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Looking at this file from WebKit may change how you think about web browsers
(twitter.com)
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I don’t get it because if you look on the valve careers site they’re hiring for specific teams (like steam for example) What happens if you hire someone and then they say “nah working on steam is boring, I’m gonna go work on something compl
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Yeah this seems like another "how is that better than a centralized database" situation
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This is pretty specific but does anyone remember in one of the Runescape open betas back in the day there was a duping bug? I think involving a chest? If I recall it was really easy to do and by the end of the beta like everyone had totally
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What do you mean, it already exists? Xbox Gamepass or Playstation Plus Or 3rd party via Amazon Luna
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I think you're confused, when people say "they ask leetcode questions" they don't mean they do automated tests The questions the human is asking you come from a big question bank and a lot of it is listed on LeetCode und
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Yeah but the point is how are you going to just look at disassembly and know there’s a Trojan?
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I don't think that tech even exists For the answers to make sense the NPC needs to be consistent I've never seen one of these chat bots that doesn't produce occasional nonsensical answers There's also the problem that as
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edit: nvm
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Ideally I'd like to be able to write desktop apps with the syntax of C but the performance of electron
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> Also note that nothing is preventing Optical Flow Acceleration [0] (and subsequently the DLSS 3.0 models that they claim are exclusive to the 40 series) from running on either 2/3 RTX cards. Are you sure about that? The page here
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Agreed although it is a bit painful going back to 30fps on switch once you're used to 60fps on the other platforms
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Do any switch games support mods?
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Graphics programmer at a game studio Real-Time Rendering is probably my most used book when I started It is more of a breadth than depth book though
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My theory is that its because the people in charge of making that decision (management and higher ups) are the people who most benefit from in person work So naturally that would be the decision I've never been a manager but I'd g
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Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit
(blog.comma.ai)
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Hmm most visual scripting languages I’ve used let you abstract things You would just move the conversion logic to its own re-usable block and place that in your algorithm Then if you say double click the conversion block you can see the log
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Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting
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For context this is 37 years after it was released (1985)
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Did the same thing and have been enjoying it so far The way I see it is optimizing for average happiness If you're getting a lot of money but you really hate 1/3 of your day it can bring the average down Especially when you get to
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C++ is like bread and butter for AAA games Usually combined with some sort of visual scripting for the higher level logic
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I haven't but I purposefully went to a studio that is known for good WLB
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Yeah that's definitely true, way more multidisciplinary One of the coolest things is working on tools used by artists and seeing the result of what they make with it
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Went to a game studio Pay is lower but the work is much more interesting/satisfying
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> With 10 or 20 languages behind you, code becomes separate and 'above' languages This one is so true I don't understand why younger programmers are so obsessed with which language is "best" To me the algorithm&#
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Personally I think from a business standpoint its just much easier to make money from software compared to hardware. Very low marginal unit costs, easy distribution, faster iteration, easier to scale, etc...
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Sometimes my friends from other fields will ask me to explain/draw out how a computer works Its much harder than I thought I started off explaining binary and how groups of wires can be used to represent numbers Lost them somewhere aro
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I asked the same thing a while back Some good discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30937201 One thing to keep in mind is that it’s not actually “no code” I’ve worked at a big studio and if something was pre
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Have used it for many years as a personal wiki/database I pull out the app all the time to answer various questions For example: * What kind of oil does my car take again? When was the last oil change? * How much did I weigh in 2015 *
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What does this have to do with chore simulator games? Did you read the article?
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