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by MrLeap 3y ago
I have no reason to believe Sam Altman's a similar case, but have you heard of Nick Calandra? He was editor and chief of the escapist. Last week he got fired, the entire video department (~20 people) resigned and they immediately start
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Revisiting some JavaScript I wrote to manage buffs/gear/stats/data in games(github.com)
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I think it's a neat way to prototype rpg systems. Still some of the cleverest code I've ever written, for all the good and ill that implies. Curious what other people think.
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by MrLeap 3y ago
There are tons of answers to this! I'm going to say that in projects I've worked on, LODs have been hand made about 60% of the time. There are tools for creating automatic LODs that come with their own pro's and con's. A
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by MrLeap 3y ago
I have personally been responsible for optimizing unity games you haven't heard issues like this about ;) This write-up really points the finger at not solving occlusion culling or having good LOD discipline. Give a person a dedicated
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by MrLeap 3y ago
> "Unity's technology stack is more like a Tower of Jenga" Unity has a RELATIVELY firm foundation, and lots of optional out buildings that are short jenga towers. It does take some bonecasting to identify which is which. I
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by MrLeap 3y ago
The constituents of the atmosphere are not evenly mixed everywhere. I wager the air above my desk has a higher local PPM of Oreo cookies than yours.
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by MrLeap 3y ago
This was a reply to another comment on how uncanny it is that gaming hardware allowed the current machine learning advancements. It was deleted before I finished writing, but I'm not letting that stop me from sending this anyhow. Creat
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A large amount of inefficiency is actually a chain of accountability. Trust, and failing that assigning blame, and trusting those assignments, is the root of so. much.
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The assertion is that if you dump a gooey grey gallon of pure covid on someone, their symptoms will be more severe than if they only get 18 virions. Do you suppose that wouldn't be the case?
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by MrLeap 3y ago
HN doesn't host pictures or video. I come here well before I do twitter, reddit, facebook, youtube or anywhere else on the internet commons. I hazard there's a verdant, halcyon prairie between the two zones. The common zone of max
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by MrLeap 3y ago
This is one of those _things_ that I suspect causes many greybeards to grimace. What's a tweet? We can haggle this up and down so cut me some slack. 200 bytes? 50 bytes? gzipped -90%, 5 bytes. Holy shit what absurd amount of traffic co
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by MrLeap 3y ago
I thought we agreed, as a society, that arbitrary numeric thresholds are only interesting if they're in the integer series of K*10^N, where K is 1 to 9 and N is 0 to infinity. Occasional allowances for multiples of 5 -- normally only i
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by MrLeap 3y ago
I didn't read anything that indicated a hard block to creating new methods that bypass the binding layer? All the layers are open source. Unity has their fair share of bolted on methods with a "NonAlloc" suffix. Seems obvious
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by MrLeap 3y ago
Since this post, he got the 500k LoC core of the game running, rendering to the console in godot and responding to input. Astonishing, inspirational work.
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by MrLeap 3y ago
I am a long time Unity developer, I used to evangelize heavily for them. My past evangelism disgusts me. Use Godot if you can. Help them sand the edges. Any inconveniences that costs is worth the rug pull you avoid from what Unity will do t
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by MrLeap 3y ago
You're adorable. The godot leadership has proven to me that they're shrewd and focused on creation, I'll follow them.
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They decided to burn their trust with the people that use their tools for a hypothetical short term gain.
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This'll create such insane scenarios I do not see a world where Unity doesn't walk this back. Imagine Rimworld having to patch in ads or microtransactions because their large playerbase continues to buy new computers. How do you p
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by MrLeap 3y ago
You and I might as well be the same person.
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You don't understand, the language says _per install_ not per sale. This seems to include re-installs, multiple devices, new computers. I wouldn't have batted an eye at 20 cents per sale. Per _install_ is catastrophic.
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by MrLeap 3y ago
You can keep DLSS if we can get some subsurface scattering on the heads + better eye materials. When I look at the texture resolution budget the hard surface art team got vs. whoever is in charge of the dead eyed bethesda faces, I wonder if
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by MrLeap 3y ago
Interesting take. If somebody chiseled a tree stump into a recognizable likeness of your face, would you dismiss it as derivative? Your face has been done before, stumps are EVERYWHERE. Chisels and hammers are _LEGACY TECH_. Sometimes thing
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by MrLeap 3y ago
Meteor was the last time I heard about something like this.
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Yeah I can imagine ways where server farm water "consumption" could strain infrastructure, but this does seem like a.. very solvable problem.
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by MrLeap 3y ago
Ahhh your blog post was precisely what I needed a few years ago. Maybe it'll come up again :)
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...a military installation in the wreckage of the titanic? That sounds like a dope premise for something.
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I went from ML/fullstack web dev to.. fullstack... indie gamedev, so there's other loops ;D
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Anecdote: I've gotten all my work through twitter for the last several years without having to send a resume or fill out an application. I never use LinkedIn anymore. The current leadership changes might upset this applecart -- time wi
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A little reading goes a long way in ML for sure. One nice thing about having all these recipes is that if you have a classification problem, or stochastic scheduling problem, you can run em' all and cross validate to get a sense of wha

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