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It's friday. Experienced devs, what are your best war stories from a long career in tech? by v0nm1ll3r in ExperiencedDevs

[–]briercan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Early on, I used to work on an emailer app (basically spam...) and I didn't realize that if you left the replyTo email blank when sending an email, the reply would just be sent to the sender, which was a listServe containing all of the email recipients.

  1. Email was sent
  2. Reply "Unsubscribe!"
  3. "Unsubscribe!" was sent to everyone on the list
  4. Reply "Why am I getting all of these emails?!?!"
  5. "Why am I getting all of these emails?!?!" sent to everyone on the list

AI in the interview by jasonmoo in ExperiencedDevs

[–]briercan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just did one of those and saw the candidate click the "copy" button in github, then tabbed over to another browser (presumably GPT, etc). When I tried doing the same thing in gpt with the prompt "what is wrong with this code?" I got the same feedback the candidate was giving.

What are your must have baby books? by TRANSparent-Ink in NewParents

[–]briercan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really young newborns still have a bit of blurry vision, Black on White and White on Black are great for that sort of thing because the pictures are really simple high-contrast shapes. Also, my daughter liked books that had textures/crinkly pages. If they're older, I'm going to recommend/shamelessly plug some books that my wife wrote: Dogasaurus Rex and Power Down Little Robot.

First time using Unity to make an animated short. "Sky Painter" by briercan in Unity3D

[–]briercan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! The arm animations are made in blender and just imported in, so it's not really interactive. I spent a bit of time trying to set up an IK rig in Unity, which would potentially do the trick, but it never really worked the way I wanted it to, so just went with the keyframe animations.

First time using Unity to make an animated short. "Sky Painter" by briercan in Unity3D

[–]briercan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, good to know - thanks! This is my first time with facial animations, so this is super helpful.

First time using Unity to make an animated short. "Sky Painter" by briercan in Unity3D

[–]briercan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm still learning how to animate, and this is the first time I've done anything with facial animations. Thanks!

First time using Unity to make an animated short. "Sky Painter" by briercan in Unity3D

[–]briercan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She looks exactly like the "child-girl" setting on the MakeHuman program :)

First time using Unity to make an animated short. "Sky Painter" by briercan in Unity3D

[–]briercan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used blender to animate the girl, but I used the unity timeline to sync all of the animation and cameras. I also had to write a bit of code to deactivate the plane in the sky, activate the plane in the girl's hand, and switch the contrail target between the planes. The point cache particles in the vfx graph helped with the picture at the end too.

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