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bitinn

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Trying my best to talk more about gamedev | currently Tech Artist and R&D at an AAA publisher.

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bitinn, to random
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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, to gamedev
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My experience in :

  • 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,
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Don’t got stuck doing only one of these, I promise you they both worth 50% of your career growth.

bitinn, to random
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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,
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I still don’t think GPT understand maths, but if you feed it enough information, it might transform them into a correct answer.

Is that an indication of deduction logic in GPT, I don’t think so neither.

But perhaps, as GPT have seen enough verses in deduction, then armed with diagrams and voice inputs, it can enable a decent conversation: one that feels like GPT has taught you maths, but actually it has activated and assembled a part of your knowledge.

bitinn,
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If you can’t solve a problem head on, rearrange the problem so that solutions could be reached via emergence, is largely the ML progress of our era.

bitinn, to random
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Always reassuring to hear management responses to “we have a crunch culture” is “we expect the industry to follow us soon, we are just ahead of the inevitable curve”.

bitinn, to godot
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By the look of it, Metal backend isn’t going to land in time for 4.3, right?

I have been waiting for it, will likely solve quite a few limitations of OpenGL on Apple hardwares.

bitinn, to random
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Ok ok here in the east we missed both the eclipse and the aurora event this year, what do we get to make up for it😀

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

bitinn, to random
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Musk called these people "eco-terrorists", I guess we are in an alternative Final Fantasy 7 timeline.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4zUWc3YCG4

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The moral of the story is every content subscription service will turn into a bloodbath for content creators.

bitinn, to random
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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,
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And episode name for the Xbox head visit?

“Villians of Crunch Mode”.

(Where Schafer explains why he was convinced by Booty on the acquisition, interesting rewatch at this point.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOV6-zuGyxc

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At some point, of course, you can argue where the recent layoff stemmed from; and I think it wouldn’t happen without MSFT’s CEO and its board of directors, but choosing what to give is likely down to the Xbox leadership, and I think they chose poorly.

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Important note: Matt Booty is also the only person on this planet (that I know of), to use “peanut butter on bread” in a negative sense.

bitinn, to random
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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,
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Just lost another female team member, because god forbid, she wants to have a life outside of work, and not be looked upon by others like she hasn’t given her full attention to the project.

I fear there are many more good people to be lost this year.

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

bitinn,
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@gorlak god bless them with their 300 mil $ adventure, I am a bit unsure how many of these Sony agree to fund.

bitinn, to random
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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, to random
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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,
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Speaking as a history observer, I can tell you this “outside influence” theory cuts both ways:

  • Tankies say HK protestors are CIA funded, professional rioters because of police crashes; while in reality a million citizens came out peacefully, what happened was situation deteriorated over months due to hardline government responses.
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  • Neocons/Trumpists say US college encampments are socialists, antisemitists, professional outside agitators because of a few counter protest crashes; while in reality students are expressing global solidarity, knowing that Israel is going into Rafah without consequences, and they must hold this government accountable.
bitinn,
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  • It certainly doesn’t help that there are famous examples of foreign agent conspiracies in modern history.

  • But to lean on this narrative is the classic authoritarian move.

  • Whatever political spectrum you are on: Don’t be that guy.

aeva, to NixOS
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I don't actually have time today to work on any side projects, but I thought I'd run through the basic setup steps for MonoGame aaaand

./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame
bash: ./bin/Debug/net6.0/MyGame: cannot execute: required file not found

... which required file ._. ???

I think this sort of thing means it tried to dynamically link something and failed. I run into this whenever I try to run loose builds of Linux games on , but idk what to do about it.

bitinn,
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@aeva not to hate on open source but you can’t say this isn’t a common open source experience for large ecosystem.

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