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AngryAnt

@AngryAnt@mastodon.gamedev.place

Systemic Tinkerer, Logic Juggler.

#GameDev, #GameAI, #dkgame
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@framebunker, ex https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@GameAINorth, ex @unity. Occasional @nixos_org contributor.

Phrases opinions badly, blocks dumb shit.

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biphenyl, to random
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It is perhaps unsurprising that the social criticisms of generative "AI" that I find most compelling are the ones peering through a Marxist lens. Ownership and whose rights are respected are important. The algorithms, while impressive, are not the primary source of value in their output, the training corpus is. If it's permissible to train a model on publicly available (but not public domain) data, then it seems it should not be permissible for that model or its output to be private property.

AngryAnt,
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@biphenyl I'm having a really tough time taking much of the huffing & puffing around generative AI seriously when there's an apparent insistence on treating it as a novel challenge vs. actually for once taking a look at how we want societal rules to work and why.

There's a stench of carte blanche for the owner class to keep doing the exact same thing like they've always done, now with the boost of "but it's not AI!".

I understand the frustration, but am frustrated by the narrow direction.

corduroy, to random
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Please: What’s your good recommendation for tool to monitor power usage in my home. Either a device that sits on a kitchen bench showing stats, or something that connects to an app.

AngryAnt,
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@corduroy Whatever you go with, the core advice is to pick something which is Zigbee based.

It is an open standard and more flexible & power efficient than bluetooth/wifi/whatever, so when (not if) the easy-on-click-solution-just-buy-here part of the product goes belly up, you are not just sat on a mountain of e-waste ready for the slag piles.

glassbottommeg, to gamedev
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I don't know who in needs to hear this, but I've already seen 2 "what if we put chat gpt in our game, see!" Reddits and

I'm already sick of it, it's so bland, it's like you're serving up oatmeal.

I really don't think folks realize how important it is that dialogs hit an end, so you know when and where to progress. Instead, here's infinite oatmeal! Oh and it can hallucinate implications of side quests that don't exist and plot details that aren't applicable or game-recognized.

AngryAnt,
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@glassbottommeg It's games tech. Everyone wants the golden hammer and especially the latest, most shiny one.

Why actually consider the concrete merits of a piece of tech and apply with intent & care? 🤷

Also:

  • The best AI is Goal Oriented Action Planners because FEAR.
  • But the best AI is Behaviour Trees because Halo.
  • Conversely the best AI is Utility because The Sims.

Sorry, I should go brew some tea - my grumpy after too much yelling at Cloud is showing...

planettimmy, to random
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It has just occurred to me that when Aloy dons her underwater breathing apparatus in Horizon Forbidden West, it doesn't include any kind of goggles, so she shouldn't really be able to see very well under water at all.

AngryAnt,
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@planettimmy Magic, er… Focus powers?

1ace, to random
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    AngryAnt,
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    @1ace A tip: If you set the language of the post to French, readers with clients configured for it will get a “translate” button :)

    djlink, to random
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    on a Mac with silicon chip, Unity Hub (intel) takes much longer to open then Unity editor (silicon) itself and that's kinda fascinating. Don't get me wrong, what rosetta does is insane in terms of compatibility but still.

    AngryAnt,
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    @djlink I'm guessing that "let's use web tech for this launcher! it'll be great!" is what is coming home to roost.

    AngryAnt,
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    @elFlashor @aras @Migueldeicaza @shana @djlink That was a primary lure of freelancing for me. And I got to use that line directly too. All the satisfying…

    AngryAnt,
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    @shana Sounds like the same type of team which did the build pipeline overhaul? The one preceding the sudden regressions we started seeing.

    (This was the point at which we started the practice of hitting the editor with a Cecil-shaped hammer).

    logicalerror, to random
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    how long before people start hacking their cars to avoid the whole car micropayment nightmare?

    AngryAnt,
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    @logicalerror It should mesh nicely with the push on right to repair & such, no?

    logicalerror, to random
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    Silo is my jam
    not like in strawberry jam
    but like .. sigh .. you know what I mean

    AngryAnt,
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    @logicalerror Neat! Looking forward to it :) Got the notification of availability as a reward yesterday - as I was exiting the cinema after a lackluster guardians of the galaxy experience.

    AngryAnt,
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    @logicalerror If you come for the fan-service then that is what it does and you'll probably have a good time. Outside of that it doesn't try to offer anything.

    AngryAnt,
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    @MouseByTheSea @logicalerror I haven't watched a lot of recent Disney movies in general, so I don't personally have a good basis for comparison there. But I heard similar from others - general for releases across their portfolio for the last couple of years.

    A comparison I can make is to the Dungeons & Dragons movie which not only falls in the same genre, but I also watched with the same group. All there agreed that D&D was the clearly better movie of the two.

    djlink, to random
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    That feeling when you see a big spider, look away for a split second to get something to dispose of her and then it’s suddenly gone

    Confused Steve Brule GIF by MOODMAN

    AngryAnt,
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    @djlink Don’t worry - it knows where you are and it’s waiting…

    Doomed_Daniel, to random
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    These new AMD Ryzen based frame.work laptops sure are tempting.. luckily, if I'd preorder now it would only ship in Q4, so I might as well wait until they're properly available :-p

    But I guess my next laptop really will be a frame.work, that concept of upgradability and user-repairability (incl. the possibility of reusing old mainboards as Mini-PC) is really awesome

    AngryAnt,
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    @Doomed_Daniel The timing argument ofc. assumes that when the release happens, there’s inventory to directly order - rather than a backlog :)

    AngryAnt,
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    @Doomed_Daniel Oh absolutely. Personally I am a big fan of "never get 1st gen hardware - only get the reviews of it" :)

    MarkLaCroix, to random

    DS9 shouldn't have dropped the Bajorian politics arc in favor of the Dominion War.

    RT @JayExci
    qrt with your Star Trek opinions that will leave you like this
    https://twitter.com/JayExci/status/1653251215034134529

    AngryAnt,
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    @MarkLaCroix I mean they were going by the Babylon 5 script and that included plenty of war, so... ;)

    AngryAnt,
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    @MarkLaCroix What fun!

    TomF, to random
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    1. Get a MSTeams meeting invite.
    2. Install Teams. Easy!
    3. Test Teams. Video works. Audio works. Easy!
    4. Close Teams.
    5. wait 30 minutes until meeting starts.
    6. Run Teams.
    7. ...er... Teams?
    8. Close Teams, reopen Teams.
    9. Taskkill Teams, reopen Teams.
    10. Fuck it, dial in with a phone 5 mins late.

    Thanks for helping, Teams!

    AngryAnt,
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    @TomF That’s mighty impressive self-destruct speed!

    We default to Jitsi (just the web client), but I keep a couple of these clients around in case we need to talk to someone with a preference. Guess I should consider having a “factory reset the video call clients” script ready.

    benthroop, to random
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    I find when using GPT4 to help me write code that as soon as I say to myself "I don't need to understand this" in hopes that I can relieve the mental load, I spend more time fixing what it gave me than I would have if I had just thought hard about it in the first place.

    Does this happen to you?

    AngryAnt,
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    @benthroop I am utterly unconvinced of the long-term utility of LLMs as answering machines - they're not built for it, so it's not super surprising that they are absolutely terrible at it.

    They're super great at extrapolating context to help you extend that - IE exploring a creative space in less time than it would take to do fully manually. Which makes sense - that it the sort of thing they are designed for.

    For a "find me answers" solution, perhaps https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT is relevant to you?

    invicticide, to webdev
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    My personal website has been using for years, but I update it very infrequently, and every time I need to, some jekyll/ruby dependency or another has somehow broken or gotten out of date, and I have to dig around in docs to remember how to fix it.

    It's getting real old.

    Is there a better, simpler, lighter weight solution for based static sites these days?

    AngryAnt,
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    @invicticide My flow always goes through nix and it’s packaged there, so I’m relaxed on that front: https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=zola&type=packages&query=Zola

    thelinuxEXP, to linux
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    A lot of people often refer to based operating systems as a or a alternative, but Linux can also do a lot of things that its competitors simply can’t.

    So let’s look at the things only Linux can do, and that Windows and macOS wished they could:

    https://youtu.be/TuPO-eAMy4I

    AngryAnt,
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    @alvinho @thelinuxEXP Sounds quite strange with that Acer machine - checking firmware is a good idea.

    I’ve not tested out Ubuntu on it, but am currently running latest NixOS with Plasma 5.27 on a first generation MacBook Air - which would be just under 15 years old at this point.

    It has an Intel iGPU, which makes things simpler, where I did have to juggle a bit with a legacy driver pack for an old iMac with an Nvidia card (also runs latest NixOS w. Plasma 5.27, but no Weyland).

    AngryAnt,
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    @thelinuxEXP @AmyIsCoolz Worth noting for anyone interested that there’s also a workaround available.

    It took all of five minutes to write up in a new .desktop entry and replace into the task bar before our teenager exploded with frustration (gotta get those dailies).

    AngryAnt,
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    @thelinuxEXP Obligatory “and nix” re: package managers on macOS ;)

    (We dev on macOS and NixOS and use nix to secure dependencies across platforms)

    Windows too if you could WSL I suppose, but at that point you probably have all Linux package managers anyway?

    charlesrandall, to random
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    Riccitiello is so painfully dumb and it sucks to see him driving Unity directly into the ground at high speed.

    https://www.ibtimes.com/unity-cut-600-jobs-plans-reduce-number-offices-report-3690754

    AngryAnt,
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    @charlesrandall It's possible he just grew bored after that late 2021 pump & dump?

    sinbad, to random
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    Merry and Pippin have entered the building, raise alert level to amber 😻😻

    AngryAnt,
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    @sinbad This is your friendly warning that you just used "definitely can't" in a sentence describing the abilities of a house cat set on a path of destruction ;)

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