to build a thing that would have been super painful to do in jQuery. The docs used to do a really good job of explaining this as a first-class option! I loved how it could be gently introduced into an existing codebase without having to rewrite everything. Then everybody went and rewrote everything using it.
Darius Kazemi
Does anyone else tense up and hold their breath between when they press the "print" button and when the printer actually starts to print 
Darius Kazemi
here's a thing you can do: pepper your code with comments that contain the text "<<<<<<< HEAD" (I did not encounter this in the wild, this is just an idea I had right now)
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Darius Kazemi
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Darius Kazemi
well fuck you, then (from the PDP-8 Small Computer Handbook, 1972 https://www.grc.com/pdp-8/docs/PDP-8_Small_Computer_Handbook_1972.pdf)
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Eli the Bearded
@darius _Expert C Programming : Deep C Secrets_ by Peter van der Linden, ©1994 Sun Microsystems 
Sebastian Lasse, redaktor.me
Having a question about events being actors 'id':`https://${domain}/${eventID}`, I would rather expect "Service" See "The core Actor Types include" 
Darius Kazemi
I've been building a Facebook Events style event organizing system for the Fediverse. It's based on the simple, open source, privacy-respecting event organizing tool https://gath.io The attached video is a work-in-progress preview and shows compatibility with Mastodon. My hope is to get it working with lots of software, including stuff like Friendica that supports events and calendars. Check out more at my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/organizing-on-32729070
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Andrew Waterman
@darius @thisismissem The screencast was really nice. But yeah, maybe I shared that wrong. Try following the event! :) 
Katherine McMillan
@darius I used this to plan my daughter’s first and second birthday parties. It was so easy to set up and even easier for the oldies in my life to use. Thank you!
Darius Kazemi
What fool called it "Starlight Express" and not "Andrew Lloyd Webber Said 'Trains Rights'"?
Courtney Stanton
@darius we didn’t suffer enough from this joke the first time you just had to boost it huh |
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