mozz

mozz, 1 month ago

“Where there’s muck, there’s brass”

In general, if you can do the more difficult aspects, then you’ll be more in demand (both because people need them done, and because it’ll serve as a badge that yes you know what you’re doing in a general sense).

In games specifically, it’s more likely that you’d find yourself doing optimization, or the low levels of porting a game from one system to another, as opposed to writing an engine from scratch. If it were me, I would probably get involved in some existing project and try to write a new low-level system (e.g. a Gaussian splatting renderer for Unity or something) as opposed to just reinventing a new engine of my own. But absolutely, if you’re skilled with the deeper systems aspects as opposed to just using the existing tools, it’ll help you generally speaking.

mozz, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Put simply: A huge percentage of the people have no idea what’s going on.

They genuinely think Trump is a business genius, he came in and did a bunch of stuff right, and the crooked Democrats stole the election and are now trying to throw him in prison because he challenged them on it.

It’s literally like 30-40% of the country that thinks that. It’s honestly not really their fault; they weren’t the ones that constructed the systems of education and media that got them to that place. It would be weird if the people on top of it all spent more-or-less unlimited money, got the best research and talent they could find, and constructed the most effective propaganda system that’s ever existed, and it didn’t produce some significant results when allowed to run unimpeded for several decades.

mozz, 4 months ago

Yeah, I’m sorta inclined to agree; I looked at how it works out in practice and it’s definitely a little obnoxious. I disabled it for now.

It’s tough because I’d like for it to be accessible both from the big instances like lemmy.world, and from the instances like beehaw that have defederated the big instances. So that tends to imply that a good home for it would be on one of the little instances. But, it’s not gonna sit well on the little instances if it’s making a firehose (relatively speaking) and overwhelming their local feeds.

IDK; I’ll ask around and see if I can find a good home for it. Absent some person coming in and saying “yes ruining the local feed is ok” I’m gonna conclude that that’s not SDF though.

mozz, 4 months ago

I could run my own, yeah, that’d be a fine option. I plan to at some point anyway, just trying to avoid the time investment for as long as I can postpone it. I found some likely places and DMed the admins to ask if it’d be okay; if no one’s open to the idea, I might bite the bullet though yes.

mozz, 4 months ago

Hello! I was a game developer in a small studio for several years. A little while ago when looking for a hobby project, I really wanted to make a modern text-adventure game people could play in small groups over Discord. Like DND. You go with your little party into the baddie’s lair, you get some treasure, maybe some bad things happen. Basically a similar motivation to the idea you’re talking about here: Make it possible to create lots of content and something pretty fun without having to have a monster team, where someone has to be assigned for 2 days to painting toenails on all the orcs one by one.

Getting decent-looking content (3d model and 2d reference art) from AI is real easy right now; having it usable enough to make a decent-quality game is clearly on the horizon but it’s still honestly pretty tough at present. It’s like those web sites with millions of downloadable models. Can you use that stuff to make a game? Yes. A good one? Er… you have a lot of work ahead of you.

You might also get some good mileage out of making it easy for people to plug in and share their own home-created stuff, not just trying to still do it all centralized with help from AI.

Just my 2c, generally I think it’s a pretty interesting idea.

mozz, 4 months ago

There are 3 wires, which matches the outlet so I am assuming it is supposed to be 2 hots and a neutral. However, upon closer inspection there is no insulation on the neutral. I peeled back more of the larger insulation around all 3 wires but the neutral wire is uninsulated like it was a ground.

Most 240v in the US is two hot wires that are 180 degrees out of phase, so there’s 240v of potential between them, but each one is only 120v compared to ground. (It’s safer that way.) Almost certainly this is two 120v hots in that configuration and a ground.

a 3 way switch didn’t have the second hot wire so they used the ground as the second hot

At exactly this point I would put down my tools and hire an electrician to take a look at the whole house. Even if you don’t wind up wanting to pay for him to fix everything he finds, he can at least give you a good lay of the land and how safe it is. I’ve been trained in it and done my own un-permitted wiring more than once when there really wasn’t another option, and I don’t think I would mess around once I found something like this.

It might be fine, but it might be that there’s some surprise buried somewhere that can start a fire behind the walls or one day electrify something in the house that you can touch with no warning. I just wouldn’t mess around with it.

mozz, 4 months ago

So does a 240v outlet have 2 hots and no neutral?

Essentially, yes. Current runs between those two hots exactly like it would between the hot and neutral on a 120v circuit.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/d2e99cf9-86e3-4397-a135-ab07aa8e0e3e.png

(From this page.)

You could think of the red and the black lines on that graph as what you’re getting from the two hots, whereas for a 120v circuit it would be the exact same 120v sine wave on the red wire and just a flat line on the black (neutral) wire, for 120v of potential.

mozz, 4 months ago

Just one?