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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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kwramm, to random
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You're a serious PC gamer: you have a 4k screen, an extra wide screen, 120Hz or HDR. You're a serious console game: you have a 4k monitor. You do art. Your AAA studio: "Best I can do is Dell 60Hz full HD"

bitinn,
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@kwramm i should run a poll on this

bitinn, to random
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I recently tried out a few built-in browsers from various phone makers, in particular, those pre-installed on low/mid-tier mobiles.

Let me be brutally honest, if you think Chrome or Safari are the “worst things ever” for the web, you haven’t seen built-in browsers.

On some of them, you can’t even find the url bars anymore, it is just a search bar at the top, linked to the highest bidder of your search and history data.

Fuck these phone makers, fuck them for screwing over poor folks.

bitinn,
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And in China all these devices comes pre-locked, without registering a user account with phone makers and requesting a formal unlock, you risk nullifying the warranty by rooting or unlocking the bootloader yourself.

Why?

Because phone resellers used to bundle more adwares onto devices to scam people, so phone makers take extra steps to lock basic features like installing apps via USB.

It is pure madness if you ever need to run a device lab.

demofox, to random
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They say real estate is a good investment, but that's only really true if you don't have to live in it. If you sell your price increased house, you still need a different price increased place to live.
If you have a second investment property, you can sell it and keep the money.
I'm starting to think that rising house prices mainly benefit the people giving out housing loans, by making them larger.

bitinn,
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@demofox let you in on a secret: many tech ceo and investors have thought of themselves as the David vs the real estate/banking Goliath.

These people would be in real estate/banking business if their connections and resources allow for it, but they are nobody in those circles, so tech becomes their battleground.

bitinn, to random
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got bored and drew some bread.

bitinn, to random
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I wonder the slow demise of quality engineering, as shown by some in aero and vehicle sector, is the long-term fallout from tech industry's golden promise:

  • Quality engineering took too long, they work in 5-10 year lifecycle, tech can do better than that!

  • By delivering in 1-3 year, tech has redefine the term "high growth" and "product-market fit"; bugfixes can come later.

  • As tech industry move to disrupt traditional sectors, their lack of engineering standard struggles and cost lives.

bitinn,
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It was all fun and games, we know the algorithmic marketplace fucked up, or the social network data center blown up, or the launch day service hiccups:

  • Losing a few days of user growth and revenue won't kill a company.

  • At worst, you issue an apology letter and run some retrospection in-house.

  • Once it starts killing actual people and destroying actual lives;

  • Once tech industry's "software-eats-the-world" engineering boots meet the real-world ground;

  • The golden pyramid falls apart.

bitinn, to random
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US politics in 1995.

(a screenshot from the game Dark Seed II, released in 1995)

lisyarus, to random
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I'm in the process of completely redesigning my blog. I used Jekyll and tbh I never liked it - I often needed to use raw html for some stuff anyway. Now transitioning to a pure html+css+js site, like some caveman :)

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bitinn,
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@lisyarus you probably don’t need it but do give Zola a try, at least you could save some time doing your own styling and templates.

bitinn, to random
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Only Apple is bold enough to always capitalize the term “Time Machine”, simply because they have a piece of legacy software named that.

aeva, to random
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Imagine if you had a real time machine, but it has all of the quirks of archive.org's The Wayback Machine. You go back in time to meet, idk, Abraham Lincoln, but you happened to pick a less mainstream moment of his life and his face is just a broken jpg.

bitinn,
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@aeva I am sure if you wait for a few seconds in the real time machine the picture of Abraham Lincoln will accumulate and denoise itself.

bitinn, to gamedev
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question: has anyone developed a custom vertices sorting plugin for , using asset post processor hook for example?

I could really use one right now, as I find a case where the Optimize Mesh polygon ordering isn’t what we want.

(Yes we want certain polygons to come first in a single drawcall for some depth test reasons and we cannot afford to split the drawcall.)

bitinn, to random
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Nothing more satisfying than seeing once renowned software engineers doing startup scams by exploiting gaps in regulations finally getting caught.

Paul Graham, we will get to you one day, there are many ruins your Y Combinator are responsible for.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133577/lambda-school-bloomtech-loan-ban-student-debt

bitinn,
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And Marc Andreessen, history will remember you differently than your naïve mosaic browser.

bitinn, to random
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I wonder if there can be a cottage industry of emulated games on iOS, if you know, people can finally workaround the App Store chokehold and depends on a reliable runtime (instead of iOS breaking changes or App Store takedown due to lack of app updates).

Itch.io seem pretty well positioned to deliver these titles.

bitinn, to random
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Gonna listen to this:

https://overcast.fm/+2iyNg8yis

bitinn,
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The more interesting part of the interview is Tatarchuk talking about the indie games she has been playing recently. That’s real enthusiasm for smaller titles from a tech leadership, a rare feat. to have these days.

bitinn, to random
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bitinn, to random
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https://ios404.com/

bitinn, to random
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By my maths, that’s 89% of surveyed gamedev having a less than positive view of “live service games”.

But look at the top earning charts across all platforms, yeah, the business of this industry had strayed so damn far from its workers, it is hard to see the status quo sustaining.

bitinn, to random
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For people in the AI industry, specifically the part of AI industry where "data labeling outsourcing" is a thing (for example, the auto-drive industry), here is yet another reporting on your industry's worker abuse and false promise of well-paying jobs, where working moms were hit particularly bad.

Translated archive:

https://chinadigitaltimes-net.translate.goog/chinese/706771.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

bitinn,
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My pitch for "worker abuse awareness" is for every single person working in the AI field to do such labeling work for a full week, full-time, and get the same payment these workers get for that week;

Once they experienced that, they can go on to solve whatever world saving issues they were so desperately trying to address at all cost.

bitinn, to random
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One day I will get to work on something cool, get payed for it, and be able to talk about it publicly.

bitinn,
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So far no overlap on this Venn diagram.

bitinn, to random
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What’s big data?

Big data is when I apply for a travel visa in Trip.com app, somehow, WeChat know just enough to show me plane ticket ads to that country.

bitinn,
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@kwramm data silos are government’s favorite toy.

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