babypuncher

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by babypuncher 10mo ago
Lots of great engineers will work for way less than a FAANG salary as long as it means not having to work for FAANG. $1m/year still won't get you all that much though.
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
Lack of immigration enforcement is nonsense. Enforcement ramped up under Obama and hasn't gone down since. We americans are just very dumb and buy into obviously bullshit stories about brown people stealing and eating cats.
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
It's a colossal misallocation of resources by a handful of fucknuggets so wealthy that they will never experience real consequences for it. Meanwhile, everyone else is made to suffer.
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
I hope to god the next administration actually holds the criminals in the current administration accountable. Gerry Ford set a disgusting precedent when he loudly said that those who hold the office of the President should never be be held
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
Well it wouldn't be Texas if there wasn't some grotesque corruption involved. Vizio is the absolute worst of the TV manufacturers when it comes to this shit, so now it's clear Texas is really just trying to bully Walmart&#x
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
The real trick is to never connect your TV to the internet under any circumstances. These things are displays, they don't need the internet to do their job. Leave that to the game consoles and streaming boxes.
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by babypuncher 10mo ago
It's been clear to me since the very beginning of this TikTok drama, even before the war in Gaza, that it was never about TikTok being naughty; it is about TikTok not being owned by the wealthiest people in America. These people have n
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
I can definitely agree with that. AAA game production has become bloated with out of control budgets and protracted development cycles, a lot of that due to needing to fill massive overbuilt game worlds with an endless supply of unique high
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
Well in the case of Doom: The Dark ages, it's not just about about fidelity but about scale and production. To make TDA's levels with the baked GI used in the previous game would have taken their artists considerably more time and
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
The push for ray tracing comes from the fact that they've reached the practical limits of scaling more conventional rendering. RT performance is where we are seeing the most gen-on-gen performance improvement, across GPU vendors. Poor
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
My problem with this take is that it takes ARM > x86 as some kind of given, like there is an inherent flaw with the x6-64 ISA that means a chip that provides it can never be competitive with ARM on power consumption. We've already s
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
Direct3D -> Vulkan -> Metal is quite the translation layer sandwich, I wonder if that would have a meaningful impact on performance
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
I think the problem is that, until recently, there was little impetus to actually run Windows on devices where ARM actually has a meaningful advantage over x86. The Windows ARM laptops out there today don't impress, not just because of
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
I wonder if Apple's GPT (Game Porting Toolkit) could added to the macOS Steam client as a compatibility tool, like Proton is in the Linux client.
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
> These things do not prevent cheating at all. Yes they do. They don't stop all cheating, but they raise the barrier to entry which means fewer cheaters. I don't like arguments that sound like "well you can't stop al
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
> If you are in the higher skill levels, you might end up playing too many cheaters who are impossible to beat. It's almost kind of worse than this. If you are in higher skill levels, you end up getting matched with cheaters who lac
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
You're saying it's not a problem when cheaters to completely ruin the experience for top-10% players
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
I hated wasting a whole half hour server hopping until I found one that didn't suck
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
PunkBuster and later VAC were commonplace. Anti-cheat middleware is not new by any stretch.
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
Community-run servers weren't a magic bullet, and they had a lot of other problems that modern matchmaking systems solve more effectively.
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
> Why would the government wish to remove private jets from the list of purchases that can be deducted from income taxes? To bring in tax revenue to pay for things we actually need . > Why would they be unable to do this without maki
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
Maybe we can make a deal with the government. In exchange for making the development of open source software a tax exempt charitable work, we remove private jets from the list of purchases that can be deducted from income taxes. Seems like
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
A file system and its files are a very simple abstraction that lets us organize these exact things. I understand that some people get confused and overwhelmed by a directory structure, but I see that as an education problem, not a UX proble
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
That isn't at all what they are saying. They are saying that you need to provide all the game assets. Exactly like you do if you want to play the original Doom with modern source ports. Since the game is not available to buy, this mean
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
And the reality is that with most price tags ending in .99, retailers will actually round down to .95 to preserve the psychological benefit of not crossing a dollar barrier.
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by babypuncher 11mo ago
I have blu-rays for all the movies mentioned in the article. Today, there are some very powerful tools for processing digital images to make them look like film, going as far as letting you mimic specific film stocks. It might be a fun expe
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by babypuncher 1y ago
Less money and competition in the entertainment industry means less total content production and less impetus for funding riskier productions . If you look back at American TV in the 20th century, so much of it was samey and bland because
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by babypuncher 1y ago
My concern is that it deflates any impetus to actually solve the problems of regulatory capture, profiteering, and other corruption. Not everybody can afford the up front costs of installing solar + battery storage, plus replacement when th
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by babypuncher 1y ago
Of course, but it's easy for them to give into that when the worst possible consequence for royally screwing up is a comfortable early retirement .
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by babypuncher 1y ago
The economics of shoving the entire output of the entertainment industry on a single $15/mo streaming service don't work out. It arguably doesn't even work that well for music. Ask any musician that doesn't rake in plati

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