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RobRivera

1,327 karma · joined January 14, 2020

Deez mudkips.

So good

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RobRivera··on Bot vs human traffic
>but I do worry about how many social bots are attempting to manipulate or mislead people.

You should browse reddit sometime. The easy ones to spot just autocreate accounts using the autoname at signup, which is of the formfactor [word1][word2]/d{4}

Regex nazis please spare me, I am doing my bestest

RobRivera··on If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?
I enjoy reminding people the land acquisition history behind building Disney World.
RobRivera··on If AI data centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?
You are not being curious or good faith here.
RobRivera··on Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
O ho ho - [hearty laugh]
RobRivera··on Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
Are we talking 0 or 1 based values? HONKHONK*
RobRivera··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
Florida is a purple state
RobRivera··on Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled
>n64s greatest game.

HEY, it was a GREAT game, but GREATEST? COME ON, this ain't no goldeneye

RobRivera··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
I'd love to! I am currently more east coast based (NYC) and rotate into Seattle monthly, hence looking at it being more a 2027/2028 target. I can drop my email here

Robjrivera23 at gmails

I will have to check out that speech therapy game. Before I entered pilot training, I had received new fake teeth implants that introduced a lisp (new airflow) and as a 20yrold, had to go through speech therapy drills with a military doctor for a whole semester to get my qualification back. Jokes on me, cockpit wasnt for me haha.

RobRivera··on Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
You know what they say, you make money off people chasing alpha poorly (I say this. I am they)
RobRivera··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
I'll prospect that way, thank you for the insight. I have a unique background AND teaching experience (military leadership for my first career, and then taught as a full time visiting professor for 2 years) but having spent a decade in industry as a software engineer, yes I concur, teaching is not a common skill among the labor force (anecdotal ofc). I hope after I launch my first indie game I could knock on the doors of say Digipen or similar. Will see tho, thats more a 2027 thing.

What kind of PhD research did you do? I considered going back for a PhD program focusing on simulation as it relates to discoverability within AI research, but kept ruling out it was a bad career decision and should be left as a retirement thing

RobRivera··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
Yea, one cant go all in on performance, and then not co soder architecture.

A language choice is a starting point but you have to know the techniques of architecture learned.

RobRivera··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
What was your route to teaching like? I kinda am considering putting my hat in a similar ring on a part time, evening class type basis if I can get away with it.
RobRivera··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
I will admit, when it came to brainstorming sources of crashes with threads, AI has helped me find sources I hadn't considered (as a systems guy, multi threading real experience is something I am sprinting through)
RobRivera··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
My secret is out
RobRivera··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Por que no los dos?

Eso mensaje de hijo de Carlos

RobRivera··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Ejaculate you say
RobRivera··on Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence
Right?! It would be nice if we had a centralized figure to hide me from such dangerous names and ideas, maybe have a blacklist!!
RobRivera··on News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism
Tor is a honeypot run my government intel operations. Don't use it.
RobRivera··on College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos
In nyc, elder rats have been known to encourage younger rats to take the first bite, to determine if the food is poisoned
RobRivera··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
This is very good career advice to any juniors reading
RobRivera··on At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
9 out if 10 paid astroturfers and bot accounts agree with me!
RobRivera··on The Rise of the Bullshittery
Very much intertia bias that hamstrings discoverability
RobRivera··on The Rise of the Bullshittery
Follow the money, and answers become more obvious as to why. As to how? Hehehehe
RobRivera··on Learning Software Architecture
Its been such a fun endeavor
RobRivera··on Learning Software Architecture
I wish I could buy you a beer, as this is very validating. I have been building a video game for over a year. But more importantly I have been building a sustainable engine with a distinct data pipeline, resource rendering/management layer fully decoupled, explicit catalogueing of viable state transformation modes, and honestly, most of your list is absolutely applicable. Even tho it is solo, the constraints of my engine guides forgetful me to 'this is the way to add this weird new feature that arose from testing because reasons' without having to have a tome of 'if you want to build a new sound effect that executes at a particular state transformation multiple times, here is how you do it'

Cheers

RobRivera··on The Boston library where you still can borrow a giant puppet
I lived on Gloucester and comm ave for years, walked those streets daily. I never knew until reading this.
RobRivera··on AI slop is killing online communities
Welcome to the club
RobRivera··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Well, internet is dead anyway so they can keep the keys to the kingdom. I frankly do not care anymore. The meek shall inherit the Earth
RobRivera··on McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)
This message brought to you by Carls Jr
RobRivera··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Framing another person's opinion as silly is silly
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