Dean LaBarbera @_GamesDean
Father | Senior Associate Application Engineer | NIU 2020 | Indie Game Developer (He/Him) Lake Bluff, IL Joined October 2014-
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Replies like "can this be solved through better tooling? better models? better pre-human PR automation?" No. Jesus Christ, No. The solution is school. An education. Learning something. School. Its school.
Latest Belly of The Beast: Concluding the Kirk shooting coverage we look at how the left tried to make the shooter MAGA, the right tried to make them trans and the administration thinks retribution is the only remedy. Link in reply
Latest Belly Of The Beast: The right won't tone down the rhetoric, the left think they don't have to and MSNBC, FOX and Trump all want to dial it up. If someone doesn't go first this opportunity for unity will fail. It's got to start somewhere. Link in reply:
A NEW episode of The Four Horsemen is streaming everywhere now! @Thorin, @RLewisReports, and @MonteCristo go in-depth on SonicFox's response to Saudi Arabia's Evo acquisition, Gaimin Gladiators withdrawing from TI, and the "superfan experience" at EWC.
"Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare." — Soichiro Honda
This Saturday the episode with, no other but @EskilSteenberg himself, will go out! Stay tuned!
Latest Belly Of The Beast: Trump acts like a "king" when it comes to enforcing the TikTok ban and Democrats remain silent because of how the platform helps them politically. A deep dive on more Trump flip-flopping. Link in reply.
AI demonstrates the sunk-cost fallacy perfectly: Just one more "this doesn't work!" prompt, you think, and it'll fix it!! But often it won't, and now you've wasted 30 minutes begging that you could have spent learning how to actually fucking do it yourself.
If for some completely inexcusable reason you missed my livestream today with @htmx_org, where he demoed his new Montana Mini-Computer project, I have some good news: you may now redeem yourself by watching the VOD! computerenhance.com/p/the-montana-…
TIL that when alt+tabbing on Windows 11, your applications will be ordered by "most recently in focus" It's still annoying, but less so
A free MIT course breaking down fundamental math concepts in computer science: bit.ly/4kXuqQ6 Here, MIT prof. Erik Demaine breaks down state machines (Lecture 4). v/@MITOCW
Per request, my talk: "Architecting large software projects" is out. youtu.be/sSpULGNHyoI
.@azmreece's talk it out! A deep, technical look into concrete methods for reducing layers of indirection, memory accesses, and showing his Xar data-structure: A simple, pointer-stable, CPU-friendly, growable array. youtu.be/i-h95QIGchY
Latest Belly Of The Beast: The media has a curious trend of getting stories about the Israel-Palestine conflict incorrect in one direction and now anti-Semitic hate crime is on the rise in America. Curious indeed. richardlewis.substack.com/p/belly-of-the…
CAMPAIGN 4 IS COMIN' ATCHA! 🎲🔥 Join us in a new world for a whole new story led by Game Master Brennan Lee Mulligan on Thursday, October 2nd. We can't wait to share more with you in the coming weeks! WATCH THE FULL UPDATE TODAY AT YouTube.com/CriticalRole
Join us for a special LIVE episode with @ryanjfleury and @TheGingerBill *debating* C programming language. Everyone is telling me they agree on *pretty much everything*, but do they? I've prepared an *array* of questions! It's gonna be fun!
It has been a while since I uploaded a programming video to the You Tubes, so, here's one: youtube.com/watch?v=bVYnxm…
Cameron Reikes (aka. creikey) did the most humorous talk of the conference, on deep learning and computer vision. It's now out! Enjoy. youtu.be/yxkUvXs-hoQ

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