I really get the feeling that AAA games are dying.
Layoffs everywhere, huge budgets, too big to fail; indie devs are eating their lunch and ex-McKinsey MBAs are leading the Xbox division into their disaster. It was cool while it lasted… but maybe its a good thing.
I wonder why Valve is not laying off people. Maybe it's because they understand gamers and keep career-centric managers out?
Okay, I'm leveling up my hipster audio experience. After 20 years, my Sennheiser 595s are breaking apart. Which headphones can you recommend? #audiophile#headphones#vinyl
In Deutschland sind mehr als 50% der Überstunden unbezahlt. Zum Glück will die CDU nun keine Steuern darauf, weil Leistung sich wieder lohnen soll. #cdu#deutschland
Hey internet friends 🤗 I have a big announcement to make and this time it doesn't have anything to do with apps 🤓
Last month, our daughter was born and it is so incredible and wonderful to have her in the family now. I haven't been very active here nor done any work recently, as my wife and I were busy getting to know the little one and enjoying quality time to bond as a young family 🧑🧑🧒 🥰
PS: As many of you know I am very fond of dad jokes, so now I am officially entitled to make ‘em 😜
The amazing thing about LLMs is how much knowledge they posess in their small size. The llama3-8b model, for instance, weighs only 4.7GB yet can still answer your questions about everything (despite some hallucinations). #llm#ai#ollama#llama3
I want to recreate a poster of the original Star Trek Tricorder based on the blueprints released in the '70s. So far, I've got this, but I'm not happy with the fonts I found online.
Does anyone have a better one that matches the original more closely?
When I'm done, I will release the source files for everyone else. I could image doing more of these posters.
TIL: A group of universities are working on a route planer specifically designed for pedestrians and cyclists, which prefers cooler and less polluted routes!
@vsaw Actually, not a big problem. BBBike/bbybike has had this feature for ages. It's just a matter of tweaking the penalty heuristic of the routing algorithm, such as A* or Dijkstra.
Sehe ich das richtig? Bei einigen Sparkassen kostet die Push Nachricht bei Kontobewegung Geld?
Gefühlt sage ich es mir jeden Tag. Ich bin seit dem Knax Konto aus den 90zigern dabei, aber jetzt ist genug. #banking#sparkasse#deutschland
Grundsicherung anstelle von Bürgergeld und Zwang zur Arbeit.
Rückblick: 2004 bin ich als Jugendlicher in das Hartz-4-System geraten. Ich wurde gezwungen, jeden Job anzunehmen.
Ich saß in zwielichtigen Call-Centern und habe Telefonverträge an Rentner verkauft oder saß in Bewerbungstrainings von Firmen, wo man, hauptsächlich die Fördergelder abgreifen wollte. Gebracht hat das alles nichts.
Der Zwang zur Annahme jeder Arbeit ist nur eine Subvention der Ausbeutung von Menschen.
I really don’t understand why people who oppose fascism are still on Twitter. Why do you support this platform by providing content and traction?
For the context. Martin Sellner is a known nazi in the DACH region. He’s currently promoting his book, in which he describes how to get rid of immigrants regardless of their nationality. #twitter#elonmusk#fascism
People often ask me, if DaftCloud is written in SwiftUI. Nope, it's AppKit with some weird design pattern. Most screens are just CollectionViews with DiffableDataSource which gets Diffed / Redrawn on State Updates.
I love SwiftUI on the iOS, but I heard that it's still not ready for macOS (after 4 years?)
One of the most annoying things for me is the wastage of food while raising kids. Is there anything I can do about it? I hate throwing food away because my 2-year-old daughter wants it, but then doesn't eat it 😭
@angel Frage mich eher was die Politik macht. Die FDP hat sich bereits gegen einen Führerschein-Check ab 70 ausgesprochen.
Bei der demographischen Entwicklung kein Wunder, da es potenzielle Wähler sind.
In der Politik geht es schon lange nicht mehr darum, das Richtige zu machen.
Sony lays off people, and I'm not surprised. "Spider-Man 2" budget was 315 million dollars, and it wasn't a big leap from its predecessor.
AAA games have become unsustainable. I don't want to wait 20 years for the next Elder Scrolls only for it to eat a massive budget, forcing the developers to monetize it as much as possible.
I hope that these layoffs spark a new gen of game devs who are fed up with MBAs managing game studios and are to return to the roots.
