bitinn

bitinn, 2 days ago to random

What's your pet hate in UX design?

Mine is right-click menu that lengthen then reposition itself after a second.

Yes I am looking at you Safari.

a demo of safari's right click menu where "copy subject" will pop up and reposition the whole menu after a second.

bitinn, 3 days ago to random

AI industry:

just sit back and enjoy the prosperity we bring to society!

Actual people:

we need to rebuild the search and internet that you broke;

we need to restart operating systems and social media that you had invaded;

we need to retrain writers and painters that you put out of jobs;

Where is the prosperity?

AI industry:

just look at how fast it can response to your request for a joke or a 4-line bash scripts!

bitinn, 7 days ago to random

“Tone Mapping Considerations for Physically-Based Rendering”

Cool interactive comparison.

https://modelviewer.dev/examples/tone-mapping

bitinn, 6 days ago to procreate

Hi #Procreate users, how do you manage your brush set?

• I find myself wanting to fit them into a quick menu (which means 6 items max for fast switching).

• Going for the brush library are too slow sometimes (because when I have more than 10 brushes in a custom set, I end up scrolling to reach a brush anyway, and it breaks my flow).

• My sketch is pretty basic so often 6B + Monoline + Dry Ink are all I needed; but I would like to get into more texturing, 1 or 2 textured brush should do?

bitinn, 7 days ago to random

GM: How do we make leadership care about Web Assembly and Web GPU in Chrome?

PM: Web AI applications.

Result:

“WebAssembly and WebGPU enhancements for faster Web AI, part 1”

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/io24-webassembly-webgpu-1

bitinn, 7 days ago to gamedev

My experience in #gamedev:

• if you never worked on early stage of game projects, you will never know what was technically possible with a fresh start.

• if you never worked with pre launch or post release stage of game projects, you will never know what was actually missing from your ideal vision of the tech stack.

bitinn, 10 days ago to random

AI enthusiasts: look, you shouldn’t let GPT solve problems you don’t know about, if you just use it the way we suggested, it is very useful.

Actual OpenAI video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nSmkyDNulk

Resulting headlines:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2xx1xe2evo

bitinn, 14 days ago to random

Crypto bros are truly amazing creatures, they should be put into cages, to be observed and studied.

bitinn, 15 days ago to random

I don’t want to bad mouth industry people on here, but if you watch the recent double fine documentary and how they treated Mr. Booty’s visit or conference call, I think they knew very well how this guy operates:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152137/xbox-hi-fi-rush-tango-gameworks-matt-booty

bitinn, 16 days ago to random

Gonna say it out loud here:

• As western video game publishers struggle with their stock prices and lack of investments, firing people became their go to strategy to make quarterly reports look good.

• While in the East, companies take advantage of lax labour protection laws and terrible job market to crunch existing workers more.

• I have lost many colleagues due to crunch, because they were right, this industry are full of men who had internalized crunch culture and sold it as hard work.

bitinn, 17 days ago to random

Did any acquisition in the game industry of the past 5 years actually worked out for the better?

bitinn, 17 days ago to random

#techart question: we all know blend mode might disable early z on TBDR, but which combinations does that? does something like “blend one zero, one one” disable early z?

bitinn, 18 days ago to random

There is one very important takeaway in this John Oliver clip, that was cut from the TikTok screen grab version that’s recently shared on Fediverse:

• Protests are messy, and you cannot expect everyone to behave uniformly;

• When a protest is organized, opponents will say they are “orchestrated”;

• When not, opponents will call them “rioters”;

• So judge the larger cause, and don’t let incidents undermine the cause.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eo7ioe5Xfo

bitinn, 18 days ago to random

Listening to this episode and find the “America First” narrative super effective against some swing voters.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/fivethirtyeight-podcasts/

bitinn, 19 days ago to random

Time to admit I have always been into low effort video games.

• When I play Diablo-likes, I always pick the Necromancer-like class, where I reduce my clicks by summoning NPCs.

• When I play Idle clickers, I always upgrade parts that reduce my need to manually click first.

• When I play City builders, I always plan infrastructures ahead to avoid redistricting later.

• When I play Life sims, I always level up my characters' stats first to reduce the time spent on doing chores.

bitinn, 20 days ago to random

Tankies, don’t ever change, love you too😇

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bitinn, 20 days ago to random

“We can all do great things if our material conditions allow for it.”

“Which is exactly why, the key to exploiting your labour, is to control your material conditions.”

bitinn, 21 days ago to random

bought a hat

On its back, a stitching in a handwritten script style: "Don't forget 3.Oct.11"

bitinn, 25 days ago to random

Do you think there is a silent war going on between walled gardens where each data scraping team is trying to automate scraping of other platform’s copyrighted data, disregarding any TOS?

I think there is🌝

bitinn, 25 days ago to random

Hot take:

Not nearly enough farming games on Steam for macOS.

And hear me out, macOS users are like the prime victims of white-collar job exploitation, most of us just want to live on a farm virtually as an escape.

It is a good business :)

https://store.steampowered.com/category/farming/

bitinn, 25 days ago to random

Weird, “CIA-funded” independent media reporting on IDF’s atrocities, I wonder how tankies feel about this:

https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat/112352945835844469

bitinn, 26 days ago (edited 25 days ago) to random

Does your IT department setup machines with many TBs of HDD that you almost never use because SSD is required to open your project repo with a reasonable speed?

bitinn, 27 days ago to random

What Mastodon did in their announcement of a US non-profit is a PR disaster.

If you are still arguing people don’t get how open source work or people are entitled to free support, you are reading the negative responses very wrong.

If Mastodon needs legal expertise to make them viable as tax-deductible in the US to make up for the lost of Germany non-profit status, they should say so at the front, not as some addendums in the latter passage.

bitinn, 27 days ago to random

Finally someone had make a good desktop idle game for macOS, and yes it can run as a sidebar.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666510/Rustys_Retirement/

bitinn, 29 days ago (edited 29 days ago) to random

People say tech artists have a lot of advantages when they want to make indie games, it’s true:

• we can work on gameplay demo and we are good at hitting visual targets;

• if the game needs some procedural elements or complex animation states, we can help;

• many tech artists can do art tasks and deliver a quick cutscene;

• engine tools and productivity, again we are friends;

But there are things we have very little idea about: networking stuffs, we work with them maybe once every year.