Conor Dooley
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150I like cycling, powerlifting, bad video games and metal.
Otherwise, I occupy my time with various bits in RISC-V land.
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From some posts one could get the impression that we claim the kernel is basically flawless and finding an upstream bug means proving us wrong ("in your face, ha!"). Lol no, if you ask me, it's often a wonder that it works at all, and I'd bet many other devs would tell you the same.
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Supergiant games always have amazing soundtracks. Darren Korb (and Ashley Barrett) are great.
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bike 1 conor 0, snapped a chain whip while failing to remove a sprocket from my bike :/
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re: FFXIV dawntrail spoilers
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@delroth @firefly
> And yeah, as @firefly says, it's budget and production constraints. They're cheaping out, and they don't have the script ready early enough to VA everything by release time.
"Cheaping out" was my impression too. I know nothing about the costs of running a massive MMO, but it feels like they should be able to afford voicing the MSQ when the expac costs 40 quid on top of the 15 quid a month...
> And yeah, as @firefly says, it's budget and production constraints. They're cheaping out, and they don't have the script ready early enough to VA everything by release time.
"Cheaping out" was my impression too. I know nothing about the costs of running a massive MMO, but it feels like they should be able to afford voicing the MSQ when the expac costs 40 quid on top of the 15 quid a month...
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re: FFXIV dawntrail spoilers
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@delroth @firefly Oh, I think I did a bad job of my comment.. I wasn't trying to say that they didn't voice it because they written dialog says your name, I was trying to say that it bothered me how only unvoiced cutscenes had your name. I found it to be a double whammy of the cutscene not being voiced and "all of a sudden" people knowing your name.
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re: FFXIV dawntrail spoilers
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@delroth @firefly The unvoiced thing always bothered me in ffxiv - seemed that any cutscene in which the written dialog says your character name isn't voiced. Plenty of games are capable of doing that in a way that the voice actor just doesn't read out your character name (Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous that I played yesterday does exactly this) and it isn't "immersion breaking" in the slightest to me. Certainly no more immersion breaking than doing MSQ in an MMO with so many players around the NPCs that you need a keybind to interact with them!
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Wasn't the biggest twitter person before the exodus, but who I do miss from it is jdotb. It'd be nice to have his tweets show up here.
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@sima Right. I would have thought that, given it's a "screening" interview, figuring out whether they understand the "culture" of upstream OSS projects (I guess with the assumption that upstream is involved) and how to deal with the various personalities and debates that are involved would be more important than their technical ability as an engineer.
I thought I should just chalk that up to having unrealistic expectations cos of my exposure to various upstream projects, but if you're looking for someone that's managing engineers working with those projects, it doesn't seem all that unrealistic after all...
I thought I should just chalk that up to having unrealistic expectations cos of my exposure to various upstream projects, but if you're looking for someone that's managing engineers working with those projects, it doesn't seem all that unrealistic after all...
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@sima Could you explain why they're confused that a kernel maintainer is interviewing people for a management role of kernel engineers? To me that is very similar to having someone with a title like "technical fellow" being on the interview panel for an role managing engineers in their organisation.
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If anyone cares about the Canaan k230 being supported in mainline Linux and has time on their hands (which there may very well not be anyone) it could do with some "help". There's a bare-minimum series for it on LKML (https://lore.kernel.org/all/tencent_22BA0425B4DF1CA1713B62E4423C1BFBF809@qq.com/) that just has CPUs and serial ports, which I was going to include as 6.11 material but after some discussion came to the conclusion that it should really be fleshed out more w/ clocks/resets/pinctrl before acceptance.
Lot's of the peripherals are dw, so there's already drivers for things like spi/i2c in the kernel for those, so getting something more complete once clock etc drivers exist shouldn't be too hard...
Lot's of the peripherals are dw, so there's already drivers for things like spi/i2c in the kernel for those, so getting something more complete once clock etc drivers exist shouldn't be too hard...
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re: Angry rant about AI
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@elly 4) can you even trust the base64 decode from an LLM, when it can demonstrated to fail at simple maths?
3) my company has some internal instance of chatgippity for people to use. I've not used it myself, but I've seen it severely wasted time of juniors that should've just asked a real person. Instead of an X-Y problem, there's an X-AI problem where you might end up debugging why the LLM provided solution didn't work!
3) my company has some internal instance of chatgippity for people to use. I've not used it myself, but I've seen it severely wasted time of juniors that should've just asked a real person. Instead of an X-Y problem, there's an X-AI problem where you might end up debugging why the LLM provided solution didn't work!
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